links for 2006-01-13
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Send text messages to cell phones from your computer.
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Extends tablet pc functionality to firefox.
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Track your packages on a Google Map.
links for 2006-01-11
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"the biggest thing you do to reward great business people and great technological people is to give them harder problems."
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"The public beta, when taken advantage of, subverts the symbiotic relationship that should exist between a company and its customer. The only true beneficiary of a public beta is the company."
links for 2006-01-10
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Good primer on setting expectations with clients before work begins and during engagement.
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Good practical introduction to concepts of price vs. value.
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Replace one client (or two)
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Great idea!
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Cutting out the real estate agent. Are lawyers next?
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Collection of tools/sites that present information visually.
links for 2006-01-08
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Parents, be sure to read the story about the 5 year old and the bracelet.
links for 2006-01-06
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I hope I remember these rules when my daughter turns 25, and is allowed to date.
Daily Links, Yea or Nay?
I've been publishing my del.icio.us bookmarks daily for a bit of time and wondered if you liked them or not. Let me know.
Focus Exercise
Having a hard time focusing? Finding your mind wandering as you interview a potential client or take a deposition? Try this exercise (from the Communication Nation blog) that “will help you heighten your attention and improve your awareness of your surroundings”:
1. Get a digital camera or sketchbook. If you don't have either one, you can use a stack of index cards and a paper clip. The digital camera is my favorite for this: one of the reasons I love digital cameras is that there's no such thing as wasted film -- you can take a thousand pictures for virtually the same price as one.
2. Choose a subject -- something you intend to notice that day. Your subject should be something you will be likely to see several times during the day, but that you rarely pay attention to. It could be windows, or letters of the alphabet, or triangles -- anything that you can search for in your immediate surroundings.
3. For the rest of the day, keep your eye out for your subject. Whenever you see it, take a close look at it and see what you notice. If you have a camera, take a picture of it. If not, draw a quick sketch or make some notes about what you noticed.
You will find that if you choose a new subject each day, you will quickly become far more finely tuned to your surroundings, and you will notice many things that other people simply don't see.
This is great advice. I’d highly recommend it to lawyers about to start a trial.
Technology Problems
Typepad’s outage late last week and a really flakey internet connection has kept me from posting for a few days. I’ll get caught up on my resolution series by tomorrow. Thanks.