Bill Gates' Way
Bill Gates shares details about the way he works with CNN Money, for starters, the paper on his desktop is replaced by 3 monitors: "Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It's fully synchronized with my office machine so I have all the files I need."
MicroPersuasion
Steve Rubel of MicroPersuasion also lists the services he uses every day. The list is long and I'm not sure how he doesn't get tired just of signing-in/off of so many websites... I had somehow overlooked Google Bookmarks before I read Steve's posts. Since then, I switched my online bookmarks to Google (from Del.icio.us) and I like it better. Google is faster, the search is better (no surprise here) and I can use the bookmarks when I'm logged in my Gmail account, eliminating the need to have one more log-in (Del.icio.us). There is not much in terms of sharing the Google Bookmarks but I prefer them private anyway.
Free Alternatives to Bill Gates' Services
DownloadSquad made a list of all the free services and programs you can use instead of Bill Gates' proprietary choices. Does anybody actually use SharePoint in today's blog-enabled world?
References:
How I Work: Bill Gates. CNN Money/Fortune.
How I Work. Micro Persuasion
Roll your own Bill Gates workflow for free. Download Squad.
Bill Gates shares details about the way he works with CNN Money, for starters, the paper on his desktop is replaced by 3 monitors: "Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It's fully synchronized with my office machine so I have all the files I need."
MicroPersuasion
Steve Rubel of MicroPersuasion also lists the services he uses every day. The list is long and I'm not sure how he doesn't get tired just of signing-in/off of so many websites... I had somehow overlooked Google Bookmarks before I read Steve's posts. Since then, I switched my online bookmarks to Google (from Del.icio.us) and I like it better. Google is faster, the search is better (no surprise here) and I can use the bookmarks when I'm logged in my Gmail account, eliminating the need to have one more log-in (Del.icio.us). There is not much in terms of sharing the Google Bookmarks but I prefer them private anyway.
Free Alternatives to Bill Gates' Services
DownloadSquad made a list of all the free services and programs you can use instead of Bill Gates' proprietary choices. Does anybody actually use SharePoint in today's blog-enabled world?
References:
How I Work: Bill Gates. CNN Money/Fortune.
How I Work. Micro Persuasion
Roll your own Bill Gates workflow for free. Download Squad.