In today’s issue, tips to create a low-stress workspace. How to declutter and gain control of your home. Easily organize the paper in your life. Time your tasks and run reports with a simple web tool. Read your Google Reader in an email-like app. 9 ways to stay organized with GCal. And 14 productivity apps with push on the iPhone.

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7 Productivity Boosters For The Office Or On The Go

Let’s begin with productivity boosters for your office, then we’ll move on to resources for on the go.

1. 10 Ways to Relaxify Your Workspace

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2. Declutter & Gain Control Of Your Home

FlyLady has helped 500,000+ people gain control of their homes and life with simple and achievable systems to keep clutter away and bring peace to your home and family.

Personally, my wife & I are happy to be part of her audience and working through her systems to be clutter-free.

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3. Easily Organize Receipts, Biz Cards & Paper Stacks

Do you have piles of receipts, stacks of business cards and reams of paper all over your office?

In my world, I’m trying to get rid of as much paper as possible, and all I want is the info on it.

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4. Time Your Work Tasks and Run Reports Easily

As a freelancer or consultant, you may have the need to track your time on client campaigns.

As an entrepreneur focused on productivity, you may want to track how long tasks are taking to
complete.

Or you may request your outsource staff to track their time on your work.

SlimTimer is an easy and no-cost, web-based solution to make easy work of this activity.

You can create named tasks, share them with co-workers and those you report to, or need
reporting from.

Open SlimTimer, click a task to start the clock, and click again to finish. Close the browser when you’re done. And you can run and export reports to CSV, subscribe to its RSS feed, and even email it to a colleague.

Check out this slim but effective timer app:

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5. ReadAir Makes Reading RSS Feeds In Email-Like App

If you’re reading your RSS feeds in Google Reader, this Adobe AIR app – ReadAir – allows you to read your news in an email-like interface.

If you already have a long series of tabs open in your Firefox or Safari browser, and would like your reader open in a separate window, check out ReadAir:

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6. 9 Ways To Stay Organized With Google Calendar

A smart calendar program is essential to improved efficiency, organization and time-savings.

Consistently adding your appointments and events relieves the stress on you to remember everything you need to get done in a day.

Using Google Calendar (GCal) and its many features for reminders, tasks and shareability make it a unique and effective app for business owners.

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7. 14 iPhone Productivity Apps With Push Notification

With PUSH notifications on iPhone apps, you instantly get notified when breaking news happens or your IM app pings you when your VIP peeps are looking for you.

From this list, I have and use Beejive and Toodle-do to connect with my team and clients, along with organizing my business & personal tasks.

Discover these 14 productive PUSH apps now:

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That’s it for this issue, my friends. Thank you for reading, and you can share your feedback and comments below or via Twitter.

If you liked this first issue, why not forward it to your friends, colleagues, family and anyone else that you think might enjoy it. Thank you for your continued support.

Until the next issue, here’s wishing you much health, happiness, prosperity – and productivity,

Sherman Hu

You may be familiar with blogging and its benefits. But are you familiar with the power of RSS mashup technology as a marketing tool for your online start-up or established online businesses? Would you want to discover a technology that is so understated but so powerful that even Google involves it in one of their company acquisitions?

This blog entry is addresssed to established web marketers, entrepreneurs, or virtual start-ups. I’ll be sharing with you a document to create a greater awareness of the advantages of leveraging innovative RSS technologies for higher visibility on the Internet and the traffic that results from such visibility.

As an evangelist and trainer for blogging and other social media, I’m very familiar with the strengths of blogging and RSS. But when my friend and colleague, David Ridge speaks about RSS Mashup Technology (that gives him speedy but stable search results and revenue from Google), I drop everything and listen intently.

David Ridge is the founder and CEO of Fwicki.com, an RSS mashup platform and one of the most powerful and innovative RSS applications on the internet today. If you have no clue about Fwicki, let me give you some context to the rare air around Fwicki.

Are you familiar with Feedburner? Yes, the leading provider of media distribution and audience engagement services for blogs and RSS feeds. And the largest feed and blog advertising network, with members like Wall Street Journal Online, Wired News, Ziff Davis, and more. Yes, that Feedburner that Google owns.

Located within the FeedBurner application is a list of integrated components from carefully selected, related RSS applications and services. The services offered within the FeedBurner user area are a “who’s who” of the top 25 RSS applications in the world such as Google Reader, My Yahoo!, Newsgator, and Pageflakes. Fwicki is one of these 25 applications. Google (Feedburner) digs Fwicki, do you?

I pray you’ll allocate mind-space to Fwicki. David Ridge is a mover and shaker (but a very private guy), and he’s granted me exclusive permission to share a RSS Training document with you that will make a difference to your business if you take advantage of it. And more importantly to me, David’s shown strength of character and integrity over the years that I’ve known him, so I trust him.

This document, “RSS Technology Training: Syndication Concepts for Business“, will help you understand the role of RSS technology and advanced syndication concepts for entrepreneurs and online businesses.

Here’s the table of contents in this document:

1. RSS Associates

2. Introduction

3. The Advantages of RSS

4. RSS & Business – The Perfect Merger

5. Planning The Syndicated Data Stream

6. Leveraging RSS For Placement In The SERPs

7. Innovative RSS Applications

8. Applying Mashup Application Technologies

9. Viral Syndication Concepts

10. Social Syndication Concepts

11. Custom, Dynamic, Social Data Portals

12. The Advantages of Rich Media Feeds

13. Monetizing The Data Stream

14. Adequate Support, Coaching and Training

David gave me express permission to share this document with my audience – you – to shed light on the power of RSS for business.

Here’s your next steps:

Step 01. Download and read “RSS Technology Training: Syndication Concepts for Business”

Step 02. Holla at David Ridge at http://www.fwicki.net/support . Give him thanks & props for this free document

Step 03.  Use http://www.fwicki.net/support to ask him questions about what you read, or how his mashup technology will make a difference to your online business and web marketing. David’s also available for private RSS consulting to those who qualify. “Only” my “posse” has been offered the opportunity to engage his time for consulting, so let him know Sherman sent you, ok?