I was at a leading law firm this morning talking about Gist and other tools we are using to make use more efficient at gathering and/or processing information. I started this list; All the time; www.gist.com – gives me all the email messages, tweets, news, blogs… about the

Thanks to the Bellevue Chamber of Commerce for having me keynote the 2009 Eastside Business Awards. I have provided a copy of my slides here.T.a. McCann_ East Side Business Awards Keynote www.stoweboyd.com – the master of “flow” and the man responsible for the “juggling with technology” anecdote

I found this good quote today from Fred Wilson: My first piece of advice is to share the news as soon as you have it. There is never a good reason to have information about your business that your board and major investors would want to know and not share

I found this fascinating quote today: I got a Kindle just over a week ago. It has changed the way I think about reading. I have a couple dozen books on it and I go back and forth between them in a way that I have never done with books.

Early this morning, I presented at the Northwest Entrepreneur Network breakfast . NWEN (www.nwen.org) helps people start companies by giving them tools, connecting them with service providers and making connections to other people, advisors… and I love that. This was a chance for me to summarize my thoughts and

I have been using Twitter alot lately. I find it helpful to broadcast my message to a large group of “followers” as well as keep tabs on my friends and what is on their minds. But, Outlook and email are by far my primary means of communication. I have also

Just a reminder — REMEMBER: Cell Phone Numbers Go Public today REMINDER…. all cell phone numbers are being released to telemarketing companies tomorrow and you will start to receive sale calls. …. YOU WILL BE CHARGED FOR THESE CALLS To prevent this, call the following number from your cell phone: 888-382-1222. It

My brothers dog, Butch, died this week and I will really miss him. He was a great friend. From my sister-in-law, Julie; Butch came to us… wandering on the streets of Chicago during a cold winter weekend. We made a half-hearted attempt to find the owner by posting a sign.

Every time I see my friend Buzz Bruggerman, he tells me about some productivity tool that I had either never heard of or forgotten to try. Today I was watching him being interviewed on Fast Company TV by Robert Scoble and he showed off MindJet. This mind-mapping software works for

I have been using Twitter a lot lately and really liking it. However, they have lots of problems with the site being down all the time. Today was no exception. We got the following errors on 2 separate pages. I decided to have some fun and created a t-shirt to