Organize Chrome Bookmarks for Maximum Efficiency

A web browser in modern computing is an indispensable piece of software, considering all the functionality have been performing in our day-to-day work. Think about it. We use our browser to find information, to check out our email, to connect and communicate with other people, to buy, to access cloud applications, to view, listen or check multimedia, to access training modules and a lot more.

Organize Chrome bookmarks

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Collaboration Tools For Small Business

Collaboration Tools For Small Business

The new model of today’s new business requires a set of tools that help the interaction of people from different places. These are the collaboration tools. Collaboration tools can be any technology assisting people in working towards common goals and includes a variety of technologies, ranging from conference calls, synchronous, asynchronous, audio and video conference, IRC and instant messaging, whiteboards and smartboards, wikis, collaborate spaces, documents, and applications, Virtual Meetings, and Chat Rooms, etc.

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Best Productivity Tip, Ever!!!

The 2-Minute Rule

One of the basic productivity principles of David Allen‘s Getting Things Done (GTD) method (not an affiliate link), and a basic part of his method is the 2 minutes rule. 2-minute rule, says that every task you can accomplish under 2 minutes, you should do it right away and remove it from your list … and your mind.

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Free Kindle Books

Library

One question often pop-ups now and then, in my communication with my friends and relatives, is: “How can get free Kindle Books?“. Today, the need for more specialized information, for various topics, renders the buying of all needed resources quite impossible. But, fortunately, there are alternatives.

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Cloze, a Different Kind of Inbox

Cloze Main Screen

Smart applications, as the Cloze is, facilitate your everyday business and personal life. Today, communication is everything in the digital age. And the applications that support this process, are important. Cloze, is one of these applications, supporting an integrated inbox for e-mail and social networks.

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Habits For An Efficient And Productive Day

Tips for a productive day

Habits are powerful, tools, if used and managed properly. We all need an extra hand during the day, to help you do all the things, expected from us. If we had a method of “doing” the things right, we usually, at the end of the day,  have achieved the most of the goals we needed to carry out.

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The Large Significant Of Small Escapes

Small Escapes Ink

It is important for everyone to find time for small escapes. As small escapes, in this context, I define every unstructured activity, leading to the enhancement of knowledge, joy, health, spirit, mental state, happiness, etc. Unstructured activities, as such, are basic components for reboot your life and free space for listening to yourself.

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Building the Leadership Initiative Blog

Building the Leadership Initiative Blog

On Thursday, March 28, 2013, I officially launch my new site takisathanassiou.com (the Leadership Initiative Blog!) after a, really, long period of trials and errors, both in the area of blogging, as well and in the area of installation and operation. In this site, I will intent to integrate various articles, posts, and content, I have created in various places and was scattered all over the web.

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3 Elements Of Personal Development And Success

3 Components for personal development and success

There are 3 basic elements for personal development and success in personal and professional life. These are the commitment, the engagement in action and the cultivation. The commitment and the engagement in action are the two faces of a truly self-directedgoal and principle-based life and the two-thirds of a set of factors that includes the “cultivation”, which provides meaning, context and duration to the things we commit and engage.

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15 Applications and Tools To Increase Your Productivity

15 Tools & Applications to increase your productivity

Over the past years, I used various platforms and operating systems either stand-alone or Web-based, bench-marking the most suitable applications, tweaks, and tools for my work. My major goal is to be efficient in various situations, producing the best results in every platform I might use (primarily I use Microsoft Windows, along with Mac OS X, Ubuntu, and numerous Web applications for various tasks, both business and personal).

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