Ignite Houston - Use The Cloud To Be An Awesome Dad
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Juston Western presents on how to use the cloud to be an awesome dad. Tools discussed include Evernote, Flickr, Blogger, Twitter, Gmail, Facebook, Boxcar, YouTube, Boxcar, If This Then That, Dropbox, & Grocery IQ. Part of the inaugural Ignite Houston event held in February 2012.
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- 2. “ The Cloud” Means What?
Editor's Notes
- Software guy; daughters arriving in 18 days Thinking a lot about how I could use the internet to be an awesome dad This presentation is a result of that research
- Collection of web based tools Most of those tools have app frontends; you see icons for those behind me I’m going to highlight 12 & describe how you might use them to be a hero to your kids
- 4 themes to supercharge parenthood Documenting your child’s life; communicating with your friends & family Learning about your world & your own home; automating as much as possible
- First, Evernote Inundated with medical records, email tips from friends, baby toy instructions If it’s data, dump it into Evernote & you’ll always be able to find it
- Next, Flickr If you make a habit of putting your photos here, you’ll be able to show them everywhere From digital photo frames to the grandparents’ smart tv can see your pictures
- Photos are great, but sometimes the written word is best Write stories about events in your family like little league games or dance recitals If you label your posts properly, years of entries become manageable
- - So in the document theme, you’re leveraging the cloud to capture memories & information across multiple mediums - Don’t worry about committing everything to memory, because you can go back & search your data later
- - Next Communicating Setup a Twitter account as daily micro journal chronicling your kid’s daily events Less work than daily blog posts, and encourage extended family to stay up to date between phone calls & visits
- By a show of hands, who’s seen the “Dear Sophie” Google Chrome commercial? It’ll make you tear up, and it’s a phenomenal idea. In short, setup an email account to write your children at, and encourage family to do the same One day, share this virtual box of letters with them
- For day to day activity sharing about your kids with friends & family, setup a private group on Facebook Your family’s already on Facebook, so this will fit into their daily routines
- Key takeaways from the Communicate theme is connecting your loved ones Do so in a way that can be valuable to your kids years from now
- Next theme is Learning Boxcar is a service that monitor social networks for relevant information, and then send you an alert immediately
- Clearly YouTube is great at sharing family videos But it’s also the best video encyclopedia of all time Fire it up on your TV and make learning at your home both educational & fun
- Fatherhood is great, but most of us will still have to work Setup a Dropcam account & see inside your house in real time or jump to video of motion activities marked anytime from the last 30 days
- So with learning, we want to know more about both the world & our own homes Be smart about when you’re seeking out info, and when to have information automatically delivered to you
- Which brings us to the last theme of automation One of the coolest tools I’ve found is If This Then That Set this up once, then have status updates & photos routed all over the place without launching 50 apps
- One of the end points for If This Then That, is Dropbox Think of this as a big hard drive in the sky, but one that’s really smart If you forget to backup your files, like your kids’ pictures, they’ll still be safely here
- And the last tool I’ll point out is Grocery IQ Wife & I use this to keep our grocery list in sync across our iPhones & iPads This way you’ve always got the proper food in your house
- So with the Automation theme, we’re acknowledging we live in a multi-device reality We might use 30 online services, but we’d really like to minimize the time we keep them all current
- I leave you with this: judgment is still critical; be smart about what you’re putting online The tools are a means to an end, but what’s important is being an awesome parent Make this stuff fun for your kids, while they learn about how technology works