Community update: Getting Things Done at Feedburner

I’m member of several blog communities: 2kbloggers.com and Getting Things Done at FeedBurner to name just the most important to me. I also have my mybloglog community, which I encourage you to join, of course. Until today, I was most of the time a watcher, but starting today I’d like to share some of the things that are happening in these communities. I think communities are a great feature, not only for the web 2.0 generation, but for a healthy way to live a good life too .

Today, I’d like yo to point you to some interesting posts in the Getting Things Done community:

• Leo, from zenhabits, is telling us why he think What’s The Next Action is the most important question in a post related to his GTD tips. Here’s a little excerpt:
  

  One of the fundamentals of GTD is to ask yourself, with any item that you are processing from your inbox (physical or email or voicemail), with any project that you have on your projects list: “What’s the Next Action?”

  Go ahead and read more about Next Actions at zenhabits.net.
  
  Just to let you know an incredible coincidence: zenhabits has quit smoking on november 18th 2005, and I quit smoking on november 17th 2005 (one of my habit interruption successes). I guess with the time difference you could say we actually quit smoking the same day! That’s what I call synchronicity!

• Stephen, from HDBizBlog (which stands for Hidden Dragon Biz Blog, if I’m correct) is sharing with us some thoughts on Gripping the Total Reality, a concept from the David Allen’s book, Ready For Anything. Just a short tidbit:
  

  Many people get so caught up in the tactics of the list-making, notebook-hacking, and project tracking of the first three levels that they do not even think about the second set of levels. Yet, without doing some serious strategic thinking about the answers to these top-level questions we are not going anywhere. We may be getting things done at a furious pace, but at what cost? If our “five-year goals” remain five-years in the future year after year, what are we really accomplishing?

  Go ahead and read more about Gripping the Total Reality, at hdbizblog.com.

• Ian from Ian’s Messy Desk, is preoccupied with the efficiency of the meetings. Quite an interesting posts as I’ve been involved in organizing, keeping and participating in meetings for the last 8 years, and still have a lot to learn about this activity. The beginning of the post:
  

  Peter Drucker said, “Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better.” Many would think the concept of a useful or productive meeting to be something of an oxymoron. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible for an organization to function without having meetings. The trick is to make the most of meeting time.

  I recommend you to go through the entire post of 5 Steps to Useful Meetings at Ian’s Messy Desk. For those of you who haven’t yet heard, Ian is also writing about my Mind Manager contest in his other blog, HR-eSources. So, time for you to give it a try, if only for revamping your resume in form of a mind map, if not for winning the $349 value in a MindManager license.

• Brett, from crankingwidgets is writing about an unusual way of using twitter as a GTD-ish capture tool, which I think it’s pretty creative:
  

  “But sir!”, you might ask, “what does this Twitter thing have to do with our beloved GTD and Productivity! Sir!”. Well, it might not be terribly apparent at first, but Twitter is actually a very slick capture tool that you can use from anywhere you have your cell phone (and reception). For example…

  You’ll see the example in the complete post at crankingwidgets blog.

Well, that’s all for today community update. If you have a community, go ahead for a few minutes and see what’s happening there. It would be a refreshing and quite useful activity.

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