What’s your agenda?
Filed under: Conversation, New Web Creations, Web services
We thought this new service from MeetingMix was a useful way to automate the subjects to be discussed at meetings.
Letting everyone know what you will be talking about and give them an opportunity to contribute to the proposed debate or business of the day will undoubtedly increase understanding and ownership of projects.
Shorter, faster more tuned in meetings must be right? Even for techies who can talk for weeks on one line of code…surely we don’t have anyone like that here?
MeetingMix lets you track time spent on agenda items, write the notes of the meeting and record the allocated action points.
If the debate wanders, you can even use the online system to ‘park’ items for future meetings.
A paid for service but at ten dollars a month, if like us you generate a lot of meetings, then MeetingMix is a good value, easy to use service. There is a free fourteen day trial offer on the website currently.
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Google Docs – 250Mb file size support
Losing your files and data can be disastrous. We recommend always having multiple back-ups or file stores active to make sure your precious data is not lost.
Cleaving to the old axiom that data does not exist until it is stored in two places (at least) is a great way to avoid disaster.
Google Docs now supports files of up to 250 megabyte in size. You can store your documents remotely on Google servers, and if you are a subscriber to Google Apps Premier Edition, you can upload multiple files and sync them to your desktop too.
You can read the roll out blog message from Google here.
You can of course use the Mozy home service, featured on our blog before, to back up your files – offering 2 gigabyte of data storage at no cost. Business users can access the Mozy Pro business service for multiple users.
We also like Box.net as a solution for the individual user, who needs access to remote backup while traveling for example. You can share, manage and access your information from any web enabled computer.
Store it, before you lose it – a few moments of effort you’ll never regret when you hard drive fails or your network connections go down.
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Microsoft release public beta of Office 2010
Filed under: Conversation, New Web Creations, Web services
Microsoft have finally released a public beta version of Office 2010 for access by users interested in trying out the new suite of applications.
We installed the beta version of 2010, requiring a high speed web connection, on a colleagues home laptop, with perfect ease and with no apparent conflicts on the machine with an existing licensed version of Office 2007 – the two running in parallel.
As this ‘web connected’ version of Office 2010 is a beta, with a final fully polished version yet to come, this was a useful test.
The interfaces for the user, the new ‘ribbon’ and the additional effects and utility in Excel and PowerPoint were easy to use and added real impact to the test documents and analysis we produced.
You can save documents online and access them from any machine. Microsoft say that a final version for the home user will be available through Windows Live, which will be free but supported by advertising.
The Beta trial offers a great way to experiment with ‘cloud computing‘, with the promise that a full suite will be available eventually for free through your Windows Live account.
Microsoft Office 2010 Beta – real productive power, online. Read more here.
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