Have you seen/downloaded/squealed-out-loud about the brand-spanking-new Productive Magazine?

The pub’s name alone was enough to catch my eye. Then I saw the bright shiny object that is David Allen and I was sold. If you are into tips and to-do lists, go grab you a copy. It’s free; and if you don’t print it off you’ll be saving some trees.

If you’d rather be shot than read something like this, then at least check out the 17 Things You Should Stop Doing. It’s a quick, helpful read.

I’ll be soaking in the 33 pages of geekish goodness over the holidays, but had to share my pre-read excitement. It’s like they peered into my itty bitty self, had an editorial meeting and then produced a magazine just for Team Newman.

Oh, and if electronic reading isn’t your cup of tea, no worries; you can order a color or black/white copy on LuLu.

Hope it’s actually good!

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Wow. No denying I’m from the South after listening to this PR News 15 to Watch interview podcast where I profess my love of their term “digital PR,” To-Do lists and Getting Things Done. Could be worse though; I didn’t say anything patently offensive. So I’ve got that going for me, which is nice.

Can’t wait to dive into the other 15 to Watch interviews this evening!

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Geek bloggers often ask what productivity tools readers can’t live without. Here are mine:

1.iPhone – I don’t really have to explain this one, do I? The iPhone is the wind beneath my itty bitty wings.

2. GooToDo.com – Next to my iPhone, this electronic ToDo list is the tech love of my life. Add and check off a task from any where; forward it an email and it will create a task for you; set reoccurring ToDo’s like “write column” or “pay mortgage” or “blog.” I seriously would lose my mind without it AND it saves paper.

3. PageOnce.com – PageOnce bills itself as your Personal Productivity Assistant. It ain’t lie’n. PageOnce is a secure, one stop shop for all of your online financial, travel, utility and social accounts. You can even put the PageOnce app on your iPhone (and Blackberry, if you must) for instant, password protected access to all of your accounts.

4. Google Reader – I’ve got everything from client Google Alerts to local news to Perez Hilton in my Google Reader. I can get all of my news, blogs, Facebook updates, etc all in one place. Can’t beat it.

5. Social Networking Sites - Believe it or not, I get a great deal of research done via LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. And since my Twitter account updates my Facebook status, I look a lot more engaged in that social networking tool than I actually am.  Call them time wasters if you like. I can honestly say these communication tools make me better at my job.

What are your top five?

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The top ten most irritating phrases according to Oxford University researchers:

1 – At the end of the day

2 – Fairly unique

3 – I personally

4 – At this moment in time

5 – With all due respect

6 – Absolutely

7 – It’s a nightmare

8 – Shouldn’t of

9 – 24/7

10 – It’s not rocket science

With all due respect, I personally am sad that my favorites “I mean literally” and “that being said” were left out (sigh). Maybe next time.

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Chris Brogan took a field trip to Gannett (USA Today et al) and offers up an insightful report card on the big media umbrella (ella, ella).

Unlike most bloggers out there, Brogan isn’t screaming bring out yer dead. His post is a narrative of social media guru humility and realism. Quite refreshing:

I never presume that companies ???don???t get it,??? at least not the companies kind enough to indulge my visits, and seek out what I think might come next. But I guess I do still have some bias around what I perceived would be the level-set of people inside a big news organization like Gannett.

I need to keep myself open to the perspective that these big companies ???get it??? just fine, and that my role is to help further augment their visions with my industry learnings and implementation guidance, instead of thinking that I???m going to bring fire to the natives every time.

Sure, not every company gets it, and yes, every company has different views of how this will all go, but with my eyes opened by all the bright minds I encountered in my long day at Gannett, I feel that I???m going to presume that there are voices and minds inside who see the future just as clearly as you or me, and I???m going to listen better.

It’s great to hear someone, especially Chris Brogan, give these mammoth media peeps a little credit for their effort to evolve into a real digital media contributor. Sure, some of their efforts might come across as social media for social media’s sake. But there are plenty of PR efforts and corporate accounts of which we could say the same.

I never thought I’d see the day when our largest daily had a Twitter account. They even have a staff videographer. No matter what happens to print big guns in the end, I’m thrilled that they are at least giving digital information sharing the old college try.

My brain is sort of fried from the five consecutive hours (yeah, yeah. “Get a life.” I hear ya.) I’ve just spent watching the interweb PR geeks rant about the baby-slinging Motrin debacle (bless their PR firm’s heart) in tandem with a two hour PRSarahEvans teleseminar.

I’m worn completely out. I’ve got so many social media buzz words and random thoughts racing through my head I can’t hardly type a coherent sentence. Forgive me.

I really did enjoy the teleseminar though. It was a little more of a mutual love fest between hosts and guests than I anticipated, but I can live with that.

Besides the Motrin chatter, I took in some good points from Peter Shankman and Jason Kintzler about social media for social media’s sake. I’ve been an advocate of their startups, HARO and PitchEngine for a while now and it was great hear the actual voices of folks I’ve only “heard” via Twitter until now.

It was also nice to learn more about Sarah Evans, no, not the singer, the flack. Smart gal and very sincere about her passion for digital PR. She’s got a great thing going and I’m exciting to see what else she shares with her network.

Even though I didn’t take away anything life changing, I’m still glad I gave up a few hours of my Sunday night for some quality PR geek time. The next call is slated for Wednesday, December 10, at 8 p.m. CST. You in?

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Drew and crew at Daily Axioms asks a great question and offers up a word of caution about displaying your personal information on the interwebs:

…have we become too comfortable with transparency? Are we ringing the dinner bell, ready to serve up our personal info? …what could a malicious person do with all of this easily accessible information?

To be honest, this is not something I started fretting over until I read someone’s Tweet about how they never use their real birthday when setting up their online accounts or profiles. Seems birthdays are a very easy way to hack into someone’s account. And when you think about what recently happened to Sarah Palin and Miley Cyrus, it does get a tad scary.

Lately I’ve been having more and more conversations to the score of “Yes, people can use what you put on the web against you” and “No, you don’t have share every detail of your life on Facebook, in fact, don’t.”

I take for granted that I (thanks to my husband) hear lots of stories about how the net can come back to bite you. So I’m cautious, if not obsessive, about what personal info, quotes and photos are out there bearing my name.

Again, blogger Drew says it quite well:

Now more than ever it is extremely important to be mindful of what kind of information we provide, and how we provide it. If we tweet our home address, that information will always be out there for people to find for years. Mistakes and slip-ups are very possible with the level of comfort many now feel online. I believe it is important that you are truthful and real with people you interact with online, but building online brand identity and equity doesn’t mean you have to risk your safety or future.

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