The Cranky Middle Manager Show #113- Special Productivity Tools Edition
The Cranky Middle Manager Show #113 (MP3 20.00MB 43:20Min)
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Special Edition- Productivity Tools and Great Discounts for CMM Listeners
Okay, you know how magazines do special theme issues? That’s what we’re doing here. Today we’re talking to four different people about the productivity tools they create that can help managers get their work done easier and work with their teams smoother. Geek out to your heart’s content.
Special news, though: We are offering special discounts on all the products mentioned and you can cash in. Even if you don’t think you’ll buy, click the links and visit the folks we talk to- we’re trying to shamelessly demonstrate that CMM listeners are an important audience. Do yourselves and me a big old favor and check them out.
Show Notes
0:00 Welcome to a special edition. 5 shows this month and this one is a special Productivity Tools edition.
2:12 The first tool is SyncMyCal, and its president Vikas Seghal. This will help Outlook talk to Gmail and lots of other tools. IT comes in PC, 30Boxes and Mobile editions.
Save 20% on SynMyCal by using Voucher code SMC457
SyncMyCal: http://www.syncmycal.com/buy_now.htm
SyncMyCal Mobile:http://www.syncmycal.com/pda_buy_now.htm
SyncMyCal 30Boxes:http://www.syncmycal.com/30Boxes_buy_now.htm
12:17 Ever go crazy trying to organize your email in Outlook? From www.clearcontext.com comes IMS Pro, a way to prioritize and organize your email. Brad Meador tells us all about it.
Save $15 off IMS Pro by using the code CMMTPN15
22:19 From Halamish, Israel and www.claritude.com, we talk to Itzy Sabo about his Outlook tool,Speedfiler. For those of you with far more discipline than I, it’s also GTD (Getting Things Done) compatible. (You can hear our conversation with David Allen about GTD here)
To save $5 off Speedfiler, simply download the program and type CRANKY in the coupon field.
31:20 Finally, Jason Fried of 37signals.com and their tools Backpack and Campfire for group chat and gathering then sharing data. Cool tools and the basic versions are free with no time limits.
If you decide to purchase their main Basecamp product, you can get $10 off the upgrade by using code 6J8QZL83SK
What did you think of the show? Love it? Hate it? Want more? Want my head on a stick? Let us know gang.
Trying never to bore you and not let the weasels get you down.
October 10th, 2007 at 6:29 am
Interesting cast, Wayne. What was even more valuable to me than the cool products featured was your ability to make the geeks speak in plain language.
The best technology is easily understood by those that need to use it. I’m sure there’s another cast in that somewhere…
October 12th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
[...] Won’t be posting much between now and then although the next show will go up on time.By the way, if you’ve missed it, don’t forget to check out Episode 113- the Special Tech Edition. [...]
October 16th, 2007 at 7:33 pm
[...] 16th, 2007 · No Comments I recently had the good fortune to be invited to talk about SpeedFiler and the problems it cansolve, in a special Productivity Tools broadcast on Wayne Turmel’s Cranky Middle Manager Show (part of The Podcast Network). The Cranky Middle Manager Show is an irreverent but insightful look at the world of middle management. Host Wayne Turmel vents, offers humorous commentary and talks to the smartest people in the field about management techniques, career strategies and just keeping it together day after day. If you ever feel stuck between the idiots that make the decisions and the morons who won’t do as they’re told, this is the show for you. [...]