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How to leverage basic tools for advanced productivity

What did you do today? It’s as common of a question in the business World as the dreaded statement “you’re fired”.  And yet, employees seem to find every way possible to simply not get fired; just enough to get by, rather than finding a quick, easy way to answer the first question any time it’s posed.

Don’t get me wrong – I can procrastinate with the best of ‘em.  However, once I made it through college and began my work as a grunt in the top-heavy corporate machine, I was inundated with emails, sticky notes on my desk, and late-night voicemails from my supervisor trying to find out whether or not my TPS report would be ready by EOB the next day (and yes, I always use an up-to-date cover sheet).  I found myself struggling to answer such a simple question.  I honestly couldn’t remember what a TPS report was, let alone whether or not I had actually produced one the day before.  The business world was full of too many acronyms, too many projects, too many questions, too many TASKS to keep track of in my brain.

People are often asking me why they need MOSS over WSS.  The short answer is that unlike Windows SharePoint Services, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) is a huge enterprise-level platform that can be used for anything and everything.