ICM (or Interactive Content Management) is crucial to the success of your website. Since, I’m project managing two websites, I need to constantly brush up on things that will make me more knowledgeable about web development. One of the things that I need to know is ICM. I stumbled upon a video that discusses the [...]
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This morning, I stumbled upon an article on PCWorld, which lists the Philippines as the top country that sent SMS (short message service) through the mobile phones. This is not surprising at all for Filipinos have really taken the texting world to heart. In fact, many claim that they feel naked, handicapped if they don’t [...]
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Before 2008 ended, I wanted to have a planning session with my two teams, separately of course. I had two plans: (1) to hold a separate chat conference or (2) to e-mail each team member and consolidate their feedback. I went for the latter. The last day of work last year, I emailed them and [...]
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PCWorld outlines the qualities of a top-notch project manager. Here’s the list: 1. They possess the gift of foresight. Good project managers are able to anticipate and head off problems that can jeopardize deadlines, budgets and user acceptance. 2. They’re organized. Organization seems like an obvious characteristic of a star project manager, but it manifests [...]
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Two of the things I need every day at work. I envoke patience especially when I get OC. In my website projects, I want entries to follow a certain format, and have a consistent look. I labor at it. So at every start of the project, I give instructions to the programmer and to the [...]
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That is the order of business for me every day. I juggle from creative work to technical work. I do the creative stuff first in the morning, and then the technical ones in the afternoon. For a while that arrangement worked well for me. Until my creativity got affected somehow, which in turn affected my [...]
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This morning, I spent almost an hour explaining to one remote team member how to link information. I guided her to the compose page, pointing out to her the ‘insert link’ icon and gave her a step-by-step instruction. All these were done through chat. Our convo went: ME: Under Source put Seraja and then insert [...]
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GoPlan is an online project management app. If you’re managing a remote team, this app really comes in handy. I like it’s easy usability, and most of all it helps me keep up with everything that’s going on in my projects. It also works like a wiki, so I can easily review past tasks, tickets, [...]
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