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List of Google products on Wikipedia

Google have a long list of products worth considering.

A comprehensive list of all Google products including all major desktop, mobile and online products released or acquired by Google Inc is best view on Wikipedia.

Have a look at a List of Google products – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

CamStudio and YouTube

The good stuff always lasts.

Have a look at http://www.julyan.biz/camstudio-and-youtube-all-free/ which, although written in 2009, is still one of the easiest (and cheapest) ways to communicate with clients and staff.

Have fun

Gavin

Mentoring and Coaching

Our clients often find it necessary to have access to an objective ear that can offer advice on a particular project, computer model or pending decision.

Our mentoring and coaching is done telephonically and after working hours. This fact makes this service both cost effective and efficient.

Visit our Mentoring and Coaching page on our website.

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Gavin

Capture Data on your Cellphone

This is starting to make sense, and I’m sure pricing will improve.

This is definitely something that can be used by people who are often away from the office.

Have a look at http://www.devicemagic.com where they say they can -

  • Remove paperwork and inefficiencies
  • Improve data quality
  • Get real-time access to data from the field
  • Get up and running in minutes, not weeks
  • No programming required

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Gavin

A Better level of Reporting

I have long been a fan of the work done by Hans Rosling. A man who understands the meaning of data and how to show it.

An example of this work can be found at http://www.gapminder.org/world where you can also download a desktop version of the software that performs the magic.

Enjoy

Gavin Julyan

Worth a Thought

Small Business Trends has an interesting article that is worth thinking about.

One of the paragraphs state – In the pre-cloud world, coordination and collaboration were big challenges in the distributed team model. Emails with attachments coupled with phone calls typically produced a “productivity tax” that made coordination time consuming and inefficient. Online tools have made it very easy to collaborate in real time, allowing everyone to literally be “on the same page”–but only if those tools are obviously helpful and easy for participants to use. If the cloud software is hard to adopt, it doesn’t matter that it is available anywhere—people will quickly default to their old way of doing things.”

Read the full article at online project management.

Free Online Videos

If you feel you need a little inspiration, have a look at my videos web page. Please give it a second or two to load if your connection is slow.

It’s nice to know that there are people in the world with opinions that matter and actions to match them.

All these videos come from my favourite site – http://www.TED.com.

Enjoy.

Gavin

Chaordix – Crowdsourcing

Chaordix makes it simple to adopt crowdsourcing for competitive advantage. We specialize in managed crowds for open innovation and social research. We create and manage online communities for co-creation, market prediction, testing and solving where we attract and moderate the crowds to arrive at innovative answers and data insight. Crowds are invited to submit, discuss, vote on, and often refine and rank contributions via the web, to efficiently identify the strongest outcomes for a business problem or need.

When you take direction from employees, customers, partners and other people passionate about what you do, you will outperform the competition.

It’s definitely worth visiting the website and seeing what they do.

OpenIDEO

After a challenge is posted at OpenIDEO.com, the three development phases – inspiration, concepting, and evaluation – are put into motion. Community members can contribute in a variety of different ways, from inspirational observations and photos, sketches of ideas, to business models and snippets of code. Sometimes this can be in the form of a comment; other times, it’s building off a previous person’s work.

People participating in OpenIDEO can provide feedback every step of the way. Between each development phase, IDEO helps shape the journey through framing the challenge, prototyping, and encouraging the conversation.

At the end, a top concept is chosen. All concepts generated are shareable, remix-able, and reusable in a similar way to ‘creative commons’. The hope is that some of these concepts will become reality outside of OpenIDEO.com

Get more space from DropBox

Here’s an easy way to get more than 2Gb of space from DropBox on their free account.

Simply go to https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5OTcwODM5 and it will all happen.

Have fun

Gavin

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