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Project Management

By Jeff Cohan, August 17, 2023

10 Tips for Using Basecamp Like a Pro

Basecamp Guidelines & Tips

Basecamp is an online project management/project collaboration tool I use with many clients — the primary audience for this article. You won’t find a comprehensive how-to guide on Basecamp here. Instead, I offer an overview of Basecamp’s structure and a set of “best practices” in the form of guidelines and tips for making Basecamp your niche.

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Written by Jeff Cohan · Categorized: Techniques · Tagged: Basecamp, Project Management

By Jeff Cohan, April 29, 2014

Lessons Web Developers Won’t Learn in School

When I was interviewed recently for a blog article about “lessons Web developers won’t learn in school”, I knew without blinking what I’d say. If you’re a client of a Web developer, you might find what I had to say ostensibly arrogant. If you’re a fellow Web developer, you might be emboldened to let your cynical side run free. I hope neither is the case.

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Written by Jeff Cohan · Categorized: General · Tagged: Project Management

By Jeff Cohan, May 30, 2013

Don’t blindly do what your customers ask you to do just because they asked you to do it

Yesterday I had the audacity to say that customers are not always right. I suggested that we, as professionals (and this is true in any field, I think), have a responsibility to first ask why before doing what our customers ask us to do just because they asked us to do it. (Both yesterday’s blog […]

Written by Jeff Cohan · Categorized: General · Tagged: Project Management

By Jeff Cohan, May 29, 2013

First ask why

Yesterday I wrote about fellow WordPress designers/developers discussing the best way to automatically delete old posts from a blog. My point yesterday was don’t. Don’t delete old posts from a blog. With very few exceptions, old posts have value, both for human readers and search engines.

Written by Jeff Cohan · Categorized: General · Tagged: Project Management

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Formally trained in liberal arts and education (I have a B.A. in Government from Harvard and studied Secondary Education at Rutgers Graduate School), I have honed my skills in the communication arts and sciences as a teacher, trainer, instructional designer, writer, photographer, calligrapher, helpdesk manager, database programmer, and multimedia developer.

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