I’m a huge cheapskate, so I always want to know what an x% discount actually works out to. Write out the equation each time? Poppycock!
You shouldn’t have to open Excel, type out an equation or fish an envelope out of the trash to perform your common calculations. Build yourself a tool that you didn’t have before. Take another step in your Empowered User Journey.
Content creators know that sometimes you’ve just got to focus up, hunker down and do the difficult work of writing. They also know that sometimes screw that. I’m an advocate of “Productive Procrastination”. A selfserving rationalization of my laziness philosophy that says if you’re not going to do what your supposed to be doing, you […]
I’m a bit of a neat freak when it comes to proper formatting and I abhor naked URLs—the sometimes 100 character-long strings of text you get by copying your address bar—and always, always create actual inline links in my notes. I was doing this like crazy back when I was a research associate. Each day […]
I’ll admit that I’ve scheduled meetings for the next day while looking at my calendar for 6 months in the future.
Build yourself a macro to save yourself the embarassment.
The Task I needed to create a new group in CiviCRM, the CRM we use at my alumni foundation. This group would contain all the individuals who had joined our discussion group on Facebook. I wanted it so that whenever a new person joined, I could easily find who from their graduating class was also […]
The Task I needed to check two radio buttons in everyone’s profile. These would add them as having marked “Yes” to a couple of mailing lists. This was no problem for all the contacts for whom we had emails. That was just a matter of doing an import. Unfortuneately,about half our contacts are just names, […]