Introduction to Using a Smartphone for Entrepreneurs and Business People

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Women’s Professional Networking Group - September 11, 2014 Can your “Smartphone” help you work and play smarter? Empowering you to use contemporary technology | Beginners welcome See my listing on Janglo | bit.ly/MyTechTutor Page |1 Presented by: What is a Smartphone? What is the goal of this presentation? (introductory in nature - not hands-on training - help you be aware of possibilities - not meant to be comprehensive) Other devices Android vs. iPhone vs. Windows iPad, Android tablet, Kindle fire, Windows 8 tablet WIFI and The Cloud – including backing up stuff like photos APPS What are apps? Where do you get apps - installing – including on an sd card if possible- free vs. paying - trusting apps with your data - How do you decide if you want an app – learning curve/developing a habit Customizing your phone and your apps – turning on/off notifications, sound, setting reminders, arranging your apps, grouping your apps Ways I use my apps – navigation, reminders especially! Some of my favorite apps: Camera, Gmail, Chrome, Google Translate, Google Drive, OneDrive, Pocket,Evernote, Our Groceries, Google Maps, Moovit, SwiftKey, Food gawker, Play Store (android), App Store (apple), Hebrew Event Reminder, Dragon Dictation (apple) Important reminder! Lock your phone How to find out more: google search, youtube, wikihow, classes, tutoring

Transcript of Introduction to Using a Smartphone for Entrepreneurs and Business People

Page 1: Introduction to Using a Smartphone for Entrepreneurs and Business People

Women’s Professional Networking Group - September 11, 2014

Can your “Smartphone” help you work and play smarter?

 Empowering you to use contemporary technology | Beginners welcome 

See my listing on Janglo | bit.ly/MyTechTutor P a g e  | 1 

Presented by:   

What is a Smartphone?

What is the goal of this presentation? (introductory in nature - not hands-on training - help

you be aware of possibilities - not meant to be comprehensive)

Other devices

Android vs. iPhone vs. Windows

iPad, Android tablet, Kindle fire, Windows 8 tablet

WIFI and The Cloud – including backing up stuff like photos

APPS

What are apps?

Where do you get apps - installing – including on an sd card if possible- free vs. paying - trusting

apps with your data - How do you decide if you want an app – learning curve/developing a habit

Customizing your phone and your apps – turning on/off notifications, sound, setting reminders,

arranging your apps, grouping your apps

Ways I use my apps – navigation, reminders especially!

Some of my favorite apps: Camera, Gmail, Chrome, Google Translate, Google Drive, OneDrive,

Pocket,Evernote, Our Groceries, Google Maps, Moovit, SwiftKey, Food gawker, Play Store

(android), App Store (apple), Hebrew Event Reminder, Dragon Dictation (apple)

Important reminder! Lock your phone

How to find out more: google search, youtube, wikihow, classes, tutoring

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Women’s Professional Networking Group - September 11, 2014

Can your “Smartphone” help you work and play smarter?

 Empowering you to use contemporary technology | Beginners welcome 

See my listing on Janglo | bit.ly/MyTechTutor P a g e  | 2 

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Kinds of apps:

Calls, text/video messages, chat (eg. WhatsApp, Viber, Glide, Skype,

FaceTime)

Email

Calendar

Camera (photos, videos, gallery, editing)

Internet browsing (eg. Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer)

Utilities: translation, magnification, conversion, flashlight, scanning,

kupot cholim, currency exchange rates, calculator, voice recorder, find my

phone, (eg. Google translate, Morfix, find iPhone, LastPass, Zedge, Genius

Scan, XE, Multi Converter, Magnifier, Macabi)

GTD (getting things done)(eg. Remember the Milk, Evernote, EasilyDo,

Trello, Wunderlist, IFTTT)

Cloud storage/back up (eg. Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive)

Blogging (eg. Wordpress, Blogger, Tumblr, Vine)

Reading (saving for later) (Kindle, iBooks, Pocket, Feedly, Flipboard)

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Women’s Professional Networking Group - September 11, 2014

Can your “Smartphone” help you work and play smarter?

 Empowering you to use contemporary technology | Beginners welcome 

See my listing on Janglo | bit.ly/MyTechTutor P a g e  | 3 

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Social media (eg. facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram)

Emergencies (eg. NowForce, Tzeva Adom)

Music (eg. Songza, Google Music Player, Soundcloud, Shazam)

Video (eg. YouTube, iTunes U,TED, Viki, MakoVOD)

Documents (creating and viewing) (eg. Google Docs, Google Sheets)

Shopping (eg. Amazon, eBay, eLuna, Ali Express, Supersol)

Banking (including taking payments)(eg. Bank Leumi, Dwolla, Paypal, credit

card payments)

Customer relationship management (CRM)(eg. Base)

Fitness (Mapmyfitness, Runtastic)

News (in addition to traditional news sources like Jpost, Times of Israel,

Arutz Sheva, BBC, CNN, Wall Street Journal, etc. some less traditional

sources of “news” Buzzfeed, The Verge, Janglo, Zite, Pulse)