And so like many other blogs around the Internet, we are also celebrating the new year! And also like every other speech out there, we could say how we will “await a fantastic new year” or how it’s time “for a new era of humanity” or any other cliché and pompous phrase. However, we’re realistic and we’re multicultural (which, by the way, has nothing to do with anything) and thus are just going to say something more contemporary and realistic.

First all, we’d like to announce that Feed Elite is of course expanding and we will be covering many more areas in our amazing posts of expertise. There’s will be new articles regarding productivity not just in the Microsoft Windows OS environment, but also in other fields such as Mac OS X, Linux, and even Palm OS! In addition, we will try our best to publish more resources regarding benefits to our actual non-virtual lives. Isn’t that something? We trying not to be like the Tech-Blog-Next-Door…

In the mean time, people are pissed off (I mean angry at) Apple’s BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) icon for a Windows PC, Global Warming is ever becoming a problem while Global Ice Age also is occurring, everyone’s all wrapped up in the new “Green” Movement while our industries are expanding more than ever, and oh so much more issues.

Also, did I forget to mention that 2008 brings the XXIX Olympics at Beijing, China! Because the Chinese people like the number 8 (8 in Chinese is phonetically similar to the character of “Prosper” or more like “Cash-in”), they’ve decided to start the games at 8-08-2008. Oh! Can you just imagine the amount of young lovers waiting to get married that day.

Anyways, happy new year and shall we bid farewell to 2007 and welcome 2008 with our hearts and minds open.

After a while, long, dull, and super descriptive messages tend to clog up answering machines and force listeners to the brim of their patience. If you are someone who tends to cause this problem, stop doing it. Here are some tips you should take to save time while making a phone call and recording a voice message:

• If your call has already ringed for a couple of times, start thinking about what you could say in a voice message.
• If you do need to record a message, try to keep it under 10 seconds.
• If you’re one who either likes to talk on and on or one who just speaks extremely slowly and quietly, try to articulate a clear, concise message without all the details.
• Remember, a main point of voice messages is to state your point and to leave a return option for the listener to follow up with millions of questions.
• Of course, there are also certain times in which you need to record a long message. If such is the case, then it’s pretty much advanced common sense…

This is a VERY LONG VIDEO. Therefore, the best way to watch this is to not watch this. Just turn up the speakers and listen while you do some other easy task. Actually do listen/watch this… because it actually helps and is useful. This Google Tech Talk seminar beautifully describes methods to not burn all your time on emails but rather process them efficiently. Good luck with Advanced Common Sense…

“I haven’t shown you anything here that you don’t already know how to do. But if you actually do it, you’re gonna see extraordinary differences.“

Slides of this Presentation: Inbox Zero [Slide Share]

Feed Elite gets its news sources from many areas around the internet. Obviously there are quite a numerous amount of these “sources.” Therefore, a great way we use to save time and increase productivity in link browsing is to use the Read It Later Firefox Add-on/Plugin.

Link: Read it Later [the Idea Shower]