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Getting Organized In The Google Era: How To Get Stuff Out Of Your Head, Find It When You Need It, And Get It Done Right (2010)

by Douglas C. Merrill(Favorite Author)

3.24 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0385528175 (ISBN13: 9780385528177)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Crown Business

review 1: Imagine a world where information can be gleaned from a text box on a simple web page. Now imagine a world where such a concept is enough for a shitty self-help book. Most of the ideas revolve around "you should put things in the cloud because it's easier to organize" and "search means you don't really need to organize."If you've never used Google, this may be moderately useful. It sure is a neat website.
review 2: I really liked this book because it is a right-brain look at a left-brain subject. It is a light, simple, postmodern-like explanation of organization, especially as it relates to technology. Many reviews I have read were disappointed in this book for the same reason I liked it.While Merrill largely focuses on technology - and Google - this is also a ... morebook about organization in general. I enjoyed the opportunity to look at organization from a postmodern perspective while learning many advantages technology (Google especially) offers us. I use Google search and found Chapter 6: "How to Master the Art of Search" very helpful. (But I admit, didn't know that if you enter the word "time" and then the name of a city in the world, Google gave you the current time - in large type. I needed to know that and use it often.)Techies will already know much of what Marrill shared, but I think even they would benefit from this book if they read it with the purpose of learning how to help those of us who are not techies. less

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