This Focused Performance Weblog started life as a "business management blog" containing links and commentary related primarily to organizational effectiveness with a "Theory of Constraints" perspective, but is in the process of evolving towards primary content on interactive and mobile marketing. Think of it as about Focusing marketing messages for enhanced Performance. If you are on an archive page, current postings are found here.
Sunday, July 18, 2004
Dual Platform Life -- I've just noticed something in the way I'm organizing information these days. At [my] home [office] for years, I've been a Macintosh person, using Safari for web-browsing, NetNewsWire for feed-reading, and Entourage (the MS Office for Mac version of Outlook) for email. At my "new" job (does about 3 months count as "new?"), an IBM laptop with Internet Explorer and Entourage is the official setup. With a few intensive months of this under my belt, I've reinforced my satisfaction with my Mac. If only it had a port of MS Project, I wouldn't need or want Windows for anything.
One thing I've found is that living this multiple online personality has had an impact on my tools, and I find myself living more on the web than from my hard drives these days...
I've been experimenting with Google's Gmail offering. Initially wondering about its interface, it's winning me over. I'm shifting more and more of my email discussion list subscriptions to it from my focusedperformance.com address. Its way of showing and hiding messages in a thread works for me. I've started doing the label and filter thing on Gmail as well. I wonder how well it'll deal with spam as my account matures. (The one reason I hesitate going all the way to this free email system is the time, money, and psychic energy I've got invested in the Frank Patrick - Focused Performance identity.)
While I still like NetNewsWire immensely and have about 100 subscriptions in it, I find myself in Bloglines during the work day as well for my core "must reads" subs. The ability to "clip" stories in Bloglines is also a useful feature. (It would be more so if I didn't find myself in the habit mentioned in the next paragraph.) But I'll still rely on NetNewsWire for downloaded/offline feed reading when on the road.
The thing that really surprised me however is when I realized how I'm using Google's Blogger - the engine behind this weblog. Its "BlogThis!" auto-blogging button, combined with its "Save as Draft" option has turned my list of draft blogs into an extension of my "Favorites" in IE and "Bookmarks" in Safari, at least for the transient things I used to accumulate in a "Todo" or "Current" bookmark grouping.
Anybody have any other cross-platform or web-based tools that I should be aware of?
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