The folks over at College Degree just released a new great list listing the top 100 productivity and lifehack blogs, and I’m proud to share that Slacker Manager made the list…at #10! Wow!
Here’s what they said about Slacker Manager:
“Slackers can be productive. Wanna know how? Check out Slacker Manager, the blog that gives easy tips for prioritizing and managing your life.”
Personally, I also made the list with my own Make It Great! blog. Here’s what they said about Make It Great!:
“Author and “relationship geek” Phil Gerbyshak teaches readers how to make life great, whether you’re stuck at the office or …read more

Chris Bailey recently pointed out that Slacker Manager is part of the Alltop.com Career Network, along with The M.A.P. Maker, Escape from Cubicle Nation, Evil HR Lady, Managing with Aloha Coaching and the Chief Happiness Officer, to name a few.
I’d encourage you to bookmark the Alltop.com Career Network, and see if you find anything useful from there. I learned about quite a few new places to feed my brain at the careers space (like McArthur’s Rant and Riveting Rosie), and with other channels like Social Media (which says it is “featuring sites such as Read/WriteWeb, Publishing 2.0, Mashable, and Chris …read more

For immediate release
Slacker Manager Ranked #15 Career Blog by RiseSmart
Contact: Phil Gerbyshak
phil.gerbyshak@b5media.com
 

RiseSmart recently ranked the top 100 career blogs and as of January 13th, 2008, b5 Media’s Slacker Manager has been listed at #15. Other outstanding blogs honored include Tom Peters at #1, Business Pundit at #3 and Chief Happiness Officer at #4. b5 media’s Linked Intelligence was also honored at #27. Barely missing the cut was Slacker Manager co-author David Zinger’s employee engagement blog.
You can review the full list of top 100 career blogs and the algorithm for ranking the top 100 careers blogs can be found here.
Phil Gerbyshak …read more

Is your organization geared up to manage, master, and transform the ways work and the workplace has been changing?
Corporate Agility outlines a new model for competing in a flat world. Corporate Agility: A Revolutionary New Model for Competing in a Flat World was written by Charles E. Grantham, James P. Ware, and Cory Williamson.

Does your workplace produce a meaningful sense of self-control? From the book website:
We began with a presumption that, as population growth slowed and the baby boomers moved towards retirement, the workplace would become an increasingly important means of attracting and retaining talented workers. We knew from personal experience and …read more

Jason recently posted about a killer add on for Firefox that’ll allow you to capture really long web pages as PNG or JPG. This is an awesome tool! I’ve used Paparazzi in the past for this task, but get frustrated when I can’t capture a page that’s behind a paywall or other authentication system. Sure I can pdf the page, but it’s not the same as a screencapture. Screengrab does the trick nicely.
When I first installed it, I couldn’t figure out how to use it. It’s easy: it’s a context menu option. There’s also a new little icon down at …read more

I’m on vacation and not really keeping up with things, but Ron at BrandCurve sent a note around about Kathy Sierra getting some very uncool comments on her blog. There has always been a segment of blog culture that thrilled on being edgy and controversial. Sometimes for the links, sometime because they really believe what they write. In either case, the stuff that Kathy is getting hit with is beyond the pale. Kathy notes an ongoing police investigation, and I’m glad to see that.
Frank Paynter (mentioned prominently in Kathy’s post, and cleared in an update at the bottom), writes that …read more

This is a totally bifurcated post. Part one describes a few recent distractions. Part two is a call for help.
Part one:
I’ve been messing with new toys. Twitter, for one (this is me). You can post from IM, or TXT or via the web. Also, I’m kind of eyeballing Jaiku but haven’t set up an account. I’ve also been messing with Tumblr (this is me). It’s really cool. A very stripped down blog tool. Has a nice little bookmarklet for posting which makes it too easy not to do. Fun stuff.
Part two:
I’m going to San Diego for a conference. My wife …read more

Remember when blogs were so controversial in big companies? Now there are tons of execs blogging and hardly anyone blinks. I think there’s also been a shift in the way people view blogs, particularly those written by corporate types. Personal blogs still feel personal, but corporate blogs….uh….don’t.
I was visiting friends in San Diego last weekend and one of my buddies knows one of the cofounders of Stone Brewery and we got a personal tour of the facilities with the president (thanks again, Steve!). That was cool, but really nothing earthshaking.
However, I was browsing their website looking for the bistro menu …read more

Just a quick pointer to The Cranking Widgets Blog where Brett has a really cool series of posts (two up so far) called GTD Masters where he interviews some well known GTD bloggers. Great idea and great reading!

Fellow Portland biz blogger, Skip Angel, has started a new blog: Leaning towards agility. Which is, as I understand it, a blog about how to apply Lean and Agile concepts to more than software development. Should be fun to read. Skip previously blogged at Random Thoughts from a CTO.