Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » Jon Sumroy http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Sat, 25 May 2013 19:26:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Death by Email (part 2) … Digital Mentor Stories http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/digital-mentor-stories-death-by-email-part-2/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/digital-mentor-stories-death-by-email-part-2/#comments Mon, 22 Apr 2013 06:11:13 +0000 Jon Sumroy http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=119194 I guarantee 100% that, if you follow the advice in this post, your email misery will be gone for ever. This is the second in a two-part series about email.  Part 1, looked at what email is, what it is supposed to be, why it is broken and how this affects me.  Now, in Part [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/digital-mentor-stories-death-by-email-part-2/feed/ 23 Death by Email (part 1) … Digital Mentor Stories http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/digital-mentor-stories-death-by-email-part-1/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/digital-mentor-stories-death-by-email-part-1/#comments Wed, 03 Apr 2013 20:16:12 +0000 Jon Sumroy http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=114548 This two-part post is about email. In part 1, we look at why email is broken and how this affects us. Next week, in Part 2, I’m going to tell you how to survive the email overload and prevent ‘death by email’ and how to get to Inbox Zero! These posts are based on the [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/digital-mentor-stories-death-by-email-part-1/feed/ 39 Marital Problem, Reputation and my Digital Footprint … Digital Mentor Stories http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/digital-mentor-stories-marital-problem-reputation-and-my-digital-footprint/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/digital-mentor-stories-marital-problem-reputation-and-my-digital-footprint/#comments Mon, 04 Mar 2013 06:45:50 +0000 Jon Sumroy http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=106190 Reputation is everything. I am sitting here looking at a photo of my family taken on a recent trip to Jerusalem.  We are in the Old City and everything looks great. Of course the camera always lies!  The moments leading up to this idyllic snap were the usual chaos … “stop fighting; sit still; can [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/digital-mentor-stories-marital-problem-reputation-and-my-digital-footprint/feed/ 59 Why you need a motorhome to start blogging … Digital Mentor Stories http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/digital-mentor-stories-why-you-need-a-motorhome-to-start-blogging/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/digital-mentor-stories-why-you-need-a-motorhome-to-start-blogging/#comments Tue, 19 Feb 2013 13:27:29 +0000 Jon Sumroy http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=103712 As many of you know, I only started blogging recently.  The overwhelming feedback has been along the lines of “You don’t blog?  You’re a Digital Mentor and you’ve only just started to blog!  Why didn’t you blog before?” I have to be honest, I was struggling.  The problem is, I would sit at my computer, [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/digital-mentor-stories-why-you-need-a-motorhome-to-start-blogging/feed/ 7 Apple, Janine, Aarran and the Day the Music Died … Digital Mentor Stories http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/digital-mentor-stories-apple-the-day-the-music-died/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/digital-mentor-stories-apple-the-day-the-music-died/#comments Sun, 10 Feb 2013 21:15:56 +0000 Jon Sumroy http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=101788 I predict the end of Apple.  It is not finished yet, but this is the story of how, thanks to my friends Janine and Aarran, I realised ‘the music had died’. First, a full disclaimer.  I am an Apple nerd.  It started in 2002, when I bought my first Mac, the beautiful G4 flat-screen iMac [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/digital-mentor-stories-apple-the-day-the-music-died/feed/ 21 Granddad and the top 3 technology trends for 2013 … Digital Mentor Stories http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/granddad-and-the-top-3-technology-trends-for-2013/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/granddad-and-the-top-3-technology-trends-for-2013/#comments Sun, 03 Feb 2013 15:07:46 +0000 Jon Sumroy http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=100070 My granddad died last year aged 94; he was born with the Model T Ford. We would often sit, talking about the monumental changes he had seen during his life. Cars changed travel, offered freedom and mass manufacturing. Television spread ideas, changing entertainment and marketing forever. Personal Computers put power into everyone’s hands. The internet [...]

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