Lord Of The Froth

I did this post about great coffee gifts to buy when I didn't really know how my current boss best liked her coffee. As it turned out this gift idea was a great one to give her this year for the holidays, so that I could make her coffee the way she loves it at the office. The post is worth checking out if you need to get a gift for a coffee lover, but I also have a tip to share about making foam with a frother (like the one I suggested in the post or any one you buy) - FROTH it COLD! You can heat the foam afterward, but it will not froth nearly as well warm. I had no idea.

Boss Dossier

I'm not including a link today, but instead sharing a simple, but really useful tip that I have always had success with as an assistant. From day one on a job, make sure to keep what I call a Boss Dossier. It's so useful to keep little bits of information that you will likely need again in a little password protected document, so that you don't have to ask your boss time and time again for the same information. If your boss always gets the same thing for lunch at a few places, write down the specific order with whatever preferences they may have (dressing on side, etc.) and then you will have an easy shorthand when they want to order or if you have to make a decision to get something for them and can't ask them because they are in a meeting. This is a simple idea and most people I'm sure already do it, but try it if you don't already, as it's an effective and simple tool.

Quick Tip Tuesday

I just read the other day about this new Add-On for Firefox (my preferred browser and the browser of many geeky people you know) called Read-It-Later that allows you to Umm - duh, save pages of interest to read later :) by keeping them in a little list that is easy to access at the top of your browser. It's useful for when you don't want to permanently bookmark the site, but want to save specific article to read that you can't at the moment.

Because I'm not going to do a whole other post and this is a tech related posting, I'm going to include a link to this cool t-shirt that Wil Wheaton (who writes a great blog and books in addition to being an actor) wrote about today. Loving it makes me a bit of a nerd and I'm okay with that. Sorry for the extra geeky spillage on the tip of the day post.

tiny tip of the day

I don't seem to be blogging every single day, but I'm going to try to. One thing I will start doing is making sure if I can to do one simple and helpful tip of the day. I often feel compelled to do long involved posts with tons of detail and those can be really helpful, but I hope these will be as well.

Tiny Tip of the Day - TINY URL:

Did you ever want to send a boss or friend a link to something, but the URL was insanely long and/or kept getting messed up and not working? If have that problem, go to this site and you can enter the URL into a box and get a smaller URL to utilize. The site is fast and easy and it doesn't require any registration