Device agnostic. I like it.
Review would be really appreciated!
Tag Archives: Tools
Fast as saying “WiPhone”
http://wiphone.tiscali.it/servizi/
The phone as a service enabler. Your phone. The device you already have in your pocket. The handset someone else sold you (to make money with it).
You take it, you empower it with a client.
And you shift to another service usage, which turns, modifies upside down and inside out your service.
Ok ok ok …not that easy, wi-fi ….yes I know we are in Italy…yes of course you have to pay…I understand.
But for some users (with specific needs) it’s a sort of revolution and saving at no cost.
Would you still call it “reading”?
Google Books.
To read or (pre)view?
Neither Office nor Openoffice
Live Free Webinar coming soon to learn more about it.
17 minutes
…to enter the twitter “text” universe.
Cool.
Now let’s start the counter to find out a first idea to improve.
How difficult is improving: Google Square it vs. Microsoft Bing
I already wrote about the importance of search tools and news sniffers for consultants living on the edge of technology.
Two bigs are going to fight with their brand new upcoming tools: Google Square it and Microsoft Bing.
Google Square it is an experimental version of a search tool able to organize the search outcome as a spreadsheet collection, somehow supposed to be more effective. Users can customize the columns of the spreadsheet that reflects key words or categories of the search.
Microsoft Bing looks like a “google like” evolution (?) of microsoft search engine.
I’ve used Google to find out Bing url, needless to say.
Where conversations are going
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_UyVmITiYQ
Google Wave, its potential, the idea behind.
Be always aware of what is going on in the world of technology you don’t use today but must be ready to use tomorrow.
Yet another xls/ppt/zip attached? No thanks
The Giants (the way I call “huge” clients with structured organizations) usually have a huge amount of internal sw utilities and tools.
Web pages you can customize, teamrooms for sharing docs, customized planning tool, special tools for making presentations, even blog hosts you can use.
I noticed most of them are often unknown, misused, almost ignored by client’s teams. They probably paid for them some good consulting company who gave their best to leave a sign, so they can often be very innovative.
Learning how to make the most of them can be a real plus, keeps you insight and gives you tips for proposal when moving to a new client project.
What are you waiting for then? Skip out us the usual “excel attached mail” and Go find them!
Smart browsing
As a consultant, you are supposed to be an extremely efficient web surfer. As long as you meet useful info sources, technical web sites and blogs matching your project needs you keep collecting them adding to your preferences. This will soon turn into a looooong list of links it’s hard to deal with.
I would strongly recommend consultants to use web tools for this. Google Reader, i.e., is quite a smart and fast tool. del.icio.us is useful either. RSS feed updates to you rather then requiring you to do something. Time is money mate, and your notebook is the thing you mostly relate with all day long. Why not getting the most from your browser?
Reduce waste of time, repeat it as a mantra….
