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How do you send a Text from your PC or Outlook?

January 31, 2012 in Technology, Time Management with 0 Comments

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If you have your contacts mobile number and provider, you can send an email that will be a text message.

For example to send a text via email to a customer on AT&T, you would send to 1112223333@txt.att.net. See below for a known list of companies.

AT&T – cellnumber@txt.att.net
Verizon – cellnumber@vtext.com
T-Mobile – cellnumber@tmomail.net
Sprint PCS – cellnumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com
Virgin Mobile – cellnumber@vmobl.com
US Cellular – cellnumber@email.uscc.net
Nextel – cellnumber@messaging.nextel.com
Boost – cellnumber@myboostmobile.com
Alltel – cellnumber@message.alltel.com

Of course you should ask permission before you send someone a text message via email since the receiver is responsible for the cost.

 

Time Change- Do we still need it?

November 4, 2011 in Recomendations, Time Management with 0 Comments

Twice a year we have to go through the process of syncing all our clocks for the time change.  Fortunately several of my clocks adjust automatically to the time change.

The “time change” messes with my body and my sleeping and waking schedule. The goal each evening for me is to be in the bed reading by 8:30 pm and rising by 4:00. The first week after the time change regardless if it is Spring or Fall time change I feel out of routine.

The Daylight Savings time change was created in 1895 to save energy and more give farmers more daylight. According to the video poses a question with me. Do we really need to continue doing this?  I agree with this video’s producers that it might be a practice that we need to eliminate.

It’s time to make a push to our government to stop this practice of changing time twice a year.

Should we encourage the elimination of the twice year fall back and spring forward of our clocks? 

 

The World is Obsessed with Facebook

March 9, 2011 in Social Media, Technology, Time Management with 0 Comments

Are you?

Creating Culture Together

June 24, 2009 in Henderson KY, Social Media, Technology, Time Management, Twitter with 2 Comments

A community leader asked me today about a question on social media:

Is Social Media detrimental to productivity in the workplace?

Here is my response:

Basically what is happening is that many employers are loosing quality educated people because the prohibit these types of activities in the workplace.  I might be different ,but I actually encourage social media use in the workplace and expect communication on that media to be like any other communication used in the office.

Since social media to the 20/30 age group crowd is like a pen and paper to the other generations by actually removing the ability to use this technology in the workforce we are actually putting a message out that says “we are not interested in the 20/30 something crowd”.

That group of our society are flocking to other communities that have companies that embrace this type of activity in the work place and shunning smaller cities that might “hang on” to old values not because they don’t want to but they fear the future.

A forward thinking blogger said yesterday “Sometimes we spend too much time defending the old thing, instead of working to take advantage of the new thing.”

Last weekend Greg and I spent some great time in Franklin TN absorbing the culture. What a great place to see young, old, educated, spiritual, physically fit people working and  living-  creating culture together.

Creating a culture of EDUCATED people is a key to a any successful community.

What are some ways you can create culture in your community?

How are you using social media in your workplace?

What are some of your rules for using social media in your workplace?

Email Clean Up

April 28, 2009 in Technology, Time Management with 0 Comments

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Recently I have been working to decrease the amount of email  that hits my inbox. Over the years I have used rules inside of outlook to automatically move messages from some senders to various folders inside of outlook and review them when I have time.
Now the problem exist that those folders are becoming over flowing.
image Google Reader has helped me greatly to improve my email organization. Many emails that I receive are also available as RSS feeds so I have unsubscribe from the emails and subscribed to the RSS feeds through Google Reader.  Google reader is organizing all my once emails into a nice RSS feed.  An example I read several hundred blogs.  I used to have emails come in whenever new blogs are posted to remind me to read them.  With Google Reader I no longer have to subscribe- they come to my Google reader.
Google reader gives you several other tools.  If you have a item that you think others might like to read you can email to them right out of Google Reader.
Google Reader also allows you to create a shared items page of your favorite reads for others to read.  You can read my shared items page at  http://nibbypriest.com/recomended-reading/.
Using all this new web 2.0 technology I still get the dreaded forward messages from many people. Most of which I always delete.
image I found http://www.stopforwarding.us/ its a great kind way to encourage people who send you those redundant forwards to stop.

What have you done to help rid yourself of email hell?

Email Bomb!

April 9, 2009 in Technology, Time Management with 2 Comments

We just returned from a few days of adventure and relaxation and just plain ole doing something different with my niece and nephew River & Sister Kally in St Louis Missouri.

We did several things all of were quite different and somewhat ordinary.

We laughed a lot, played games, talked listened to music.  All good.

Constantly I am working because of my *choice* to have technological gadgets (e.g. iPhone) and make myself totally connected.  I realized what a impact that has on my ability to disconnect.   Having and being a part of a small business has its perks, but many times you pay the cost in other areas of your life.

I constantly checked my iPhone for the latest email messages.  Several came and really didn’t realize how many came in till I consciously decided not to look at it every time I heard the chime of a new email in the box.   I felt the need to constantly check my twitter feed and my Facebook notifications.

Many times when I looked at my email they were another “bomb email” from the office and it put a damper on my mood and ability to communicate with the people that I was with.

So I few times I felt this was a negative in my ability to have a good time on vacation.

Do you think it is important when you go on vacation to turn off your email and other means to be connected?

I can’t remember your name . . .

March 27, 2009 in Motivational, Time Management with 3 Comments

questions Have you ever been out somewhere and a person comes up to you and says hello and calls you by name and you can’t begin to think of that persons name?

My parents are notorious about asking me “who is that?”.  Many times now I say to them before they have the chance “I don’t know who that is”.

I am so embarrassed that I can’t remember peoples names.

My excuse has been for years is that I work with a headset and computer in front of me and I can’t remember anything unless I have my computer in my face.  Yes, computers/databases have made me lazy when it comes to truly memorizing peoples names.

Last night while shopping at the big box store it happened to me twice.

At first I just acted like I knew the person (which I actually did) and tried to play it off.  I thought for a brief second and thought to myself –how fake! either you know the person or you don’t.

The way I handled the situation was to genuinely say “I’m embarrassed, but I can’t think of your name”.  I did that and felt much better.

People are so important to me and my family.  We love people and our relationships with various people.

One thing I am going to make a conscious effort to do is when I am in that situation to ASK their name and make another conscious effort to remember it.

What do you do when you can’t think of someone’s name and they know you?

First Blog Post

April 20, 2008 in Time Management with 0 Comments

Oh I got so much to talk about on here! Lets get to it!