Survey of my online habits

On July 8th, 2008 Henriette Weber wrote:

David tagged me in his online habits survey - so here goes :

What site do you visit first thing in the morning (after your blog)?

Actually I don't visit my blog first - I think it's gmail and then possibly some social networking site and 2 - 3 categories in my feedreader. Also I tend to visit greengirlsglobal.com for whom I have been blogging for a good while now. Then my clients sites to start my working hours for the day.

Name a service that you recently discovered and like?


Hm. that would be podcastmachine, actics and IRL- but a little disclaimer is that a couple of friends are working on them (I am working on IRL myself - and I think it's a brilliant idea). They do have a huge thing in common though: Vision to change the world, awesome. I don't know if it's a service but I am really into the 365days group on flickr these days. It my little creative project...

A blog whose design has impressed you?

My very favorite blogdesign (still) is la petite claudine - I simply love her header - and her blog...

A widget that would really help out but which doesn’t exist yet?

I think all kind of practical proximity widgets has a long way to go still. They really have to be convenient for the users though - otherwise I don't like widgets...

The last 2.0 book that you’ve read?

I am currently reading presentation zen ( the book), and I finished Clay Shirky's "here comes everybody" back in April - oh and I am terribly happy for my "how to be a rock star freelancer" book.


An online service that you think will become indispensable?


I really hope that actics will come indispensable, or dothegreenthing - basically services that makes you change the world.

A service that should exist because it’s sorely needed?

I don't know if it's a service - but a decision making mechanism that can change the world without have 50 politicians agree upon something before there's action. I think the world really needs that now. Decisions and actions - no more talking. But services that encourage actions are sorely needed. Services that makes people change their everyday patterns for more sustainability are sorely needed.

i think ethical proximity is gonna be huge in the future.

A blogger or net-entrepreneur whose work you admire?

I really admire people on their way up struggling, who succeeds in the end because of hard work. I admire J C Fischer for putting out his book ( he even made a dedication to me in it !!!!) and I truely and utterly admire Laura Kiralfy who is my partner for the inreallife.dk network for her creativity and her ways of action. Otherwise I will say Chris Messina - for his work with both Barcamps and Coworking... rock on guys.

Im passing the survey on to - well Sanjay (who we are interviewing for Geek Army Knife tonight) and to Elmine

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Back-on-track and How do you make your workday most effective ?

On May 2nd, 2008 Henriette Weber wrote:

So - Im back in fulltime Toothless Tiger employment from june 1st. This is the right thing for me. This is the big dive into the open sea. I want to be more efficient evolving my workday - so my question is : what works for you ?

What I have found has worked for me:

- Skype and IM meetings late at night.
- drafting all my thoughts in the wordpress CMS on toothlesstiger.com
- using hiveminder and basecamp as a productivity tool
- getting energy by not reading emails more than at lunchtime and in the afternoon
- incubation on tech blogs instead of normal news sites - they don't teach me anything anyway


where I really need to improve is:

-keeping myself on track - as I said, hiveminder is cool for productivity but I think I need something else as well
-keeping focused and not being distracted by not-work-noise
-doing boring business stuff (economy etc) as well as fun stuff
-setting both short term as well as long term goals
-family/worklife balance - sharing a calendar with the rest of the fam and other stuff.
-more filters of data instead of just data =)


What I think I need to make things easier:

-Hiveminder as a CRM tool
- some other podcastgear so I can rekickstart GeekArmyKnife together with the amazing Duarte
. (Huge thanks to these awesome guys for inspiring me to start up again)

Please overload me with comments - I need as much inspiration as I can get =) ( especially to make productivity/effectivity easier)

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