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Chelsi Nakano

Chel·si (chěl'sē): a.k.a. Mindjet's almighty Content Queen and Managing Editor of Conspire. Writer of the geek variety. Fresh till death with a childlike sense of wonder. Internet stalking welcome: @Chelsi / facebook.com/chelsi / E-mail Chelsi

Time Management Month: Top 10 Office Time Wasters [INFOGRAPHIC]

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According to OfficeTime.net, February is recognized as Time Management Month. In honor of saving our seconds, the site released its annual Top Ten Time Killers list (infographic style), as well as some tips on how to combat them. It should come as no real shocker that e-mail is listed as the number one culprit here–several…

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Mindjet User Spotlight: Patrick Baker

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Name: Patrick Baker Title: CEO, Mindlogik Ltd Started using Mindjet: 2001 Social links: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, synaptickids.com How did you hear about Mindjet? I immigrated to New Zealand with my family in 1997.  Up until that stage I had been in various senior management positions in specialized education and after working in Deaf education at the…

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Fun Friday Links: The Secret to GTD, 4M Followers and How Working Less Increases Productivity

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Welcome to Conspire’s Super Happy Fun Friday Link Time, a weekly collection of cool discoveries from around the Web. Most times the goal is to get you thinking differently about communication, collaboration, culture, and life in general. Other times, LOLCAT ATTACK! Submissions are welcome, and you can send them to conspire@mindjet.com for consideration. The Transformative…

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The Optical Blueprint: Why Visual Project Management Makes Sense

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The human penchant for visualizing information has never been anything short of obvious. From cave drawings to an obsession with cartography to the number of hours per day we spend staring into computer/cellphone/tablet screens–pictorial association has always been our thing. In fact, several supporting statistics of this behavior indicate that, in order for information to be…

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Fun Friday Links: Jerry Grezinger’s Never-Ending Map and Hacking Office Collaboration with Zappos

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Welcome to Conspire’s Super Happy Fun Friday Link Time, a weekly collection of cool discoveries from around the Web. Most times the goal is to get you thinking differently about communication, collaboration, culture, and life in general. Other times, LOLCAT ATTACK! Submissions are welcome, and you can send them to conspire@mindjet.com for consideration. Jerry’s Map…

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Mobility: It’s About Behavior, Not Devices

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To say mobility is huge–gargantuan, even–would be an understatement. Around this time last year it was predicted the number of mobile devices on the planet would exceed the world’s population by the end of 2012, inspiring many an enterprise to review and freshen up their mobile strategies. But here at the start of 2013 our…

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Fun Friday Links: Selling is Human Nature, Social Media Roots and Data, a Love Story

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Welcome to Conspire’s Super Happy Fun Friday Link Time, a weekly collection of cool discoveries from around the Web. Most times the goal is to get you thinking differently about communication, collaboration, culture, and life in general. Other times, LOLCAT ATTACK! Submissions are welcome, and you can send them to conspire@mindjet.com for consideration. What About…

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