Even our gracefully fast cellular internet connections in Japan still present one significant roadblock to accessing data through web-based applications: No network – No productivity.
Can a web-app ever replace a native smartphone app? Not likely without significant enhancements in cellular and Wi-Fi infrastructure.
Take Google Apps for example. We all know that Google is a heavy pusher of their web-based applications. With tools like Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar and that OS-killing Chrome, Google in fact does a great job rolling out it’s web app offerings.
Unfortunately though, Google has a hard time pushing the majority of its web apps without a continuously live internet connection.
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Have you been at a job where you admired a successful IT colleague of yours? Someone you were amazed by? Maybe even blown away by their level of proficiency?
Did that person seem to complete work effortlessly? Were they ultra-productive in the work environment?
Could you accept this person into your personal realm? Or did you feel threatened? Were you ready to develop this new relationship or did you quickly throw up your defenses?
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One of the most hotly contested areas of development these days is task management. Even though there are a myriad of web and desktop applications available there is no clear winner, especially with the proliferation of mobile computing. Just one moment of browsing the “productivity” category in the iTunes App Store will confirm such. So how do you decide which route to take?
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Being addicted to Google and Apple products is not always the easiest fetish to fulfill. Although both companies are close business partners in some respects, their products do not always interoperate to the degree consumers desire.
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The term was ‘nesting’. In response to a planned move of office furniture to facilitate better staff communication, one staffer complained, ‘I’ll have nowhere to nest.’
Rachel Metz, AP Technology Writer, reports that at AOL’s New York headquarters, executive nesting is over. Tim Armstrong, AOL’s newly installed CEO, dropped the hammer on a legacy floor-plan that may well have been rooted in AOL’s days of old as a dial-up ISP.
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It is always a shame when IT projects fail because of a lack of the ‘7 P‘s.’
Positive Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance are words to live by. You can use them in just about every aspect of your life, but we’ll focus here on how they apply to IT projects.
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In most media organizations, content producing staff maintain something called a ‘story budget.’ It’s a running tab of ideas that allows you to document and track content being prepped for your publishing pipeline.
Like major media organizations, blogs too can put a good story budget to use in organizing posts. Whether you’ve prepared eight paragraphs for an upcoming story or just have fleeting thoughts for your next 20 stories, a story budget can help put it all in order for you.
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The most obvious aspect of a successful blog is exceptional, timely, relevant content. Your readers visit your blog or read your RSS feed because they are interested in the quality articles you post on a presumably regular basis. However, content production is not the only feature of a successful blog, especially when a team of writers is generating the blog content. One of the often under looked yet essential facets of team blogging is communication. Failure for the team to effectively and regularly communicate can lead to the destruction of a thriving venture.
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‘Things’ naturally just feed off each other. Butterflies and hurricanes, housing markets and recession, US economy and the world economy. There are no two systems on our globe that maintain complete independence of each other.
Whether they work together smoothly or grind gears is worthy of debate.
It’s a butterfly effect and it applies to businesses and their systems as well as it does to butterflies and hurricanes. No two business towers operate without affecting the other — finance and marketing — manufacturing and advertising — all are intertwined at some [if not many] x-y point in a process. In reality, business is chaos.
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One of the hardest things new bloggers have trouble with is finding their blogging voice – that is, how a post “sounds” to the readers and ensuring it accurately portrays who you are. After all, you are an interesting person with motivating experiences which will help enrich your readers’ lives. So not only is finding your voice tricky, it is the chief ingredient for a successful blog.
Until you find your voice you are going to find yourself playing around with the wording and phrasing of your posts, perhaps spending considerable more time tweaking the way your posts sound rather than focusing on the truly important aspect of blogging – just writing. In fact, your early blogging efforts may find your voice sounding bland, too robotic, too much like Tom Brokaw on the evening news or even worse; you may have no voice whatsoever.
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