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 at home with friends and family.”

In addition to the two blogs I write for, many other GREAT blogs were recognized. I encourage you to check out the full listing of top 100 productivity and lifehack blogs and see if you can find a few new folks to learn from!

Flickr photo credit to Violentz.

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Top 100 Productivity and Lifehack Blogs: We’re #10!

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 Brogan!” Huzzah Chris!), Photography and more, I’ll definitely be giving this a look.

Of course, this is another Guy Kawasaki adventure,  though I didn’t know that when I first started looking at this. Is that a good thing, or a bad thing?

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On (All)Top of the World

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 and David Zinger would like to thank the readers of Slacker Manager for subscribing to their feed and for their continued support and encouragement.

Slacker Manager was founded by Bren Connelly in October of 2004 and sold to b5 Media in 2007, when Mr. Gerbyshak and Mr. Zinger took over authorship.

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Slacker Manager Ranked #15 Career Blog by RiseSmart

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 our own previous research that talented people wanted – no, demanded – a great deal of personal control over their work, and that traditional, top-down, one-size-fits-all management and cube farms don’t exactly produce any meaningful sense of self-control.

Click here to read a detailed and well-written review of the book available at The Leadership Sphere.

Click here to read the authors informative and insightful Future of Work blog.

To avoid our organizations becoming fragile we must become more agile. I encourage you to investigate the work of Grantham, Ware, and Williamson on how organizations can heighten their agility.

Photo Credit: Fragile by http://flickr.com/photos/bb_matt/207102084/

David Zinger writes extensively on employee engagement.

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The Future of Work: Avoid Fragility, Embrace Agility

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 the bottom right corner of your browser window. Capture on!

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Full browser screen capture

Frank Paynter (mentioned prominently in Kathy’s post, and cleared in an update at the bottom), writes that the folks at the now defunct meankids.org site were beyond moderation. In his words:

“…indeed the group there was of the “You Own Your Own Words” tradition, so moderating or central editorial control wouldn’t work. I tore the site down.”

“You own your own words.” Someone might get to learn about a new twist to that mantra, which includes “You are responsible for your own words.” I hope that the police investigation is fruitful and that there’s a definitive ending to this story that can give Kathy some closure and assurance.

BTW, props to the team at Wordpress.com for suspending the meankids replacement site.

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Way over the line

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 is coming along this time. I used to live in San Diego, but it’s been a while. Where would you go if you were there for four days (we’re staying on Coronado)? I’m looking for quick visits, restaurants (cheap-to-middling), etc. I don’t want to just be relegated to the old college haunts, so lemme know what your favs are.

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So many toys (and a request)

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 and I ran across the CEO’s video blog. That’s right, the CEO’s video blog. Now granted, this is a brewery and the culture is unabashedly San Diego casual, but it still seems pretty amazing and cool to me that any C-level exec is vlogging.

It’s really hard to be a chilly corporate type when you’re running around with your video camera. It almost breeds the authenticity that was the hallmark of the early days of corporate blogs.

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Corporate video blogs

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GTD Masters

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Lean and agile