Nearly every day I read somewhere that the Internet has changed the speed of business. Where letters took days, e-mails take seconds; technology has made communication faster and more efficient. But business magazines usually don’t mention that along with the power of Google comes the power of goofing off.
Here at Sales & Marketing Management, we focus exclusively on putting out the best magazine on news, trends, and leaders in the sales and marketing industry and the management therein. But even here, people have spent their office time closing dinner dates instead of deals, reading blogs instead of business reports.
But one blog, lifehacker.com, combines the two biggest effects of the Internet: productivity and procrastination. The site recommends downloads such as BlockSite, which bars distracting Web sites, and MacGyver tricks such as making flip-flops out of old tires.
Most of lifehacker is frivolous—I haven’t made my own sandals yet—but it aspires to increase its readers’ productivity even as they read a silly blog. Lifehacker is a distraction designed to help.
For more on productivity, check out this article on CRM productivity pitfalls from our S&MM archives.
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Posted by: wine bags | October 10, 2011 at 09:13 AM