The travels continue!  I'm heading up north later this week for client work, after spending a good part of last week in Northern California at Berkeley and UC Davis (oh woe is me!)  By the way, if you ever want to do something REALLY cool, I strongly recommend visiting Mt. Diablo State Park near Walnut Creek, California, and driving the road to the summit.  That is one of those great mountain roads with no guardrails, multiple hairpin turns, a six-inch shoulder, and 1,500 - 2,000 foot drop-offs!  Can't beat that for fun!  ;-)  It is also where Olympic cyclists also go for training, so watch out for the bikers!  And the view from the top can't be beat.

After last month's Timely Tip, I had an astute comment from one of my readers, who told me, "Randy, you've got too much news.  What if I'm in a hurry and just want the tip?"  Well, I'm not sure if you all noticed, but a few months ago, I changed the design template of Timely Tips, and part of this design change was to MAKE IT EASY for you to find and read the monthly tip -- but I did NOT share with you precisely where to look.  LOOK RIGHT BELOW THIS TEXT BLOCK AND TABLE OF CONTENTS for the new Timely Tip each month.  That way, if you are in a hurry, you can skip this "dribble", zoom past the program announcements and other stuff, and go right to the useful tip. 

I do encourage all of you in and near Michigan to look at my two events next week -- one here in Lansing and the other in Grand Rapids (to the right).  Both are great and very affordable options to get my time, e-mail, and Outlook management strategies for you and/or your staff.  Also, look below my Timely Tip for yet another free teleseminar course opportunity you can take advantage of -- this one as part of a telecourse academy where I will be one of several top experts providing valuable content -- worth checking out!

Let's get to another handy Timely Tip for you web surfers:

You might think these e-newsletters have grown a bit over the last couple of years, but I have to tell you that I'm actually cutting back big-time on what is making the cut for inclusion in these newsletters.  Since hitting the top of Amazon's list in six different categories this summer with Taming the E-mail Beast, it seems everybody wants a piece of me and my list (not a bad problem, eh?)  By the way, if you are interested, the Timely Tips subscriber list passed the 3,500 subscriber milestone last month.  In October of 2006, we had 350 subscribers. How about that?!?

I do hope that you are both finding the Timely Tips very useful, as well as the program announcements and other short news I am sharing of use.  And I do of course encourage sharing this information with others -- just use the "Forward" button below.

I do wish all of you some much deserved down time and family fun over the upcoming Thanksgiving Holiday.  I'm personally taking more than a week off after my brutal (but oh so fun!) fall schedule, and giving some time to my wife and girls that they much deserve.  I'll also be moonlighting a bit to get all of you that Killer Keystroke Combo document I mentioned above, so look for that shortly!