Author: matt-mansfield

Find the Right Software, Wow Reporters and Never Forget an Appointment

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Get Shift Done Weekly Roundup: Thursday, January 26, 2017

The Non-Techie’s Guide to Finding and Choosing Online Software


It’s easy to become overwhelmed when trying to find, evaluate and select online software for your business. That’s why I’ve created this six-step guide.

This process uses your specific business needs as a filter to cut through the noise and distractions so you can focus-in and find the right online software solution time-and-time again. Check it out…

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How to Turn Google Calendar into an Information Hub

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The Non-Techie’s Guide to Finding and Choosing Online Software

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Get Shift Done: Management


It’s easy to become overwhelmed when trying to find, evaluate and select online software for your business. Why? Because:

  • There are a lot of software solutions available.
  • There’s a lot of distracting noise in the form of how- to articles and advice.
  • Most folks are not familiar with an effective process for business software selection .

It’s for these three reasons that I created this guide. Below, I’ve detailed the six-step process that I use to find, evaluate and select online software.

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Risky Business, Hard Conversations and Getting Locked Out

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Get Shift Done Weekly Roundup: Thursday, January 19, 2017

S&*!t! I’m Locked Out By Google Authenticator and I Can’t Get In!


It’s great to depend on Google’s authentication system to confirm your identity on an online application’s website — until it doesn’t work. If you’ve ever been locked out of your own life, here’s how to work around that conundrum.

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Evernote Gets Crufty — Use Advanced Search to Get Through It All

Instead of searching through hundreds of saved notes, you can find what you’re looking for more easily by using Evernote’s search filters.

The Risky Business of Innovation

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How to Avoid Being a Slacker, Create Great Social Media Graphics, and Be Persuasive

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Get Shift Done Weekly Roundup: Thursday, January 12, 2017

7 Slack Tips That’ll Keep You From Being a Slacker at Work (Yeah, We Went There)


Slack has become a hub for the modern workforce, the go-to tool to Get Shift Done. There’s a lot more to Slack than you might realize, though, and we’ve been helping our readers get most out of it to be more productive in their day-to-day work. Click here for a roundup of our top 7 articles about Slack from the past few months.

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How to Create Attention-Grabbing Social Media Graphics Using Adobe Spark Post

A great new online tools for creating cool attention-grabbing graphics for social media is Adobe Spark Post — and it’s free to use. Here’s how it works — and how easy it is to create a graphic suitable for sharing on social media.

Your Boss is Wrong? Here’s How to Tell Them Without Getting Fired

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Telethons Are Back and Anyone Can Hold One

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Jerry Lewis Not Required


This Sunday I joined my kids in the family room to hang out and watch TV. With this family, you never know what’s going to be on. It could be anime, YouTube videos or week-long cancer telethons.


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Calendar Tips from Google, Herding Introverts and a Visit From Eisenhower

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Get Shift Done Weekly Roundup: Thursday, January 5, 2017

4 Hidden Google Calendar Tips From The Pros to Use in 2017


We asked the team at Google to give us their best tips for making your year more productive using Google Calendar. Click here to discover some lesser known tools that they shared with us and how to get started using them.

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Forget the Fancy Scanner and Save Your Receipts in Evernote

Keeping track of expenses is a hassle, plain and simple. You can buy special scanners or box them up and ship them off to different services to scan. Or, you can just sign up for Evernote.

Shut Up and Listen and Other Lessons on How to Manage Introverts

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Top Marketing Trends and Predictions for 2017 (Infographic and Analysis)

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Get Shift Done: Management

Tis’ the season to talk about marketing trends and predictions for 2017. And this year, the online community is delivering in spades.


Not that I’m complaining, mind you. I find predictions and trends posts fascinating because I love the preview of what’s to come.

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5 Tips for Using Trello to Get Sh*t Done

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Prioritize and Organize, Use Shortcuts, and Trello Board Examples

By Jeff.lasovski (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Trello is well-known as a collaborative task management tool, but are you using Trello to its fullest? To help you make the most of the online solution, we’ve gathered five of our top tips for getting sh*t done.

Tip #1: Prioritizing Your Trello Tasks Using Labels


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How to Use Trello for Just About Anything

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If you only use Trello to manage projects, then you’re missing out on a whole world of goodness. Yep, you can do just about anything with this online task tracking tool and it’s time to open your eyes to the possibilities by showing you what’s possible.

The Trello board examples below have been curated from the company’s “Inspiration” section and are but a taste of what you’ll find in the many categories they’ve created:

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The Secret Connection Between Applicant Tracking Systems and Company Size

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GSD SaaS Insights From Siftery Data

Photo credit: Elizabeth M on Flickr

If you’re wondering which applicant tracking system (ATS) to use in your recruiting efforts, you might want to start by measuring the size of your company.

Based on the latest numbers from our friends over at Siftery, the customer base of the top three recruiting and ATS solutions fall into one of three categories: large, small and medium respectively.

iCIMS Carries the Big Boys

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