Often, the purpose of an e-mail message is to ask someone else to do something. The ball is not in the other person’s court, but we still ha...

Is E-mail a great time management tool or a great time sink? In little more than a decade, it has gone from being a rare novelty to being co...

This post is basically a response that I posted on the David Allen discussion board. A reader asked for advice on preparing a dissertation. ...

A little over a year ago, I submitted a piece to the McGraw-Hill/Glencoe "E-Zine." If you are thinking about joining the ranks of ...

One experience which we probably all share is being in a public place and having our attention drawn to a conversation too loud to ignore. T...

We have talked about the value of having a “Repeating Task List” to prevent you from having to rethink the details of those activities that ...

A letter arrives from Joe Smith. In it, he talks about a donation he is making to your playground project. Exactly what do you do with the l...

We write letters, memos, and e-mails to others. Others write the same to us. Putting our hands on those pieces of correspondence later can b...

With apologies to Shakespeare, the decision about comment is one you will need to make as you establish your blog. In this pair of posts, we...

When you log in to your blog, you will see a “Settings” tab. After clicking on it, you will see a “Comments” link. This link gives you acces...

People can take just about any good thing and find a bad way to use it—the telephone, the automobile, prescription medicines. The list could...

First, make a copy of the html code and save it: Go to the Blogger homepage, log in, and click on your blog. Click on the tab that says “Te...

I invite you to read my article on blogging in the Nov/Dec 2005 issue of Principal magazine. The article is designed to introduce principa...

Technology is great—when it works. A few simple maintenance tricks can help you avoid problems that would bring your system to a halt. On a ...

Being able to recover from disaster is good, but preventing disaster is better. There are several tasks that, if done regularly, will preve...

Once you have your filing system set up in My Documents, you can move on to establishing a backup system to keep you from losing everything ...

Setting up your “My Documents” folder in a logical way takes some time and some thought (as you have seen if you have done it), but it is a ...

In an earlier post, I talked about the situation we all face: many sources of incoming stuff. My least favorite has always been the telemar...

We now have research that shows E-mail makes us stupid! A study released this past April found that e-mail lowers our IQ by 10 points. Hewle...

As a teacher, one of the best self-help tools for me was to tape record a class every now and then and then simply listen to it. We are alwa...