I had a good run both personally and professionally in 2008. It was the year I turned 40 and left writing and consulting and found some more peace
Continue reading "2008: A Year in Review" »
I spent a good part of my
freelancing and consulting years on the forefront of many new and
emerging technologies and watched the rise of social media. I always kept social media at arms length until I realized that it was growing into a powerful communications medium that would rival and eventually overtake email and IM.
Continue reading "Will Kelly meets Social Networking" »
I am walking into 2009 after a
pretty major career change including reentering full-time employment
after a long time on my own as a consultant, contractor, and freelancer.
Continue reading "2009 Professional Resolutions" »
I still see a lot of value in standardizing even though I've left technical writing and consulting. Document templates make the writer's life easier and help give a consistent and professional look to an organization's internal and external documents.
Continue reading "Kelly's Laws of Document Templates" »
There
are productivity pundits and mavens who warn against checking email in
the morning. Well, I have to check email in the morning. My company's
development team is in Israel, my corporate office is in Massachusetts,
and I live in Virginia.
Continue reading "Why I Check Email in the Morning (and it boosts my productivity)" »
My preference is to use a Macintosh whenever possible and I wanted to share my favorite Mac applications for 2008. These applications helped me be productive and stay organized
Continue reading "My Favorite Macintosh Applications for 2008" »
I've always been a fan of Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 and moving into my new role as a director of product management meant I had to collect new ideas and organize projects to a scale I never had to as a writer. OneNote 2007 is now a central collection point for my ideas and questions as they relate to new product management processes, initiatives, and product offerings.
Continue reading "OneNote 2007 Rejoins my Professional Workflow" »
I purchased a Fujitsu Scansnap S300M Clr 600DPI USB 10PG Adf Mobile Scanner after reading about it on LifeHacker because I recognized the ease of use would help me convert a hardcopy documents into PDFs in short order.
Continue reading "Favorite New Hardware for 2008" »
On a recent trip to corporate,
I had an opportunity to have dinner with my boss and some other
co-workers who were in town for meetings. Being a remote employee and a
new employee means these times are important because they put a face to my voice
instead of just being another voice on a conference call.
Continue reading "Chinese Food so Bad it was Funny" »
I increasingly use
Gmail for my personal email now and I have been delighted about the new features Google is implementing into their Webmail service.
Continue reading "My Favorite Gmail Features for 2008" »
Web services are part of my work life now even as I transitioned from contractor to full-time employment as a director of product management. There is some data I just like to have in the cloud so I can access whether I am on the road, in my home office, or sitting in my employer's corporate headquarters.
Continue reading "My Favorite Web Services for 2008" »
My years as a
technical writer, analyst, project manager, contractor, consultant,and
freelance writer have made me an inveterate note taker. Yellow legal
pads were always my friend and then steno pads became the norm for me.
Continue reading "Moleskine NoteBooks and Product Management" »
I've had some cause lately to look back at some of the projects I've worked on as a contractor, consultant, and freelance technical writer and read Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies by Tom DeMarco, Peter Hruschka, Tim Lister, Steve McMenamin, James Robertson, and Suzanne Robertson because the synopsis from Amazon made it sound like a good read.
Continue reading "Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies" »
I am one of those workers who gets
more done working in a home office versus working in an actual office.
As such, my new job requires a good deal of time spent on conference
calls.
While I've come out against too many meetings in the past, I work for a company
based in the Boston, MA suburbs, our VP of marketing is based in
Denver, CO, our Product & Strategy group is based in the metro
Washington, DC area, and the R&D group is based in Rehovot, Israel.
Continue reading "Joy and my Jabra Headset" »
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