3. UK is now a Smart Phone Society
• Smartphones overtake laptops as UK internet
users’ number one device;
• We’re spending over two hours online on our
smartphones every day; twice as long as laptops
and PCs;
• Superfast 4G is helping change the way we
shop, bank, watch TV and communicate.
8. Start of your day feeling refresh & energised
• Records your sleep
cycles;
• Parameters for
waking time;
• Wakes at optimum
time;
• With lovely sounds.
9. What’s the plan?
Google Calendar
• See your schedule at a glance;
• Events from Gmail added
automatically;
• Works with all calendars on
your phone;
• Add personal goals “read for 30
minutes three times a week”
and calendar will schedule time
automatically.
10. What’s the plan?
Calendars 5
• Natural language input;
• Integrate to-do lists;
• Integrate home and
family calendars from
outlook and Gmail;
• Easy to read.
12. Quick check on emails;
• Bundles, because some
messages just belong
together; promotions;
purchases; trips
• Create your own bundles;
• Get things done with
Reminders
• Snooze messages and
reminders to whenever (or
wherever) you choose;
• Only deal with the important
emails;
13. Scan the Social
Flipboard
• Social Discovery;
• Social Networking;
• Personal magazine;
• Learning opportunities;
• Really visual;
• Follow news agencies.
14. Scan the Social
Feedly
• Organize by
arranging the content
you rely on into easy-
to-read collections.
• Save stories and
easily get back to
them. Tag with
Feedly or use
favourite web
services like
Evernote, Pocket.
15. Save for later
• Put articles, videos or
pretty much anything
into Pocket.
• Save directly from your
browser or from apps
like Twitter, Flipboard,
Pulse.
• If it's in Pocket, it's on
your phone, tablet or
computer.
• Works offline.
16. Plan the Social
Hootsuite
• Publish messages, images, videos, and GIFs easily to
multiple social networks;
• Schedule social media content right from your mobile. Or
make last minute changes—such as fixing a typo in a
message scheduled by your team back in the office.
• See a social media message that would be easier to
answer in the office? Just assign to a team member and
track the progress of the task from your mobile.
17. Check my heart rate…..
• Real-time heart rate;
• Resting, active, wake
up rate;
• Improve your
awareness;
• Built into Apple Health
and Google Fit.
18. IFTTT
IF THIS THEN THAT
• Automate processes;
• Upload social photos to
Dropbox;
• Save stories from news
sites;
• When near home text a
contact.
19. Start the journey
Expensify
• capture receipts, track time or
mileage, business travel and
create expense reports quick and
easy.
20. 1st Meeting Breakfast Presentation
Evernote
• Present straight from
Evernote on my
phone;
• Write notes in my pad
& scan notes in;
• Meet new people?
Scan their cards &
connect to LinkedIn;
• Integration with
Google Drive.
21. What next?
Google Now & Voice
• Cards;
• Predictive notes;
• Reminders;
• Location history;
• Google voice for next
location;
• Waze integration.
22. 2nd Meeting
Skitch
• Photograph anything;
• Annotate over image;
• Save to Evernote;
• Load and annotate maps;
• Email to client/office.
23. Collect and organize information big & small
Google Forms
• Set up your own booking
forms, enquiry forms,
surveys and feedback
forms;
• Forms you create on your
PC can be viewed and
completed in the browser
of your phone;
• Save to Google Drive;
• Export to Google Sheets.
24. Taking Payments?
• Create invoice with Xero;
• Check on client payments;
• Take payment with PayPal
Chip and Pin.
29. Send notes and files from meeting
Slack
• Organize your team
conversations in open
channels. Make a channel
for a project, a topic or a
team
• Private Channels
• Direct Messages;
• Drag, drop, and share your
files;
• Search your entire archive.
30. Create some social impact
WordSwag
• Typo Engine;
• Create beautifully
custom text layouts that
would normally take
hours - with just a tap;
• Use your own photos;
• Add text from a choice
of fonts;
31. Time Tracking
Harvest
• Track hours spent on projects;
• Allocate to projects/clients;
• Email report.
Toggl
• One time click tracking;
• Built for teams;
• Export timesheets. E-mail (or print) professional reports
directly to clients;
• Time entries are synced in real time.
32. • Access all your HR data from
anywhere there is an internet
connection;
• Holiday allowance display,
employee-self service, and a
central holiday calendar.;
• Easily manage and monitor
employee sick leave and
absences with the manager
dashboard, central calendar and
reports functionality.
33. Tracking things to do
Todoist
• Capture every action - personal,
shopping, business, ideas,
questions to ask colleagues;
• Add that very next action to a list….
@next actions (or things to do)
@Project list (lots of things in
projects)
@Waiting for..
@Personal list
@Shopping list
• Set reminders
34. Tracking things to do
Wonderlist
• Easily share lists and
collaborate with family,
friends and colleagues;
• Share the work and
delegate to-dos;
• Organize your projects
for home, work and
everywhere in between
with folders.
36. Streaks
• Struggle to change?
• Make it easy;
• Choose 6 tasks you
want to perform every
day and then mark off for
motivation.
37. Curious to understand how people are feeling?
• Analyses and presents the
current emotional state of
speakers in real time;
• Our Primary Mood: The
speaker's most expressed
current emotional state
• Our Secondary Mood: The
speaker’s less expressed
mood.
38. At home
Dulux Visualizer
• Colour picker and
visualizer;
• Select from Dulux
colours;
• View colour on the
walls;
• Mask areas of the
walls.
39. Need a new recipe?
Blippar
• Augmented reality;
• Turn your phone into
a magic lens;
• Interact with the
world around you;
• Kraft, Cadbury’s,
Nestle, Unilever, IBM.
41. Connecting Devon and Somerset
• A ground breaking partnership encompassing 6 LA areas to
deliver improved and superfast broadband to rural areas;
• Improved broadband (>2mbps) to every business and
community across Devon and Somerset by 2016;
• Faster broadband (>24mbps) to at least 90% of the area by
2016.
Without this project 700,000 residents and 26,000 businesses,
with a combined turnover of £9 billion, have no certainty of
receiving improved or superfast broadband from a commercial
rollout
43. CDS Broadband Voucher Scheme
• CDS has committed to bringing broadband to everyone within
the programme area. If you are not yet able to receive
broadband speeds of over 2Mbps you may be able to get
connected through the CDS voucher scheme.
• The scheme will provide a subsidy of up to £500, in the form of
a voucher code, to fund the installation of a new broadband
connection. Each premise can choose their supplier with every
solution guaranteeing a minimum of 10Mbps download speed.
• The scheme will run for one year up until the March 2017 and is
open to individual residents, small businesses and communities.
https://www.connectingdevonandsomerset.co.uk/cds-broadband-
voucher-form/
44. The Process
• There are four stages in the process:
Step 1
• Check eligibility and apply online;
Step 2
• Verification & Approval;
Step 3
• Choosing a supplier – If eligible you are granted a voucher code
that can be used to subsidise the costs of installing a broadband
technology chosen by you to suit your property from our list of
available providers.
Step 4
• Agree an installation.
Get online faster with your increased broadband speed.
45. What is Get up to speed?
• Fully funded business and community support alongside roll-out
of Superfast Broadband
• Helping to ensure we all make the most out of the superfast
broadband
Delivered by Cosmic Peninsula Consortium.
46. • Free sessions;
• Showcase new technologies;
• Hands-on Workshops;
• Gadget shows;
• Seminars;
• Briefings;
• Taster sessions;
• Signposting to free advice and support.
Mobile Devices and Apps for Your Business
Discover how tablets and smartphones can help increase productivity and efficiency to transform your business. Explore the best apps to aid your daily business and home life
Housekeeping/Introductions
According to OFCOM research (06.07.15) there is record ownership, around 2/3rds of our population, of smartphones transforming the way we communicate and how we get online.
Future of Smartphone Ownership – In the next two years smartphone ownership will increase by two million per year and by 2018 46.4 million of us will own a smartphone.
While smartphones are replacing more of our gadgets, such as alarm clocks and digital cameras, actually using one to make a phone call is not that common, according to mobile network O2.
The average smartphone owner spends more than two hours each day using the device. During that time, smartphone owners spend an average of 25 minutes using their phone to browse the web, 17 minutes on social networking, 13 minutes playing games and 16 minutes listening to music.
Making phone calls with the smartphone was only the fifth most popular use for the gadget, only slightly more time than they spend writing and checking email (11 minutes) and text messaging (10 minutes).
Touch their phone 215 times a day;
Have our phone within reach for 14 hours a day; Spend 2 hours and 51 mins on their phone (up 30 mins from 2013) So, how can we use mobile technology in our businesses to become more efficient and productive? Through Apps…..and there are lots of them!
If you are an Android users are able to choose between 2.2 million apps on Apple's App Store remained the second-largest app store with 2 million available apps. Am going to take you through some apps I use on a daily basis to make me more productive and organised during my working day. I am an android user but most of whatI show you today can be used on both Apple and Google Operating Systems ( not sure about Windows!)
Sleep well and wake up refreshed, forget about undersleeping, insomnia and connected health risks with the most intelligent alarm clock app.
Smart Alarm Clock monitors your sleep cycles and wakes you up at the right time based on the scientifically proven sleep cycles concept. Compatible with both your phone and your tablet!
How does the app work?
During the night we go through several sleep cycles: transition to sleep, light sleep, deep sleep and dream sleep. In each of these stages we behave differently: toss and torn in bed, mutter or stay quiet. The sensors in your device detect all the movements, the app figures out which stage of sleep you are in and wakes you up during the light sleep stage, when your body is naturally prepared for awakening.
Sleep for Android
Save time and make the most of every day.
• Events from Gmail – Flights, hotel bookings, concerts, restaurant reservations and more are added to your calendar automatically.
• Goals – Add personal goals – such as "run 3 times a week" – and Calendar will schedule time for them automatically.
• To-dos on your calendar – Use Reminders to create and view to-dos alongside your events.
• A new Schedule View – See your schedule at a glance with photos and maps of the places that you're going to.
• Assists to fill in your calendar – You can quickly create events with smart suggestions for event titles, places and people.
• Different ways to view your calendar – Quickly switch between viewing a single day and getting an overview of multiple days at once.
• All of your calendars in one, easy place – Google Calendar works with all calendars on your phone, including Exchange.
• (Google Apps for Work and Education only) Find a time – Add colleagues as guests to your event and let Google Calendar find the best meeting times for you
Calendars 5 - Event and Task Manager with Google Calendar Sync
Natural Language Input: Just enter "Meet John at Starbucks on Sunday" and Calendars 5 will create the event for you.
Task Manager: Easy to use task manager that has everything you need to organize, track and complete your to-dos.
Interface focused on events; Elegant and easy to use interface makes it super simple to get a quick overview of the upcoming events and tasks. You always keep your focus on what's important; there is nothing to distract you.
Works online and offline: Create, edit and delete events or tasks whenever you need it. All changes will be synced back to your account once you are online.
Create custom recurring events (yoga every Tuesday, Friday and Sunday), get reminders or set custom alerts, invite people to your events and more.
Intuitively create events with just one tap in your calendar. Drag and Drop tasks and events, swipe to switch between days and weeks, return to your ‘Today’ schedule with one tap.
Trello is a collaboration tool that organizes your projects into boards. In one glance, Trello tells you what's being worked on, who's working on what, and where something is in a process.
Some key features include the ability to attach photos or docs straight to a card even when you’re on the go.
Real time notifications on mobile mean you can respond to coworkers even when you’re not in front of your computer.
Power-Ups turn Trello boards into living applications. Through adaptable features and integrations, Power-Ups help teams use Trello to meet their unique business needs. Every team can enable one free Power-Up on a team board
Inbox is a fresh start that goes beyond email to help you get back to what matters.
It does the job of collecting information that you want to read in one neat package!
Use Flipboard as a Product Catalog or Brochure
Use Flipboard for Internal Market Research
Easily share stories to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, email, and more. Schedule posts with Hootsuite or Buffer.
Discover
Discover fresh, authoritative voices on niche and broad topics alike. Channel the mainstream or pull from the diamonds in the rough.
A great option for those interested in saving video, images, text and other content, all in one place
Extension for chrome;
Use Hootsuite's free mobile apps to schedule, publish, and monitor conversations from anywhere. Whether you're editing a scheduled post on the train or capturing a video at a conference, you'll have one seamless Hootsuite experience from desktop to mobile.
From last minute edits to your scheduled messages to monitoring customer conversations while you’re away from your desk, Hootsuite Mobile helps you move fast and make every second count on social media
When I load to FB it saves it to my Google Drive.
It powers up your Android device in all new ways, letting you automate various functions.
You can create simple statements such as "if my location is home, turn on Wi-Fi", or "if I snap a screenshot email it to me". As these are all simple two-part statements they're easy to create and they can also be shared with the wider IF community. That also means there are tons of pre-existing 'recipes' to choose from,
Popular ways to use IF
Post all your Instagrams as Twitter photos
Save your favorite tweets to Evernote
Share Facebook status updates on Tumblr or LinkedIn
Post videos you like on YouTube or Vimeo to a blog
Can’t stand your expense reports? Look no further! Expensify makes capturing receipts, tracking time or mileage, business travel and creating expense reports quick and easy. Acknowledged by the tech community as the best app for expense reporting, Expensify takes the time, paper, and headaches out of your expense reports! Simply put, Expensify does expense reports that don’t suck!
Expensify is great for salespeople, business travellers, and companies of all sizes! Expense reporting has never been easier. Here’s how it works:
1. Use Expensify to take a picture of your receipt.
2. Select which report that expense goes on.
...and you’re done! Our SmartScan technology reads the receipt and creates the expense, eliminating any manual entry and saving you precious time and energy.
Did you lose your receipt? No problem! Expensify lets you import your credit card transactions and automatically creates an IRS guaranteed eReceipt for all purchases under $75!
There are over 2.5 million users and 250,000 companies around the world using Expensify
Just swipe right from your home screen to bring up your Google Now cards. Or if you want to search you can do that from a bar at the top of all your home screens. The Google Now Launcher is not as feature-packed as some launchers, but like stock Android itself it's clean, minimal, fast and easy to navigate.
Manage your day
Stay on top of what’s happening in your life every day, including what you need to do, where you need to go and how to get around. Google Now is an intelligent personal assistant developed by Google. Google Now is available within the Google Search mobile application for Android and iOS, as well as the Google Chrome web browser on personal computers. Google Now uses a natural language user interface to answer questions, make recommendations, and perform actions by delegating requests to a set of web services.
Waze is the world's largest community-based traffic and navigation app. Join other drivers in your area who share real-time traffic and road info, saving everyone time and gas money on their daily commute
See helpful cards with information that you need throughout your day, before you even ask;
OneNote is an excellent note-taking tool since Microsoft Office is the de facto standard when it comes to productivity tools in the workplace, Windows users can take advantage of it to manage their meetings, meeting notes, and minutes. It's easy to use, makes adding and organizing sets of notes for different events easy, and thanks to OneNote's many mobile apps for Android, iOS, and Windows Phone, you get access to those notes anywhere and can share them with others.
Turn your tablet into a paper notebook and capture your ideas everywhere, anytime. Taking notes, sketching, and drawing is as straightforward and simple as using real pen and paper. Use a selection of six expressive pens and brushes for writing, sketching, colouring, and marking. Lets you easily exchange your notebooks between Bamboo Paper on other mobile platforms without any loss of quality or ability to edit.
Enrich your notes or journal with photos. Add images or photos to your page and sketch or write on top.
Prefer to start on real paper? Capture your ideas with pen on paper on this new smart folio by Wacom and digitally shape and refine them later in Bamboo Paper. In app purchases.
Minutes.io gives you an elegant and easy to fill out template for every one of your meetings that makes sure you capture the attendees, what was discussed, what action items came out of the conversation, and who owns them. The template can be as simple or as complex as you need it to be, and if you sign up for an account, you can save your notes with secret URLs that you can distribute only to the meeting attendees so they can review the notes when they need to. It's loaded with keyboard shortcuts and tools to help you take notes in your meetings, and the best part is that you don't even have to sign up for the service (unless you want to save your meeting minutes on multiple computers) You can just start using it, take notes, send the minutes off to the attendees, and come back when you want to use it again. The service drops a cookie on your system to identify it so you can get back to your minutes easily
Capture what’s on your mind: Add notes, lists and photos to Google Keep. Pressed for time? Record a voice memo and Keep will transcribe it so you can find it later.
Share ideas with friends and family: Easily plan that surprise party by sharing your Keep notes with others and collaborating on them in real time.
Find what you need, fast: Colour code and add labels to notes to quickly organize and get on with your life. If you need to find something you saved, a simple search will turn it up.
Always within reach: Keep works on your phone, tablet, computer and Android wearables. Everything you add syncs across all of your devices, so your thoughts are always with you.
The right note at the right time: Need to remember to pick up some groceries? Set a location-based reminder to pull up your grocery list right when you get to the store.
Doxie one $129
Simply scanning the things you see.
Wikitude allows you to see more than your eyes only could capture. Wikitude's "computer vision" is a bit like magic and connects you with the world in a completely new way. Use Wikitude as a tool to experience augmented reality content, campaigns, projects, promotions, games and so much more by simply scanning the things you see!
Apple Pay is simple to use and works with the devices you use every day. Easily pay with your debit cards and credit cards with just a touch. And because your card details are never shared by Apple when you use Apple Pay, making purchases with your iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad and Mac is the safer, more private way to pay.
Unlike paying with a physical card, using Apple Pay in shops happens in seconds with your iPhone and Apple Watch. Just hold your iPhone near the reader with your finger on Touch ID or double-click the side button on your Apple Watch, then hold it near the reader.
Choose your device, add your credit or debit cards and you're good to go. Wherever you are – at the shops or in an app – you're ready to use Android Pay.
Your card info stays safe. When you shop at a merchant, Android Pay doesn't send your actual credit or debit card number with your payment. Instead we use a virtual account number to represent your account information – so your card details stay safe
Keep track of your purchases. As soon as you make a purchase, you'll see a payment confirmation that shows you exactly where a given transaction happened, along with the merchant's name and number. So it's easy to catch any suspicious activity.
For sensitive information, create private channels and invite a few team members. No one else can see or join your private channels.
Not just your messages, but all your files, images, PDFs, documents, and spreadsheets can be dropped right into Slack and shared with anyone you want. Add comments, star for later reference, and it’s all completely searchable.
If you use any services like Google Drive, Dropbox, or Box, just paste the link and that document is immediately in sync and searchable too.
Everything in Slack—messages, notifications, files, and all—is automatically indexed and archived so that you can have it at your fingertips whenever you want. Slack also indexes the content of every file so you can search within PDFs, Word documents, Google docs, and more. With one search box and a set of powerful search operators, you can slice and dice your way to that one message in your communication haystack.
Customize your notifications whether you’re on your computer or mobile device. Dial them up to be alerted about everything or dial them down to focus on just a few things.
If you forget to switch it on, then enter time later on.
Toggl Free to $49 a year per user.
Harvest Free for one user with four clients and two projects to $49 a month up to 9 users;
With your information in the cloud, breatheHR has created a seamless design that looks beautiful on any device to help you get the job done– no matter where you are. HRM software does not have to be complicated or confusing. With absolutely nothing to install and a simple setup process, you will be transforming the way you do HR in minutes. What’s more, breatheHR has a mobile app available on itunes and google play store to provide employees an even quicker leave request and directory platform;
Securely store or share documents with specific employees knowing that all your company and employee documents are in one easy to use location.
Easily manage employee expense claims and generate reports to help calculate budgets and spot trends.
Wunderlist helps millions of people around the world capture their ideas, things to do and places to see. Whether you’re sharing a grocery list with a loved one, working on a project, or planning a vacation, Wunderlist makes it easy to share your lists and collaborate with everyone in your life. Wunderlist instantly syncs between your phone, tablet and computer, so you can access your lists from anywhere.
Key Wunderlist Features:
• Create all the lists you need and access them from your phone, tablet and computer
• Easily share lists and collaborate with family, friends and colleagues
• Start conversations about your to-dos
• Attach photos, PDFs, presentations and more
• Share the work and delegate to-dos
• Setting a Reminder ensures you never forget important deadlines (or birthday gifts) ever again
• Organize your projects for home, work and everywhere in between with Folders
Wunderlist is free to download and use. Wunderlist Pro upgrades your experience and gives you unlimited access to Files, Assigning and Subtasks to help you accomplish even more for $4.99 a month or $49.99 a year through an in-app purchase
Periscope is Twitter's new live-streaming video app, it allows you to watch and broadcast live video from all across the globe. Periscope saves the video streams once you are finished, so that anyone can view them for up to 24 hours
It lets you post live video streams which your followers can watch and comment on as you broadcast, or view up to 24 hours later if you make it available for replays.
The immediacy and impermanence of each clip has a certain appeal and it's a slickly laid out app, with nice details, like getting to see hearts flutter up the screen as and when your followers send them.
Even if you don't want to make your own videos there's something addictive about viewing other peoples, so embrace your inner voyeur and give Periscope a download. You might lose a lot of time to it, but you won't regret it
The to-do list that helps you form good habits. Track up to six tasks you want to complete every day. Your goal is to build a streak of consecutive days. Streaks works with the Apple Health app to help you achieve your fitness goals
This app follows the model of the popular “don’t break the chain method” in that you use the app to track how you are donig in the pursuit of your goal. Great for goal-setting — and an easy and elegant interface to boot.
Your mood in 20 seconds. Just press a button and talk.
Intrigued by emotions?
Want to know how sentiment look like?
Curious to understand how you and your colleagues feel as you speak, right now?
Moodies is providing the answer - all with a press of a button.
Based on 18 year of research into the science of emotions, Moodies analyses and presents the current emotional state of speakers in real time, as they speak. Based on Beyond Verbal’s award winning Emotions Analytics cloud-based engine, Moodies listens to vocal intonations to understand our emotions as we speak – because it's not what we say, but HOW we say it.
At the press of a button, Moodies requires just 15 seconds of speech to provide a deep, highly granular mood analysis which includes:
Our Primary Mood: The speaker's most expressed current emotional state
Our Secondary Mood: The speaker’s less expressed mood.
Overall mood group categorizations.
Key Moody features include:
- Quick Analysis: Single automatic analysis by tapping the LISTEN button
- Continuous Analysis: Multiple and continuous analysis by pressing and holding (or pressing and locking) the LISTEN button.
- Analysis Library: Vault of emotion analyses complete with edit, tag and management features of analysis files.
- Replay of previously recorded analyses.
- Sharing of analyses by email, Facebook and Twitter
http://www.one-mag.co.uk/apps-for-your-garden/
LA = Local Authorities
Update March 2015: More than 100,000 homes and businesses in the two counties now have access to fibre broadband as a result of the CDS
Almost 90% of those can access speeds in excess of 24mbps
Engineers have installed more than 78,000 km of underground optical fibres
456 new fibre broadband cabinets are now ‘live’
A further 224 fibre cabinets have been installed and are waiting for final works to be completed