Yesterday, I began migrating to the cloud. Now that my data exists in the cloud, I can use the power of the cloud to access my information either via a browser, or hypothetically via a smartphone which I do not yet own, or via Microsoft Outlook. It enables me to use the power of the various tools in the most effective way, hopefully making me better able to manage all of the projects and tasks.
By still using Microsoft Outlook, I am able to:
Use the task manager, which is currently more powerful than Google’s offering
Have the ability to create a relationship between an appointment in the calendar and Microsoft OneNote, which allows me to more easily organize and retrieve my meeting notes.
We have been migrating to Google Apps for Education over the past few months. At this point, we have successfully set up all of our accounts, begun professional development for those who are new to the interface, and have been migrating a great number of our users from Outlook to Google Apps. This is a very exciting time.
As normal, I usually spend most of my time assisting others and not taking care of my own computing needs. So today, I began my personal migration to fully embrace the cloud and move my data. I am first using Google’s email migrator and Google Calendar Synch to move my contacts, mail, and appointments into the cloud. Once that is complete, I will then be installing and using Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook so that I can still use Outlook (and hopefully continue to use the ability to create OneNote notes from appointments) and the GTDInbox Tool to better manage my inbox and tasks.
Only six more hours to upload my mail and then to clean out contacts, clean out mail, and better learn how to manage the various aspects of my life.
I have not been blogging much lately. I have had too many balls in the air and when I would get time, I would be too mentally or physically exhausted to think about extracting the thoughts in my head and putting them down “on paper.”
Today, I recieved notice that my ClustrMap was resetting. This is always a sad day, since this means that all of the dots which had represented viewers to this blog, have disappeared. Like I have learned from Tribes, I have to rebuild my tribe and audience.
I anticipate coming and sharing many of the drafts stuck in my head. I am hopeful that I will be able to let them trickle slowly, so I can rebuild my audience and tribe.
Here are my notes from the presentation by Sir Ken Robinson about his book The Element at the Francis W. Parker School in Chicago. He as part of the Francine C. Rosenberg Memorial Lecture Series.
Yesterday, I began migrating to the cloud. Now that my data exists in the cloud, I can use the power of the cloud to access my information either via a browser, or hypothetically via a smartphone which I do not yet own, or via Microsoft Outlook. It enables me to use the power of the various tools in the most effective way, hopefully making me better able to manage all of the projects and tasks.
