And yes, we in Russia celebrate an anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945 on the 9th of May. This graffity has been found just next to our office.
Google.Books
hm… did you know, that Google.Books are now a part of Google.Play ? So far I did not use them extensively, but it’s very interesting to see how Google is developing this promising service.
By the way, here are my favorites there: Nikolay’s Favorites shelf »
Idea: How do you handle reading material?
I found a nice idea at an official page of Getting Things Done on Facebook. We all have to read a lot: magazine articles, web articles, books, newsletter special articles, blog interesting articles, etc. And it would be nice to put them into context of our life or fill with them short empty time slots (like when we travel or just have to sit and wait in a line).
Coach Kelly, an expert in GTD, advises to consider reading materials in two categories: nice to read and must read. Nice to read are not tracked on any lists, they are organized into a dedicated folder. Must read items should be tracked on next action lists, just like any other action. Those are organized based on where the reading takes place (@Office, @Home, @Anywhere or @Computer). Such reading is typically stored in a project folder if it’s related to a project, an @Action email or hard copy folder. The smartest way is always to paste an URL into the note field of the next action if it’s a website. 
There are different types of software tools to support this. Personally I use Evernote and Kindle Keyboard 3G.
PS By the way, I maintain a stack of Time Management Tools on Delicious. Come and use, you’re welcome - I use them all myself for private life and for my work.
what is the technology all about?
IT, Communications and Transportations industries should be about how people spend less time on the road, and on communication via email, instant messaging, SMS, phone and other technology to spend that time to transform our life in a positive direction, deliver value to one’s neighbour.
Let’s think about how your increase your personal contacts!
Norning Mespresso
I forgot to tell you: we recently jointly bought a coffee machine for our office. Really a nice one. I expect it to pay for itself for me in 3 months – cut my spendings in a cafe outside by 50% already.
Snowdrop
As you might know, the first of May is a public holiday in Russia. Muscovites usually try to leave the sultry city for these days to catch some fresh air in a countryside. Here’s one of inspiring pictures I took while walking around our dacha.
If you ever plan to be in Moscow, come in April-May!
I had a romantic cup of hot chocolate together with my wife here tonight. The picture is taken by her Blackberry and resized to fit a bandwidth of mobile connection.
Just decided to start a month of managing my persona in a social business
It basically means for me:
- Create Persona groups (friends, family, colleagues, professional acquaintances, people I’ve never really met and aply them as Friend Lists on Facebook, Circles on Google+, etc.
- Blog more from a mobile device, Tweet more from a desktop (this does not mean to Tweet or Blog more).
- Remove my profile from every social network that I didn’t use for 12 months.
- Unsubscribe from every useless e-mailing list.
- Unsubscribe from most of useful e-mailing lists and follow them through RSS if possible.
- Write at least 50% less e-mail to receive less (use instant messaging and phone more) – yes, stop hiding behind a mailbox!
- Endorse more contacts on LinkedIn.
- Build collections of photos from recent trips and share them.
- Start using my official twitter account for business live #chats (McKinsey, HBR, etc.) and public events I’m attending/organizing.
- Scan every business card I receive and distribute no business cards.
- Turn off any electronic device at 23:00 to read paper books and magazines.
Let’s see how it’s gonna work one month later.
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