{"id":4796,"date":"2007-10-26T11:35:58","date_gmt":"2007-10-26T18:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/blog\/cma-conference-day-2-mark-hurst-creative-good\/"},"modified":"2007-10-26T11:35:58","modified_gmt":"2007-10-26T18:35:58","slug":"cma-conference-day-2-mark-hurst-creative-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/blog\/cma-conference-day-2-mark-hurst-creative-good\/","title":{"rendered":"CMA Conference &#8211; Day 2 Mark Hurst, Creative Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <strong>How can I take control of e-mail, to-do&#8217;s, and the media diet?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Although this presentation was a little off topic, it was quite informative. In fact, Mark provided a tool I&#8217;d been trying to find for months &#8211; what he calls BitLevers. Here is what Mark had to say, much of which is contained in his new book <a href=\"http:\/\/bitliteracy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bit Literacy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All employees should have some basic skills mastered in order for them to be productive. These skills include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Managing E-mail<\/li>\n<li>T0-Do Lists<\/li>\n<li>Media Diet (consuming less content)<\/li>\n<li>Managing Photos<\/li>\n<li>Creating Content<\/li>\n<li>Naming Files<\/li>\n<li>Storing Files<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In fact, Mark has applicants do a typing test to ensure they can touch type fast enough to remain productive in his company. Mark showed us how to master our in-boxes. Here are five types of email that we receive &#8211; and what you should do with them.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li> Spam [Delete It]<\/li>\n<li>Personal [Read and File or Delete]<\/li>\n<li>FYI&#8217;s [Read and File or Delete]<\/li>\n<li>Small To-Do&#8217;s [Take care of them right away &#8211; anything that takes less then five minutes]<\/li>\n<li>Big To-Do&#8217;s [Defer to later by creating a to do in your e-mail application, or scheduling time in your calendar]<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>He says the biggest issue most of us have with our inboxes is not deferring most email to a To-Do or calendar entry, and we should get in the habit of clearing out our in-boxes on a daily basis. Once it&#8217;s clear it&#8217;s time to tackle your To-Do list for the day. You&#8217;ll sleep better when you&#8217;re done.<\/p>\n<p>The final bit of advice he gave was to use BitLevers. I call them speed codes. These applications run PC and Mac and allows you to configure speed codes of text so for example &#8211; TYVM would automatically conver to Thank You Very Much automatically. I&#8217;ve installed a similar tool on our WordPress blog called Templatedia which you can use to configure speed-codes for any amount of HTML. Example {{ckphoto}} when published will automatically insert all of the HTML associated with adding my photo to the beginning of a blog post and the hyper-link that takes you to my profile page. Brilliant!<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately I can&#8217;t find one for the PC. <a href=\"http:\/\/ettoresoftware.com\/About%20TypeIt4Me.html\" target=\"_blank\">TypeIt4Me<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ergonis.com\/products\/typinator\/\" target=\"_blank\">Typinator<\/a> are both for the Mac. Anyone know of a PC based version?<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully this information will help you too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How can I take control of e-mail, to-do&#8217;s, and the media diet? Although this presentation was a little off topic, it was quite informative. In fact, Mark provided a tool&hellip;","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[891],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellospark.ca\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}