• The best time to start is when you’ve got enough money in the bank to support all contingencies.
  
• The best time to start is when the competition is far behind in technology, sophistication and market acceptance.
  
• The best time to start is when the competition isn’t too far behind, because then you’ll spend too long educating the market.
  
• The best time to start is when everything at home is stable and you can really focus.
  
• The best time to start is when you’re out of debt.
  
• The best time to start is when no one is already working on your idea.
  
• The best time to start is when your patent comes through.
  
• The best time to start is after you’ve got all your VC funding.
  
• The best time to start is when the political environment is more friendly than it is now.
  
• The best time to start is after you’ve got your degree.
  
• The best time to start is after you’ve worked all the kinks out of your plan.
  
• The best time to start is when you’re sure it’s going to work.
  
• The best time to start is after you’ve hired the key marketing person for the new division.
  
• The best time to start was last year. The best opportunities are already gone.
  
• The best time to start is before some pundit declares your segment passe. Too late.
  
• The best time to start is when the new generation of processors is shipping.
  
• The best time to start is when the geopolitical environment settles down.
  

Actually, as you’ve probably guessed, the best time to start was last year. The second best time to start is right now.

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Del.icio.us is an excellent system for archiving your favorite information from across the Net, tracking hot topics, and discovering new and useful sites. The power of del.icio.us comes in the form of it’s “collective intelligence”, which is constantly adding, reviewing, and filtering new information.

The community of del.icio.us allows you to find some of the best resources on the Internet without having to trudge through all of the junk.

It also gives you a centralized management system for organizing information from around the Net. However, many people are unaware of it’s complete list of features and valuable add-ons.

Here are 10 ways that you can use del.icio.us to its full potential.

1. Del.icio.us Firefox Extension

Del.icio.us Firefox Extension should be the number-one del.icio.us tool on your list. It allows you to quickly and easily add sites you like to del.icio.us with a bookmarklet. This tool puts a “My del.icio.us” button at the top of your browser, allowing you to view your save pages at the click of a button.

It also adds a “Tag this” button to the top of your browser, which allows you to bookmark websites while you’re browsing the Web.

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This Firefox Extension has saved me tons of keyboard time.

2. Desktop Shortcut for Delicious

Having to visit the del.icio.us website each time you want to access your bookmarks can be a time-consuming process. Why not plug your bookmarks into your desktop for easy access. You can do this with Delwin for Windows and Delibar for the Mac.

3. Increase Your Search Powers.

There are a variety of ways to search del.icio.us.

To view bookmarks tagged with a specific keyword, type in:

http://del.icio.us/tag/keyword

To view bookmarks tagged with two or more keywords, type in:

http://del.icio.us/tag/keyword+keyword

So for example, if I wanted to look for sites about organization and GTD, I would type in:

http://del.icio.us/tag/organization+GTD

If I wanted to narrow the search even further, I could include four terms:

http://del.icio.us/tag/organization+GTD+office+tools

If you are looking for the most popular sites in any category, than simply type in:

http://del.icio.us/rss/popular/TAGNAME

So if you are trying to find the most popular sites related to GTD, you would type in:

http://del.icio.us/rss/popular/GTD

4. Bookmark from Google Reader

If you’re a fan of Google Reader, then you’ll definitely want to start using Google Reader + del.icio.us. This is a Greasemonkey script that puts an “add to del.icio.us” button at the bottom of each post in Google Reader. With a single click, you will be able to transfer interesting posts from Google Reader into your del.icio.us bookmark collection.

5. Bundle Your Tags

Does your tag cloud look like a huge, disorganized mess. Bundle those tags into related categories for easy access. To organize your tags into bundles, click on the “Settings” link in the top right-hand corner.

From this page, click on “bundle tags” under the tags heading and start creating your own bundles.

Of course, if you’re not into the whole bundling idea, then you can always just use the search box in the upper right hand corner of del.icio.us.

If you want to limit your search to specific tags, then use the prefix “tag:”. An example for all you productivity junkies might be “tag:gtd”.

6. Newsmasher

Here’s a cool Greasemonkey script called Newsmasher that places a small “del.icio.us” tag on the upper left corner of your browser. When clicked, a small window appears displaying what del.icio.us users are writing about the page you are viewing.

This is a great way to get some quick feedback on any website you’re visiting. Quickly find out if people are giving it a virtual “thumbs up” or “thumbs down”.

7. Use the Inbox

Navigate to http://del.icio.us/inbox. Here you can subscribe to various tags or specific users. This is an excellent way to discover new sites that you may enjoy. It almost reminds me a bit of StumbleUpon. Based on the preferences you submit, you will be given a flow of new items to check out.

8. A variety of del.icio.us Uses

You can use del.icio.us in a number of exciting and interesting ways. Here are a few examples

to get you started:

• Bookmark movies you want to see
• Travel planning
• Bookmark books you want to read
• Bookmark things you want to blog about
• Research

9. Publish Your del.icio.us Bookmarks on Your Website.

In addition to all that, you can also share your latest del.icio.us bookmarks on your websites for all of your readers to enjoy. You can do this using Linkrolls and Tagrolls.

Linkrolls display your latest del.icio.us bookmarks while tagrolls display all of your del.icio.us tags in a tag cloud.

You can see these unique features in action at this blog . His bookmarks are on the left and his tags are on the right.

10. Creative Tagging

My final tip is based on a bit of creative tagging. For my most important tags, I place an “@” in front of them. This moves them up to the very top of my tag list. So, for example, for books that I want to read in the future, I have a tag labeled @books. This simple trick allows me to place my most important tags at the very top of the tag list.

If you know of any other del.icio.us tips, please add them in the comments.

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• Project control system
• Project mission and goals should be well defined
• Top management support within resources and budget in essential
• A detailed project planning that covers all aspect of the project
• Client consultation and acceptance during the project life cycle
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It seems like “If you cannot change the world, then you should change yourself” or perhaps a pirated copy of Steven Corey’s “Circles of Influence and Concern.”  ”One time, on Nandan Road, someone flagged me down and wanted to go to Tianlin. Later on, someone else flagged me down on Nandan Road and he also wanted to go to Tianlin.  So I asked, ‘How come all you people who come out on Nandan Road want to go to Tianlin?’  He said, ‘There is a public bus depot at Nandan Road.  We all take the public bus from Pudong to there, and then we take the taxi to Tianlin.  So I understood. For example, you look at the road that we just passed. There are no offices, no hotels, nothing. Just a public bus station. Those people who flag down taxis there are mostly people who just got off the public bus, and they look for the shortest road for a taxi.  People who flag down taxis here will usually ride not more than 15 RMB.”

Those people who wait at the subway exits every day for business will never make money. How are you going to provide for your wife and kids at 500 RMB a month? This is murder? This is slowly murdering your whole family. You must arm yourself with knowledge. You have to learn knowledge to become a smart person. A smart person learns knowledge in order to become a very smart person. A very smart person learns knowledge in order to become a genius.”

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