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Re: Alexander H. Williams

Troy Malone — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:03:23 -0000

Very distinguished I must say. I like the glasses afterwards. They make you look like a writer or something! Nice cut...and a great way to go about it. I cut my hair myself with clippers. Can't beat it! That is surely one of the benefits of going bald! I speak from experience.

Re: The first “I’m a PC” Microsoft ad: Much better

Troy Malone — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:07:17 -0000

I'm a PC and I am considering growing a beard :)

Re: 5 Minutes With Woo: My Interview With A WordPress Rockstar

Troy Malone — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:40:01 -0000

I have major theme envy right now. Very good design. It looks great and very professional.

Re: Brighten up your life: 3 Tips from Thomas Edison on Living Optimistically

Troy Malone — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:36:31 -0000

Edison's view on failure is exactly what a successful person is thinking. There is no success without failure. I once hear a CEO tell his troops: "Now let's get out there and make some mistakes and failures. Then we will be all the closer to our vision of success!"

This view of failure is what has brought mankind this far. If Edison had not persevered through the 10,000 "failures" we would not have the light bulb!

Re: What I Took Away From “Getting Things Done”

Troy Malone — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:27:58 -0000

Very cool view of a fresh view of GTD. If you are in management, you will notice a hole in the system. The "Waiting For" folder, which organizes all of your delegated items will become a problem unless you get your team on a group collaboration system! I experienced this first hand about two years ago and as a result I developed Pelotonics. Feel free to check it out!

Otherwise, GTD is definitely the best system out there in my opinion. It sure did make a huge difference in my work life!

Troy Malone
Pelotonics.com

Re: ActionsTalk in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Troy Malone — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:10:21 -0000

Very cool guys. It is great to see something take off. Don't forget about us here in San Diego! Come back Ryan and have a conversation! What you guys are doing is great!

Re: Gnomedex Day One Wrap + Gnomedex Videos

Troy Malone — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:52:56 -0000

Great summation of the day Duncan. Thanks for getting this down for posterity. I also like your incorporation of the videos! Nice to have for after the conference for archival purposes...

Re: Ask the Readers: What happens to “Do it Now” Actions?

Troy Malone — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:50:25 -0000

For me, if it can be truly done in the 2 minutes, it gets axed and never visited again. On the other hand, if it does create further actions that need to be performed, I scope those out and get them into my system. At this point I delete the item, but I rarely empty my email trash bin so I guess I do keep a fail safe in there.

I am also using Evenote for some of my archival so I might keep it in there if it is informational. If not, I just axe it!

Re: tadSpot – Tad’s Jan 2009 Digital Lifestyle Part 2

Troy Malone — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:42:28 -0000

I am addicted to voice notes in Evernote. It is so easy to capture ideas on the fly that way. I am always finding myself without a pen when a good idea strikes. I will frequently take those Evernotes and incorporate them into Pelotonics via the recent integration. Truly addicting!

Troy Malone

Re: tadSpot – Tad’s Jan 2009 Digital Lifestyle Part 2

Troy Malone — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:45:57 -0000

Trying to get Friend Feed!

Re: Las Vegas Photowalk - Be there!

Troy Malone — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 03:54:29 -0000

I went and had a great time. Kris was great as usual and we had quite a lively group. I just wish I had a better camera!

Re: Beth Kanter summed up Gnomedex for me in 11 words

Troy Malone — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:22:41 -0000

I can sure second that Dave! Nice meeting you there and have a great time out there doing good things! Talk to you soon I hope...

Re: Reduce Stress with Inbox Zero

Troy Malone — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:34:13 -0000

Very good. I am implementing some filtering in my Outlook to help get to Inbox zero quicker and with less effort on my part. All newsletters are now filtered into a folder. All my project based work managed on the Pelotonics group collaboration system are filtered into their relevant project folders.

This is helping tremendously!

Thanks for sharing your experiences...

Re: Apple A Day: Evernote

Troy Malone — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:47:54 -0000

Very true. It is a great application. We just integrated with their API. Check it out:

http://www.pelotonics.com/evernote_usecases.html

Thanks for sharing.

Troy Malone
Pelotonics.com

Re: The Best Personal Development Books Reading List

Troy Malone — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:07:06 -0000

Can't recommend Getting Things Done any higher. It is great and helps with organization. If you are an organized person it probably won't be life changing. If not, you will be amazed with the difference it makes in your work life.

Troy Malone
Pelotonics

Re: When Your Child Lies and Digs In, Part 3, Responding

Troy Malone — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 03:38:39 -0000

Very good analysis. Glad I stopped by!

Re: 6 Ways Evernote Fails and the 1 Reason I Don't Uninstall It

Troy Malone — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:39:28 -0000

You are right in many respects. My thing was that I had a bunch of info in Evernote, but couldn't do anything with it. Check out how I solved that problem for me and Pelotonics users: http://www.vimeo.com/2024523

Don't know if it would apply to a student, but I think it would as I think back a few years! Let me know your thoughts.

Troy

Re: Talk Social News Episode 10:Evernote CEO, Phil Libin, what is a mophie iPhone juice pack and who’s failing on twitter.

Troy Malone — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:25:58 -0000

Look forward to hearing your interview with Phil. We just integrated our Group Collaboration system Pelotonics with Evernote and are finding some great ways to use them together.

I sat down with Phil and discussed how they play together. If you're interested: http://www.pelotonics.com/evernote.html

I just subscribed to your podcasts. Thanks for the great content.

Re: Evernote Won Best Mobile App in the Mashable Open Web Awards - mediabistro.com: MobileAppsToday

Troy Malone — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:55:33 -0000

Great win guys! Love it.

Re: Evernote for iPhone update, adds offline support

Troy Malone — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:44:17 -0000

Very cool development. I can now use it on the plane! Thanks Evernote.

Re: Google Gives Up

Troy Malone — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 12:59:28 -0000

The import is on the way! I talked with Evernote about it last night. They are burning the midnight oil to get it done. That's why we decided to tie our Project Management application into Evernote!

@troymalone

Re: How are You using Evernote? - betterthanblank

Troy Malone — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:26:04 -0000

Here are some video use cases that I put together. We just integrated our project management/collaboration solution, Pelotonics with Evernote.

http://www.pelotonics.com/evernote_usecases.html

Let me know what you think! I am using it every day and it is helping me to capture my ideas when I have them and then task them out within my group collaboration solution.

Re: Top 30 iPhone Apps for Organization and Productivity

Troy Malone — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:48:28 -0000

Thanks for highlighting our integration with Evernote. The Evernote API was great to work with and the integration has turned out to be a great thing for our users!

It is also great to learn about all the other apps out there. We live in some pretty exciting times!

Troy Malone
Pelotonics

Re: 2009/01/06/augmented-reality-devices/

Troy Malone — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:06:02 -0000

These humans are amazing creatures. Their technologies are getting to the point that I can't keep up.Thanks for keeping us up to date with these new AMAZING technologies. I love it...but it also scares me some as well:)

Troy Malone

Re: 2009/01/17/rssfwd-shutdown/

Troy Malone — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:34:10 -0000

Regardless of whether the service meets your needs or not, it is a very bad way to announce such news. A detailed blog post with what you can do to transition to another service for instance would have been a bit more dignified.

While the Web 2.0 space has been celebrated as an environment where literally anyone can build a good app. without a large expenditure, this is the other side of that argument.

We have many more announcements like this coming and I hope that the next unfortunate companies handle it a bit better.

That having been said, attrition is a healthy thing and will help those companies that are making headway consolidate a stronger position which is good for everyone. Just look at Evernote's windfall over the past few days after Google's announcement!

Troy Malone
Pelotonics

Re: Free Project Management Software

Troy Malone — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 01:12:14 -0000

Another great offering for project collaboration and project management is the Pelotonics system. You can manage up to two projects for free forever with full features!

Troy Malone
Chief Evangelist
www.pelotonics.com

Re: Closing the Open Hole in My Productivity Systems: Unexpected Places

Troy Malone — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:07:46 -0000

Very good post. You are exactly right that you need the ability to capture the thought at the time you have it. Because of this I decided that Pelotonics should do an integration with Evernote. This way, you can actually take actions on your notes within a trusted project management system. Check it out: http://www.pelotonics.com/evernote_usecases.html

I'd love your thoughts.

Troy Malone

Re: Gary Vaynerchuk - Half pregnant with Scott Simon of NPR Today i...

Troy Malone — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:24:29 -0000

Consider me pregnant! Thanks Gary for the motivation to get out there and talk!

@troymalone

Re: Great PR Manners Go a Long Way

Troy Malone — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:19:39 -0000

Very nice post giving insight into what it is like to be a top blogger that is hounded by the masses for play. Thanks for this insight. It is helpful to those of us that are passionate about getting our message out, but cognizant of the fact that being polite and real about things is critical. I will definitely file this one away for reference!

Re: Solve Some Real World Problems

Troy Malone — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 10:54:05 -0000

Great post Chris. Thank you for focusing us in on what we really can do in this world. The think that really struck me about yesterday's talk from Beth Kanter was that it was an endeavor that involved a larger number of people. No one person had to "make up the difference" or anything like that. If we each give a bit, we can do amazing things in this world. It is the organization and concentration that Beth provided that got the job done. Kudos to a great session and a phenomenal learning experience.

Re: How to Do More With Less Time

Troy Malone — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:10:54 -0000

Great to see that there are still some Covey guys out there! He was my professor at BYU so I was on the bandwagon for quite a while as well. He has some great concepts that as you say, keep you focusing on the main thing.

I love evernote since I have discovered it. You can take "notes" vocally, jot things down, and also clip items from web pages. Truly a remarkable tool.

Those are the tools I use personally, but in a group setting while working on a project, I use Pelotonics to keep everyone on the project on the same page with what needs to happen.

Thanks for the post. Additional time is always needed!

Re: Big Game Hunting

Troy Malone — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:57:38 -0000

Now I am confused. Are you playing with us? This so soon after your rant on embargoes makes me wonder. I guess that an embargo done right is acceptable! :)

Re: Big Game Hunting

Troy Malone — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:58:04 -0000

Thanks for responding Chris. What you are saying makes perfect sense. Especially if you aggregate all of your thoughts on these issues from your recent postings. I just saw a good opportunity to razz you a bit!

Anyway, the job is now done. I am very interested in what Akoha is doing and I signed up to be on their Beta tester list. I hope I get chosen!

Keep up the great work. Your content and thoughts are great. I am a marketer myself and it is nice to learn from you in such a transparent manner how marketing is changing and how it SHOULD change. I am on board for the ride!

Re: Twhirl Makes Yammer Irrelevant

Troy Malone — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:25:01 -0000

Twitter would need to expand the feature set a bit, but could do so in a couple of months. I am sure glad that I am not chasing the Yammer dream. Twitter can just wait a bit and learn what the Enterprise wants. Then they can implement it and infiltrate into the enterprise through their existing user base.

Re: Play it Forward with Akoha

Troy Malone — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:35:33 -0000

Very cool. I am on a mission now to track you down at Blog World to get a card. Save a good one for me. I am excited to play. Thanks for the update!

Re: Gatekeepers vs Gatejumpers

Troy Malone — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:40:20 -0000

Gatekeeper: Mc Graw Hill
Gatejumper: Createspace (on-demand publishing)

Re: Find Chris

Troy Malone — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:21:49 -0000

Can't wait to meet you in Vegas. I will have my "Chrisdar" powered up...

Re: The Beauty and Problems of New Presentations

Troy Malone — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 03:03:56 -0000

Very cool. I remember not too long ago, watching your videos that were the brainstorm for this presentation. It was very early in the morning and fun to watch you try to get the points out. I must say that this presentation was much more coherent and it was fun for me to see it all come together.

I also think that this presentation is one of the best with regard to how all of this "new media" hub bub can make a meaningful difference in business and in relationships. The game has truly changed!

It was great meeting you for a short time at Blog World in Vegas. I hope to see you at another meeting! Thanks for the great content.

Re: Stories You Can Tell

Troy Malone — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:05:26 -0000

Very good advice. I will think about what stories I can tell about my product and what I am doing with it. I love the change of perspective here...thanks for opening up my eyes to a whole new way to present our product!

Troy Malone

Re: 57 Internet Possibilities to Investigate

Troy Malone — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:51:46 -0000

Thanks for the mention Chris. We are excited to be in the fray with Basecamp! We also recently integrated with Evernote. Now you can create tasks and messages from your Evernotes directly within Pelotonics...pretty cool stuff.

What a tremendous list!

Troy Malone
Pelotonics

Re: The power of a good demo

Troy Malone — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 01:08:58 -0000

In my view, Apple has been brilliant at creating an experience with their machines. Whether it be the computer or the iPhone, both produce deep experiences with the consumer that keep them wanting to interact.

“people remember experiences, not features or attributes” - a.g. lafley

What a great quote. I am a PC user and have been for a long time. I purchased an iPhone and must say that the "experience" is something that is tangible and meaningful. I was willing to switch my network provider, and all of the features of my Palm Treo to get the experience of the iPhone.

What I am finding is that people are willing to deal with less features for an experience if that experience leads to a community. The Mac followers are a community. The PC people (me included) are isolated from each other for the most part.

Re: Mozilla gives the passionates one with Ubiquity

Troy Malone — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:57:23 -0000

This is like looking at the first model-A. Something big is happening here. At first blush, it is not that impressive or a big event, but I do see this in the next few years becoming a major thing. Someone will come along and connect the dots with regard to the interface and make it into something that people will use.

It reminds me of the mouse. At first, the mouse was a weird device that only a few people used. "how could you not use the keyboard for everything?" was the word of the day...here we go again. I am excited...

Re: A tale of two photos on Flickr

Troy Malone — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:41:08 -0000

Very cool analysis Robert. People always wonder how to get out there and get something noticed. I would have never thought of some of the points you made above as to how this became more viewed than the other. Maybe next time, you could have a woman in the pic and it would be viewed all the more!

Thanks for the tips. I am going to use some of these ideas in my next few posts. It is all about having something that's interesting! It also doesn't hurt to be you :)

Re: The Enterprise Soft Spot, er, the Enterprise Email Crisis

Troy Malone — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:45:25 -0000

GREAT topic here. I also love that you sort of stumbled upon it when you were in front of thousands of people. I am actually wearing a Mindtouch shirt right now that I got at Blog World. I met the gang there and they have a great thing going.

We are also helping with the email issue. More specifically, we solve the issue that you mention when you left the organization with gigs of emails that were never to be available again. I met you at the speaker's dinner at Gnomedex and we talked for a while. Good to see that you got down to San Diego to meet with a company down here! Talk to you soon...

Re: Disruptive Factories

Troy Malone — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:15:23 -0000

I just listened to a US union worker at GM bitch about all of us not buying US goods so that he could maintain his job. The host aptly stated that those days are over. The Unions have abused the system for too long and this is the collapse that is caused by that excess. Someone always has to pay!

The word on the talk show was how China will be impacting the Japanese now in the car industry. The Chinese are the new Japanese and will put us out of business and land the Japanese where we were for the past few decades.

Markets change and opportunities abound in those changes. It is people like Liam that come out on top and produce jobs and opportunities for the rest of the scared dooms day minded people. Kudos to Liam and China...now I need to figure out where my opportunity is!

GREAT post Scoble. This is on my all-time top 5 lists of blog posts I have read. Substantive, relevant and mind blowing. Thanks.

Troy Malone
Pelotonics

Re: Palm did what Nokia, RIM, and Microsoft couldn’t: build a better experience than Apple

Troy Malone — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 04:50:13 -0000

Heaven forbid that something comes along better than the iPhone! Apple fanatics just got to the point of legitimization and feel now that it can be torn away. Rubish! Palm Pre will do well, but it won't kill iPhone. It will most likely make it a two horse race which is great.

As a software company owner, I am just happy to hear that the browsers on these devices are getting better! What a great thing. We will be looking into an iPhone optimized app and one for the Palm now!

Welcome back Palm. We've missed you.

Re: Is text really king over video? Compare the results

Troy Malone — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:39:24 -0000

Wow! Thanks Robert. That session was a great one to video. It is really interesting to me how different you and Gary are, but how successful you both have been at building an audience. I think I found the common denominator though. You both are just good guys. You are approachable, fun to be around and smart. That's obviously the key to success in my eyes!

Keep putting out the great content!

Troy Malone

Re: Facebook screws iFart author

Troy Malone — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:22:22 -0000

Absolutely amazing. Maybe they will start burning books next? The funny thing is that they are targeting the very people that make the service cool and aggregate impressive numbers of "friends".

I love your jail account idea. I think that concept would make a ton of sense not only at Facebook, but at all other services that can fall prey to spamming. Always with the good ideas Robert; now if someone would just implement it!

@troymalone

Re: Being creative after a layoff

Troy Malone — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 12:55:53 -0000

For me it is getting on my bike to gain a new, higher level perspective of the situation. It is amazing to me how small problems and setbacks become when I am on the bike. I am sure that everyone has some outlet like that to help check perspective. Is this the "happy place" they speak of?

Troy Malone
Pelotonics

Re: What is going on in my life?

Troy Malone — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:49:51 -0000

The suspense is crazy Robert! I can't wait to see what you end up chasing down. I know that it will be a huge success AND I am interested because I know it will be something that is the product of the many brains you tap into around the globe.

I am staying tuned!

Troy

Re: Evernote – Change the Way You Take Notes

Troy Malone — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:16:27 -0000

You have made a great find here! Evernote rocks. If you want to have the ability to port your notes into a project management software solution, you should look at Pelotonics. It is integrated with evernote and it comes in handy! Think about taking a voice note on your cell phone and then assigning that out to someone as a task...with that voice mail attached.

Here's some examples: http://www.pelotonics.com/evernote.html

Re: This is the End, my Friend, for the Google Notebook Trend.

Troy Malone — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:19:21 -0000

Great run-down of Evernote. It is a nice application and they are continuing to build it out. We used their API and integrated it into our project management application Pelotonics. Now you can do something with those notes like make a task out of them or a message in our system related to a project.

I love API's and great software like Evernote!

Troy Malone
Pelotonics.com

Re: A collection of inspiring quotes that help our creative process

Troy Malone — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:39:58 -0000

Great quotes. Thanks for sharing. I am also using Evernote for the same purpose. Very cool.

@troymalone