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And now a break to talk about a sponsor… If your company intranet is little more than the place where documents go to die, you should check out Igloo. Igloo is a totally different experience than the traditional intranet. It’s interactive, really easy to use, and highly customizable. You can use it to have a […]

And now a break to talk about a sponsor… The older I get, the more time I find myself thinking about topics like wrinkles (hello, laugh lines that seemingly appeared on my face overnight!), retirement planning, and how I need to line up someone now to bring me food when I become a shut-in (that […]

 And now a break to talk about a sponsor… Over the years, I’ve heard loads of people recommend You Need A Budget as a program that didn’t just give them a budgeting tool, but totally changed how they thought about money. So I was really excited when the folks there reached out and asked me […]

And now a break to talk about a sponsor… Do you have a bunch of non-digitized photos and old VHS tapes laying around that you have vague ideas of converting to digital at some point, but have never bothered to actually do it? And meanwhile, your footage of your parents’ wedding or your sixth-grade talent […]

And now a break to talk about a sponsor… I’ve talked here before about Igloo, a much cooler corporate intranet than what you’re used to. Igloo is incredibly easy to use, and super customizable: You can use it to have a very simple intranet if that’s your thing, or you can use it to create something […]

And now a break to talk about a sponsor… I am the queen of bedding. I deeply believe that your bed should be as luxuriously comfortable as possible, and that your bed should suck you into a vortex of comfort and relaxation from which you rarely want to leave. I take beds very, very seriously. […]

And now a break to talk about a sponsor… We have a bunch of readers on here, and I bet a lot of you don’t know about Oyster but you should! I resisted switching to an e-reader for a long time. I was — well, I thought I was — a traditionalist when it comes […]

And now a break to talk about a sponsor… If you’re a fan of TED talks, you should know about CreativeLive, the world’s largest live streaming education platform. CreativeLive offers high-quality online classes with the world’s most talented photographers, entrepreneurs, designers, and craft business owners, bringing the classes straight to your computer or mobile device, […]

And now a break to talk about a sponsor… Remember all those horror stories about remote work gone bad? Here’s a way to knock out lots of those concerns and make it easy to collaborate and manage remote work: Igloo, an awesome corporate intranet that’s probably much different from other intranets you’ve seen. If your […]

And now a break to talk about a sponsor… I wrote recently about Igloo, a really cool product for corporate intranets – and the exact opposite of the stale, clunky intranet interfaces you’re probably used to. Not too long ago, I received the following email from a reader (shared here with permission): “I regularly read […]