The authors of Womenomics make a convincing argument for women to benefit from the flexibility business revolution.
“Finding balance and satisfaction in both professional and personal lives,” a nomad mantra for sure.
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Stantum Japan have unveiled their multi-touch, resistive touchscreen technology, showcased on a Slate PC proof of concept device.
Responsiveness and accuracy are reported to be remarkable, with the multitouch feature accommodating as many fingers as you can fit on the screen. There’s pressure sensitivity too and users can even use the thing with a paintbrush. Yes, a paintbrush.
Scalable from 2.5 to 30 inches, this can do all the gestures, swipes and rotations you could want. At face value, very impressive technology. Watch the video.
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So why resistive instead of capacitive (or resistive vs iPhone / iPod Touch)?
Stantum is looking to break into all sorts of markets with their new touch panels – including mobile, Tablet and netbook markets. Hopefully we’ll see a next generation mobile device with one of their screens in the near future.
(Thanks to www.netbooked.net )
I had the pleasure of chairing an event in Milton Keynes with Public Sector Forums today. Presentations will be on the PSF site from 30 November.
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My Slides are here;
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Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License
Twitter posts (Tweets) from the day and the parallel infosecurity sessions are aggregated here.
The day finished with a good discussion on the future of Nomad. I was very pleased to hear that delegates see a role for Nomad going forward and grateful for the kind words of support and thanks for our efforts in saving the community (phoenix from the ashes)!
We talked about plans to build a new web2.0 platform to support the Nomad community and enable groups of common interest to collaborate and share learning.
It was suggested that Nomad should also;
It’s not too late to let us know your thoughts. Complete the mobile working survey, including specific questions on Nomad. Or contact us directly at mail@nomadpublicsector.com
“Be two places at once with QA, telepresence robot from Anybots. Enjoy complete freedom to move fluidly and interact with others in a remote location from the ease of your home or office.”
“QA operates simply, cleanly, and quietly while still giving you a full physical presence. It allows you to see and be seen, talk and listen, and collaborate in ways and places never before possible.”
Amazing but somehow reinforces the perception of work as a place we should attend rather than an activity we can often do from different locations.
Still pretty whizzy though. I wonder if they do a ‘Transformers’ version, perhaps with weaponry? Autobots or Decepticons?
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NICE have published, “Promoting mental wellbeing through productive and healthy working conditions: guidance for employers”.
Guidance for those who have a direct or indirect role in, and responsibility for, promoting mental wellbeing at work. This includes all employers and their representatives, irrespective of the size of the business or organisation and whether they are in the public, private, or voluntary sectors. It may also be of interest to professionals working in human resources or occupational health, employees, trade union representatives and members of the public.
Interesting comments on flexible working and the role of line managers including, “Managers’ ability to manage teams with flexible working patterns may need to be developed.”
Nomad is increasingly being asked about leadership and management techniques. Managing a dispersed, 21st century mobile workforce certainly requires new skills.
This may be an area Nomad should look to explore further in the future.
Access the report and slides here.
A concept car demonstrating the potential application of next generation mobile networks. Sophisticated touchscreen experiences that promise video and music on demand, gaming, ecommerce, a wifi hotspot, real-time GPS updates, real-time traffic and weather data, and road and vehicle monitoring.
Quite impressive but then again, given future congestion predictions, we’re probably going to need the car to be a [mobile] office more often!
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