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Business and productivity

Practical tips for more productive work: managing email, writing better messages, staying focused and finding information without searching for long.

Business & Productivity75 Secrets of Success from the World’s Most Successful PeopleThese principles of very successful business leaders have enabled them to achieve their highest career goals. Implement these into your life and you will see an improvement in…Business & ProductivityBig Data: If all the World was a DatabaseI could be said that companies tend to move more slowly when it comes to change than end consumers. It’s easy to see why, a company needs to…Business & ProductivityImprove Outlook Search on Exchange ServersWith the PIM software Microsoft Office Outlook®, you can not only send and receive emails but also manage contacts, create appointments, and set up a personal calendar. If…Business & ProductivityEnterprise Search – a Cure for the Modern Brain Drain? Part 2In my first post on the boomer brain drain, I wrote about the enterprise search problem – all of the information locked up in Boomer brains walking out…Business & ProductivityFinding What You Need: Desktop Search in Corporate NetworksFinding what you need: desktop search in corporate networksBusiness & ProductivityWindows: Faster search using the search index – here's howIndexing files accelerates and improves search operations within Windows Search. The Windows search index includes libraries, as well as offline data and emails. System and program files are…Business & ProductivityPublic Folders and the Search for FilesNo matter how much Microsoft resisted – public folders have remained. Although they were changed with the release of Office version 2013, they were not abandoned. This is…Business & ProductivityEnterprise Search – A Cure for the Modern Brain Drain?I recently started thinking about this question as my own father retired. He has spent the last 40 years at the same company and has accumulated a mass…Business & ProductivityDesktop Search Effectively Facilitating E-Discovery ComplianceElectronically stored information is the lifeblood of modern business. The convenience and efficiency of electronically formatted information in comparison to paper documents, has not only lead to electronic…