A little year-end reflection from your hosts Mike Abney and Allen Hurst. In this episode we talk a little about how the podcast came about, the techniques and tools we use to record and produce the podcast, and a little bit about Improving Enterprises and Improving Rural Sourcing.

Links:

• Skype
• Audio Hijack Pro
• WireTap Studio
• GarageBand
• Audacity
• The Levelator
• WordPress
• Blubrry PowerPress
• Feedburner
• Ubercaster
• Inc. 500
• Dallas Morning News Top Workplaces
• Improving Enterprises
• Improving Rural Sourcing

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 42:17 — 19.5MB)

Mike and Allen are joined again by Ben Rady, this time we’re discussing personal productivity and Getting Things Done (GTD). Give it a listen, then get back to work!

Topics Covered:

• Getting started with GTD
• Stopping and starting
• GTD overview
• Common problems applying GTD
• Benefits and best practices
• Productivity tools
• GTD and life goals
• Contexts and pruning the process

Links:

• Getting Things Done by David Allen
• Quicksilver
• OmniFocus
• Evernote
• Lifehacker
• 43 Folders Podcast

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 44:30 — 20.5MB)