Introduction to Using a Smartphone for Entrepreneurs and Business People presentation

WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO

LEARN TODAY?

CAN YOUR “SMARTPHONE” HELP YOU

WORK AND PLAY SMARTER?

Professional Women’s Networking Forum – Sept 11, 2014

Presented by Bryna Lee Jacobson, My Tech Tutor mobile 050-7725767

Empowering you to use contemporary It’s EASY when you know how!

(Beginners welcome)

I like to think that I am making my Smartphone smarter,

and not the other way around…

Presented by Bryna Lee Jacobson, My Tech Tutor | mobile 050-7725767 Empowering you to use contemporary technology

It’s EASY when you know how!(Beginners welcome)

What is a Smartphone anyway…?

We are going to be talking about small, portable electronic devices that connect to the Internet

Smartphones are not all alike…Newer models vs older onesiPhone vs Android and Windows or others

Much of what I will show you will be Android because that is what I am currently using

Most things will apply to iPhone as well but they are not fully interchangeable.



Today’s session is intended to be an introduction…

This is not intended to be a hands on session where you will follow along on your phone.

What I hope to accomplish today is to demystify the smart phone a little. If you haven’t bought one yet, you may decide

whether it is worthwhile for youIf you have one already, I hope that I will share

some ways of using it that will help you feel more empowered, and have more fun.



Just like anything else in your life, the key is moderation…

Why do I mention this? Because it is a common concern that the use of a smart phone will force you to be “on call” all the time, that you will not have peace and quiet.

In my opinion, you have the control over the use of your phone. If you are sitting in a restaurant, having a meal, or a coffee and the phone rings, you can choose to answer it or not. Likewise, you do not have to respond to every email, text message or facebook post, etc. if it is not your wish to do so.



What if you have some other kind of device but not a “Smartphone?”

If you have an iPad or Kindle Fire or some other tablet that is not a phone, most of what we are going to talk about will still apply to you.

The difference is whether you can easily use it when you are out and about, or whether you need WIFI.



Smartphones…



iPhoneGalaxy S4

Tablets can also do lots of things that Smartphones do…



Nexus (Android)

Kindle FireiPad

Windows 8 Tablet

WIFI and “the Cloud” WIFI is a commonly used term to mean that you can

access the Internet without a wired connection (wirelessly)

Most smart phones have both WIFI and 3G. The 3G, which we won’t get into, is what provides the phone service. If you have an unlimited data plan, then for practical purposes, you won’t really care if you on using WIFI or your 3G, but if you have to pay for the use of the data being transferred when you are not connected via WIFI, you will want to pay attention to whether you have a WIFI connection or not.



Don’t be intimidated by “the Cloud.”

When we say “the Cloud,” we are talking about the “stuff” that you are connecting to via your phone or computer. Like your Gmail. Or Google searching.

Nowadays, we use the Cloud to save stuff we used to save on our computers. Why, because we can. Because connections are so much faster, we don’t have to store everything on our computer, and maybe our data is more secure, since it is being backed up regularly.



OK, let’s start talking about apps



This is my home screen on my phone



It is set up like a grid The little pictures are called icons

and they represent apps. Each one is a different app. Apps are programs that can do

various tasks and functions for us. The top part with the clouds is

called a widget. Widgets are like mini-apps that run all the time even when you don’t open them.

This is my next screen



Icons can be organized in any way you choose.

I like to group them by functionality.

The ones on the bottom, are accessible from every screen.

My second screenSome of my most used

apps



The icons make the programs easy to access.

Smart phones nowadays use a touch screen.

That means instead of clicking or double clicking we use taps, or holds, or other gestures like pinching.

My second screenSome of my most used

apps



Camera Photo Gallery Evernote Our Groceries Settings Waze OneDrive Dropbox Yahoo Mail

My third screen Social Media oriented



Pinterest Pocket Glide Linkedin Facebook Twitter Instagram

My forth screen Mostly stuff that is Jewish or Israeli.



XE for currency Multi Converter to metric to

English measurements (temperature, weight, distance

Macabi Morfix Bank Leumi Leumi card Birkat HaMazon

My fifth screen Mostly stuff from Samsung



I realized as I was preparing this that I don’t need most of this on my screen. I can access it from all apps if necessary. So bye bye S Memo, S Health, S Translator, S Voice, Voice Search

I am keeping Voice Recorder.

My sixth screen My Google page



I find the various google apps very useful. So I grouped them together, except for Google Maps, which is on my home page for convenience.

Google translate is amazing and be used via speaking or talking.

My seventh and last screen My Tech Tutor page

(convenient because I can scroll left to get to it right away – so it is my last screen but it functions like my

second screen too)



I can access my website and blog from here.

Also a widget to control Google music player.

I really like my Walking mate widget (part of Samsung S Health).

There are apps that let you edit photos right on your phone.

Save them, crop them, apply filters like this one of me.

In this case, I did this right in the Gallery app that comes with the Android phone.

You can also organize your photos into folders.

And back them up to the Cloud using Dropbox or OneDrive or some other service.



Your phone can help you navigate whether by walking, driving, or as I do mostly, by bus!



The next series of slides is going to show you how Google Maps, Moovit and your own eyes on the street can help you find the right bus stop, on the right side of the street, going in the right direction.

Your phone can help you navigate whether by walking, driving, or as I do mostly, by

bus!



First I use Google Maps to figure out the location of the place I need to go – and choose the route that makes the most sense to me. Google includes trains too.

Then I may use Moovit to find out the bus times.



I can see from the map that the bus is nearby even before it turns the corner



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!



Note that the app indicates the to and from for the bus. It also shows you the bus stops along the way. So you can make sure you get on the right bus, in the right direction. And you will know the exact name of the bus stop, because if you used Google Maps, it told you the name.

But wait, wait! There’s more! The new version of Moovit, will tell you when to get off the bus!

Touch the “play” button in the upper right hand corner when you board the bus.



Of course the app doesn’t read your mind. You have to tell it you are on the bus and select your destination.

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.





OK, enough about navigation…

Let’s look at some other (even seemingly mundane) apps and functions to give you a

quick idea of their purpose and why you might want them or what you might do with

them.



Not just a traditional alarm clock

Other ways I use the clock:

Timer for baking or for other time sensitive meetings

Add reminder to alarm to take something with me

Reminder to do something



One of my favorite apps is Evernote

But first, do you see that it says “copied to clipboard?”

Screen shots are great tool. To capture something

you are seeing that you want to remember.



A screen shot 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.



One of my favorite apps is Evernote

Evernote is a great way to remember and organize information of any kind.

Words, audio, video. From the web, from an email,

you name it. And to be able to find it again!



The camera on the phone…

It’s not just for taking photos of people or vacations. I take photos of all kinds of things. 1. A sign that I don’t have time to decipher2. A store that I want to come back to and I

want to remember the surroundings3. An item that I might want to buy later4. An excerpt from a book I am reading



The camera on the phone…

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 computer8. Beautiful flowers or interesting sights9. A medical document that I have to turn in10.A receipt that might fade over time



If you have income or expenses in currency other than the shekel, it can be very helpful to be able to translate at current rates.



This is called Base. It is used to keep track of your customers,

clients and prospects and the activities that support your

sales and your relationship with

them.



In most email apps, you can have more than one email account if

necessary. So business can be separate from

personal…

As in many things in life, and most things

technological, there is more than one way to

accomplish a task.



This is the built in email app. Why do I use it in addition to the Gmail app? For starters

because I have a Yahoo email account too. And also

because I have my business email from my website.

So now you will know why I might not answer right away. Way too much email. But that

is a subject for a different time.

How to use tools to manage your inbox.



I really like SwiftKey,



SwiftKey demonstration to give you an idea of why I like it so much.



I really like SwiftKey, but I had to consider

whether I wanted to give the access I needed to grant

in order to get the benefits.



Facebook Messenger

On the contrary, I recently deleted Facebook Messenger when I realized that they were

asking for way more access than they need to function and I consider it an invasion of

my privacy for them to use my private information for their purposes, not for my

convenience.



It is important to secure your phone with a

code or password

And my lock screen has my

email address on it, in case I lose it



It is important to secure your phone with a code or

password.

And there are apps to help you track down your phone, or wipe its memory, if you lose it, so that sensitive information does not fall

into the wrong hands.

What is sensitive? How about being logged into

your email or other accounts on your phone?



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.



Pinterest like a

bulletin board

and you pin up

what you like



Pocketformerly

Read it Later (I think the old name was more

descriptive, right?



Our Groceries

for a shared shopping

list(or

creatively use for any

kind of check list or packing list)



OneDriveStorage and back up in the Cloud.



IFTTTIngenious. Reminder.

Time Saver. Never miss a

thing. IF This, Then

That



Forget blurbs

this is our world in photos

Instagram



Macabi MedicalSo easy to make an appointment with a doctor, or look up

test results…(to me, much easier

and more convenient than

calling on the phone!



Anki Flash cards to learn what you want

or need to know. Make your own or download decks that others have

assembled.Perfect for vocabulary.

Have I convinced you that you should have and use a

“SMARTY-PANTS” phone?



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