{"id":161,"date":"2009-10-13T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T20:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/?p=161"},"modified":"2009-10-13T09:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T20:05:00","slug":"making-it-work-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/making-it-work-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Making IT work for you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Warwick Grey and Corin Haines<\/i><br \/>Warwick from HP &#8211; never set out to do IT but fell into it. <\/p>\n<p>Tech trends 2009<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>netbook adoption accelerates<\/li>\n<li>built-in wireless broadband usage widens<\/li>\n<p>cell phones get more software<\/p>\n<li>unified communications increase<\/li>\n<li>online data backups proliferate<\/li>\n<li>social media becomes strategic at home and in business<\/li>\n<li>online video gets cheaper and there&#8217;s more of it<\/li>\n<li>video conference solutions expand<\/li>\n<li>hosted software applications<\/li>\n<li>online presence gap widens as more customers use online search before they buy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;My young life was in black and white and nothing was what I chose to watch.&#8221;<br \/>1970 calculator<br \/>1971 microprocessor<br \/>1974 colour television<br \/>1989 world of DOS<br \/>2008-2030 pervasive computing environment<\/p>\n<p>Instead of building infrastructure should build community<br \/>create content -> create loyalty<br \/>enable transactions -> enable self-service<br \/>capture eyeballs -> capture experts<br \/>integrating applications -> integrating channels<\/p>\n<p>Launching new fashion laptops &#8211; colours and imprinted designs<\/p>\n<p>Increasingly looking at sharing information with many people at once instead of one-on-one email, video conferencing.<\/p>\n<p>Cloud services = shared under virtualised management accessible over the internet<br \/>Social networking = staying connected with more people in more places<\/p>\n<p><u>Corin:<\/u><br \/>People marketing business on Twitter &#8211; fast growing network.<br \/>Demonstrates a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zJbgCSkT8Is\">video recorded yesterday<\/a> on a Flip camera and uploaded to YouTube<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0fO7sn9zzFo\">Demonstrates mash-up<\/a> he made of out-of-copyright music from World War I with photos National Library uploaded to Flickr Commons<\/p>\n<p><u>Warwick<\/u><br \/>Skype has been released for phones<br \/>Should be putting RSS options into news we provide<br \/>Bookmarking and sharing &#8211; even bookabach gives you 55 options to bookmark their pages<br \/>Mashup with Google Maps lets you <a href=\"http:\/\/nz.mapometer.com\/en\/\">show where you&#8217;ve run<\/a><br \/>Have a facebook site for your library!<\/p>\n<p>Touch-screens are getting big &#8211; demonstrates touch notebook moving things on screen, magnifying video, etc &#8211; &#8220;Windows 7 is like Vista without the brain cancer&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Video showing touch-screen possibilities &#8211; fingerpainting on screen, putting together a jigsaw puzzle with a moving image, put camera on touch screen and photos appear wirelessly on the screen.<\/p>\n<p>(NB I&#8217;ve left out most of the plugs for HP-specific technology \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Shows Windows Movie Maker &#8211; looks fairly similar to iMovie.<\/p>\n<p>Engage customrs where conversations\/activity is already taking place<br \/>Empower your internal advocates (HP measures who&#8217;s most positive in their twittering about HP)<br \/>Accelerate and efforts across your organisation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warwick Grey and Corin HainesWarwick from HP &#8211; never set out to do IT but fell into it. 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