With the growing popularity of laptops, tablet PCs, and PDA's, more and more people are adopting some form of electronic calendar system. A large number people, however, prefer the familiarity of a paper planner - and who could blame them? Although electronic calendars offer many benefits in terms of efficiency,...
With desktops, laptops, PDAs and mobile phones, our communication systems have become fragmented. David Leach, senior public consultant for Siemens Enterprise Networks, explains how unified communications integrates these existing tools and devices into a single platform.
A googling of GTD Getting Things Done and the word "cult" returns 143,000 Web pages. But for all this discussion of whether GTD and its devoted following constitute a cult, the idea seems pretty counterintuitive. What immediately differentiates GTD from a cult is that there isn't much in the way of...
Two years ago, it was suggested to me that I submit the stacks and stacks of tattered yellow and white legal pads that had served as my social calendar for the better part of five years to be part of an exhibit called Instant Messaging: An exhibition of the debris...
What's the worst part of your workday? Is it your job or all the work you do just getting to and from the office? Consider how much time you spend on packing your lunch, sitting in rush hour twice a day, deciding which grocery store is easiest to get to...
As PDAs have gotten smarter and stronger, some road warriors have stopped taking laptops with them on short business trips. After all, you can stow PowerPoint presentations, surf the web, and edit documents on your PDA without having to deal with the bulkiness of a computer. Among the cons of...
Unless you've got a PDA that can surf the real internet (say, an overpriced iPhone), you're probably used to the phenomenon of typing in a url and getting back an unreadable page filled with scripts and gibberish. But many sites are now offering stripped-down mobile versions of themselves that leave...
In a perfect world, when you call a meeting, everyone shows up on time, comes prepared, is not distracted by their PDA or laptop, and stays alert and engaged. But it's not a perfect world. BNET talks to Bert Decker a communications expert, best selling author and entrepreneur, to find...
Today is tax day (for those of us who file quarterly, anyway), which reminds me how important it is to keep good records in case the taxman cometh for an audit. For example, if you deduct your mileage, it's critical to have a log that meets IRS standards--meaning it includes...
In a perfect world, when you call a meeting, everyone shows up on time, comes prepared, is not distracted by their PDA or laptop, and stays alert and engaged. But it’s not a perfect world. BNET talks to Bert Decker a communications expert, best selling author and entrepreneur, to find...
With his popular seminar lectures and cult-like following, productivity expert David Allen has become an influential force in the Information Age workplace. Why He Matters Now: Since publishing his best-selling book Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity in 2001, David Allen has...
I accompanied Seth Levine, one of the Mobius guys I'm working with, to a Mobius VC portfolio company board meeting today. I always gobble up any opportunity to spend time with Seth, not just because he's taught me by example everything I know about fashion and style, but mainly because...
In contemporary times, instant communication is considered standard. Americans have come to expect access to information immediately - via cell phones, personal digital assistants, and other time-saving technological devices. That instant communication is never more important than when a critical incident occurs in the author's public schools. Disasters such 9/11...
The deployment of wireless mobile devices - including Personal Digital Assistants PDAs such as Palmtops and BlackBerrys, cell phones, smartphones, and laptops - is growing faster than the Internet. There are specific information security issues that users of wireless mobile devices need to deal with, partly technological but primarily human:...
With business in China skyrocketing, logistics leader China Railway Express CRE is becoming more customer-focused and using mobile computing solutions to streamline document management and warehouse operations. Boost operations and efficiency of staff at headquarters and warehouses in order to provide better services to customers. Revamp warehouse work processes to...
The adoption of mobile devices like PDAs and Smart Phones within the enterprise has resulted in a paradigm shift in productivity because of the way in which business professionals can remain as productive outside the office as they are within the office. Undoubtedly, the mobilizing of employees, applications and information...
Fourteen initial teacher training students studying to become science teachers have been given internet enabled Personal Digital Assistants PDAs in a pilot study to assess whether PDAs have the potential to support them in their own teaching and learning, and in their role as trainee teachers. Initial use of the...
This paper describes the real-time scorecard or dashboard reporting accelerates the time in which business decisions can be made and increases the probability of Key Performance Indicators KPI attainment. With the conveniences offered by technology today, such data can be displayed on managers? computer screens, Personal Digital Assistants (PDA's) and...
Traveling for business is no picnic. Lack of sleep, poor diet and no exercise coupled with long treks to the airport and even longer waits in security lines take the pleasure out of any trip. Some experts say all this stress cuts into the productivity of the businessman on the...
The commercial development and expansion of mobile phone networks has led to the creation of devices combining mobile phones and personal digital assistants, which could prove invaluable in a clinical setting. This study aimed to look at how one such device compared with the current pager system in facilitating inter-professional...
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