It’s every companies dream to ride a big wave. How do you do that with social media? I like to think about conversing at a friends dinner party with people you know and have just met. You would not hard sell someone at the party your good and services –would you? It’s socially unacceptable. So as you build your social network today, here are some tips to help you surf the coming swell with awareness.
- Social Media Groundswell is about person-to-person activity.
- Don’t be “the company” be a person.
- Be a good listener.
- Be patient, transform your company, one person at a time.
- Be passionate, it’s contagious.
- Stay on your toes … adjust and learn from connections.
- Stay real. If you become prideful people will know.
I find that many people do not know the cool tools to make your life better built in to Office. Here is one of my favorites: The Format Painter tool replicates the formatting from one part of a document to another. So instead of manually redoing all the formatting yourself, you can use the Format Painter. First, select the text whose formatting you want to replicate. Then, click the Format Painter toolbar button. Finally, select the text you want to imbue with the format. For bonus points, you can double-click the Format Painter button to replicate the formatting to multiple areas of the document!
! It seems the phrase PICNIC is a code word spoken by IT geek people supporting computers. It stands for “Problem In Chair, Not In Computer.” Now you know. So if they speak the word PICNIC while helping you you can smile back knowingly.
Speed up Outlook 2007
Published March 4, 2010 Computer , Productivity , commentary , technology Leave a CommentTags: Microsoft, office, Outlook 2007, Speed up
Follow these steps:
1. Open Outlook as an Administrator by going to C:Programs/Microsoft Office/Office12 and right clicking on the Outlook exe program. Choose “Run as Administrator”.
2. Then once Outlook opens, go to Tools, then Trust Center, then Addins.
3. Click “Go…” at the bottom and uncheck Outlookaddins.
4. To maximize speed, uncheck everything EXCEPT Windows Indexing, which may be the only useful addin anyway.
5. If you lose some function that was useful, just follow the steps above and check the addins that correspond to the missing function. Then exit Outlook and restart it to test the addin’s fuction.
When I did this this morning, the speed of my Outlook 2007 improved significantly. I had about 17 addins that I unchecked. We are supposed to to have a new Outlook and Office soon from Microsoft and I hope they have addressed this performance issue.