Moving Towards Your Paperless Office

Paper slows people down.  It’s not an efficent way to store information.
The Jetson’s had their flying cars.  Star Trek has food that appears out of thin air.

Sponsorship for AskAdria.com

I’m going to contact Comcast, Newegg, ThinkGeek, Jinx, Techsmith, 37Signals, Firefox and Affixa.  This won’t necessarily be for financial or product sponsorship but also to ask how I can help shocase some essential products I use daily.  A poster for my wall wouldn’t hurt :)

Why Paper Is Killing Your Productivity

• Paper is not an effective method of storage, retrieval (think FBI, CDC, health records)
• It’s vulnerable to water, fire, theft
• OCR is Optical Character Recognition
• When I go to the Dr. at HealthPartners, they enter things directly onto a computer tablet, I can make appointments online and view my health records

Actions I’ve Done to Reduce My Paper Use Since 2006

1. Email invoices to my clients
2. Use GPS TomTom so I don’t print out directions anymore (get lost a lot less too!)
3. Encourage clients to pay their invoices online rather than send payment by mail
4. Began using Echosign to send contracts and have clients digitally sign them
5. Use Quickbooks with paperless statements from my bank to reconcile
6. Paperless statements for utilities including car insurance, electricity and cell phone
7. Scan documents with Evernote software for easy keyword searching later
8. Increase virtual conversations by phone vs in person meetings so I can take notes electronically
9. Share that Word document in Google Docs so both of us can edit and see changes real time
10. Using 1/2 sized or 1/4 size notebooks for taking notes
11. Keep track of my mileage on PDA with software program that records my start/end odometer

Live Chat

• What sort of pizza do you like?
• What about the Con
• If Mac’s and PC’s were a party, what would each one be like?
• Do you like the Apple Macbook Air?
• How about a Netbook?
• Reasons I’m getting a Mac laptop
• Microsoft could solve the virus problem by offering a free, lightweight version of Windows for $1

techman1038 : www.freshbooks.com  (another good invoicing system)
u-al : do you not read newspapers
ustreamer-306 : newspapers are filtered propaganda
u-al : Is your local paper online
u-al : here in pittsburgh we recycle paper and magazines
 blpjr : colesteral in a box
s70volvo1 : extra cheese
ustreamer-306 : have you tried pepperoni and pineapple pizza
ustreamer-306 : have you heard about the huge trash pile swirling in the pacific?
s70volvo1 : So what R’ U cookin tonite?
u-al : Pineapple and pepperoni on the same pizza 306?
ustreamer-306 : i try to avoid dairy as much as possible
ustreamer-306 : http://discovermagazine.com/2008/jul/10-the-worlds-largest-dump
 ustreamer-79408 : There was a National Geographic special where people saved all of their garbage for one year.
s70volvo1 : R’ u ready 4 the virus tomorrow?
ustreamer-306 : maybe we should organize a clean up
ustreamer-306 : what other mammal continues to drink milk after its been weened
ustreamer-79408 : Do you think we could find fault in all of our vendors?
u-al : do you use reusable grocery bags
u-al : I heard they arrested a russian 13 year old for this virus
u-al : But i think it may be a hoax
ustreamer-79408 : I know you love PCs.  What have you heard about Boot Camp or Parallels?
ustreamer-306 : it’s a joke that people still have to be concerned about a virus in gthe 21st century
u-al : It is good for travel
ustreamer-79408 : Will you be doing your show from every continent?
adriarichards : http://tinyurl.com/book4hourworkweek
adriarichards : Thanks folks, great questions

Why Newegg is Awesome

It’s easy to do RMA (Return to Manufacturer), It’s easy for me to compare products, the technical information on the site is clear and hyperlinked to the manufacturer site, they’re affordable, they have a variety of computer parts.  I’ve been buying from them since 2005 and am a repeat customer.

I modified a t-shirt I got from Newegg to make it more “girl friendly”