Spell check has become a part of our daily routine. Before an email leaves our outbox, we press the F7 key or our email program automatically checks for spelling errors when we hit send.
New software was introduced this week that would perform a similar task, but instead of looking for misspelled words or grammar errors, it looks for words or phrases that signify Sarbanes Oxley violations or could open an organization up to legal action. There’s an application that would check blog entries as well.
For more background, check out the InfoWorld article: E-mail and blog monitors are launched.
You’re all members of one team or another. How much do you love it when one team member sends out an email asking for feedback and another team member decides that they should “reply to all” with their response? And THEN, another team member replies to that message…and then someone else replies to the first message…and next thing you know you have 25 emails that all originate from one that was sent to you 13 minutes ago. It’s happened to all of us.
A recent article from the Houston Chronicle reports that many teams have started to use wikis and blogs for online teams collaboration (and to reduce email). For the full article, go here…
Here’s something useful: PowerPoint’s “Presentation View.” Your slides on the big screen; your current slide, notes, a timer, and the series of slides before and after the one being displayed on the screen of your laptop.
And while you’re checking it out, spend some time reading the other posts of Working Smart … it’s a great blog.
Fast Company’s No Consultant Left Behind explains that “as a public service, the Consultant Debunking Unit (CDU) has applied standard reading-level assessment formulas* used by educators to some of the most popular management texts.”
Good to Great: 8th-grade reading level.
Who Moved My Cheese?: 7th-grade.
Trump: Think Like a Billionaire: 5th-grade.
This post: 10th-grade reading level.
