- Above the Fold: Understanding the Principles of Successful Web Site De
- Adapting to Web Standards
- Art of Non-Conformity
- Art of Readable Code
- Art of SEO
- Back to the User
- Beginning PHP6, Apache, MySQL Web Development
- Book Notes
- Books to Read
- Bored and Brilliant
- Born For This
- Choosing A Vocation
- Complete E-Commerce Book
- Content Inc
- Core PHP Programming
- CRM Fundamentals
- CSS Text
- Dealing with Difficult People
- Defensive Design for the Web
- Deliver First Class Web sites
- Design for Hackers: Reverse-Engineering Beauty
- Designing Web Interfaces
- Designing Web sites that Work: Usability for the Web
- Designing with Progressive Enhancement
- Developing Large Web Applications
- Developing with Web Standards
- Economics of Software Quality
- Effortless commerce with php and MySQL
- Epic Content Marketing
- Extending Bootstrap
- Foundation Version Control for Web Developers
- Guerrilla Marketing for a Bulletproof Career
- HACKING EXPOSED WEB APPLICATIONS, 3rd Edition
- Hacking Web Apps
- Happiness At Work
- Implementing Responsive Design
- Inmates Are Running the Asylum
- Instant LESS CSS Preprocessor How-to
- jQuery Pocket Reference
- Letting Go of the Words
- Lost and Found: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World
- Making Every Meeting Matter
- Manage Your Day to Day
- Marketing to Millenials
- Mobile First
- Monster Loyalty
- More Eric Meye on CSS
- Official Ubuntu Book
- Organized Home
- Pay Me… Or Else!
- Perennial Seller
- Pet Food Nation
- PHP 5 E commerce Development
- PHP In a NutShell
- PHP Refactoring
- PHP5 and MySQL Bible
- PHP5 CMS Framework Development
- PHP5 Power Programming
- Preventing Web Attacks with Apache
- Pro PHP and jQuery
- Professional LAMP
- Purple Cow: Transform Your Business
- Responsive Web Design with HTML and CSS3
- Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3
- Rules of Thumb
- Saleable Software
- Search Engine Optimization Secrets
- Securing PHP Web Applications
- Serving Online Customers
- Simple and Usable Web, Mobile and Interaction Design
- Smart Organizing
- Smashing UX Design: Foundations for Designing Online User Experiences
- Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
- Talent is Not Enough
- The 10x Rule
- The Benefits of Working with Git In Your Software Projects
- The Clean Coder
- The Herbal Handbook for Home & Health
- The Life-changing Magic of Tidying up
- The Modern Web
- Think First
- This Is Marketing
- Traction
- Version Control with Git, 2nd Edition
- Web Analytics 2.0: The Art of Online Accountability and Science of Cus
- Web Site Usability: A Designer's Guide
- Web Word Wizardry
- Web Word Wizardy
- Website Owner’s Manual
- Whats Stopping Me
- Work for Money, Design for Love
- Your Google® Game Plan for Success: Increasing Your Web Presence with
- Checklists I Have Collected or Created
- Crafts To Do
- Database and Data Relations Checklist
- Ecommerce Website Checklist
- Learning Stuff From Blogs
- My Front End UI Checklist
- New Client Needs Analysis
- Newsletters I Read
- Puzzles
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- User Review Questions
- Web Designer's SEO Checklist
- Web site Review
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- Website Final Approval Form
- Writing Content For Your Website
- Writing Styleguide
- Writing Tips
- 7 essentialls of graphic design
- Accidental Creative
- Choosing the right color for your logo
- CMS Design
- Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and
- Designing for Web Performance
- Eat That Frog
- Elements of User Experience
- Flexible Web Design
- Forms that Work: Designing Web Forms for Usability
- Homepage Usability
- Responsive Web Design
- Seductive Interaction Design: Creating Playful, Fun, and Effective Use
- Strategic Web Designer
- Submit Now: Designing Persuasive Web sites
- The Zen of CSS Design
- Complete Book of Potatoes
- Creating Custom Soil Mixes for Healthy, Happy Plants
- Edible Forest Garden
- Garden Design
- Gardening Tips and Tricks
- Gardens and History
- Herbs
- Houseplants
- Light Candle Levels
- My Garden
- My Garden To Plant
- Organic Fertilizers
- Organic Gardening in Alberta
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- Plant Suggestions
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- Root Cellaring
- Things I Planted in My Yard
- Way We Garden Now
- Weed Decoder
- 101 Organic Gardening Hacks
- 2015 Herbal Almanac
- Beautiful No-Mow Lawns
- Beginner's Guide to Heirloom Vegetables
- Best of Lois Hole
- Design in Nature
- Eradicate Invasive Plants
- Gardening Books to Read
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- Grow Organic
- Grow Your own Herbs
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- Heirloom Life Gardener
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- Indoor Gardening: The Organic Way
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- Real Gardens Grow Natives
- Seed Underground
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- Weeds: In Defense of Nature's Most Unloved Plants
- What Grows Here
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- Being a Better Designer
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- Design Systems
- Designing User Interfaces
- Font & Typographical Inspiration
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- Photoshop Tips and Tricks
- Sketch
- UX and UI and Design Reading List
- Web Forms
- Well Designed
Never go to a meeting without an agenda
Design an agenda for an effective meeting
- seek input from team members-select relevant topics
- list agenda topics as questions the team needs to answer
- is the purpose of the topic to share information, seek input for a decision, or make a decision.
- estimate a realistic amount of time for each topic
- propose a process for addressing each agenda item
- specify how people should prepare
- identify responsibility for leading each topic-first topic is 'review + modify agenda as needed.'
- end the meeting with a plus delta evaluation
- what did we do well?
- What do we do differently next meeting?
A Meeting has 3 purposes
1.inform and bring people up to speed
2.seek input from people
3.Ask for approval
Schedule shorter meetings-go quicker as people have to prepare:
- set timer for each part of the meeting
- Invite no more than 8 people if u need a decision brainstorm up to 18
- updates/receive info up to 8
Before a meeting, tell your team that silence = agreement
Meeting Prep Checklist
Have you ...
- Identified the specific purpose of the meeting?
- Made sure you need a meeting at all?
- Developed a preliminary agenda?
- Selected the right participants?
- Assigned roles to participants?
- Decided where and when to t hold the meeting and confirmed availability of the space?
- Sent the invitation, notifying participants when and where the meeting will be held?
- Send the preliminary agenda to key participants and other stakeholders?
- Sent any reports or items needing advance preparation to participants?
- Followed up with invitees in person, if appropriate?
- Identified, if appropriate, the decision-making process that will be used in the meeting?
- Identified, arranged for, and tested any required equipment?
- Finalized the agenda and distributed it to all participants?
- Verified that all key participants will attend and know their roles?
- Prepared yourself?
Stuck in a terrible meeting
- be brave,
- play dumb,
- be a helper and take notes
Find a root cause of meeting's lack of focus and sugest a solution.
Today is backwards day. We’ll follow our agenda—backwards. We’ll start with the action steps, move to the discussion, and then on to the reports.
Making Every Meeting Matter
- use the word Jellyfish to identify when the meeting is drifting off-topic
- refocus a meeting after someone interrupts
- polite ways to decline a meeting
- What is the value of the meeting?
- am I the right person to attend?
- is meeting a priority for me?
- can I stop the meeting - can I recommend someone else?
- can I contribute in advance
- can I attend only part?
How to interject
- have we thought about...
- did anyone mention...
- another option we may want to consider is...
- is it worth revisiting...
Disagre, be blunt. be cagey. be productive.
Always end the meeting by
- confirm key discussions + next steps
- develop communication
- gather session feedback
Virtual Meetings
- turn on video for visual cues
- cut of status updates
- encourage collaborative problem solving
- give each person time on the agenda
- kill mute
- ban multitasking
- check-in
- assign a Yoda - keeps everyone inline
Book to Read:
Smart leaders, smarter teams - Roger Schwarz
Bibliographical Information
These are notes I made after reading this book. See more book notes
Just to let you know, this page was last updated Monday, Dec 02 24