Audience participation time here–what do you want to read about here?
June 4, 2007 by Tris Hussey
Filed under Careers
A blog is a pretty organic thing. You start it off with one intention or direction (okay sometimes not), and as you write it morphs. Changes into something else. Or just takes another content direct. PimpYourWork is no different. We’ve gone from four authors (yes initially there were going to be four), to three, to two, now just little old me. Since I’ve been writing this with an unfettered hand (insert evil laugh) I thought that I might just check in with you folks and see if I’m hitting the mark, or not.
Like I was going to write about the security service Shields Up– Check Your Internet Security with Shields UP!!–which is awesome btw. Then I realized that at work, unless you work at home like me, this isn’t something you really need to worry about.
My Vista and Office 2007 tips have been well received, but … how many of you are using Vista at work. Yeah, I thought so.
So, leave a comment here. Let me know what you’d like to read about. Doesn’t matter if there are several topics. That’s a good thing, actually.
In the meantime I think I have at least one more bit of useless information to post here today.
If you are looking for feedback…I was a contest winner from a while back (http://www.pimpyourwork.com/and-the-contest-winners-are/)
and never received the software. Any chance of getting it? I was looking forward to trying it.
1) Get rid of the photo in your banner. It just creeps me out.
2) How about some real basics: backing up my favourites in my browser and my contacts in Outlook. I don’t know how many times I’ve lost those during a software upgrade, and the IT guys just shake their heads and say, “Well, guess you’ll have to start over…”; and creating e-mail signatures that make you look good, instead of ones that make you look like an idiot; and capturing screenshots and captures of a single window… These are all really basic things, but there are lots of office folks who don’t know, or forgot, or have switched platforms.
3) 10 best uses of a memory stick at work. ie. save crucial documents and templates, be able to get your office back up and running anywhere with what’s on a 2GB stick, family photos on the road, a video, etc.
4) Clean desk vs. messy desk. I saw a photo of Al Gore’s messy desk today in my travels. Compare that to some neat freak’s desk, and present the argument for and against a clean desk.
5) Lowest common denominator office magic. You have 10 minutes. The computer you’re on only has Paint. Create a five-slide presentation for the CEO, and make it sing.
6) Borrow from How or Before and After Magazine tips on cropping photos. So few people in offices know how to crop properly!
7) Five examples of using the sort function in Excel to save time and energy on a project - only do one report, but sort it differently based on who you’re sending it to…, etc.
8) Are coffee and sweets dragging you down? The sugar and caffeine rush is followed by a crash. Show how a 20-minute walk before starting work can keep you energized more than artificial stimulants.
All great ideas Eric … let’s see if I can start on those … well except for the picture … ;)