These 7 clever gadgets will help you keep track of your valuables. 1 December '13, 09:30pm Follow It always seems like you’re losing your wallet or keys, right? Technology finally has a solution for that. One of the latest crowdfunding trends is small devices that are for affixing to valuable items that are likely to be lost such as your laptop, car keys or wallet to help you locate them when lost. The idea is that you attach something to whatever is important to you — such as a handbag or your keys — and register the object with an application on your phone using Bluetooth. Once registered, whenever you open the app (or go out of range of the object) you’ll be able to track where it was and receive an alert with the last known location.
There are lots of different ways to do that tracking and different form factors of the device so we’ve rounded the latest up for you to make an easier decision. A Wonderful Visual Outlining The 7 Steps of Good Storytelling. One of the wonderful things about this learning space (I mean this blog) is that it is built collaboratively around a shared interest. This is what James Paul Gee called 'passionate affinity learning' . "Passionate-affinity learning occurs when people organize themselves in the real world and/or via the Internet (or a virtual world) to learn something connected to a shared endeavour, interest, or passion.
The people have an affinity (attraction) to the shared endeavour, interest, or passion first and foremost and then to others because of their shared affinity ( P. 69 from "Language and Learning in The Digital Age "). And as much as you learn from things I share here with you I also get to learn a great deal from you. I receive tons of emails of edttech resources, app suggestions, related articles...etc and I must admit that hasn't it been for your help, the content of this blog would not have been as rich and diverse as it is now. 3D models | prototypes & small batch series | service | metal casting | voxeljet SERVICES. Graph Viz 101: Perceptual support of visualization - Linkurious. See Graph Databases Easily. We are launching Graph Viz 101, a series of posts to teach the basics of graph visualization, written by Sébastien Heymann in collaboration with Bénédicte Le Grand of Université de Paris 1.
This is our second post, please discuss it below! Information visualization has been used to support social network analysis since the 1930s with the “sociogram” of J. Moreno (Moreno 1937), which is a graphic representation of social ties among a group of people. Despite the early beginning of network visuals, we had to wait until the 1990s and the democratization of computer graphics to see the development of interactive visualization software, which has made the interactive exploration of complex networks possible.
More generally, Information Visualization is a way to reveal data properties which would not be trivially detected otherwise, to shed light on breakthroughs, and to share the poignant experience of “Aha, I see!” However selecting visual features to convey information is not trivial. Make Your LinkedIn Profile Irresistible. Actualités - Expertiseurs du Crédit - Détecteur de failles des crédits immobiliers. An Interesting Visual Guide to What Colours Communicate. Tell me the colour you like and I tell you who you are. This is a metaphorical expression that shows how revealing your colour choice can be about your over all personality.
And just as much as we differ in the our tastes, likes, and dislikes, so do our colour preferences. More important is the fact that colours are associated with a certain psychological modes and emotive states. For instance , while Blue is a colour that is is associated with calmness and security, Red is an attention-grabbing colour that, if overused, can cause a negative emotional response. The visual guide below from Dustin Stout provides more explanations on the denotations of each colour. BYOD As We Know It Is Dead. Embedding a Sales Process into Your Culture | SALES MANAGEMENT. Copyright:www.decostainc.com Step 3 – Discovery During the Discovery phase, the goals are to: a) understand your customers’ priorities and challenges; b) establish a buying motive, c) create interest and d) secure an agreement to present a proposal if this is a qualified opportunity. A Sample Agenda: Introductions & Agenda ReviewBrief Credentials Overview or UpdateUnderstanding Your Current SituationDiscussion of Potential SynergiesNext Steps Sample Discovery Questions What are the top 3 challenges that you and your team face over the next 6-12 months?
Step 4 – Solution Design The goal is to translate the Discovery findings into a solution; there are 3 key elements that make up a solution: Element 1 – Translating Customer Needs Into a Solution Element 2 – Your Value Proposition – Customer Expectations Element 3 – The Competition Summary Tips Element 2 – Your Value Proposition – Customer Expectations Element 3 – The Competition Like this: Like Loading... 6 steps | Professional Outside Sales. Too often we are guilty of searching for a quick fix or a silver bullet to drive performance improvement. The reality is that quick fixes are much like fad diets whereas sustainable, profitable, high performance companies invest in a sales process, not just sales skills, then follow through with rigorous monitoring and execution of the process.
Successful organizations have everyone in the company focused on their customers; that includes production, finance, IT, logistics and all others who traditionally might not think of their role as Sales or Sales Support. Take your CIO or CFO out to meet a few key customers and see if they don’t change their approach to providing support tools to both your internal team and your customers. Integrate the sales process across your organization. Make sure that everyone’s role adds value to your customers. Keep Your Sales Process Simple A user friendly easily understood sales process is a key ingredient for maximum adoption. Step 1- Preparation. Louer son bien en direct ou le confier à un professionnel ? - Location.
La gestion locative low cost gagne du terrain - Location. C’est au moment où les transactions sont en berne que la gestion locative, une activité de fond qui dégage une marge assez confortable, retrouve tout son intérêt aux yeux des professionnels. Si l’on en croit les chiffres officiels (1), le parc locatif privé, qui compte près de 6 millions de logements se trouve presque intégralement aux mains de personnes physiques : il serait détenu par 2,4 millions de ménages, soit un peu plus de deux logements, en moyenne, par ménage bailleur. Toujours selon cette source, seuls 30 % de ces logements font l’objet d’un mandat de gestion conclu avec des professionnels de l’administration de biens. On mesure le potentiel commercial d’un tel parc pour ces derniers, qui proposent aujourd’hui des offres de plus en plus attrayantes, dans le but d’inciter les propriétaires à leur déléguer tout ou partie de la gestion.
Trois types de rémunération Un petit air de déjà-vu Le tout inclus agrémenté de prestations supplémentaires Low cost mais pas low service. 10 Ways that iPads are Transforming Retail. Andrew Yates is the head of iOS at Buffer, a smarter way to share your Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn posts. You can contact him on Twitter, where he is @ay8s. Ever since the introduction of the iPhone and iPad, people have found amazing ways to use the devices and with the arrival of iOS 7, the new iPhone devices the possibilities are only going to increase.
Apple in the past has showcased examples of its devices being used throughout the world, ranging from improving the lives of people who are blind to improving education within schools. After a recent visit to an Apple Store I found myself using the iPad Smart Signs, which show off products throughout the store. It got me thinking about how iOS can be used to improve the retail experience further. Interactive Displays Apple has been working on integrating iOS within its stores for a while. As you can see in the photo above, the static displays are very limited in what they can display and convey to the customers. Taking Payments J.C. Can’t code but want an app? Infinite Monkeys is now the world’s largest DIY app publisher. 11 September '13, 07:32am Follow Developers are highly-sought after in today’s app-centric world, but increasingly there are other options for businesses or individuals who want to design an app themselves.
One service catering to that desire, Singapore-headquartered Infinite Monkeys, just became a very significant force today after buying (larger) rival AppMakr in an undisclosed deal. The move makes Infinite Monkeys the world’s largest DIY app publisher, co-founder and CEO Jay Shapiro tells TNW, and therefore a service worth investigating for anyone considering self-published apps. Infinite Monkeys claims a new app can be created in just 20 minutes, using a drag-and-drop system that is also favored by AppMakr.
Shapiro says AppMakr’s free-plan customers will remain supported, while users of its $79 per month ad-free service will get a free two-month upgrade to Infinite Monkeys’ paid service tiers — which are priced upwards of $9 per month. ➤ Infinite Monkeys | AppMakr. Home Automation. You'll Never Look At Airplanes The Same After This Film. The Wright Brothers did extensive testing on the mechanics of flight in the early 1900s, trying to figure out how a machine could create enough lift to sustain flight, and how it would react in the air. After testing pieces of wood in a rudimentary wind tunnel, the Wrights designed a machine which they believed could stay in the air for at least a few seconds.
Thus, in 1903, the Wrights took their machine to the windiest place in the United States, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina...knowing full well that only with the help of strong winds would their machine have any chance of sustaining flight. There was also two more problems. Their machine was too heavy for its own good, and the engine too weak. Therefore, it could not takeoff on its own means, and had to rely on a catapult to propel it into the air. Then once airborne, the pilot would only be take for a ride, because the Wrights also did not know how to manipulate the controls of an aircraft once airborne. 6 home automation companies merge into 1 super company for the super rich.
Six home technology companies are merging to form one supercompany that caters to the superrich. Dubbed VIA International, it will provide a premium home automation experience to people with a lot of money to spend on their protecting their homes. Cyber Sound, DSI Entertainment, Engineered Environments, Paragon Technology, S3 Aurant, and Studio AV are becoming a full-service home-technology provider with distribution across the country, or at least where “ultrahigh net worth clients” live. Before the merger, the companies were based in regions across the Western United States: Colorado, Utah, Northern and Southern California, Arizona, and Montana.
They build and install systems for home movie theaters, speaker systems, lighting control, security, and energy management. “The merger of leading home technology integrators to form VIA International will transform the entire residential systems industry,” Randy Stearns, the CEO and founding partner of VIA International said in a statement.
The greatest mystery of the Inca Empire was its strange economy. IT Governance is Killing Innovation - Andrew Horne and Brian Foster. By Andrew Horne and Brian Foster | 10:00 AM August 22, 2013 Recent CEB research shows that work has become much more interdependent — employees increasingly need to tap a broader array of internal and external colleagues and partners to be successful in their jobs. The emergence of this new work environment has significant implications for how IT should enable business growth and, more specifically, for the kinds of investments IT should be making to support employees. Unfortunately, when it comes to IT’s ability to allocate investments in response to the new work environment, traditional governance processes prove grossly outdated.
Some of the key challenges: Companies don’t identify the very best ideas for investment because most capital allocation processes start with business partners’ existing ideas about projects to fund. As we’ve noted in our previous blog, senior business partners might not be that knowledgeable about what actually drives productivity on the front lines. Yes, Managing IT Is Your Job - Brad Power. By Brad Power | 12:00 PM August 21, 2013 In order to see the future more clearly, it’s almost always helpful to look back — and this certainly goes for IT and its ever-increasing impact on operations, and ultimately on competitive advantage.
“Information Technology Changes the Way You Compete” was a trailblazing HBR article by Warren McFarlan back in the early 1980s. It told how American Airlines and others had introduced systems to help their customers choose their products and services. These “channel” systems helped steer business to American Airlines. Their strategic use of information technology (IT) presaged the dot.com boom of the 1990s when the Internet made this kind of online ordering commonplace. Similar waves of innovative applications of technology (e.g., ERP systems, RFID, knowledge management, business intelligence) have washed over organizations. Yet with each wave, the criticality of IT to basic operations and delivery of service to customers continues to escalate. 1: Failure by Design | Infographic: 8 Of History's Biggest Design Failures. Frank Lloyd Wright famously observed that "A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.”
And that was long before the Internet stripped strategically placed foliage from its already limited power to cover tracks. Wright’s black witticism aside, an architect’s mistakes could prove far more consequential than matters of landscaping. After all, if a building fails and collapses, that can cost lives. Ideally though (as long as you’re not the architect), such mistakes can be thought of as “learning experiences.” Or that’s how the NewSchool of Architecture and Design looks at the issue. Their “Failure by Design” infographic charts major architectural blunders through the ages and extracts the lessons each one taught the architects--or more accurately, the builders. The narrative begins in AD 27 with the collapse of the Fidenae Amphitheater wood substructure, brought on by--what else? Kibardindesign.
The White & White Clock designed by Vadim Kibardin is a modern 3D interpretation of the traditional digital clock. Digital wall/desk white LED clock with white frame digits. Nothing else, simply time. White & White Clock is a clock with an alarm and time display mode 24 hour. In dark hours the light sensitive sensor changes the brightness of the digits to a less intense white. The power supply is conducted through a general mains-operated adaptor that suits any kinds of sockets. A publication of the Black & White clock design preceded the appearance of the White & White clock. During the working process the ideal technical and constructive solutions were found. 10 Mysterious Artifacts That Are Allegedly Alien. Selective Home Automation Consoles - The WigWag System is Expandable, Sophisticated and Simple. Ten Questions to Ask in an Interview to Get Hired. 20 Parallax iOS 7 Wallpapers Ready to Download. 40 Maps That Will Help You Make Sense of the World.
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