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One of the big insights I’ve gained from my happiness project is that for me (as for many people), outer order contributes to inner calm. I feel more serene and cheerful if my apartment and office aren’t too messy. Something else I’ve learned from my happiness project is to be wary whenever I have the urge to “treat” myself, because often my treats don’t make me happy in the long run. One of my “treats” is to let piles of papers, clothes, books, and dishes pile up – which … [Read more...]
BBM Channels will allow users and brands to create their own followings, just like Twitter and Facebook. ORLANDO, Fla. -- BlackBerry wants to take on Twitter by creating its own social network through its BlackBerry Messenger service. The company on Tuesday unveiled BBM Channel, which allows users and brands to create a BBM profile that other users can follow, similar to how people can follow brands and users on Twitter. BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins, speaking at the BlackBerry Live … [Read more...]
The leading sports TV network plans to embed a wide variety of highlight clips in its tweets shortly after they happen live, according to The Wall Street Journal. If you like sports highlights but spend more time on social networks than watching TV, Twitter and ESPN are going to do their best to meet your needs. According to The Wall Street Journal, Twitter and ESPN plan to announce tomorrow a deepening of their existing relationship, agreeing on a pact under which the leading sports … [Read more...]
A redesign of the popular link- and photo-sharing website allows users to find things more easily and gives them new ways to customize their boards. Don’t worry, Pinterest fans: Your sprawling virtual pegboards of wedding dresses, handmade jewelry, craft projects and food porn haven’t changed dramatically. They’re just easier to manage. The popular link- and photo-sharing website has rolled out an update, one offering people simpler navigation and new ways to arrange their … [Read more...]
Many users describe a surge in activity on the social network. Truth is, it's been a long-time coming. FORTUNE -- What's up with LinkedIn? Suddenly it's everywhere. Last week, as I finished up teaching a dozen masters students in publishing, I told them to keep in touch. Nobody called. No one emailed. Seven of them requested to connect with me on LinkedIn. What's more, lately my inbox has been teeming with social notifications beyond the simple "please join my network" request. Friends … [Read more...]
Walk in to any bookstore and you will likely find shelf after shelf of books geared towards career development. Self-help books, instructional guides, biographies of those who paved the way before us. But none of those books know your journey; know your skills, abilities, talents and aspirations. On top of that, the business world is changing so dramatically: roles, responsibilities, and social rules – these are very difficult things to navigate. So if you can find somebody who knows you … [Read more...]
The other day a meeting cancelled and I decided to dedicate the 60 minutes to cleaning up my email inbox. That was until I opened Outlook and saw that I had accumulated 20,346 emails. It wasn’t getting done in an hour. In a similar moment, Teresa Coles and her partner Cathy Monetti at the marketing agency Riggs Partners, joked that they should just pull an all-nighter and finally make a dent in their to-do list. They recalled how in college the all-nighter was the go-to play in this … [Read more...]
commentary Welcome to Facebook Home, a visually arresting place where Facebook and Google split custody of your attention. Facebook finds the heart of your smartphone with Facebook Home, a family of applications that bring social-networking mainstays such as the News Feed and Facebook Messenger to your mobile device in radically altered designs. The software package, shown off at a press event last week, is moving to select Android devices April 12. The HTC First, the first handset … [Read more...]
News.Yahoo - As Facebook slowly rolls out its updated New Feed design, featuring content-sorted feeds dedicated to photos and music, a popular social networking alternative has emerged. In February, Pheed became the number one free social networking application in Apple INC's App store, ruling the charts ahead of competitors like Titter and Facebook for than a week. … [Read more...]
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12.500 hours of reading emails, every month.
Why "I quit e-mail” a month ago. At our Radboud University Medical Center (RUMC), we send out some 750.000* e-mails, every month in a row. Monthly we send these from our approximately 18,000 email addresses. Conversely, on a monthly average of 1.2 million* e-mails are being send to ús. If every mail from/to would consist out of 1 sheet of paper, that would be seven pallets of 200 packages of printing paper évery month, and that's even only assuming emails without … [Read more...]