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• Delay that email! How Outlook 2010 can save your hide

  3 Jun 2011

  Today's topic is about how Outlook can save you from your own impetuous, fiery, trigger-happy self: I'm going to tell you how to delay a single message (akin to counting to 10 before speaking) or ALL your messages. To me, this is an invaluable feature; an escape of sorts. For although I've mellowed with...
• Administrative pros: What have you done for yours lately?

  20 Apr 2011

  You know them, you see them every day running all over the office, and you have probably—at one time or another—overloaded their inboxes with your requests for a new computer, a better office, and a way to hide (possibly in their offices) from the local chatterbox. (Who, me?) Who are they...
• Triangulation: The latest dance craze or a work habit to be avoided?

  15 Apr 2011

  I'm handing over the writing reins today to a new friend I made through this blog. Tom Patterson and I have had some pretty interesting conversations about life, and more in particular, life at work. As a leadership coach, Tom works to provide insight and creative solutions for his clients, and it would...
• Your workplace: Navigating the curves and styles

  21 Mar 2011

  Let's talk about the workplace and its influence over your work style, your worklife, your outside of work (space) life, and even your psyche. I'm riffing on this today (literally, just riffin') because earlier this week I had a really interesting and illuminating conversation with a fellow named Tom...
• Delegation: Get your life back (Part II)

  16 Mar 2011

  Monday's post made the point that you're the one doing all the work all the time, and it's time to step back and let go a bit. Handing off some work isn't a sign of weakness; it says that you trust others (and, okay, need to get rid of the bags under your eyes). Share the information...and thereby the...
• Delegation: Get your life back (Part I)

  14 Mar 2011

  You are a doer. You're a multi-tasking whiz kid, burning the midnight oil, taking the heat when the office burns down, and then putting out that fire. See, I used to be like that too. But then my family grew, and, well, it was a wake-up call to let me know that 1) I didn't need to do everything all by...
• Romance in the office: Part II

  11 Mar 2011

  Think you can take a lesson from the lovebirds at Dunder Mifflin ? Jim and Pam met there, and their love blossomed. So why can't an office romance work for you, too? Wednesday , we talked about how "what the heart wants, the heart goes after" and how hard it is to have any control over that. Today, let...
• Romance in the office: Part I

  9 Mar 2011

  Now that Valentine's Day is more than three weeks past, it's time to consider romance again, only this time, perchance with more common sense. Now, I mentioned the phrase "office romance" to several of my coworkers, and their reactions were almost unanimous: Don't go there. And while that is probably...
• ScreenTips, document tooltips, & other things readers have taught us

  2 Mar 2011

  Today I'm engaging in a bit of laziness but still trying to help out as much as I can: I'm going through the comments and emails I've received the past few weeks and picking out a few that I think might help the great majority of you. These are comments where people have asked questions, I've provided...
• Celebrating Black History Month with computer science pioneers

  28 Feb 2011

  Today is the last day of February, and it's also the last day of Black History Month. But long after the month is over, the contributions of Black pioneers in the area of computer technology will remain. So let's end this month by commemorating a few of the Black men and women who were and are at the...
• Telecommuting: Workin’ it from home

  11 Feb 2011

  I was talking on the phone to a fellow in Seattle named Dave (who is helping me get some cool Crabby swag made) and the subject of telecommuting came up. He said he tried it but with three kids around, he just couldn't do it. (I suggested hiring out the kids during the day but that idea didn't really...
• Crabby + Accessibility series: Who's it for?

  12 Jan 2011

  In Monday's post , I attempted to explain what "accessibility" means in terms of computing, while tossing out some statistics about what portion of the general population has issues with vision, hearing, and dexterity. But, as someone so deftly pointed out to me, there is another group of people I left...
• Office Project: Underused—a sham and a shame

  21 Sep 2010

  In a nutshell, Project is a tool that project managers can't—well, shouldn't —live without, and since you are about to discover your own inner project manager, consider learning to use this tool. It's a great way to keep your projects on time and within budget. Okay, so someone in a senior...
• Crabby's tips for surviving performance reviews

  19 Aug 2010

  Chances are that if you work for a living, you're going to experience the joy of being reviewed on the work you do (and how you do it). There are ways to make performance reviews—for the giver and the receiver—a little less overwhelming. Keep track of your work using Search Folders (available...
• Act like your mom is watching

  10 Aug 2010

  A while back I wrote a column about e-mail etiquette . Since many of us spend a lot of time in e-mail (more time than we really should, probably), this particular column has become one of my more popular ones. And while I still get e-mail messages that are written IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS and even ones...
• There's a Monster in the Office!

  16 Jul 2010

  Welcome to hope: The partnership of Monster.com and Office.com , a career center for job seekers, powered by Monster.com. You need résumés? Office has more résumé templates than there are stars in the western sky. (Astronomers/Astrologists: This is just an exaggeration; no...
• Plan your summer getaway with Crabby

  2 Jul 2010

  The heat of summer is upon us (unless, of course, you live in the Pacific Northwest, when summer normally arrives on July 5th) , so I thought it time to talk again about vacation planning. I've got a three-part plan that will help get you started; if you want to read all my ideas for vacation preparation...
• You want cheese with that (it's free...)? Be sneaky about meeting times

  21 Jun 2010

  Alrighty, my point: Cheese (and other extras) at this particular restaurant were free , and the hungry patrons who didn't even KNOW that they wanted cheese were thrilled to have it once it appeared on their plates. What could be better than something warm, gooey, and...free? So this week, I'm serving...
• You can use Office for that? — Crabby's get away from it all checklist

  2 Jun 2010

  Below are my six basic tasks that need to get done in order to leave the office with a clear conscience, and return to it with a little less dread. I go into more detail about it in my column Crabby's get-away-from-it-all checklist . Tell everyone you are G-O-N-E Maybe you're the type who mercilessly...
• You can use Office for that? — Managing your work/life balance

  1 Jun 2010

  Many of us are working longer hours during the week (and sometimes even on our "days off"), spending more time commuting, driving our kids hither and yon (and even to outer yon), taking care of our aging parents (who can still make us feel as if we're 12), eating on the go, and definitely not getting...