Great idea, smonster! I actually have some old, authentic glass Mardi Gras beads, and I love them.

I haven't written a press release in ages and, given that I want to distribute this document to press, blogs, social media and radio what I have is not a traditional release.

I would be grateful for as many eyes as I can get on it before rolling out my new website, services and partnership next week.

If you have a minute, please find the doc here and comment to my profile addy or in-thread.

Many, many thanks!

I have a question about tracking time on a project. I charge by the hour, and often work in tiny spurts, and it's occured to me that maybe keeping a post-it note with "30 min/1 hour/etc" scribbled on it, which I then throw away when I invoice, isn't the best way.

Should I be keeping (and keeping) a spreadsheet or something?

I use toggl.com for my tiny spurts -- it lets you click a big red button (I admit, the big red button is a HUGE part of my love) when you start and stop on a particular task, and aggregates the total time you've spent in a week or month or whatever you need. There's a paid account that lets you handle multi-person tasks and sub-projects and billable vs non-billable hours and all kinds of officially project-management-ish things, but all I really need is "I was working on project A for 14 minutes, then project B for 2h23..." Especially when the 2h23 was actually made up of 5 separate little chunks, because it always is.

I like it that it's a web app (with an iphone app), so I don't worry about which computer is the spreadsheet on; the phone app also works offline and sync up when you get back online, for those times I'm actually not at a computer or don't have internets.

No takers for the opportunity to tear up my press release?

I feel like I make requests at the exact wrong time and then they get lost in the shuffle.

If anyone does have a moment, I would be grateful.

I just got a terrific photo to go along with the release and am feeling quite chipper about it!

How soon do you need it, bonny? I could have it back to you by Thursday morning, most likely.

smonster, there's a local artist who recycles glass; if the glass bead idea takes off, you might spread this idea.

You might also contact the society of glass bead artists (can't remember their exact name).

I like it that it's a web app (with an iphone app), so I don't worry about which computer is the spreadsheet on; the phone app also works offline and sync up when you get back online, for those times I'm actually not at a computer or don't have internets.

Interesting! I'll check it out.

I'm sending it out next Tuesday, smonster, so Thursday would be great!

Amy that actually sounds super helpful--I tend to be good on timesheets weeks when I'm traveling a lot ("ok, on a plane three hours, at the office seven...") but much more...er...guessing, weeks I'm home more.