How to Make Sense of the Explosion of Productivity Apps

Over the years I have been in search of a great application that will help me stay organized and be productive.  I need that compensating factor for who I know I am.  For years the digital options have been lacking.  A trend I have noticed over the past year is a resurgence in taks management, collaboaration and project apps.  There have been significant developments on this even in the past month.  Here is a post about my thoughts as well as some upcoming posts I'm working on. 

Here are links to some of the sites I mention.

Omnifocus, Things, Toodledo, Action Method, Strides, Basecamp, Asana and Do.com

Tellagence Startup Update

Here is a post that I originally posted over on The Study of Social.

It has been an interesting 7 days.  We moved in a very positive direction that has seemed to have unlocked a bunch of things we needed to figure out.  Now the only issue is that we have to go back and redo some work on assumptions we had made around the business.  Enjoy and let us know what you think.

My First Experience at Helping Organize a Conference

Until I made the move to start my own company 4 months ago, I spent the last 8+ years at Tripwire in the IT security industry.  About two years ago I discovered Security B-Sides.  I had the chance to attend events in Las Vegas, San Francisco and Austin.  Because a group of us appreciated the value they provided and the people involved in them, we decided to organize one in Portland.  It was a huge success and a learning experience.  Here is a video shot by the team over at Tripwire that summarizes the event.  You can also check out lots more great content over on the Tripwire blog (here and here).

You can also check out a bunch of pictures from the event thanks to @mayakamoshita over at Tripwire. (She is awesome!)

Thanks to the amazing @cindyv, @andergard and @apebit for being great people to work with so we could pull off this amazing event.

Startup Updates #5 and #6

I have been posting these over on my other blog at The Study of Social but I realize that some of you don't go over there.  Here are the last two startup updates I have.  More on the way.  Things continue to move forward.

Startup Update #4

Hello everyone - time for another update on my startup.  It has been a busy month with some big movements.  We are starting to get our pitch more refined and on point as well as some big movements on our prototype.  I have started posting this over on my blog focused on the company at The Study of Social.  

Thanks to everyone for your interest and support.