Category Archives: Blogs ‘n’ Blogging

My Tool Box

One of the recurring themes of this blogs is going to be about productivity tools. What I find useful and why and what I don’t use and why. For me productivity is part tool and part method – tools are great but you’ve gotta know how to use them!

So what’s in the tool box this week? One of my favorites is Google Reader. I’ve tried a few feed readers over the last couple of years including:

OK, not a huge list, I’ll give you that. However none of these readers have inspired me enough to persist with feed reading like Google Reader has.

What do I like about it? One of its big pluses is that it’s right there in my browser – no need to launch another application. Also its simplicity of design and execution have made it very user friendly (to this user at any rate).

So that’s my number one tool for the moment and using it I’m discovering a huge amount about productivity, happiness and getting things done. If you think Google Reader sucks or if you have a strong leaning in another direction then share your preferences here.

ShareIT Cork

This posting is about 2 weeks overdue; but as I didn’t have a blog 2 weeks ago you’ll have to excuse the lateness of this report. However I’m posting it because it was the ShareIT event arranged by Damien Mulley that inspired me to start this blog.

The ShareIT day at UCC was aimed at people interested in starting a business in the IT industry; but really the presentations could apply to virtually any start-up. You can find full details of the presenters and their material on Damien’s site so I’ll not repeat that here. However I will say that one of the points that most of the presenters put across was the importance of blogging to increase your (my) presence on the web. So here we are!

There’s to be another ShareIT day in Dublin on Saturday 28th April. Like the Cork date the day will be free of charge (don’t make me out to be a liar here Damien) and will be fantastic value to anyone with even half an notion that they might want to set up a business for themselves.