Power BI: The Missing Productivity Features
These past couple of years I’ve worked extensively with Microsoft Power BI, which in many ways is “the next Excel”, but because it is much more recent, it still has… Read more »
Saas Integration: Trends & Players
Note: entry originally published in November 2014, maintained regularly since then. By definition Software as a Service is easier to roll out than on-premises software because you don’t have to install… Read more »
Ideas to Improve Software Documentation, Raise Productivity of Mere Mortals
The explosion in the quantity and quality of both commercial APIs and open source projects is a huge enabler for digital start-ups and small businesses. Instead of painfully rolling your… Read more »
Microsoft Outlook As A Platform, Take 2: From the Desktop to the Cloud
This 2004 entry was updated from the 2016-18 vantage point. If there’s an area where the shift from client-server to the cloud is most dramatic, this is it! Keep reading… Read more »
Sign Up Using SSO, Done Right
Kudos to SurveyMonkey for their very clear, user-friendly sign up form (pictured above) that lets you sign up with your existing Google, Facebook,or Microsoft credentials. They’re far from the only SaaS… Read more »
Airtable Product Updates Showcase their Own Product
Smart move by Airtable to use their own product to list their updates, not just as an embed in this page, but also as a fully usable database that people… Read more »
Competitive SEO Guerilla: Hello Uno!
The screenshot above looks pretty harmless, doesn’t it? It’s just a list of tags, and it’s just plain text at the bottom of a support page. Now, not quite anyone’s support site,… Read more »
Google, Click Killer Linguist
Similar to how googling for “jazz albums 1965” returns a stripe of album covers – along with similar queries for books, movies, or video games – the simple “minute” search query reveals how… Read more »
Customizing Gmail & Gsuite for Productivity
As an avid Inbox Zero practitioner who likes to find information very quickly, I’ve tinkered quite a bit with my Gmail and Gdrive setup. Here’s what I currently use:
Search Advertising: Not Always On Point, On Purpose
I just saw this ad while googling for Salesforce Chatter adoption vs. the increasingly ubiquitous Slack, and was stumped for a second before realizing what was going on, so I… Read more »