I was asked recently by someone how do I generate ideas for the articles I write for TechRepublic and other sites. Since my layoff in September 2012, I’ve been a full time freelance writer generating story ideas that interest my editors is of utmost importance. read more
The last six months since my layoff has been a flurry of freelance work especially article writing. Moving from the glacial drift speed of a federal government contract back to freelance writing meant I had to get organized quickly. It was back to living by my ideas again.
One of the first things I did was get reorganized quickly and came to rely on the following apps:
Through the Apple Recycling Program, I was able to accumulate enough Apple Gift Cards to purchase an iPad Mini. While I am quite happy with my third generation iPad, I thought having an iPad Mini in house could be helpful with my CNET TechRepublic.com and The Mobility Hub writing. At least, that was the excuse I told myself.
Here are my initial thoughts about the device:
The combination of Evernote and the iPad is a powerful note taking combination. While the Evernote iPad app is maturing nicely, the Evernote Trunk has some even more powerful note taking apps that use Evernote as their backend. If you frequently take notes and find the performance of the Evernote app underwhelming at times it is time to look at some third party apps that can help raise the bar for Evernote note taking.
The third party apps I profile in this post all require some minor upfront configuration so they can talk to your Evernote account but beyond that, you can fire off notes from them into Evernote at will.
Takeaway: Will Kelly reviews Projectbook, a new iPad productivity app that combines note taking and to-do lists.
Projectbook is a new iPad productivity app that combines note taking and task management. Theory IO Corporation is betting that iPad users will spend $6.99 (USD) for a powerful organization tool that isn’t dependent on a Wi-Fi connection. After all, spotty Wi-Fi or cell signals make it hard to retrieve documents and other bits of information in the cloud.
Let’s take a closer look at Projectbook, which I’ve been testing for a few weeks now.
via iPad native productivity with Projectbook | TechRepublic.
The Productivity Phase is where organizations start to see a Return on Investment from the Rollout and Capture & Discovery Phases. Now that the launch of SharePoint My Sites and other social tools is complete and user training has occurred, the Productivity Phase is where user engagement and self-sufficiency begins. The value of social tools really takes off during this phase as the business processes and communications take flight on their new channels.
Publishing Visio drawings (*.vdw files) to SharePoint 2010 using Visio Services is one of the best things to come out of SharePoint 2010. I’ve dealt with large scale Visio drawing libraries on past contracts and know firsthand how cumbersome it can be to share Visio drawings with other people who don’t have access to Visio on their PC. Besides, Visio Services are another tool to democratize project management data because accessing Visio drawings via Web browser is a much friendlier than through Adobe Acrobat much less the Visio application itself.
Visio Services can also refresh the data and recalculate the visuals of a Visio drawings hosted on a Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 site refresh connections to various data sources and to update affected data graphics and text fields.
Takeaway: The iOS calendar is a useful app, but Agenda Calendar is a great low-cost alternative that offers greater control over the presentation and accessibility of your calendar data. Will Kelly explains.
As it goes with many of the apps in an operating system, you may need more features or grow tired with the user interface. That is the point I reached with the iOS calendar on my iPhone. I went to Agenda Calendar as a substitute, because it has a minimal design, a great user experience, and more configuration options.Let’s take a look at Agenda Calendar 3.0, which includes some speed and UI improvements. You can download Agenda Calendar from the App Store for $0.99 USD.
via Replace your iPhone calendar with Agenda Calendar | TechRepublic.
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.
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