10 Smart Phone Tips/Best Practices for Business People Jun 2015

June 3, 2015
Presented by My Tech Tutor, Bryna Lee Jacobson
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It’s EASY when you know how!
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I like to think that
I am making my Smartphone smarter,
and not the other way around…
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 My goal today is to share some tips, techniques
and tools that you can use with your Smartphone.
 I hope to give you at least one of these
moments.
 I can do that!
 Wait, really? My phone can do that?
 That is exactly what I need!
 Holy cow! I should do that!
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Goals
I’m going to introduce some of the ways I use
my phone to
Keep it (and my data) secure
Help me remember stuff
Stay on task
Feel more productive with less anxiety
and stress.

Example
Gmail
settings

My
First
Screen

OurGroceries
 Easy to learn
 Easy to use
 Shareable with others
 Multiple lists
 Not just for groceries
 Use it for all kinds of
recurring checklists

Any kind of checklist works
well with this app.
Especially a recurring list
such as:
•Getting ready for a trip
•A presentation
•A client meeting
•Training a new employee

Moovit
If you take public
transportation,
Moovit is a great
resource.
This shows me
what bus stops are
nearby

If you have ever
gotten turned around
and wanted to be sure
you were going to
catch the bus going in
the right direction,
knowing the bus stop
number can be a big
help.

There is a bus stop
number on the sign and
a bus stop number in the
app. Voila! No more
getting on the bus going
in the wrong direction!

Once you touch
Start ride
mode…

You will be asked to select
your destination stop. Then
Moovit will tell you how many
stops there are, show you
your progress on the map
and specify your estimated
arrival time.
It tells you when you are 2
stops away, when your stop
is next and when to get off
the bus.

Google Maps will
tell you where to
walk. It will talk to
you. It can show
you your position
so you can see if
you are walking in
the right direction.

Get Taxi
It tells you how long until
the taxi arrives, who is the
driver, with a photo (lets
you rate the ride
afterwards), shows you the
path the taxi is taking on
the map. Many excellent
and informative features.
And no additional charge to
call a taxi.

Get Taxi - ‫טקסי‬ ‫גט‬
They seem to have discovered the problem with
their translation & changed their name to English

If you drive a car, Pango is a way to pay for parking
with your phone.
I have no personal experience with this app, but as
soon as I get a car, I’m getting Pango!

If you are in business
for yourself, and you
don’t have a free
listing in the Janglo
business directory,
then you are missing
out on an opportunity
to market your
services

Evernote
This is my favorite app.
Evernote helps me
keep my sanity because
I can file anything and
everything away in
Evernote and know that
I will be able to find it
when I need it.

You can file images,
audio, websites, articles,
scribbles.
You can give them
reminder dates, so it is a
GTD (get things done)
solution.
You can share notes you
make, collaborate.

You can write or
draw too.
(Just like you would
on a cocktail napkin)

I use the label
feature extensively.
Since I never know
how exactly I will be
searching for an
item, or what aspect
I will remember, I
include all kinds of
triggers.
A prime example of how I
use Evernote

Clock
Sometimes we need a
reminder that is truly invasive.
Not just a text message or
email notification. We need an
alarm so we don’t forget to do
something important at the
appropriate time.
What could be simpler than to
set an alarm on the phone.
Beware! The alarm will sound
even if the phone is set to
silent!

By the way, these are
screenshots from my
phone. You can take a
screenshot by holding
down the power button
and the home button at
the same time.
(whether on iPhone or
Android)
The home button is in the
middle on the bottom.

Hold your home button to see all
your open apps and navigate
between them or close them if you
desire.
On the iPhone, it is a double-click
on you home button to get the
open apps and you can swipe to
close them.

The Camera can be very Handy
Sometimes I want to make sure that I will find my
way, or be able to find an invitation or such and I
might lose the piece of paper, or I might not have
connectivity when I need it.
If I have a photo on my camera, I have a record that
I can use as a reference.

The camera on the phone
It’s not just for taking photos of people or
vacations. I take photos of all kinds of things.
Some examples…
1. A sign that I don’t have time to decipher
2. A store that I want to come back to and I
want to remember the surroundings
3. An item that I might want to buy later
4. An excerpt from a book I am reading

5. A label on a food item that I want to
investigate before I buy it
6. Something my husband or son might
want or be interested in seeing
7. An error message on my computer
8. A person I just met to add their photo
when I add them as a contact
9. A medical document that I have to turn in
10.A receipt that will fade over time

I might even take a picture of
a recipe on a slip of paper.
And annotate it with Skitch.

Edit photos right on your phone.
Save them, crop them, apply
filters like this one of me.
Organize your photos into
folders.
And back them up to the Cloud
using Dropbox or OneDrive or
some other service.
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Storage and back up in
the Cloud.
Also Google drive and
DropBox.
Great way to back up
your photos, share
large files
OneDrive

Possibly you have already
had someone share a
document or a picture with
you using Google Drive… It
allows you to view, possibly
edit documents and
spreadsheets and
presentations. Free. Even
read a Microsoft Word or
Excel document.
If you have gmail, you just
need to activate it.
Google Drive

The icons for my
Google groups and
WordPress group in
this screen shot
were added using
Add to homescreen.

My last screen. One
convenient swipe
from the left. My
business apps are
grouped together.

Base is CRM-customer
relationship management- to
manage your sales pipeline.
It is used to keep track of
your customers, clients
and prospects and the
activities that support
your sales and your
relationship with them.
Base

Use to give
electronic
receipts to clients
(no more
carrying around
a book of
kabalot!)
iCount

JBNF events
(Jerusalem
Business
Networking
Forum)
Meetup

Manage email
to subscribers
of
enewsletters
MailChimp

To manage my website
I can access my
website and blog from
here.
Capture an inspiration
for a post and save it as
a draft
Wordpress

Genius scan
lets me scan and
save or email
documents on
the fly.

SwiftKey

In addition to making typing
easier
Swype is very good at predicting
your words once it gets to know
you
And you can speak to it, and it
will transcribe your words.

I like SwiftKey, but I
had to consider
whether I wanted to
give the access I
needed to grant in
order to get the
benefits.
(that is the conundrum
with many apps.

IFTTT
= IF This, Then That
Ingenious.
Reminder.
Time Saver.
Never miss a thing.

IFTTT
(If This Then That)
This is an app that
automates other
actions you might
need to take.
You create “recipes”
where something
triggers an action.

If A happens, then
do B.
Here is an
example, if the
someone posts a
picture on
Facebook and
tags you, save it
in your Dropbox.

In closing
I hope that I have given you some new ideas and tips for
using your smartphone today. And that you have had at
least one moment!
 Keep it (and my data) secure
 Help me remember stuff
 Stay on task
 Feel more productive with less anxiety and stress.
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