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Table3: New Effort Table SNBCHF

We now use a table for each type of task.

 

Categories Tags
Cats		 Frequency TinyTable Convert from PDF Time
Aug2020		 More than
2 images
 Copy from
HTML		 Count Pictures Effort
 Expected SpecialTasks…………………………… 2021/22
Actions………….		 2019.04 2021.09 2022.07
(per month)
before		 2022.07
after
Change		 PDF Auto-
mate
it!		 Questions, Clarifications…………………………. Feedback Improvements………
Total Time for Task per Day (without special posts)
 —- 10m/1h (depends on how many graphs) 30m/1h (depends on pdf file, necessary to clear divs) —- 10m/20m 5m/10m 30minutes sometimes Depends on which feed special’s task. —- use this tool for PDF
Feed Specifics
Link to Feed		 ————- ———— ——————————– ————————-
SNB,CHF Cat Every 3 days X X X —— 1h/1:30h PDF Stop all
except sight deposits, results, SNB Conference
 X X 20 h
(incling7 h)		 X Investigate PDF to HTML, Task exists link

No way to improve.
Swissmacro: SwissStatistics Depends on Swiss Releases X X X —— ——– 45m/1:15h PDF Stop all
except special
posts 
see below)		 X X  0   X  

 
Swissmacro: Pictet Tag Every 2 days X X  X ——– 20m/1h no RSS anymore
manual HTML
–> RSS –> WP		 Feed STOPPED X X  0   X Investigate PDF to HTML, Task exists
Swissmacro: Liliane 2D X ——-  X ——- 30m/1h
High?		 Post category SNB or Swiss Macro Mostly
Stopped		 0 Test
Automation		 Only when about SNB and CHF,
(Switzerland)
–< use new FeedWPFunction
Swiss Info/ Swiss Markets

 

 1D —– —— —– Sometimes has video 15m/30m add broken image, Find image on Internet
Deleting Twitter, FB links at the bottom of the post, automate it?.		 X X 10-15 h Fix Feed No way to improve.

Blockchain, Bitcoin Keyword DONE

 Improve with FeedWordpress
No way to improve.
All Swissinfo posts must be automated
Weekly Preview   Not done  0       Use economic calendar widget
Keep the old date
Daily FX 1D X —— X X 1:30h/2:30h
High?		 1:00h Watermark
Images		 Really
Stopped?		 X       Test
Automation		 Watermark,
Graphs from Investing stopped
Other Chandler’s Posts 2D X ——- Sometimes X 30m Sometimes there are posts with video and great graphic. X X Test
Automation		 No way to improve.
Swiss franc forecast currently not copied, they are urgent posts,
come too late		 X 0 Change cat to FX
Seeking Alpha Not doing Last post since 15 September 2017 X —— X —— ——- 10m – 0 Must fix the FXF feed, maybe author feed
Gold 2D X —— X —— 45m/1:30h Broken images, loading them manually X X 15h Fix Feed, Gold posts must be automated Broken images

Answer:

  • Acting Man
  • GoldCore rarely
Global Macro 1D X —— X —— 30m/1:30h TinyTable post
Adding book at the bottom of the post. Looking for countries in content and title. Changing category if needed.		 Smith X
Snider Many graphs X		 X 30h Automate
Smith
Snider		 No way to improve.
Stop adding books,
Stop country		 Software for tagging Stop
Special Posts
Sight Deposit 7D X X —- —— 1h Changing URL with today’s date, so we can see the newest report.

Coping new content to our 2 tables.

Calculating.

 X X 4h No way to improve.
SNB Monetary Assessment
(Conference)		 3M X X X ——- 2:30h/3h X — 1h No way to improve.
SNB Results 3M X X X ——- 2:30h/3h Calculations. X — 1h No way to improve.
Swiss Trade Balance 1M X —— X ——- 1h/1:30h old

new – 0:30h

 Translate from French. English words in graphs. Editing images from PDF, taking graph and editing from Investing.com. X X 30 min X Change to 3M Frequency. Replace
with feed post
use this PDF tool
Swiss Retail Sales 1M X X X —— 30m Coping content from PDF, taking graph and editing from Investing.com X X 8 min X Software and automatize Replace
with feed post
use this PDF tool.
Swiss Gross Domestic Product 1M X X X —— 1h Coping content and images from PDF, taking graph and editing from Investing.com X X 15 min X use this PDF tool.
Swiss Real Estate Bubble Index Not doing 3M X X X —— 45m Coping content and images from PDF. STOPPED X 0 X with graphs No way to improve. Software and automatize
Swiss Consumer Price Index 1M X X X —— 30m Coping content and images from PDF, taking graph and editing from Investing.com X X 30 min X  No way to improve. Software and automatize use this PDF tool
Swiss Unemployment 1M X X X ——- 45m Coping content and images from PDF, taking graph and editing from Investing.com X X min X Software and automatize
KOF Economic Barometer 1M X —— X —— 30m Coping the post from kof.ethz. STOPPED X 0 min X No way to improve.
Need Trello task
Total  

 

 

Table1: Priorities, Old

 

What to do  /Summary of Trello Card / Page for all categories Doing 2021.09  Importance Trello Link Page Link CleanupTask………………………………
1. Filter Draft Posts by category, start with category 1)

Then category 2)

 X
3. To be able to pick a post for specific category, we have to understand which are the important keywords for each category

Each category is a different economic area

 X Choice of Post
Not Done Missed Posts R10a
Not Done New Rss
What are priorities:

  1. based on People and Categories
 X R04
2. based on Graphs R21
3. Edit excerpt
Overview of what you do		 X Excerpts: Verify that they work R56
4. Create tinytable
Usually we are using auto tinytable which is our plugin for creating automatically tinytable.Manual tinytable is required only for FX Daily.Convert into TinyTable: Which categories.		 X
5. Replace % with “percents” if there is a % in the title of the post. X Very low R01
6. Edit images with correct name, alt text, media text, caption SNB only R23
7. Change publication date –

Each Day one post per category.
For this change we change publication date, 2nd post to tomorrow per category

 X R55
8. Daily FX
Decide based on R63, dates  		45 min Daily FX R61
9. Keywords into URL Keywords into URL R02
10. Newsletter Tag
Automatic only check		 Newsletter Tags R55
11. Newsletter Testing X Newsletter Preview R56 Clean up of tags in FeedWP
12. Auto-publish Videos X Posts and Videos Publishing: Auto-Publish Videos R04
13. Urgent Posts Urgent Posts R05
Publish 5 posts per day. X

 

Table2: Rad Daily from the Excel

This is the Excel from April

Please fill what you are doing currently

You can write it into each cell 

 

Time Special Posts Manual Video TweetDeck New Authors
Channels		 Testing Inactive Feeds WP Dashboard Orga Help
Niki		 Total
2021.09 Doing Rad: Not Doing
PDF FX, O40
0.30 h 15 min 0 0 45 min 15 min 0
Stop PDF Conversion, 
no edit of images on Daily FX		 including mobile, still important,
including ONYX		 only quick check order by date look at reason why feed is dead 1 h 45 min
1.30h 30min 30min 1h 1h 30 min 30 min 5 h 30min
(effort must be >5 min) (effort >5 min) missing authors Bugs Detected
TinyTable Post do not count Only when lots of corrections example: (could not retrieve full content)
# Manual Posts # Manual Videos # corrected/
followed authors		 # new authors
with new channel		 # bugs found,
link to bug in Trello		 # Inactive Feeds
Corrected
10-15 min PDF
30min Trade Balance
Automatic feed
Keyw: trade Balance		 1.30h
(daily 1h)		 1.30h – 11 videos –
edit excerpts only and publish draft		 2h 10 min
Featured Images
OK		 0 1h 30 h with autopublish, autoremove excerpt Images, Author Images Feed Dead?, Unattached Images –> no action, bug
Reorder widget
2-3 per week

 

 

Categories Frequency TinyTable Convert from PDF More than
2 images
 Copy

from
HTML

 Special Tasks Existing TIme
per Day		 Improvements Feedback
George		 Improvements
Non-Feed Specific

 
Newsletter tag Every morning we are changing the newsletter tag into newslettersent. 10m No way to improve.

 

 Stop doing

Newsletter Sent=
Newsletter+
Date in Past–> not needed

 Nothing, do not care
Featured tag Every Monday morning we are cleaning the Featured tag for posts older than a week. 30m (once a week) No way to improve Stop doing

 

 Do not set Featured any more

-> Change FeedWP
Draft posts Reading all draft posts and deciding which is good for our site. 30m/40m Maybe we can read only excerpt.

 

  

yes, based on

  • Image Count
  • Tags, for example Snider (do u know tags)
 During FeedWP load of images, set
#NumberImagesAutomate
Image Count
Delete post After the check of the draft posts, we are deleting the posts and cleaning the media library. 30m No way to improve.
Order widgets When we publish posts in SNBCHF, we have to order the widgets. 10m No way to improve. Do not touch any more.

Only Exception: SNB

 for now keep
Feed Specifics ————- ———— ———————————— ————————-
SNB,CHF Every 3 days X X X —— Sometimes there is a German PDF or French etc. 1h/1:30h No way to improve.  Investigate PDF to HTML, Task exists
Swissmacro: SwissStatistics Depends on Swiss Releases X X X —— ——– 45m/1:15h No way to improve.
Swissmacro: Pictet Every 2 days X X  X ——– All posts are with PDF’s and graphs. 20m/1h No way to improve.  PDF to Word software can be helpful Investigate PDF to HTML, Task exists
Swissmacro: Liliane 2D X ——-  X ——- Translate from French. Always we lose time to identify the post for which category and should we publish it or not. 30m/1h No way to improve.  Only when about SNB and CHF,
(Switzerland)
–< use new FeedWPFunction
Swiss Markets

 

 1D —– —— —– Sometimes has video Deleting everything at the bottom of the post. 15m/30m No way to improve.

Blockchain, Bitcoin Keyword

  Improve with FeedWordpress
Daily FX 1D X —— X X Watermark 1:30h/2:30h

 

 No way to improve.

Delete Posts that are not in scope (politics, …)

  Software for watermarking can be introduced

 
Chandler’s Posts 2D X ——- Sometimes X Sometimes there are posts with video and great graphic. 30m No way to improve.
Swiss franc forecast currently not copied, they are urgent posts,
come too late		  Change cat to FX
Seeking Alpha Last post since 15 September 2017 X —— X —— ——- 10m No way to improve.
Gold 2D X —— X —— Broken images, loading them manually

Question:

Which feed exactly has broken images?

Answer:

  • Acting Man
  • GoldCore rarely
 45m/1:30h No way to improve. Fix the broken images
Global Macro 1D X —— X —— Adding book at the bottom of the post. Looking for countries in content and title. Changing category if needed. 30m/1:30h No way to improve.  Software for tagging
Debt 3D X —— X X This is Acting Man:

Half of the pictures are broken and should load them manually, also there are a lot of videos in some posts.

 45m/1:30h We can improve, if we stop making posts without loaded pictures. Stop posts with broken pictures!
Bawerk Last post since 04 January 2017 No New posts.
Zerohedge There is some sort of problem with their tags and our RSS Grabber does not work properly.
———————-

= 8H 30

without special posts
Categories Frequency TinyTable Convert from PDF More than
2 images
 Copy from
HTML		 Special Tasks Total Time for Task per Day
Special Posts
Swiss Trade Balance 1M X —— X ——- Translate from French. English words in graphs. Editing images from PDF, taking graph and editing from Investing.com. 1h/1:30h No way to improve. Change to 3M Frequency.
Swiss Retail Sales 1M X X X —— Coping content from PDF, taking graph and editing from Investing.com 30m No way to improve.  Software and automatize
Swiss Gross Domestic Product 1M X X X —— Coping content and images from PDF, taking graph and editing from Investing.com 1h No way to improve.
Swiss Real Estate Bubble Index 3M X X X —— Coping content and images from PDF. 45m No way to improve.  Software and automatize
Swiss Consumer Price Index 1M X X X —— Coping content and images from PDF, taking graph and editing from Investing.com 30m No way to improve.   Software and automatize
Swiss Unemployment 1M X X X ——- Coping content and images from PDF, taking graph and editing from Investing.com 45m No way to improve.   Software and automatize
Swiss SECO Economic Forecast
KOF Economic Barometer 1M X —— X —— Coping the post from kof.ethz. 30m No way to improve.
UBS Consumption Indicator
SNB Results 3M X X X ——- Calculations. 2:30h/3h No way to improve. —
Swiss Balance 3M X X X —– PDF, editing images, calculating changes in percents. 1:30h No way to improve.
Sight Deposit 7D X X —- —— Changing URL with today’s date, so we can see the newest report.

Coping new content to our 2 tables.

Calculating.

 1h No way to improve.

 

 

About SNBCHF Regular

 

Details

 

 

Explanation

Video and pics

SNBCHF Board

Link to Board

SNBCHF Regular Board Time

SNBCHF Regular Time

Video Link to Trello

Trello Summary: Empty

Work Effort

Trello

This was not the right way

Problems:

Too many hours,duplication in feed and other tasks

not realistic.

Not Realistic Time

.

Row for effort in feeds

Effort for each feed

Effort for each feed
D42 Effort for each feed

.

 

Effort Not Doing Anymore

Effort Not Doing Anymore
D42 Effort Not Doing Anymore

.

Reduction of Effort

  • no special posts, asks before, Example :Trade Balance only every 3 months
  • Swiss Statics: Retail Sales only every 3 months
  • no posts with broken images
  • 5 posts per day in newsletter (instead 6 posts)
  • Keep advertising for Gold Posts (image in the middle)
  • FX Daily, not additional graphs, only the ones Chandler speaks about
  • Additional graphs: Example, Italy, Spain,…

Maintain, no change

  • Sight Deposts

Activities

Make Tiny Table

Feeds: Nearly all feeds (except Swiss Markets)

 

Potential Improvement:

Create tiny tables automatically.

Copy from PDF

Problems: Text adjustment, Images

 

 Learn how to copy paste more quickly.
Image Elevator + Rename image.

Prepare Newsletter

Problems: Number

 Find quicker solution.
Like

Categories

Assign Categories

 Make Categories easier:
Only 6 categories
Feeds go directly into the category

Media Title

Time Consuming? Adding Years

Tags

 Let George do this now.

Confluence

 Replace Confluence by Posts Overview

DailyFX

 Sell to Dukascopy, or similar

 

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