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Making a Plan? Try a Kanban!
Posted by Robert Feeley on
Everyone has their own way of planning, scheduling, and keeping notes. Years ago I worked for a company whose CEO was a big believer in the Day Timer system. It was a little leather notebook that you could fit in your pocket and keep track of business events, projects, meetings, phone numbers, and more. We were required to keep this little book with us always, and make sure it was up to date. I didn't like it, but rules are rules. Today people use Outlook or Google Calendar, maybe notes in their iPhone, or maybe a cloud-based CRM like SalesForce. ...
Awesome Craft Projects for Old Shipping Tubes
Posted by Robert Feeley on
We use a lot of shipping tubes because we ship our most popular product "Whiteboard In A Box" in them and sometimes customers ask us about recycling them. They are recyclable, and we encourage people do so, but there are also dozens of unique and fun craft projects you can use them for, and then recycle them later! Probably one of the easiest projects is to turn the tube into a gift tube! Simply cover the tube with the appropriate wrapping paper and put your gift inside. They work great for almost any gift that fits inside, especially bottles of...
Whiteboard In A Box is the Perfect Storyboard
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Have you ever watched a movie or read a book and, at the end, you forget what happened to one of the characters? Or you wonder what how someone ended up as part of the story? Where did Fred come from? Writers use something called a storyboard in the initial stages of writing a script, or a story, and they usually continue using it as the story moves from beginning to end. A storyboard is a graphic organizer in the form of illustrations or images displayed in sequence for the purpose of pre-visualizing a motion picture, animation, motion graphic or...
Whiteboard In A Box for Architects and Engineers
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For decades, architects and engineers drew their ideas, concepts, and plans on giant sheets of paper and they were transformed into copies via a process called blueprinting. It was a tedious process that involved malodorous chemicals and the copies were hard to read. Later there were large printers, called plotters, that could print giant copies of plans in black & white or color and that was an improvement. Today, everything is computerized and the most common software for architects is Auto Cad, which is used worldwide. Drawings can be e-mailed lightning fast from office to office. . During the planning...
How to Choose the Best Whiteboard for Your Workplace
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There are several options for installing a dry erase board in your home, classroom, or office. For the purpose of this article we'll look at the office and follow up with the others in weeks to come. The primary considerations will likely be budget, space, and wall surface. Your basic choices are: Interactive Whiteboard Glass Whiteboard Whiteboard Paint Conventional Wood Framed Whiteboard Whiteboard In A Box Interactive whiteboards are all the rage in places where they can afford them. We found models ranging from $1000 to $10,000 and there is extensive labor involved in installing them. You don't want an...