Category: organization

  • What Makes an Effective Technology Committee in Education (v.2)

    I have been ask about a post I did awhile back “What Makes an Effective Technology Committee in Education”  as much as any I have ever done.  Getting the chance write for Wes a little this week seemed a good time to come back to this topic.  I have always meant to do a edit…

  • Perspective: The Real Challenge Facing IT in Education #fail-learn

    Thanks Wes Fryer for letting me write for you while you are out of pocket. My name is Kent Brooks and I write a little on my own I was Just Thinking Site. Although I am a tiny blogging acorn compared to the giant blogging oak Mr Fryer is to all of us,  it is…

  • Creativity, Interruptions, Boundaries and Leadership

    “The key to getting in a creative state is to avoid interruptions.” So says John Clese in this wonderful, ten minute video from the recent World Creativity Forum in Belgium. My own experiences also validate this statement. My wife heard this excerpt of the video tonight as I was playing it on my laptop and…

  • A group TO DO list webapp?

    I’ve been using the website 43actions to keep track of my personal to-do lists for a few weeks now. Today I visited with two friends who are using reQall and Toodledo for their personal to-do lists, and both like the tools a great deal. None of these tools (as far as I know) are configured…

  • The importance of choosing podcast episode titles

    As I am sure you have noticed, we’re living in an attention economy where information is exploding. With all the content around us, how do we manage available information streams most effectively and efficiently? This is an essential question for EVERYONE, not just those of us who are admitted “geeks.” Information continues to explode, but…

  • iPhone Web App explorations begin

    It’s been about 3 weeks since Steve Jobs announced the iPhone software roadmap and released the iPhone SDK (software development kit.) Until this evening I had not taken time to explore the available web apps (web applications) for the iPhone. As I’ve watched a set of severe thunderstorms roll into our area (on TV) north…

  • Digitizing my life

    This morning, thanks to one of my my daughters being under the weather and needing some home supervision, I’m having a much-needed to chance to catch up on my “piles of stuff.” Currently, I’m in the process of digitizing stacks of notes like these into their appropriate places: I’m continuing to use the reasonably priced…

  • Managing information streams in the attention economy

    We hear many terms to describe the era in which we live. Alvin Toffler calls it “the third wave,” John Naisbitt and others refer to it as “the information age.” As I detailed in a three part podcast series last fall, I increasingly find the term “attention economy” more descriptive and helpful. Michael Goldhaber first…

  • Inbox Zero: Living the dream!

    Ah. The simple yet elusive pleasure of “inbox zero.”First time I’ve seen this since September 12th before we left for Learning 2.0! Thanks to both Merlin Mann and David Allen!Technorati Tags:email, merlinmann, inboxzero, inbox, zero, davidallen, gtd If you enjoyed this post and found it useful, subscribe to Wes’ free newsletter. Check out Wes’ video…

  • Seeking the elusive “inbox zero”

    It is quite challenging to return to “normal life” and work after a week-long trip and face email inboxes.Since starting David Allen’s book “Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity” several months ago, I’ve started applying several of his core organizational principles with limited but positive results. Since it is quite hard to change…