As a senior IT manager in small to medium businesses for several decades, I've encountered a lack of understanding fundamentals like those you've documented here, among full time IT staffers! So not only is this great advice for the user community, it's a "How To" 101 for people who work in IT and have to work with…

Wow - I had no idea you could do things this advanced with Gmail. Thanks Thorin - great information!

Learning to Let Go has helped me so many times, especially as a professional. I have a stressful job (CIO), and I would never be able to survive (let alone thrive) if I didn't learn to rely on the judgement and talent of top notch staff. It also applies to knowing when to walk away from an effort that may not be…

Excellent tips Mihir, thanks so much! I just want to emphasize the importance of your suggestion to assign time frames to actions items when you wrap up the meeting. So often I see actions defined without specific complete by dates, and those actions just never get completed. The logical tendency for most people is…

Hi Luke - Are you familiar with Basecamp? It's an online collaborative task management system. They've got clients for most mobile devices (as well as PC and Mac). Worth checking out (and no, I have relationship whatsoever with them, it's just a product I've worked with from time to time that I thought was worth…

This is awesome Whitson - thanks! I always knew I wanted to max out at no more than 120 if I wanted a chance of getting something retweeted, but was not aware of 100 as the "engagement sweet spot" on Twitter. I wonder how the inclusion of a picture relates to this, as those are also considered highly engaging and…

This is a great list Thorin - thanks! I picked up a few good ones here I had not come across before, like "Acqui-hire" and "Cryptocurrency" (knew what they were conceptually but had not heard those terms used). Glad to see comments that have bought "big data" into the conversation, as that hit me as missing too.

Thanks Alan! I am sure you are aware of this, but I didn't see it mentioned and thought readers might like to be aware ... your article's timing is awesome because April is Financial Literacy Month (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial…)! Of course, anything we can do to help folks, especially young people, be…

Thanks Melanie - these are great tips! Can you believe it's still not easier to create a scheduled Hangout? Anyway, one other tip of sorts I might throw out there is that the Google makes iPad apps for many of their applications, including Google+. This can help to make users of Google+ and other Google apps more…

Thanks Andy. As a CIO, I often find myself wondering what the device landscape is going to look like next year, 3 years out, 5 years, 10, etc., and how to prepare for it (within reason). There is no doubt we are going to see a continual transition to mobile devices as the only devices many users have, and that will be…