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Cloud Computing: Web-Based Applications That Change the Way You Work and Collaborate On-Line

 

Computing as you know it has changed No longer are you tied to using expensive programs stored on your computer No longer will you be able to only access your data from one computer No longer will you be tied to doing work only from your work computer or playing only from your personal computer.

 

Enter cloud computing–an exciting new way to work with programs and data, collaborate with friends and family, share ideas with coworkers and friends, and most of all, be more productive! The “cloud” consists of thousands of computers and servers, all linked and accessible to you via the Internet.

 

With cloud computing, everything you do is now web-based instead of being desktop-based; you can access all your programs and documents from any computer that’s connected to the Internet. Whether you want to share photographs with your family, coordinate volunteers for a community organization, or manage a multi-faceted project in a large organization, cloud computing can help you do it more easily than ever before. Trust us. If you need to collaborate, cloud computing is the way to do it.

 

     •    Learn what cloud computing is, how it works, who should use it, and why it’s the wave of the future.

     •    Explore the practical benefits of cloud computing, from saving money on expensive programs to accessing your documents ANYWHERE.

     •    See just how easy it is to manage work and personal schedules, share documents with coworkers and friends, edit digital photos, and much more!

     •    Learn how to use web-based applications to collaborate on reports and presentations, share online calendars and to-do lists, manage large projects, and edit and store digital photographs.

 

Michael Miller is known for his casual, easy-to-read writing style and his ability to explain a wide variety of complex topics to an everyday audience. Mr. Miller has written more than 80 nonfiction books over the past two decades, with more than a million copies in print. His books for Que include Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Computer Basics,  Googlepedia: The Ultimate Google Resource, and Is It Safe?: Protecting Your Computer, Your Business, and Yourself Online. His website is located at www.molehillgroup.com.

 

Covers the most popular cloud-based applications, including the following:

     • Adobe Photoshop Express

     • Apple MobileMe

     • Glide OS

     • Google Docs

     • Microsoft Office Live Workspace

     • Zoho Office

 

CATEGORY:  Web Applications

COVERS:  Cloud Computing

USER LEVEL:  Beginner-Intermediate

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All day, every day, we negotiate: with our friends, spouses, children, boss, customers, and co-workers A Woman’s Guide to Successful Negotiating builds on women’s innate skills in professional and personal situations. Drawing upon their considerable experience, as a top corporate negotiator and as an investment banker, Lee and Jessica Miller have developed proven strategies, tactics, and techniques that tap into women's abilities to convince, collaborate and create. The authors feature innovative strategies for negotiating with aggressive men and competitive women. The authors also explore the ten common mistakes women make during negotiations and how to avoid making them. In addition, the book will teach you 3 keys to successful negotiating. Whether negotiating for a raise or where to go to dinner with your boyfriend, this book shows you how to get what you want.

What others are saying about A Woman's Guide to Successful Negotiating:

"Breakthrough perspective. Every woman can benefit from this indispensable guide to getting what you want."--Cathleen Black, President, Hearst Magazines

"No matter what the situation, this book provides you with the negotiating techniques and the overall confidence to deal with the issue."--Rose Marie Bravo, Chief Executive Officer, Burberry Ltd.

"Whether you are in the boardroom or at home with your kids, this book shows you how to get what you want and do it with style."--Lisa Hall, Chief Operating Officer, Oxygen Media

"Lots of practical advice on how to win with a woman's touch."--Jan Hopkins, Anchor, CNN Street Sweep

"A useful book for women on the art of negotiating . . . in business, in personal relationships, in every area of life."--Donna Lagani, Publishing Director, Cosmopolitan Group, publisher of Cosmoplitan magazine and CosmoGirl

"An invaluable source of wisdom for woman, young and old, who want to take their place in the world."--Christine Baranski, Emmy and Tony Award Winning Actress

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Learn how you can take advantage of Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies to enhance collaboration, fuel team productivity, and improve your business processes. Many business tools and processes focus on improving the productivity of the individual an approach that's increasingly out of step with the collaborative, team-based work needed for shared project goals and business results. Learn Michael Sampson s Seven Pillars of Team Productivity and put them into practice using the powerful collaboration capabilities in SharePoint Products and Technologies. Discover how you can set up SharePoint Products and Technologies effectively for your team, including providing access to team data, enabling group collaboration in a virtual environment, using Microsoft Office LiveMeeting, setting up team calendaring and action points, and building social networks with blogs, search, and SharePoint MySite. Find out how other organizations are using SharePoint to their advantage. And learn exactly how your team can benefit by collaborating on documents and presentations, holding group discussions, and coordinating events and team meetings. 

Key Book Benefits

Shares real-world productivity strategies from collaboration and teamwork expert Michael Sampson Describes how to use SharePoint Products and Technologies to achieve business objectives and improve team processes Goes beyond the fundamentals of setting up and managing SharePoint sites, describing how to use them to drive real business results.
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Written from the perspectives of both a user interface designer and a software engineer, this book demonstrates rather than just describes how to build technology that cooperates with people. It begins with a set of interaction design principles that apply to a broad range of technology, illustrating with examples from the Web, desktop software, cell phones, PDAs, cameras, voice menus, interactive TV, and more. It goes on to show how these principles are applied in practice during the development process -- when the ideal design can conflict with other engineering goals.

The authors demonstrate how their team built a full-featured instant messenger application for the wireless Palm and PC. Through this realistic example, they describe the many subtle tradeoffs that arise between design and engineering goals. Through simulated conversations, they show how they came to understand each other's goals and constraints and found solutions that addressed both of their needs -- and ultimately the needs of users who just want their technology to work.

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Although doctors, nurses, and administrators differ widely in their training and outlook, they share the same patients and the goal of providing safe and effective care. This book provides novel strategies for fostering collaboration among these diverse professionals. Each approach is illustrated by a case example and supported with practical tips for implementation. These strategies will help healthcare teams leverage their unique talents, improve patient care, and reconnect with the ideals that attracted them to a career in healthcare. This book describes how to use constructive conflict to open the lines of communication, maintain the loyalty of outpatient physicians, optimize the contributions of hospitalists, use crew resource management techniques to improve communication and collaboration, encourage physicians to reach consensus on clinical priorities, use clinical teams to reduce malpractice risk and improve outcomes, adopt disease-based approaches to patient care, use blogs to create virtual communities among professionals, and apply techniques from the Toyota Production System to empower frontline staff.
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Six tri-folded pages of easy-to-understand instructions for Groove 2007. Able to reduce help desk calls while giving users tangible training, BrainStorm's Quick Start Card for Microsoft Groove 2007 is a ready reference Groove users should never go without BrainStorm's Quick Start Card for Microsoft Groove 2007 gives Groove users a tangible training reference card that teaches novice to advanced end users how to perform the following Groove functions, plus many more.--- Exploring the Launchbar--- Creating and Sharing Workspaces--- Using the Meetings Tool--- Using the SharePoint Files Tool--- Chatting--- Setting Roles, Permissions, and Alerts--- BrainStorm's durable tri-fold cards are coated to protect against spills, fading, and running. These cards are perfect to hang in a cubicle for all-day reference or to take in a laptop bag. The full-color step-by-step illustrated instructions on each of the 6 full pages of content can also take the stress out of learning a new program, like Microsoft Groove..
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The Ecology of Hope explores nine resource-based communities where collaboration among different interest groups has led to breakthrough consensus on plans for achieving sustainability. The authors reveal the hopeful trend toward unanimous agreement in which citizens, government, business and even one-time foes form exciting collaborative partnerships for sustainable resource management..
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