About Andrew Walsh

Andrew Walsh is the founder of Social Web Q and A and its parent entity SocialWebEnterprises.com. He is also a college instructor and reference librarian as well as the author of Savvy for the Social Web: The New Skills You Need to Survive and Thrive in the Digital Age. Follow him on Twitter!

How to Form Good Habits (and Cut Bad Ones) for Better Productivity

For anyone striving to become more productive in the digital age, there are some long-trusted tactics they’ll inevitably encounter: conserving willpower, working to find motivation, an endless variety of productivity “hacks” and apps. But these things aren’t the key to truly getting more done. Most of what drives your output is not the result of […]

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Smartphone Addiction: Causes and How to Break the Cycle

In our article series on increasing your productivity, we’ve discussed topics like setting better goals and getting into a flow state. But in order to truly assess our productivity today, we need to grapple with one particular piece of equipment that promises to make our lives easier but in reality causes all sorts of new […]

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What is a Flow State and How Do I Achieve It for Peak Productivity?

ivity, it’s easy to get sidetracked by the allure of shiny new tools like apps, browser plugins, and the like that all promise major results. But in order to achieve significant and lasting behavioral change, you need to start within. And today’s article will outline a particular state of mind you can achieve in order […]

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Is Starting a Forum a Good Idea?

When you’re brainstorming online business ventures, starting a forum can seem like an attractive choice. After all, once you get the site set up and enable appropriate topics for discussion, the users create all the content! But is creating your own forum a good idea? Should I Start an Online Forum? Pros and Cons Although […]

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Goals vs. Aspirations: What’s the Difference?

In our recent article on how to set better goals to make you more productive, we talked a little bit about goals vs. aspirations. Identifying your larger desires as well as your immediate next steps to get there are especially important in today’s environment where distractions lurk everywhere. But how do we consider these two […]

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How to Set Better Goals That Will Make You More Productive

With distractions everywhere these days–from browser tabs to phone notifications–it can seem challenging if not impossible to actually get major things done. So how can we be more productive in the digital age? One of the best things you can do to increase your productivity is to adjust the way you set your goals so […]

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Standalone GPS vs. Google Maps on Smartphone: Which to Use?

Not too long ago traveling by car in a new area meant consulting unwieldy print maps, stopping to ask locals for directions or even just making educated guesses and hoping you eventually reach your destination. But with the proliferation of devices that receive GPS signals, the game has radically changed. At their most basic level, […]

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How to Pin Google Calendar or Gmail to Your Windows Taskbar

If you use Google services, such as Gmail, Maps and Calendar, you likely want them easily accessible. There are a couple of ways ways to do this, including setting one as your browser homepage, setting up links in your Bookmarks bar, or even pinning tabs in Google Chrome. But you might prefer these icons to […]

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How I Use It: Advantages of Google Inbox

When discussing the pros and cons of email as a communication medium, we typically start with some fundamental assumptions. An email inbox is a long chronological archive of messages. Messages are either read or unread, and after reading you can keep them in your archive or delete them. Over the years, our email experience has […]

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Why You Should be Careful Before Installing that WordPress Plugin

Plugins are small pieces of software that allow WordPress to do new things. Since the WordPress core is by design very lean, these third-party tools are required for bloggers to accomplish a variety of popular tasks. We often see blog posts that talk about the best WordPress plugins that you need to be using, and […]

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