Pomodoro Technique - How to Focus. I showed up at a meeting one year ago and realized that I had four Internet-connected devices. Yes, two laptops, an iPad and an iPhone were at the ready, all beeping and buzzing in synchronization with meeting reminders and new email notifications. The craziest part was that this felt normal to me. With all of these devices constantly beeping and vibrating, it’s no wonder I was unable to get anything done without constant interruptions. I needed a new way of working. Brain Damage According to a recent New York Times article, all of this multitasking has a physical effect on our brains. But what about you? The Pomodoro Technique Rather than focusing on getting something done, why not focus on focusing? The 10-second summary: Humans are only able to focus on a task for about 25 minutes before they need a break.
Pick a task you need to accomplish.Set a timer for 25 minutes and start workingWhen the time rings, take a 5 minute breakRepeat steps 1-3Ever four cycles, take a 25 minute break. Cloud, iPad, Facebook? But what issue bugs all CIOs? | Page 2 | CIO Insights. What Paddington tells us about German v British manners. 26 May 2011Last updated at 11:14 By Stephen Evans BBC News, Berlin Paddington stories reveal a lot about this cultural difference Are Germans ruder than the British? Are Britons more dishonest than Germans? Fortunately, we don't have to rely on blind prejudice for answers.
Serious academic research has been done on both sides of the North Sea. Continue reading the main story “Start Quote 'Hallo Mrs Bird,' said Judy. End QuoteThis doesn't appear in German editions of A Bear called Paddington There are Britons in Berlin who get taken aback by the directness of Germans. So, what do the experts say on the matter? Professor Juliane House, of the University of Hamburg, has studied groups of people interacting in controlled situations, watching with academic rigour how they behave as human guinea-pigs. There is no word in German for "small talk" The German language doesn't even have an expression for "small talk", she says. In the German edition, this passage is simply cut. Blunt or direct? Steve Jobs's greatest legacy: persuading the world to pay for content | Media. Ten years is, of course, a long time in media. Ten years ago, if you wanted to download some music, your best bet was Napster or one of the filesharing systems such as LimeWire or KaZaA.
There were legal services, but they were so dire they wouldn't pass much muster today: there was PressPlay and MusicNet (from rival groups of record companies), which required $15 a month subscriptions for low-quality streaming (when most people had dialup connections, not today's broadband). You couldn't burn to CD. They were stuffed with restrictive software to prevent you sharing the songs. What happened? Steve Jobs happened, mainly. Apple sold a million in the first week of the iTunes Music Store being open (and only in the US). Nowadays Apple sells TV shows, films, books, apps, as well as music.
Content companies have been reluctant to let their products move to new formats if they aren't the inventors, or at least midwives. Gott ist tot oder Tod eines Handlungsreisenden « Redaktionsblog « Blogs. "Der Teufel kommt, er hilft uns auf, und sagt uns:Gott ist tot! The Lord ist fortGott ist tot! The Lord ist fortJawoll! Gott ist tot"(Nina Hagen Band, 1978) Auch wenn ich mir damit sicher nicht viele Freunde mache: Ich halte es nicht mehr aus. Seit Tagen ist die Medienwelt in Aufruhr. Nervtötend überbieten sich große, ansonsten renommierte Tageszeitungen, Zeitschriften und Online-Magazine unisono mit gefühlt täglich 40 Nachrufen und Lobhudeleien zum Tode eines Unternehmensgründers und zugegeben talentierten Vertrieblers aus den USA. Sogar die erste deutsche Rundfunkanstalt klinkt sich ein und vergleicht Steve Jobs mit Leonardo da Vinci.
Auch die Kernfeatures der Appleprodukte hatten meist andere erfunden, nur agierten die nicht so geschickt am Markt - und die Apfelfirma machte einfach das bessere Marketing - Jobs einzig wahre Domäne. Steve Jobs: A Few Memories. October 6, 2011 I’m so sad this evening—as millions are—to hear of Steve Jobs’s death. Scattered over the last quarter century, I learned much from Steve Jobs, and was proud to consider him a friend. And indeed, he contributed in various ways to all three of my major life projects so far: Mathematica, A New Kind of Science and Wolfram|Alpha. I first met Steve Jobs in 1987, when he was quietly building his first NeXT computer, and I was quietly building the first version of Mathematica.
A mutual friend had made the introduction, and Steve Jobs wasted no time in saying that he was planning to make the definitive computer for higher education, and he wanted Mathematica to be part of it. I don’t now remember the details of our first meeting, but at the end of it, Steve gave me his business card, which tonight I found duly still sitting in my files: Over the months after our first meeting, I had all sorts of interactions with Steve about Mathematica. Thank you, Steve, for everything. Make sure you disappoint the right people. V3 Cloud Summit: Start-ups and small businesses to drive cloud take-up. Pizza firm Domino's reveals impact of ecommerce. Wednesday, 28th September 2011, 17:24:32 Pizza firm Domino's reveals impact of ecommerce Domino's Pizza has announced that almost half of the deliveries it makes are now ordered via its ecommerce platform.
In an interim third-quarter statement, the company revealed that 46.6 per cent of sales made during the 13 weeks to September 25th were delivered to online customers. This compares with online shopping accounting for 39.7 per cent of sales at Domino's in the corresponding period of 2010. The firm's online sales for the quarter rose by 36.4 per cent from £33 million in 2010 to £45 million in 2011, with total online sales topping £130 million so far this year. Domino's said it has observed "very strong growth in mobile ordering" in recent weeks, boosted by the launch of its new app for the Apple iPad last month. "Orders taken on one of the many mobile platforms now account for 13 per cent of all ecommerce sales," the company said in the statement.
Posted by Phil Williams Related Headlines: 5 Reasons to Outsource IT Services | ITIL Training UK. Outsourcing data security - Opinion. Having recently been served a series of sharp reminders about the growing threat posed by cyber attackers, many CIOs have now turned a critical eye towards understanding their exposure to data loss. What they are finding is that much of their data actually resides, or at least flows, through a number of third party service providers that are outside of the organisation's direct control. As a result, many CIOs are now asking if their data security can be successfully and reliably outsourced and to whom? Bringing in the armed guardsBefore we can answer that, we need to look at the two different types of outsourced security.
The first is the use of third party suppliers to provide security services within the enterprise. For this type of security, outsourcing to third party specialists is often a recommended option for organisations. Many of the larger outfits also invest significantly in R&D to deliver ever-increasing levels of security to their clients. Related: