Productive! Magazine about Getting Things Done and Lifehacks. Edited by Michael Sliwinski founder of Nozbe http://productivemagazine.com Magazine for Productive people who want to Get Things Done. Brought to you by Michael Sliwinski - founder of Nozbe. Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:03:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 en Getting ready for Issue #3 of the Magazine http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ProductiveMagazine/~3/arfLd8Uyyaw/ http://productivemagazine.com/2009/07/getting-ready-for-issue-3-of-the-magazine/#comments Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:03:55 +0000 Michael Sliwinski http://productivemagazine.com/?p=95 After almost two months of not-posting let me tell you we’re not asleep over here but busy preparing the next issue of the Productive Magazine.

  • Who will be featured on the cover?
  • Whose articles will be published?
  • How will the magazine look like?
  • When will the magazine #3 be published?

You’ll get answers to all of these questions in the coming days, so make sure to Subscribe to our Newsletter or to our RSS feed, or follow me on Twitter or plain simply bookmark this web site…. or do all of this to be on the safe side and receive info about the Productive Magazine issue #3.

One thing is sure - the magazine will be published this month and will stay as always a free PDF download, so make sure to spread the word about it!

Stay tuned!

- Michael (Editor-in-Chief :-)

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I’ve never payed attention to the number of views the Productive Magazine got on Issuu.com but when I checked them eariler today they blew my mind!

Productive Magazine issue #1 with David Allen just passed 100,000 views

and

Productive Magazine issue #2 with Guy Kawasaki is closing 20,000 views

Let’s see how much issue #3 will generate, we’re working on it already and I’ll keep you posted.

Meanwhile if you know anyone who could benefit from reading the Productive Magazine, make sure to let them know and forward them to this page! Thanks!

Update: Just checked and our second issue of the magazine is one of the most popular on issuu.com this month, just have a look at the screenshot:

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Enter Magcloud - the new service of publishing print magazines

I signed up for Magcloud (as per suggestion of several of my readers) and posted both issues of the magazine there and they both turned out to be pretty affordable (and full color at that!), just have a look:

Productive Magazine Issue #2 is only $7 bucks!

So at a cost of a beer you can get a nicely color-printed version of your favorite magazine.

Productive Magazine Issue #1 is only $9 bucks!

This one is two bucks more expensive than issue #2 because it’s bigger in size. Still, three cups of coffee and it’s yours to have.

My question to you my dear readers - would you buy a printed version of the Productive Magazine? Does it even make sense for me to set it up for you? Do you print the magazine by yourself?

]]> http://productivemagazine.com/2009/05/get-your-print-version-of-productive-magazine-for-just-a-few-bucks/feed/ http://productivemagazine.com/2009/05/get-your-print-version-of-productive-magazine-for-just-a-few-bucks/ 4000+ downloads in the first 24 hours - issue #2 hits it! http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ProductiveMagazine/~3/0zsYm-7ZCW0/ http://productivemagazine.com/2009/04/4000-downloads-in-the-first-24-hours-issue-2-hits-it/#comments Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:37:46 +0000 Michael Sliwinski http://productivemagazine.com/?p=86 It’s been crazy 24 hours for the Productive Magazine! Just in the first 24 hours more than 4,000 people have downloaded our magazine and the response has been great so far, looking forward to more blog posts and tweets. Hope you can help us spread the word even more!

When I launched #2 of the magazine, I thought it’d be cool to beat the issue #1 2x times and reach a total of 60K downloads… and although we’re still far from the goal, we’ve beaten the first 24 hours of the first issue 4 times, as the first issue was downloaded “only” 1K times during its first launch day

Please help us spread the word to achieve our goal of 60K downloads! Thanks!

And if you didn’t get your copy of the magazine, download it now it’s only 2.5 MB and it’s free!

Here are the handful of blogs that helped so far:

I invite you to follow me on twitter, blog and tweet about the magazine and help us spread the word! After all we’re doing the magazine for your, for free and we’re hoping you’ll find it useful. Thanks!

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  • Exclusive interview with Guy Kawasaki - bestselling author, serial Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist and ex-Apple fellow

Download your PDF version of Productive Magazine!

In the magazine you’ll also find 10 Great articles from top productivity bloggers about:

  • New Year’s Resolutions
  • The art of s aying No
  • How to optimize your life and claim a couple of hours a week back
  • Setting SMART goals
  • Mind- mapping
  • Working in groups
  • … and more!

We’ve got great authors like Leo Babauta, Dustin Wax, Michael Hyatt, James Mallinson, Kris Rowlands, Andrew Mason, Michael Deutch, Andrew Yang and yours truly…

Here’s the scoop on the Table of Contents:

So what’s your next action?

Download your issue of the Productive! Magazine at no cost (only 2.5 MB)

The magazine is a total of 24 pages, 1 exclusive interview, 10 articles and most of all, it’s completely free! Feel free to share with your friends and family!

What do you think about this issue? Love it? Hate it? Let me know in the comments!

Your Editor,

- Michael Sliwinski
Follow me on Twitter: MichaelNozbe

P.S. The last issue of Productive Magazine hit more than 30K downloads - this time we’re aiming at 60K! Help us spread the word!

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Get ready for 24 pages packed with great articles that’ll help you boost your productivity and motivate yourself to get going, hope you’ll enjoy this issue as much as we have preparing it!

Please make sure to follow me on twitter or sign up for our newsletter or just subscribe to our blog. Thanks for spreading the word!

P.S. Of course as before, Productive Magazine is a completely free PDF download :-)

]]> http://productivemagazine.com/2009/04/productive-magazine-2-available-tomorrow/feed/ http://productivemagazine.com/2009/04/productive-magazine-2-available-tomorrow/ Productive Magazine Issue 2 - Cover Preview http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ProductiveMagazine/~3/_BUL70V82jE/ http://productivemagazine.com/2009/04/productive-magazine-issue-2-cover/#comments Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:43:54 +0000 Michael Sliwinski http://productivemagazine.com/?p=74 OK, we’re finally finishing the second issue of the Productive! magazine - the last corrections and we’re good to go, should be out next week, before the end of April. Here’s the cover design to get you excited:

To be notified about the new issue, make sure you sign up for our Announcement List Newsletter.

Highlights of the Second issue of the Productive! Magazine:

I know the #2 issue is long overdue, but I’m sure it’ll be worth the wait!

As always, the magazine is proudly being sponsored by Nozbe - Simply Get Things Done!

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The intro by Frank is in Dutch, but the rest is in English, so no worries.

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As I hate being late or overdue with things and we’re long overdue with #2, I decided to do some cleaning and design the Productive Magazine Editorial Processes over again and make sure we can deliver each issue of the magazine on a regular basis.

Shorter but regular (monthly as the ultimate goal)

I’ve heard voices over at the Summit that they’d rather read a shorter magazine but on a regular basis than a longer one every few months. I definitely share this opinion and let me tell you, I think we’ll be on the right track with PM #3. The next issue will be due sometime in May and hopefully #4 and next ones will be as regular as ever and issued every month.

Productive Magazine Team is growing!

One the side note - our Productive Magazine Team is growing - apart from Me and my assistant Delfina, Lori Anderson and Dustin Wax (of Lifehack.org fame) have volunteered to participate and let me prepare each issue for you. If you also would like to volunteer and help me out, make sure to contact me.

How did I design the processes for the Productive Magazine #3 and beyond?

While I can’t reveal all the details yet (I’ll have to test them and really see what works and what doesn’t) I’ll be happy to let you know in the future posts about the process, for now just have a look at the Mind Map I did in the Freemind app on my Mac:

Please let me know in the comments, what you liked, didn’t like and would love to see in the future issues of the Productive Magazine and which format would be the best for you?

P.S. The issue #2 is almost finished and should be out any day now. Again, sorry for the delay!

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Go to Nozbe blog to participate and win!

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