Are you a victim of productivity pollution?
When are you most productive? Do you find yourself battling 7 fires at once with a BlackBerry in 1 hand while talking into your bluetooth headset, typing a reply to a friend over IM with another hand, and nodding vigorously at someone standing in your doorway? Is multi-tasking a term that applies to people slower than you?
[t
ag]Robert Scoble posted a nice short blog on the subject, and it was a breath of fresh air coming from some I consider a tad bit insane to stay as connected as he does. What did Robert have to say on the subject?
Want to get something done? Turn off Twitter. Turn off Facebook. Turn off blog comments. Turn off FriendFeed. Turn off Flickr. Turn off YouTube. Turn off Dave Winer’s blog and Huffington Post. Turn off TechMeme.
Turn off the distractions.
Today, people are guilty of allowing their attention to be distracted in too many different ways. If it isn’t normal mass media consumption like television, music, or games it’s the business media consumption like e-mail, smart PDA’s, and Instant Messaging.
Robert points to “attention management” as being the key. You have to simply choose your goals for the day reasonably. If you know you always have emergencies come up in the day, plan that time in.
A friend told me that he always over-budgets his time by 20%. That may sound like a too much padding, but if you think of the time it takes your mind to shift gears so many times, it really isn’t. Have you ever finished a day where you felt like there was a lot going - you were doing ’stuff’ - but you looked back and really didn’t get anything accomplished?
So here’s my favorite quote from this article: Linda Stone coined the term, “”continuous partial attention” which describes the kind of world we live in…”
Are you a victim of productivity pollution? How do you get clean and stay clean? For all you Twitterheads out there, get David Allen’s book Getting Things Done.
Is Firefox the business browser of choice?
Is Firefox gaining ground on Microsoft in the enterprise? According to a recent Forrester Research survey, Firefox moved almost doubled its market share to 18% in 2007 while Microsoft’s market share decreased by 10%. In an article posted by InformationWeek, author Hoover went on to say the numbers also point to poor adoption of IE7 in the enterprise as well,
…Internet Explorer 7 is having trouble finding traction as companies are sticking with the 6-year-old Internet Explorer 6. Microsoft released IE7 in October 2006, but 55.2% of companies still used IE6 as of December 2007. Only 23.4% of companies used IE7, barely outpacing the growth and use of Firefox.
What might be even more compelling is that Firefox 1.5 has been almost completely replaced by Firefox 2.0, a sign of a loyal client following eagerly consuming the October 2006 release. Thomas Mendel, author of the Forrester Research report, points to an air of “enterprise apathy” which illustrates there is nothing exciting keeping the attention of the end users.
Those thinking to upgrade to Internet Explorer 8 should be cautious as well, Hoover. The upgrade to version 8 may likely break some enterprise applications, so testing will be key to a successful roll out.
Is Microsoft being threatened in one of their own wheel houses? Is Microsoft’s marketshare being lost with upstart companies that are higher touch? Is Microsoft’s distribution business model antiquated?
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