This document discusses using technology tools for business management. It summarizes Jason Schroeder's experience and then covers using cloud computing services like Google Drive and Microsoft SkyDrive. It discusses the benefits of cloud computing, including accessibility and reduced costs. Challenges like internet access and employee resistance are also addressed. Specific cloud services like Google Drive and SkyDrive/Office 365 are then compared. The document concludes by discussing using smartphones for business and considering apps to use existing apps over creating new ones.

1. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR LEARNING LAB
Embracing Technology As A Management Tool

2. JASON SCHROEDER
 Owner, Y-City Computer
 Experience as Executive Director of the
Appalachian Center for Collaborative and
Engaged Learning
 Certified in Technical Training, Microsoft
Licensing, Intel Technology Partner, a Microsoft
Registered Refurbisher and Windows
Workstation Administrator

3. TOOLS WE WILL DISCUSS
 Cloud Computing
 Google Drive
 Microsoft Skydrive
 Others
 Smartphones for business use
 Android vs. iPhone vs. Windows Phone
 Apps
 Use existing vs. make new

4. TOOLS WE WILL DISCUSS
 Cloud Computing
 Google Drive
 Microsoft Skydrive
 Others
 Smartphones for business use
 Android vs. iPhone vs. Windows Phone
 Apps
 Use existing vs. make new

5. CLOUD COMPUTING
The
Internet
(cloud)
Laptop
Tablet
Phone

6. BENEFITS TO CLOUD COMPUTING
 Reduced risk to data loss due to local hardware
failure
 Reduced risk of data loss or theft due to local
hardware theft
 Increased accessibility to staff – work
anywhere with access
 Can use older hardware
 Can have reduced licensing costs

7. CHALLENGES WITH CLOUD COMPUTING
 Must have Broadband Internet access
 4G, Fiber, Copper, or Coax
 Training may be expensive
 Employees may be resistant (I love my Windows
XP!)
 May require improvements to local
infrastructure to ensure access

8. GOOGLE DRIVE
 Part of Google Suite (Googleverse)
 Mail, Drive, Calendar, Hangouts
 No-cost solution for individuals
 No-cost solutions available for education and
non-profit users
 Relatively low-cost enterprise level
 Administrative control over many settings
 Who here uses this option?

9. SKYDRIVE/OFFICE 365
 Genuine Microsoft Office
 Low-cost individual solutions
 Higher cost enterprise-level solutions
 Integrated into Office 2013 VERY well
 Doesn’t do multiple simultaneous editors as
well as Google Drive
 Who here uses this option?

10. MAKING COLLABORATION
BETTER
How do you use chat/comments in
the document?

11. OTHER SOLUTIONS
 What other solutions do you use?
 What works well?
 What doesn’t work so well?

12. DOCS .VS OFFICE .VS OTHERS
Should you only use one product?

13. SMARTPHONES FOR BUSINESS
 When I first started doing this presentation in
conjunction with Shiny Door and the ARC, just
over 35% of American Adults were smartphone
users
 That was only two years ago
 Today it has grown to 56% of American Adults
 (58% of cellphone users today use a smartphone,
compared to just 42% two years ago)

14. DIFFERENT PHONES, DIFFERENT APPROACHES

15. BIG DATA AND YOUR PHONE
Location
Email
Texts
Phone Calls
Games
Advertising
APPS, APPS and
APPS

16. HOW TO LIMIT DATA CONSUMPTION
What do we turn
off?
When?
How do we
control this at
enterprise-level?

17. TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT CONNECTION!
Can your phone be a
hotspot?
What are benefits?
What are risks?

18. APPS
 Making your own vs. using an existing one
 Quality of competition
 Diversity of existing apps
 Cost to produce
 Needs your own can meet vs. what exists today
 Time to produce vs. when you need it

19. CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSE
This presentation was created by
Y-City Computer, using original material
plus materal from Shiny Door
http://shinydoor.com
It is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
To view a copy of this license, visit
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0