(Crossposted on kxanonline.com)
I have been spreading the word about managing your email inbox to all who will listen lately. Some are surely tired of hearing me rail against the evils of email, but I am on a crusade. I receive a very high volume of email so I am always looking for ways to get [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Declare Inbox Zero
Posted in Management, work/life balance on June 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Time Management and Me
Posted in Uncategorized on June 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I preach a lot about managing your time and improving your quality of life and I’m my worst student. I constantly lapse back into a chaotic schedule and wonder why everything is urgent and undone and why am I so stressed and having an anxiety attack at lunch?
I’m giving another Lunch ‘n Learn tomorrow and [...]
Interactive Austin
Posted in Interactive Media, Marketing, Networking on June 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Austin has always been tech-savvy, and as the market here continues to mature we are seeing more and more events for those in the interactive industry to choose from. This past weekend I attended ProductCamp for product marketing managers and product managers and this week I am going to Interactive Austin 2008.
From the website about [...]
Product Camp Wrap Up
Posted in Management, Marketing, tagged office politics, product camp, product management, product marketing, time management on June 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
What an incredible event! I have been in product management for a long time and it still amazes me when I get in a room of product managers and we can all speak the same language. At Saturday’s ProductCamp, many of the product managers were from industries that fit in Austin, tech, software, hardware and [...]
ProductCamp Second Part
Posted in Uncategorized on June 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s my time management presentation as a show: (click thumbnail to view presentation as a show)
Are sales teams your friend or foe?
Foe: The red herrings—If only we had complaints, The Time Suckers—could you meet with this prospect?, The Devaluers—Protecting our products?
Friend: The White Knights–Source of our success?, The Oracle—Source of our requirements, features, The API—Our [...]
Product Camp 1st half
Posted in Uncategorized on June 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We’re at lunch right now and the fellowship with other product managers is fantastic. A group of strategic product managers discussing war stories and collaborating on what tools we use as product managers to manage products through their product life-cycle.
One thing product managers do agree on is that being a product manager is the best [...]
Product Camp is today
Posted in Uncategorized on June 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m up very early on a Saturday morning because I’m headed off to ProductCamp. Here’s how they describe it:
[it] is a collaborative, user organized unconference, focused on Product Marketing and Management topics. At ProductCamp there are no “attendees,” since everyone participates in some manner: presenting, leading a roundtable discussion, helping with logistics, securing sponsorship, [...]
The new media mix
Posted in Interactive Media, Marketing on June 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When I first began my career in marketing we would spend weeks agonizing over the perfect direct mail piece. Today, direct mail isn’t even on my radar in planning my media budgets. Today’s marketing officers are under tremendous pressure to show results and to be ahead of the “next big thing” when it comes to [...]
