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How to Send Free Text Messages on Your iPhone
If your iPhone service plan doesn't include text messages or you routinely burn through your monthly allotment, here's a trick for getting unlimited SMS without spending a penny. In a nutshell, you install the iPhone AIM client iTunes link, then add new AIM contacts in your desktop instant-messaging program (iChat, AIM,...
Tags: Rick Broida, Networking, Personal Technology, Digital Media, Digital Music, Cellular Phones, Instant Messaging, Telephony, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, AOL Instant Messenger, Apple iPhone, Internet, Online Communications, Consumer Electronics
Blog posts 2008-07-15
Stop Being "Distracted"
Maggie Jackson's book Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age," is getting real buzz. I got this subject line in my email yesterday: Are You Feeling Distracted? (My first thought: just about every minute of the day.) Are you feeling saturated...
Tags: Attention, Maggie Jackson, Jackson, E-mail, Online Communications, Instant Messaging, Telecom & Utilities, Internet, Michael Fitzgerald, Phone, IM
Blog posts 2008-07-11
IMing Your Way to Productivity
Every year, a new study seems to come out claiming that either IMing is a productivity timesuck or that it's actually a useful, relatively non-intrusive tool. Recently, the scientific pendulum has swung to the "useful" side, as a recent study found that "workers who used instant messaging on the job...
Tags: Productivity, Internet, Online Communications, David Goldenberg, IM, Instant Messaging
Blog posts 2008-06-26
AOL: Last Ditch Efforts
Do you need help operating your computer-machine on the Intertubes? Once upon a time, AOL was master of its domain. Now that the world has realized the internet is free, AOL struggles to be useful. They bought Bebo, a social-networking site, in hopes that the young, international demographic will boost...
Tags: nyse, nasdaq, invest, investing, stock stock exchange, stocks, wallstrip, julie alexandria, analysts, howard lindzon, bebo, social networking, europe, risky harold and maude, road runner, time warner cable, instant messaging, aol, IM, Time Warner Inc., Internet, America Online Inc.
Videos 2008-06-06
Five Freeware Gems I Use Every Day
Whenever I migrate to a new PC it happens more often than you might think, I immediately install the following five programs. I can't live without them, and neither should you. Copernic Desktop Search  I don't know why desktop-search utilities have all but vanished, but thank goodness Copernic...
Tags: Rick Broida, Online Communications, Internet, Software, Office Suites, Microsoft Office, Instant Messaging, Microsoft Excel, IrfanView Paint.NET, Copernic, Freeware
Blog posts 2008-04-30
Archive Your Instant Messages with Simkl
If you rely heavily on instant messaging for business communications, you've probably wished for a way to store conversations for future reference. Simkl archives instant messages to an online server and lets you search and share them. This "history saver" works with virtually all IM clients, from...
Tags: IM, Instant Messaging, Internet, Online Communications, Rick Broida
Blog posts 2008-03-03
Getting Around to GTD
Two years ago, it was suggested to me that I submit the stacks and stacks of tattered yellow and white legal pads that had served as my social calendar for the better part of five years to be part of an exhibit called Instant Messaging: An exhibition of the debris...
Tags: Jeff Palfini, Enterprise Software, Online Communications, Internet, Software, Office Suites, Hardware, Microsoft Office, Handhelds, Groupware, Instant Messaging, Microsoft Outlook, PDAs, Calendar, Pad
Blog posts 2008-02-19
Automatically Minimize Desktop Distractions
In Slate a few days ago, Jeffrey MacIntyre wrote about a few small applications he likes to call ZenWare for their supposed ability to cull distractions from your desktop. He tested a few of them out, and came away particularly impressed with Spirited Away for Macs—the PC version is Swept...
Tags: Distraction, Desktops, Instant Messaging, Hardware, Internet, Online Communications, David Goldenberg
Blog posts 2008-01-28
Why Sales Pros Hate Instant Messaging
The results of my highly unscientific poll suggest that, while sales pros have love email and cellular phones, they hate Instant Messaging, at least when it comes to selling. IM got ranked on the bottom, or near the bottom, by nearly every person who commented. Why...
Tags: Sales, Geoffrey James, Internet, Online Communications, Sales Strategy, Instant Messaging, E-mail, IM, Phone
Blog posts 2008-01-10
Information Overload Is Nothing New
How many people store a letter opener in the top drawer of their desk these days? O.K., we haven't done a survey, but we're pretty confident that the number would be relatively low. It used to be that you spent a significant chunk of time each day sliding that letter...
Tags: Team, IM, Worker, Team Management, E-mail, Jeff Palfini, Internet, Online Communications, Management, Instant Messaging
Blog posts 2008-01-03
'Too Much Information' Costs $650 Billion Annually
Research firm, Basex has declared 2008 the "Year of Information Overload," and to add a cherry to the top of that sundae, they say $650 billion in productivity was lost in 2006 due to email, SMS messages, and IMs. One could guess it was even higher in 2007 (no thanks...
Tags: Jonathan Haeber, Internet, Instant Messaging, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Sundae, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Networking, E-mail
Blog posts 2007-12-30
Top Web Services of 2007
Yesterday I listed my top software picks for 2007. Now let's turn our attention to the Web, where some truly stellar services appeared and/or evolved this year. Seriously, how did we ever call ourselves productive before the Web came along? Google Everything  I can't pick a single...
Tags: IM, Web, Google Inc., Web Service, Web Browser, Meebo, SplendidCRM, Instant Messaging, Channel Management, Web Browsers, Sales Strategy, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Sales, Rick Broida
Blog posts 2007-12-20
Use Automated Reminders to Keep Yourself Focused
Are you easily distracted? HEY, I'M TALKING TO YOU, PAY ATTENTION! It's okay, I understand: It's all too easy for your brain to get pulled off task, what with e-mail and instant messages to answer, incredibly interesting blogs to read, and other daily diversions. ProductivityPortfolio suggests using timed reminders, in...
Tags: Author, Attention, ProductivityPortfolio, E-mail, Instant Messaging, Blogging, Online Communications, Internet, Rick Broida
Blog posts 2007-12-04
Microsoft Unified Communications; Waste of Time and Money?
Microsoft's Office Communication Server 2007 -- the heart of the company's Unified Communication Strategy -- was launched this week. Jeff Raikes, president of Microsoft Business Division, initially described the offerings as a "software-focused approach to bring together disparate communications technologies into a unified experience -- driving down the cost and...
Tags: Greenfield, Microsoft Corp., Unified Communications, Communication, Leadership, Instant Messaging, Strategy, Management, Internet, Online Communications, Lori Deschene
Blog posts 2007-10-19
Add Meebo to the Firefox Sidebar
I've made no secret of my love for Meebo, the browser-based, cross-platform instant messaging service. The only downside? You have to leave it running in a tab at all times, and you can't see who's online without switching to that tab. The new Meebo add-on for Firefox solves at least one...
Tags: Instant messaging, Web browsers, Rick Broida, Meebo, Mozilla Firefox
Blog posts 2007-10-19
Do's and Don'ts for Analyst Briefings
Michael Coté -- analyst at RedMonk -- shares some off-the-cuff do's and don'ts for companies participating in analyst briefings: Increasingly, I like short calls. Most calls I do are an hour, but 1/2 hour would be nice. I've seen other analysts get upset when...
Tags: briefing, Travis Van, Instant Messaging, Online Communications, Internet, Customer, Analyst
Blog posts 2007-10-16
How to Encrypt Everything on Your PC
To paraphrase the old saying, everyone worries about security, but nobody does anything about it. If you're worried about the safety of your e-mail, instant messages, documents, and even voice-over-IP conversations, check out this handy guide from VirtualHosting.com: 25 Free Tools to Encrypt Literally Everything. You'll find utilities that can help...
Tags: Rick Broida, Internet, Online Communications, Telecommunications, Remote Access, Productivity, Instant Messaging, E-mail, Tool, IM, PC
Blog posts 2007-10-11
Share Your Desktop (and More) with YuuGuu
If you've ever been on a conference call with clients or co-workers and wished they could see what's on your screen (say, a new product schematic or project spreadsheet), check out YuuGuu. It's part instant-messaging client, part Web-conferencing tool, and part remote-access/sharing utility. On the IM side, YuuGuu...
Tags: Rick Broida, Hardware, Online Communications, Internet, Desktops, Productivity, Instant Messaging, YuuGuu, LogMeIn, Desktop, IM
Blog posts 2007-10-03
Ten Tools for Remote Teams
If you've got team members in multiple offices, you probably already use a fair amount of technology. But are you using the right tools for the right job? ...
Tags: E-mail, SharePoint 2007, MeetingPlace, Voice Activation, Tool, Dispersed Team, FTP, Remote Team, Kelly Pate Dwyer, Management, Marketing, Internet, Online Communications, Team Management, Corporate Communications, Instant Messaging, Wiki, Team, Video, Pro, IM, Phone
Articles 2007-09-24
Enjoy Easy Instant Messaging on Your Cell Phone with eBuddy
I'm a huge fan of Meebo, the browser-based instant-messaging service that lets you chat with friends and co-workers on just about any IM network. eBuddy is a similar service, but with one key advantage: There's a mobile version that works on cell phones. Just point your phone's browser to m.ebuddy.com,...
Tags: Instant messaging, Telecom & Utilities, cell phone, eBuddy, IM, phone, Rick Broida
Blog posts 2007-08-30
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