If you’re not madly in love with your group scheduling tool, please check out WhichDateWorks.com. Here’s the scoop:

• Works exactly like you expect it to
• Drag and drop date availability is very intuitive
• Rquires no account sign-up
• Looks great

If you pop into your favorite twitter post (”tweet”) reader, you’ll find that many of the contributions contain web links. People, including yours truly, are very often sharing something interesting that they found online.

Clicking to open these items, however, takes you away from the list of posts you are reading and exposes you to other content. This is a problem for me because I fall victim to “shiny object syndrome” and waste 10 minutes reading an article I didn’t know I needed.

Enter Tweetree.com to save me not only the extra clicking, but also the wasted time from following internet rabbit trails. Tweetree pulls the content of shared links right into the page where you are reading the tweets of those you follow. Presto! Clicking and rabbit trails disappear!

No new account setup is required. Just login using your Twitter credentials.

I recently polled some friends for their favorite time-savers. I was surprised to see “learning to type” as one of the responses — and it was repeated more than once. After a moment’s reflection, I had to agree.

I taught myself to type from a book, banging on an old Royal manual while stationed on San Clemente Island in the Navy. It was one of the best things I ever did for myself. In the twenty-five years I have worked with computers, it has probably saved me hundreds, if not thousands of hours.

There are some cool products you can buy and/or download to learn typing. I think we have Mavis Beacon loaded on the family PC. But if you want to try something quick and free… check out TypingWeb.

There are different levels from beginner to advanced. If you register, you get to save your progress through the course. I highly recommend learning to type as an essential career skill for anyone who is, well, breathing. People change jobs 3 to 5 times, after all and it’s hard to imagine any job these days where touch-typing would not help you sooner or later.