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Some people are ready for a change. A new look with new features. Others are laying in wait hoping to be the last person that has to swap to a new system. You know which category you fit into.

If you have not seen Windows 7, what new features would you like to see your current operating system do? What features do you think is missing?
I put some thought into this and there are two main features that I would like to see. The first is more voice command recognition. Our phones have this so why not our computers? People walking around who appear to be talking to themselves is no longer considered strange. We see this and find ourselves being quiet as to not disturb their conversation. If we had this feature we could save our hands for video games! Think about it. If each of us had a personal assistant built into our computer, look at the people that would enjoy work way more than they do now. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to go into your work space with your cup of coffee and talk to your computer on how to do that report, take this note and remind me about this later? We might actually be organized and more productive employees!

While we are on this subject, the feature that I would like to see most on the laptops and mini computers is the option to have them read to you. On my long commute to work it would be amazing if my computer could read to me the headlines and stories of the day. I would enjoy being able to tell the computer what information that I wanted to find out and it would be able to read to me the “blog of the day” or the “newspaper headlines” on the topic. I spend 2 – 3 hours a day in my car driving. I want to hear the news that I am interested in and that does not necessarily coincide with the news that the media wants to tell me.

I have not seen Windows 7 and probably won’t for a while. From the people that I have spoken to, they have not mentioned any of the features that I am looking for and I am one of those that generally do not spend time fixing things that are not broken unless it is going to bring me new features that I REALLY REALLY want.

Does Windows 7 have the features you are looking for? What features would you like to see on your computer?

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For the last several weeks JDResources has been reviewing the use of social media in business; Facebook, Myspace and Twitter to name a few.  To be frank, I have been overwhelmed by the number of different, but similar, social media platforms available.  This article is about the “blowout” that happens to many users of these online friend based platforms.  To define “blowout” I will reference a very close friend’s comments about Facebook; “…I started thinking about how much time I spend on Facebook each day and found that I was spending 4-5 hours doing nothing but Facebook stuff” she went on to say “after seeing that number I decided to delete my account.  It was serving no good purpose and I was wasting some much time that I could have been doing something more important”. Read the rest of this entry »

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One time or another most of us have needed to understand how to ‘do-it-yourself’ for some project that we decided to tackle.  If you are like me, the first place you go is Google to search for answers.  As a result what I find is a myriad of sites.  I never make it past the first 3-4 pages before finding a site that supplies the information needed.  The real question isn’t whether or not you will be able to find information about the topic you have selected, it’s whether or not you can find the information in a manner that works for you.  That brings me to the topic of “Internet; Pros and Cons”.

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Social Media is the hot topic of the day and Hospitals across the country are Twittering.  Memphis’ own St. Jude Hospital is no exception.   St. Jude Hospital has jumped on the Twitter bandwagon in a big way.  They currently show a following of 839 with the oldest tweet that I could find on their site from October of 2007.

What does a Hospital tweet about?  I am glad that you asked.  They tweet about patients, donors, news and events.    I will give the marketing group at this hospital a thumbs up as they know how to tell a good story.  Through Twitter they generate excitement about successful fundraising events, give thanks to those who are having the event and then thank the fundraisers for their brilliant success (marathoners raise 2 million dollars for the local hospital).  St. Jude proudly Tweets their accomplishments (St. Jude Ranked No. 1 Pediatric Oncology Hospital).   They Tweet about new findings in research and where to sign up for a fundraising event.   One of my favorite tweets was a quote, “No child should die in the dawn of life.” -Danny Thomas

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The BlackBerry 8800 is the new hottness with it’s sleek formfactor, new look and, most surprising of all, lack of scrollwheel.  We’ve been getting alot of calls recently regarding the phone and the most commonly asked question is, “how do I wipe the data from the darn thing?”

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