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Project Management and balancing your workload

Perry A. Wilson — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 19:18:07 +0000

Hi, happy new year – I hope all your projects come in on time, under budget and with all the scope your sponsor wants.

I’m doing a series of blogs over at EasyProjects.Net .

Full disclosure, I’m one of their consultants. I go in and help their clients implement the methodology that surrounds the great tool.

This series is designed to help the project manager who is working off the side of their desk. Often someone with a reputation for getting things done, the volunteered or voluntold PM can find themselves quickly overwhelmed when faced with a project.

I hope you like it.

Perry

Project Management Questions

Perry A. Wilson — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 03:00:45 +0000

A short post today – I’m all done in from tramping around 17 heritage sites today. That’s 10 locations, one had 5 units to show, 2 had 2 units and a bonus, there was an open house in one of the units. So, it was great but tiring.

This post is about places to ask and find answers to your PM questions. Places on line, other than Google searches.

LinkedIn has a list of PM related groups. Join one and start a discussion – or create your own group.

Ask About Projects, is also a great resource. It’s more casual than LinkedIn and allows you to vote on good answers as well as to provide your own answers.

Those are two of my favorites, what would you contribute to a list of great sites for PMs?

Perry

Writing Articles for increased visibility

Perry A. Wilson — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 01:13:33 +0000

Hi, the great thing about the Internet is that access to everything is easy. The not so great thing about the Internet is – you guessed it – access to everything is easy. The key is put out useful information, products or services and then to get the right people to pay attention to what you have put out there.

I found a new way to reach out to people on the Internet, and increase my visibility. Over the last few months I have been creating and publishing articles for Ezinearticles.com.

It isn’t a source of income, you publish articles for free. It’s a way to get your name in front of potential clients and drive traffic to your website. When I publish an article, I am putting up fodder for newsletters. People looking for articles to fill a newsletter go to Ezinearticles.com and take content. I benefit because my bio contains a link to my web page and any pertinent information I want to put there.

I do get stats on the number of times someone has checked out my article, and if someone has used it. Just not who.

It’s free to put articles up, the articles are vetted and may be changed a bit to make them more saleable. I have written separate articles and tweaked blog posts for publishing and I’m heading towards the next level of membership – not sure yet what that means.

So, if you have information – or even well formed opinions and advice – consider dropping by to Ezinearticles and giving them a try. They give you guidance and ideas to help you get started.

Have a great week.

Perry

Project Management blogs

Perry A. Wilson — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 22:19:01 +0000

Hi, all. This week is a short post.

I often go looking for other people’s PM blogs to get inspiration for mine, some specialist information, or some insight into what people are talking about in project management.

Mr. Manager send me an email to bring my attention to their latest post, listing the top 50 project management blogs. Check it out and let me know if you have any blogs you think should be added.

Have a great PM weekend – remember next week is a full week after two four day weeks. Enjoy spring.

Perry