{"id":6735,"date":"2011-11-01T19:49:14","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T03:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/?p=6735"},"modified":"2011-11-01T19:49:27","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T03:49:27","slug":"d2-ipad-in-the-workplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/2011\/11\/01\/d2-ipad-in-the-workplace\/","title":{"rendered":"D#2: Ipad in the workplace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I have not used the Ipad personally for any lengthy period of time, out of curiousity, I have been to the Apple store just to explore it. The much that I know of the Ipad, it has a lot of tools and apps that would enhance and extend the way we work.<\/p>\n<p>In our organisation, the senior management are always on the go providing legal and professional support to our clients; this usually involves a lot of travel, emailing and phone time and increasingly these days, web conferencing.<\/p>\n<p>An Ipad would be a great value added tool to how they work regardless of their location or time of day, as long as they have internet access. Working with the Ipad, would result in a culmination of all the necessary tools required to do their jobs- installation of voip phone, web conferencing software, webmail and GPS capability means they have all the tools they need and it weighs very little! That`s a value add.<\/p>\n<p>However, the disadvantage would be that since every other device in the organisation is Windows based, the Ipad users may have a bit of an issue \u2018shifting gears\u2019 from Mac to Windows platform, creating frustration in the initial stage.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I have not used the Ipad personally for any lengthy period of time, out of curiousity, I have been to the Apple store just to explore it. The much that I know of the Ipad, it has a lot of tools and apps that would enhance and extend the way we work. In our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,328740],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-week-09-emerging-market-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6735"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6738,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6735\/revisions\/6738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}