Comments on: You've Got To Be Kidding Me http://www.sabrinadent.com/2008/02/29/youve-got-to-be-kidding-me/ Web Design * Development * Marketing Ireland Sun, 04 Dec 2011 17:52:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: stwidgie http://www.sabrinadent.com/2008/02/29/youve-got-to-be-kidding-me/#comment-488 stwidgie Sun, 02 Mar 2008 22:19:06 +0000 http://sabrinadent.com/2008/02/29/youve-got-to-be-kidding-me/#comment-488 Interesting; it never occurred to me that something so massively useful would be out there. I'll give it a try. We've just got a new boss who's having us submit weekly accounts of ourselves. I keep track of all that on paper in daily to-do lists that I find oddly comforting. But this could be very helpful for some of the actual hourly billing I'm asked to do. Thanks for putting me onto that. BTW, I use SpashID for keeping track of ID/password combos and a lot more. It travels with me on my (oh now uncool) Palm Pilot, and lives at my home desktop. Very very very handy. I see you can also sync it with hipper devices including smartphones, so may be of some use. Interesting; it never occurred to me that something so massively useful would be out there. I’ll give it a try.
We’ve just got a new boss who’s having us submit weekly accounts of ourselves. I keep track of all that on paper in daily to-do lists that I find oddly comforting. But this could be very helpful for some of the actual hourly billing I’m asked to do. Thanks for putting me onto that.

BTW, I use SpashID for keeping track of ID/password combos and a lot more. It travels with me on my (oh now uncool) Palm Pilot, and lives at my home desktop. Very very very handy. I see you can also sync it with hipper devices including smartphones, so may be of some use.

]]> By: Chris Mehigan http://www.sabrinadent.com/2008/02/29/youve-got-to-be-kidding-me/#comment-487 Chris Mehigan Sun, 02 Mar 2008 20:04:07 +0000 http://sabrinadent.com/2008/02/29/youve-got-to-be-kidding-me/#comment-487 A few years ago I was working in a pretty fast moving company - the CEO was one of these "driven" and intense characters who was pretty much tasked with keeping the company moving at 200 miles an hour. One of the policies he brought in was the weekly CEO report - it worked 2 ways. First of all we were required to submit a report directly to him on the Friday afternoon of each week. On Monday morning he would send out his report to all of us highlighting the main successes of the Company that week, highlights of all the reports etc. I suppose on the one hand it ensured that we had a constant dialogue with the CEO, and he knew what we were all doing. Since leaving that company I have kept the habit - submitting a weekly report to my clients / boss / project manager or whatever. It's always welcome and if anyone wants to know what I was doing at any point I can go back over old reports and explain what I was working on etc. Simple habit, well received by employers and easy to keep up. A few years ago I was working in a pretty fast moving company – the CEO was one of these “driven” and intense characters who was pretty much tasked with keeping the company moving at 200 miles an hour.
One of the policies he brought in was the weekly CEO report – it worked 2 ways. First of all we were required to submit a report directly to him on the Friday afternoon of each week. On Monday morning he would send out his report to all of us highlighting the main successes of the Company that week, highlights of all the reports etc. I suppose on the one hand it ensured that we had a constant dialogue with the CEO, and he knew what we were all doing.

Since leaving that company I have kept the habit – submitting a weekly report to my clients / boss / project manager or whatever. It’s always welcome and if anyone wants to know what I was doing at any point I can go back over old reports and explain what I was working on etc.

Simple habit, well received by employers and easy to keep up.

]]> By: Sabrina Dent http://www.sabrinadent.com/2008/02/29/youve-got-to-be-kidding-me/#comment-486 Sabrina Dent Sat, 01 Mar 2008 09:41:46 +0000 http://sabrinadent.com/2008/02/29/youve-got-to-be-kidding-me/#comment-486 Hey, thanks for all the suggestions. I finally found it by searching my (terribly unorganised) Gmail for "registration" and trawling through the results. It's, umm, TickSpot! Which, I think, is more of a branding failure on their part than an old age failure on mine, but I could be wrong there... Hey, thanks for all the suggestions. I finally found it by searching my (terribly unorganised) Gmail for “registration” and trawling through the results. It’s, umm, TickSpot!

Which, I think, is more of a branding failure on their part than an old age failure on mine, but I could be wrong there…

]]> By: James http://www.sabrinadent.com/2008/02/29/youve-got-to-be-kidding-me/#comment-485 James Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:30:11 +0000 http://sabrinadent.com/2008/02/29/youve-got-to-be-kidding-me/#comment-485 Shit.. Mac utility for the Dashboard called "Timepost". Sorry, it's Friday evening. Shit.. Mac utility for the Dashboard called “Timepost”. Sorry, it’s Friday evening.

]]> By: James http://www.sabrinadent.com/2008/02/29/youve-got-to-be-kidding-me/#comment-484 James Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:29:25 +0000 http://sabrinadent.com/2008/02/29/youve-got-to-be-kidding-me/#comment-484 1timetracking.com is an Irish company I believe. I tried a bunch of these for awhile including a Mac utility called "Dashboard" which integrates with Basecamp but it is hard to beat an oul spreadsheet just to write everything down at the end of the day, the old fashioned way. 1timetracking.com is an Irish company I believe. I tried a bunch of these for awhile including a Mac utility called “Dashboard” which integrates with Basecamp but it is hard to beat an oul spreadsheet just to write everything down at the end of the day, the old fashioned way.

]]> By: Heidi Jermyn http://www.sabrinadent.com/2008/02/29/youve-got-to-be-kidding-me/#comment-483 Heidi Jermyn Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:25:35 +0000 http://sabrinadent.com/2008/02/29/youve-got-to-be-kidding-me/#comment-483 I have done the same thing 3 times with a password tracker I use for like everything and would be totally lost without. After hours trawling google I did eventually find it... (safe in delicious now) I have done the same thing 3 times with a password tracker I use for like everything and would be totally lost without. After hours trawling google I did eventually find it… (safe in delicious now)

]]> By: James Corbett http://www.sabrinadent.com/2008/02/29/youve-got-to-be-kidding-me/#comment-482 James Corbett Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:44:28 +0000 http://sabrinadent.com/2008/02/29/youve-got-to-be-kidding-me/#comment-482 Perhaps it's in your browser history? Or Google Desktop? Perhaps it’s in your browser history? Or Google Desktop?

]]> By: Stewart Curry http://www.sabrinadent.com/2008/02/29/youve-got-to-be-kidding-me/#comment-481 Stewart Curry Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:40:15 +0000 http://sabrinadent.com/2008/02/29/youve-got-to-be-kidding-me/#comment-481 some guesses: http://www.blinksale.com/home http://1timetracking.com/ http://www.getharvest.com/ http://www.basecamphq.com/ http://www.proworkflow.com/ some guesses:
http://www.blinksale.com/home
http://1timetracking.com/
http://www.getharvest.com/
http://www.basecamphq.com/
http://www.proworkflow.com/

]]> By: Cathy http://www.sabrinadent.com/2008/02/29/youve-got-to-be-kidding-me/#comment-480 Cathy Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:01:35 +0000 http://sabrinadent.com/2008/02/29/youve-got-to-be-kidding-me/#comment-480 That would be a very cool tool to keep track of my procrastination techniques, and scare myself into finishing my thesis. But I feel your pain, and indeed this losing stuff in the ether/Internet has happened more than once. I use delicious, but not so much, never really spent the time to organize it sufficiently, Google Notebook is my saviour :) That would be a very cool tool to keep track of my procrastination techniques, and scare myself into finishing my thesis. But I feel your pain, and indeed this losing stuff in the ether/Internet has happened more than once. I use delicious, but not so much, never really spent the time to organize it sufficiently, Google Notebook is my saviour :)

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