Well it’s been a while between posts to say the very least (blimey, March 28). A combination of the nitwits who were hosting my domain disappearing and me being too busy working on Ford to chase them up meant for a while there wasn’t event a blog for me to neglect.

I have in the past, made grandiose promises to blog regularly. Only to be mocked by my friends and revealed to be a hollow braggart by history.

So I am going to try a new approach (s).

• I am  a great admirer of Katy Lindeman’s Week Notes. So there’s a template to copy.
• And I find that I often do a bit of structured thinking in emails. So that’s another source.
• And finally I get on certain jags about things and start collecting them in delicious. So I could always look back at that and see if there’s a nascent post lurking.
• And sometimes I give talks and write articles for other people. So surely the elements of that should provide all kinds of blog-posty goodness.

Yes indeed there is no shortage of opportunities to collate a bit of knowledge and experinece and stick it on the internet.

So why don’t I?

Not Enough Bloody Time. Or at least a perception that there is Not Enough Bloody Time.

But that’s a bit like collecting all of the things I need to make a meal, but never actually cooking. Not that blogging is the ultimate output of my reading, thinking and working. Rather structured ideas and increased knowledge are. And there is nothing like structuring a post, thinking through the links and imaging the critique of a few select audience members to sharpen up an idea or approach to something.

I was supposed to be in Paris all of next week for an internal Ogilvy conference and then Le Web. Instead I recently learned that I need to come back for a meeting on Thursday afternoon. The net result being that I have a meeting on Thursday and my diary on Friday is completely empty. As I went to go and fill it with internal meetings and vendor chats and reviews of one thing and another I stopped. I stopped and realised that I had gifted myself a day of free time.

So that day is going to be spent organsing myself so that I can have a regular day of free time.

Tools that I currently have but don’t use properly and guides to using them better.

Info management

Google mail: become a Gmail Ninja

Google Reader: http://www.lifehack.org/articles/technology/get-more-out-of-google-reader.html

Delicious: Specifically using Stacks like this one I made of these links

Evernote: Random things to do with Evernote and a more introductory ‘Getting Started’ post. Oh, and a really basic intro YouTube video with an awesome voice over!

Task Management

Omni focus: http://www.asianefficiency.com/omnifocus/

Network management

Linkedin: From Guy Kawasaki

Facebook: the new features

And finally Twitter, especially lists.

And my One Tool to Rule Them All: Hootsuite