e2.oh » productivity http://www.e2oh.com Investigations Into Enterprise 2.0 Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:15:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Productivity? http://www.e2oh.com/2009/01/22/productivity/ http://www.e2oh.com/2009/01/22/productivity/#comments Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:58:48 +0000 Nate Nash http://www.e2oh.com/?p=73 In the the latest evolution of my never-ending quest to spend way more time determining whether I am productive, than actually being productive, I signed up for RescueTime. It is a relatively painless process that includes a little client app the monitors what you do on on your computer, then reports back to the RT mothership. The website produces various reports about the applications and websites you use, as well as allowing you to develop some arbitrary “effeciency scores” by rating your different activities. The new widget on the right sidebar of our blog is their “Top 10 Apps and Sites” feature (available once you sign up), loaded with my data for about the past month.

Once I sort of moved past the “neato” factor (which for me can usually take quite some time), I took a look at the data. Couple things jump out at me. Some good, some bad.

Good Things:

  •  9 of the 10 are actually work related. Google Reader and Skype may be a bit of a stretch, but for the sake of argument, let’s consider those in the tent. 
  • App (site) number 2 is the BearingPoint Wiki. Transparency is always a crowd favorite, so spending this much time in the clear is probably good. 

Bad Things:

  • Email. Look at all of that email. And I am pretty militant about not using email. But it is safe to say that the vast majoirty of information I produce is opaque, temporary, and otherwise non-resuable. That is a check minus on the E2 report card for sure. 
  • Twitter (twhirl). It is microblogging right? I seem to spend way more time there than on my macro blog. I tend to think that I am getting distracted by the noise. But those Hoosier Stats are hard to ignore!
All in all, I think I am doing ok on the E2 front. Other than being a little less email independent than I thought, I am cool with these results. I use the widget to post them to my personal space on the wiki and so far, it seems my management is ok with them too.  Try ResuceTime for yourself and see what you find. Perhaps you aren’t as transparent as you thought…
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