My latest post is now online over on Tablets in the Enterprise.
Tablets are gaining a strong reputation as sales tools across multiple industries, which is getting the attention of sales teams who want their company to outfit them with tablets. Sales teams are ideal candidates for tablets, but organizations need to build them out as a sales productivity tool
via Seven tips for outfitting your sales team with tablets | TechRepublic.
I wrote another post for LifeHack.org:
Back in the day, we all reviewed and edited documents with a red pen, highlighter, and sticky notes. Then came track changes and comments in MS Word or maybe you used the Review tools in Adobe Acrobat to annotate comments and edits on a PDF while sitting at your PC or Mac. Now we can use an iPad and iAnnotate PDF, a powerful alternative to GoodReader. The document reviewing process has gone from paper to PC and now to iPad without missing a beat.
If you work with documents, you are probably awash in Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) files, so one of the first apps to install on your iPad is a good PDF Reader. The list of Adobe Reader apps for the iPad is ever growing.
Even better news is that Retina Display support is dropping on some of the readers I profile in this post making the iPad even more attractive for reading PDFs. App developers are also using the latest iPad’s launch to crush bugs and tighten up user interfaces which only adds to the good news.
While you can read PDFs through iBooks, there are many great (even business class) options available for viewing and even annotating PDFs on your iPad including:
My Thyroid — actually the subsequent Thyroidectomy I had in October 2010 — has been perhaps the most prolific productivity teacher in my life thus far. The farther I get away from the surgery the more I’ve come to realize the productivity lessons from the whole thing.
I had to bring many things to a cold hard stop and then turn things back on in my life switch by switch like bringing up a server farm or a data center. Ultimately, I am realizing the benefits and seeing how it has been a catalyst for positive change.
Here are the five productivity lessons my Thyroid taught me:
While Microsoft Word Track Changes and Comments are well known document review tools for editors and reviewers, Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 also has its own set of review tools you can use when you’re reviewing the next big client presentation. Like it or not, a lot of the civilized business world runs on PowerPoint presentations making it in everybody’s best interest to get reviewers using electronic review tools to review PowerPoint slides.
In this post, let’s take a look at those review tools:
Take Control of Screen Sharing in Lion by Glenn Fleishman from TidBITS Publishing, Inc is a comprehensive book about the technology and art of Screen Sharing in OSX Lion. It’s the book to read if you want to learn the ropes of screen sharing in OSX Lion.
Fleishman leads readers through the basics of screen sharing through screen sharing with iChat (good coverage just too bad iChat is going away); sharing via BonJour; sharing via direct network connection; sharing via Back to My Mac; and sharing via Skype. The steps are all very detailed in each section. However, I would have liked the book to be a bit more generous with screen captures for the more novice Mac users reading this book.
One you get started with OneNote 2010 it can be hard to stop finding uses for it especially if you work in a writing and research heavy job like the one I do as a technical writer. This is why I always recommend getting a flexible organizational schema in place when you first start using the application. Tagging in OneNote enables you to put key terms on your OneNote pages that can help you better search for OneNote content.
There is more to sharing Word documents than the ancient tradition of attaching them to an Outlook email. Now Word 2010 makes it easy to share your Word documents over the web or SharePoint without you having to leave the application and creating too many steps between your documents and their recipients
Click File. The BackStage View appears. Click Save & Send to access Save & Send options. Here is a breakdown of options that are available:
In Getting Started with OneNote: Part 1, I focused on how to get yourself started in OneNote 2010. Now that you have notebooks setup, it’s time to get your information into OneNote. While this is going to be an ongoing task for many OneNote users, expect some setup time if you are moving your information into OneNote for the first time.
OneNote offers some flexible options for getting your information into its pages and note books. Here are some options for getting your information into OneNote 2010. read more
One of the technologies I’ve been waiting to advance more into the mainstream is electronic signatures. While I have a smooth process down to print out contracts and other documents that need my signature and then scan them into PDFs with my Fujitsu ScanSnap scanner, I would still like to whittle down the signatory process even further. Now that EchoSign, an electronic signature solution is an Adobe acquisition, I decided to reopen my research into electronic signature options.
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