Philip Copeland won copy of Michael Linenberger’s book Total Workday Control and an interactive training CD.
Send me an email, Philip, with your address and I’ll get the book and the CD (when I get the CD from Michael) out to you.
Eric Mack will be doing a podcast about his paperless challenge and is looking for a co-host.
Eric is also looking for questions that people might have about going paperless. Head on over to his blog .
Pete Wright is running a great series on installing Vista. A must read if you are interested in taking the plunge.
His next step – the LE1600 Tablet PC
Symbility Solutions Inc. (http://www.symbilitysolutions.com), a wholly owned subsidiary of Automated Benefits Corp. (TSX VENTURE: AUT – News), will join Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, and Sprint to promote wireless communications in demonstrating mobile applications for insurance executives and analysts at the Insurance Mobility Tour, a three-city event kicking off in Chicago on January 31, 2006.
The tour will feature a panel of industry experts discussing the timely issues of mobility in today’s insurance industry. Specific sessions will deal with the challenges of implementing the latest technologies now, as well as the vision for these platforms in the future. After the presentation in Chicago, where the Tour makes its first stop at the Palmer House Hotel, the series will head to New York City at the Marriott Marquis on February 13 and it will conclude in Boston at the Tremont Courtyard by Marriott on April 14.
“This Tour represents a fantastic opportunity to reach a wider audience in the insurance space and explain the immense values associated with mobile applications,” said James Swayze, CEO of Symbility. “Symbility is constantly looking for the most progressive ways to use mobile technology to benefit the insurance industry and its consumers.”
Symbility recently signed on for the Microsoft Insurance Value Chain (IVC) partner program, which allows the company to avail itself of Microsoft’s sales and support forces, as well as a greater level of integration with Windows software as it continues to evolve. In addition to joining the Microsoft IVC partner program, Symbility Solutions is also a member of the Microsoft’s Mobility Partner Advisory Council (MPAC), Microsoft Tablet PC Partner Program and continues to work closely with Microsoft’s Mobile and Embedded Devices Division.
The Student Tablet PC now features a tip of the day that you can subscribe to via RSS or by simply visiting their website. Great idea, Tracy. subscribed. Whether you are a student or not, we can all benefit from those tips.
Subscribe by visiting the link above and then add the Tip of the Day RSS to your news aggregator.
I linked to Jake’s blog last week regarding his Fujitsu P1510D. Until today, I didn’t realize what a tremendous amount of helpful tips Jake’s site had until I started really looking about. I’ve already found a couple of really helpful tips that used to have me stumped. Check it out…
Some highlights:
For those of you who have a Cingular Aircard, you might find this one interesting. Although I’m on the Verizon network, I’ve found that when I sit next to a window, it helps connectivity a whole lot. His post also contains some good, general broadband connectivity tips.
One of the things I’ve really appreciated about Robert Scoble’s blog is when he posts about how he involves his son, Patrick, in his work life. Granted, he doesn’t bring him to work everyday, but when he is out and about, meeting folks, etc, his son is right there with him. He is actively involving Patrick in the technology world, broadening his world, and letting him find his own way.
Now, Robert’s world is a little different than the normal person (ie – you and I), but there is something there that we all can learn – involve your kids in your world. As mobile professionals, we are all over the place. We go to customer sites, trade shows, we meet with people who are impacting the world and making decisions regarding the technology that ultimately ends up in our homes and businesses. By including our kids in our work world, they are making good contacts, they learn how to properly behave in meetings, they are seeing technology at work, and they are gaining an insight that most kids won’t get until they get out of college. Now here is the real gain – it gives you and your kids something to talk about. “Say, Dad, were you able to fix that problem we were working on a ABC company? How did you fix it?”
Practically, how can you and I do this? Take your kid to a customer site and let him sit with you while you work. Explain to him what you are doing and why. Allow him (with your customer’s permission) to sit in on your meetings. When going to a conference, check in to minimum age requirements and take one of your kids along. Walk the trade show floor together, sit in on tech talks, etc. When the day is over, take him to dinner with your friends. What better way to train up your child in the business world!
In my opinion, I think your child needs to be at least 11 or 12.
Dax is already asking me to take him to CES next year. I need to find out the age issues, but I’m going to work hard to find a way. I have an NDA meeting next month in Redmond that I can’t take him to, but if it were not NDA and it were ok to bring him, I’d bring him in a heartbeat.
In the 1800’s, farmers involved their kids in all aspects of the work – they had to for labor purposes and it was the way they trained their kids to take over the farm. What is so different today that we can’t we cannot do the same.
Post your biggest struggle with Outlook in terms of productivity. I’ll pick a random winner and award Michael Linenberger Total WorkDay Control book and a training CD that Michael only has available for folks who order the book from his website.
I’ve not seen the training cd’s yet, but knowing Michael’s indepth work on the book, I can assume that they will be an excellent resource.
Want to know my biggest struggle? Not spreading the sync process too thin across multiple applications. I want to the use task and calendar data in multiple apps (onenote, mindmanager, etc), but I find the process of keeping the sync process up to date and active pretty painful. I find that I’m the most successful if I limit the spread of tasks, appointments, etc to only 1 outside application (not counting my pda).
