tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22311364.post8778621146672508544..comments2024-03-09T23:22:40.699-08:00Comments on Small Biz Thoughts by Karl W. Palachuk: Aggregating and FilteringKarl W. Palachukhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10854725002875547297noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22311364.post-38562737366428380312007-11-06T00:57:00.000-08:002007-11-06T00:57:00.000-08:00Another great post Karl, it certainly gives us ple...Another great post Karl, it certainly gives us plenty to think about.<BR/><BR/>One tip I'd offer is to re-direct some of those Mailing List Digests, E-Newsletters and Vendor Technology Update e-mails to some Exchange Public Folders. You find them useful to dip in and out of, but they clog up your inbox (or sub-folder) if not read for a few days?<BR/><BR/>If you've got more than one Techy Employee in your business, chances are they'll want to read the same information - so centrally locating those mailings means reducing duplicates e-mails in everyone's mailbox. Plus new Junior Techy's joining the business get an instant archive of relevant information to search/read.<BR/><BR/>One final point - everyone knows Atari is better than Commodore, so let's drop that subject. :-)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01177492318679713002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22311364.post-57009585235350451372007-11-05T12:10:00.000-08:002007-11-05T12:10:00.000-08:00Karl,I have a great system that works for me.1) Ne...Karl,<BR/><BR/>I have a great system that works for me.<BR/><BR/>1) Newsgator to track hundreds of blogs. I have the blogs categorized: SBS 2003, Mobile Phones, XP Troubleshooting, Business News, Vista Troubleshooting etc., this way I can get all blogs read in about 20 minutes.<BR/><BR/>2) I have a paid Yahoo mail account which includes unlimited storage. So every forum I participate in has a Yahoo mail folder for those posts keeping all of this stuff out of my Outlook mailbox.<BR/><BR/>3) SharePoint 3 on our internal server with RSS integration pulling in all the RSS system status feeds from our key vendors, if no RSS then a link to our key vendors' system 'status' page.<BR/><BR/>4) Outlook and a Microsoft Smartphone for business email.<BR/><BR/>All day I'm caught up on email while in the field thanks to the SmartPhone, everytime I open the web SharePoint lets me know of any potential problems with vendors, open Newsgator at 4:30 all my blogs are in and quick review, then if time allows a peak at my Yahoo mail for the forum posts.<BR/><BR/>Then a few trade magazines a week and of course a re-read of "Relax, Focus, Succeed" next the "Super-Good Project Book!"<BR/><BR/>~ Brian WilliamsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com