Here’s a short video of the books currently on my “shortlist” shelf of business books.
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by Tod on September 08th, 2010 
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I’ve tried pretty much every online task manager out there. Finally, I stumbled upon the simple Google Tasks and tweaked it to make it very powerful. Here’s how my to-do list is set up within Google Calendar. You may find it very helpful!
by Tod on September 07th, 2010 View Comments
A quick tip for the writers out there. If you want to keep track of your words when they hit the Internet, here’s a little trick I use to discover if a web site has picked up and is publishing my content.
First, find a unique-sounding phrase from your post/article — you’re looking for something that shouldn’t appear anywhere else on the Internet except for in your document. For instance, in my popular Ten Things I Wish I Knew When I Started as a Professional Speaker post, this phrase…
“By total fluke once, a speaker after me happened to select the same case study I presented”…
…didn’t, at the time of my post, appear anywhere else on the Internet.
So I went to Google Alerts and created a running search for that exact phrase. Important: Make sure you put the unique phrase in quote marks, so Google searches for that exact phrase, not just uses of all those words. Set the options however you like (my preferred settings are in the example below), and hit Create Alert.
And that’s it! Now, any time someone uses your content online, you’ll get an email from Google. Enjoy!
by Tod on September 06th, 2010 View Comments
I was perusing the Small Business B.C. web site and came across an article which argued that incorporating your company shields its shareholders from any legal claims. This isn’t exactly true in all cases, so I posted a reply:
I hit the Submit button, and the site barfed out this:
<sigh> Oh, governments. Why do your Interwebs haz so much of teh fail?
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