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Thursday, August 30, 2012

The five hottest IT trends of 2012, so far

By Jason Hiner | August 16, 2012, 12:28 PM PDT


As part of what we do at TechRepublic we talk to a lot of CIOs who are planning budgets, IT professionals who are planning projects, and IT vendors who are selling products. That gives us a lot of valuable insights into which way the winds are blowing in IT. With that in mind, it's time to take a look at the IT trends that have the most momentum behind them so far in 2012.

Let's count them down.

5. The projectization of IT

Projects have always been a major part of IT, but in the past there was also a lot of IT resources dedicated to keeping the lights on and keeping the world running. Companies now take those operational aspects of IT for granted and want that existing infrastructure automated as much as possible and for as cheaply as possible. There's little glory or job security in keeping the company's existing systems on life support.

That's why outsourcing and the cloud are such hot commodities. They allow companies to offload IT operational costs and focus their IT staff on the next project to upgrade systems, streamline business processes, and launch new IT projects to transform the business. More than ever, IT is all about the projects. It's about the vendors that can help support IT projects (and there are infrastructure jobs for IT pros there). It's about the business analysts and project managers who can organize people and resources to pull off projects on time and on budget. It's about the CIOs who now base their budget and staffing decisions largely on projects rather than just the cost of keeping the server room running.

4. PC/Mobile convergence

Employees are more mobile than ever. There are a lot of factors driving that, from increased telecommuting to work/life balance where people leave early to pick up their kids and then work the rest of the afternoon from a cafe or the stands at the soccer field. There are also industries such as transportation and health care that have always had lots of non-desk employees and have had to shoe-horn computing solutions into their work environments.

The growing capabilities of smartphones and tablets are filling many of these needs as these mobile devices become more able to do the tasks of a full PC. Still, there are times when workers can be even more productive when working with a full keyboard and mouse. That's why we're beginning to see the rise of products like Motorola Webtop (a smartphone docking solution), Ubuntu for Android (desktop OS embedded in a smartphone), and Microsoft Surface (a tablet with a kickstand and keyboard cover). The lines between traditional PCs and mobile devices continue to blur.

3. Desktop thinning

Let's be honest. The proliferation of mobile devices and the Bring Your Own Device trend has created a lot of headaches and nightmare scenarios for the IT department. For companies that need stronger security and more control over the employee environment, one of the easiest answers to the problem is to move to solutions like desktop virtualization or terminal services from vendors like VMware, Citrix, and Microsoft.

That allows the IT department to create a standard environment with all the company apps that employees can access from a company PC, their home PC or laptop (over VPN), or even a tablet or smartphone. The environment looks and feels like a traditional PC but the apps and all the data remain on the company servers which is more secure and easier for the IT department to manage and troubleshoot. This technology has been around for years, as "thin clients." But there are three factors driving it forward in 2012: 1.) BYOD, 2.) mobile devices, and 3.) it lets companies delay PC upgrades since it pushes all of the heavy lifting to the servers. So companies still aren't going to thin clients in large numbers, but their desktop environments are getting a lot thinner.

2. Big Data

If "Cloud Computing" has been the overhyped and overused IT term of the last several years, the new buzz phrase of 2012 is "Big Data." Like Cloud, Big Data gets abused by marketers. The main thing you need to understand when it comes to Big Data is that it's about bringing together the "structured" internal data that your company has always used for its reports and mixing it with public "unstructured" data like social media streams and freely available government data (on traffic, agriculture, crime, etc.).

The act of combining these two types of data can give you new insights into how your customers feel about your products versus your competitors (from the social media streams), it can help you anticipate changes in product demand, it can help you use government trending data to anticipate the growth or decline of markets, and more. That's why Big Data is such a big deal. But, don't be fooled. It's still in its infancy. There aren't a ton of great commercial tools yet that can help you harness Big Data. It takes the right IT pros who know how to work some data magic, and they are in high demand.

1. Cloud, cloud, and cloud

There are essentially three types of clouds — the full Internet cloud (some call it the "public cloud"), the private cloud (which looks a lot like a traditional data center, but with lots of virtualization), and the hybrid cloud (an integrated mix of public and private clouds). Make no mistake, all three types of clouds are thriving in 2012. The public cloud is the one that most people think of when they hear "cloud" and it's mostly about hosted apps like Salesforce.com and Workday.com as well as Internet-hosted infrastructure like Rackspace and Amazon AWS. But, we're increasingly seeing traditional IT players like Microsoft, IBM, and HP quietly become big players in the cloud as well.

The private cloud and the hybrid cloud are for larger companies and organizations that need stronger security or have legacy apps that are not easily moved or migrated to the cloud. Both of these types of cloud solutions are picking up steam, especially in companies that have already moved their easy stuff to the cloud and are now digging in and dealing with some of the big, expensive, entrenched stuff.

Your take

What are the hottest IT trends in your world so far in 2012? Jump into the discussion below and let us know.
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Everyone use opensource

Apple, Microsoft, VMware: Everyone's building open-source software

Summary:⁠ In the opening keynote at LinuxCon, Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin observed that open source is now key to how all companies use to develop software—and yes he meant Apple, Microsoft, and VMware as well.

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Jim Zemlin, the Linux Foundation's leader sees Apple, Microsoft, and VMware using open-source development.

Why is it important for businesses to master open source? Zemlin said it's because "Software is the future of IT. Hardware is important to enable software, but what I mean that the value that end-users sees from technology increasingly comes from the software."

He then showed a slide of half-a-dozen smartphones that were turned off and pointed out that even with a very technical crowd, "If you just look at the hardware of smartphones, you can't tell them apart, it's only when you turn them on that you can tell the differences."

Zemlin said that all successful tech companies are now using and contributing to open source communities. "Besides the usual suspects--Amazon, Google, IBM-- there are companies that you may not think of as being big open-source companies, even competitors, now admit that they must participate in open source."

Like who? Zemlin pointed out that "Microsoft is now supporting Linux in their cloud. Not because they want to, but because their customers demand it."

In addition, VMware just acquired Nicira, an important OpenStack. Indeed, VMware, a  champion of the closed virtualization and cloud position, has just submitted an application to join the OpenStack Foundation.

Even Apple, Zemlin observed "one of the most closed companies in the world, uses a lot of open source. If you look inside the Apple's iPhone legal agreements you'll find GPL code there." In addition, "Apple bought CUPS (Common Unix Printing System), an open-source project" a few years ago. So while Apple may be closed, it certainly understands the value of open source. Indeed, Mac OS X is built on a foundation of Darwin/Mach—BSD Unix-based operating systems.

Zemlin's not the only one seeing this marriage of open-source and corporate IT. Tim Yeaton CEO of Black Duck Software recently blogged, "Corporate IT has made extensive use of open source code for years. Gartner reported that on average, 29% of deployed code was open source, and that by 2015 at least 95% of mainstream IT organizations will leverage open source solutions within mission critical software deployments. So while open source code is being widely adopted, it's only recently that corporate IT became interested in the efficiencies of the open, collaborative creation process itself. Projects spin up quickly and attract contributors organically without advertising or hiring; large distributed teams produce high quality innovative code with little overhead; and it's all done completely in the open."

"Open collaborative development via communities is widely understood and accepted, and corporate IT organizations are realizing that these characteristics can be applied to improve their internal development as well, and many are looking to apply them to enhance their own internal methods, typically in conjunction with adopting agile or lean methodologies."

In short, welcome to IT software development in 2012, welcome to open source.
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

4 platform pengembangan Android

Four Android development platforms that will change your life

By Grady Winston | August 27, 2012, 12:39 PM PDT

Android attracts some of the most talented developers around, thanks to the continued growth of Google Play. In addition, the environment's open nature makes it a welcome haven for developers seeking refuge from the Apple App Store's strict guidelines, and a lack of any real approval process in Google Playmakes investing time and money into developing an Android app a much less risky venture.

But with all the attractive qualities Google Play offers to anyone in the mobile development game, there are hurdles standing between developers and a smash-hit app. Android is notoriously fragmented when it comes to hardware, and many manufacturers have their own proprietary modifications of Android (HTC Sensecomes to mind).

For those pioneers dedicated enough to look past these quirks, there is a wide variety of platforms out there that can turn Android development into a dream. These libraries and services offer developers solid foundations for apps that might have taken countless hours to build from scratch. (Some of these services offer platform support for more than just Android.)

1: Android SDK

Before diving into anything else, start with the basics. Google offers a comprehensive software development kit with a variety of packages that are available a la carte under the Android SDK Manager. Starting with tools for debugging, documentation for Android platform APIs, and system images for testing, the SDK also empowers developers with tools to fully integrate with Google's ecosystem. It even includes essentials like Google Play billing and licensing tools to make the sales and distribution side of app development a breeze.

2: Gimbal Context Aware

Apps that can alter user experience based on geography and user interests are "context aware," and they can be life changing not only for developers, but also for the users who download them. Qualcomm has made context awareness effortless with Gimbal, a full-featured platform that's energy efficient and secure. Using a web-based manager, developers can set Geofence locations that identify certain hotspots for app interaction. Gimbal also tracks user preferences and web activity to inform apps and customize experiences for each individual user. It even puts a high emphasis on user privacy and puts extensive privacy controls within the user's grasp.

3: Titanium Mobile SDK

Most developers are interested in platforms that enable them to maximize their efforts and reach as many users on as many different devices as possible. If you want to get into Android development, but are also interested in reaching iOS and web users, Titanium Mobile from Appcelerator is a total game changer. The platform boasts more than 5,000 device and mobile operating system APIs, and offers you the freedom to develop apps that run like a perfect native application developed for iPhones and Android devices. It will even help you produce device agnostic HTML5 apps that will work on any device and widen your potential user base.

4: Vuforia Augmented Reality

Qualcomm gets two platforms on this list because it has the best developer tools. Vuforia, like Gimbal, is nothing short of a miracle. Once you really start digging into Android app development, it's platforms like Vuforia that open up a wide world of possibility; in this case, it's augmented reality (AR). Vuforia promises to set developers up with computer vision tech that's built to recognize real-world images and 3D targets. If you're building a game or a geolocation app that might benefit from interaction with the real world, you don't have to worry about building that sort of functionality from the ground up. And now with the limited beta of cloud image recognition, Vuforia is setting itself up to supply developers with databases of millions of images that can be used seamlessly as part of the AR experience. If AR is where you want to be, this is your ticket.


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Sunday, August 26, 2012

10 Taktik Pemasaran Social Media yang Dapat Cepat Diaplikasikan

Selasa, 12 Juni 2012 16:08

Saat Anda mulai menjalankan bisnis baru, Anda harus merbut perhatian konsumen. Salah satu cara tercepat untuk memulai ialah dengan memudahkan calon pembeli menemukan Anda. Mulailah dengan mengembangkan taktik marketing yang memberikan nilai tambah dan melibatkan pelanggan lebih baik.

 

Taktik jejaring sosial yag sederhana dapat secara tak langsung membantu Anda melakukan ini dan jika Anda melakukannya dengan benar , traffic akan naik, mengubah pengunjung menjadi pembeli, mengubah prospek menjadi penjualan dan mungkin mengubah pelanggan menjadi konsumen setia yang membawa margin laba yang tinggi bagi bisnis Anda.

 Dengan demikian jika Anda membutuhkan sejumlah ide cemerlang untuk menggairahkan kembali upaya marketing Anda, Anda bisa membaca kiat berikut ini. Semuanya bisa Anda terapkan dalam waktu kurang dari 10 hari.

Buat konten Anda bekerja lebih keras: Ciptakan panduan kiat ringkas bagi industri Anda agar bisa dipublikasikan dalam blog perusahaan Anda dan gunakan kembali dan jadwal kembali kalimat khusus untuk email blast, posting di dinding Facebook, dan Twitter.

Ceritakan sesuatu: Jadwal sejumlah tweet pertanyaan dan jawaban bagi pengikut/ penggemar Anda lalu bagikan hasilnya dengan Storify.com yahg diintegrasikan dalam blog perusahaan Anda (jika ada) dan jejaring sosial Anda.Undang orang lain untuk berbagi pendapat dalam hasil pertanyaan dan jawaban untuk meningkatkan keterlibatan.

Komunikasikan dengan lebih akurat: Gunakan SocialBro.com untuk mendapatkan informasi lebih akurat mengenai komunitas pengikut Anda di Twitter  termasuk di mana pengikut Anda berasal, bahasa yang mereka gunakan, kegiatan mereka di twitter dan sebagainya, kemudian bidik konten Anda dengan lebih akurat yang kemudian akan menghasilkan lebih banyak retweet (RT) dan jangkauan pesan yang lebih tinggi.

Manusiakan pemasaran Anda: Dalami data penjualan Anda , dan wawancarailah  pelanggan Anda yang tersohor dan bagikan hasil wawancara itu di situs, email, blog, newsletter elektronik dan kanal-kanal social media.

Kembangkan screencast: Buatlah panduan prosedural menggunakan aplikasi Screenr (Screenr.com) mengenai bagaimana melakukan sesuatu (menjelajahi situs Anda, menggunakan produk online Anda, dana sebagainya) dalam sebuah screencast, video penjelasan atau menunjukkan langkah-langkah dalam serangkaian foto.

Selenggarakan event social media secara online: Undanglah tamu yang relevan dengan industri Anda untuk tampil dalam laman Facebook Anda untuk sehari dan berinteraksi secara langsung dengan anggota komunitas. Promosikan event social media sepanjang memungkinkan dalam segala kontak dengan pelanggan Anda.

Luncurkan kontes foto di Facebook: Unggah foto-foto ceria berisi orang yang menggunakan produk Anda. Misalnya jika Anda memiliki usaha ubin, Anda bisa mencoba menarik pelanggan untuk mengunggah bagaimana ekspresi gembira mereka dengan mencium ubin produksi Anda yang baru mereka pasang di rumahnya. Kemudian mintalah para fans di Facebook untuk memberikan pendapat mereka mengenai foto mana yang paling bagus dan menarik.Ini bisa membuat penyuka laman Anda merasa lebih terlibat dan menarik orang lain untuk menjadi penyuka.

Gunakan presentasi: Ciptakan presentasi Slideshare (slideshare.net) mengenai pertanyaan dan jawaban konsumen dan bagikan dalam sebuah posting/ artikel blog. Berikan presentasi tersebut tag yang relevan dengan kata kunci tertentu untuk perusahaan Anda dan industri yang bersangkutan untuk meningkatkan kelebihan SEO.

Buat video perusahaan: Rekamlah video pendek sederhana tetapi menarik, mintalah pelanggan untuk mengirimkan foto dan buat video disertai musik  untuk perusahaan Anda emnggunakan layanan Animoto dan unggahlah dalam blog perusahaan.

Minta untuk bertindak: Imbauan untuk bertindak atau "call for actions" sangat penting. Anda memberikan banyak bonus gratis di social media dan menciptakan banyak nilai sehingga jangan cemas dan takut untuk meminta pengunjung melakukan sesuatu untuk Anda. Tambahkan imbauan bertindak yang dapat meningkatkan prospek bisnis atau mendapatkan seseorang yang tertarik untuk menjadi konsumen setia produk Anda. (*AP)

Sumber:
http://ciputraentrepreneurship.com/tips-bisnis/175-penjualan-dan-pemasaran/17625-10-taktik-pemasaran-social-media-yang-dapat-cepat-diaplikasikan-.html
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Learn to trust your people

Editor's note: J. Keith Murnighan is Harold H. Hines Jr. distinguished professor of risk management at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, and author of the recent book, "Do Nothing! How to Stop OverManaging and Become a Great Leader."

(CNN) -- Far too many leaders do too much. Does this include you? If you can't take a two-week vacation without your cell phone, your laptop and your tablet, it probably does.

Don't get me wrong -- this is not unusual. Instead, it's natural: our ancestors -- the ones who survived and gave us the chance to be here -- were probably more active than their sometimes less fortunate colleagues were. Their activity was essential in the prehistoric era because it helped them overcome their inherent vulnerability and increase their chances at self-preservation.

their work come across as micro-managers.

Active leaders who
involved in every
work come across
have gotten to the point of doing nothing, only about 1% raise their hands, with a big smile on their faces

At the same time, everyone else in the class looks at them with envy. When I ask them how they have achieved this wonderful ideal, they always say the same thing: "I have a great team."

This begs an important question: Did they have a great team first, which allowed them to do nothing, or did they do nothing first and a great team emerged? We don't have enough hard data to answer this question, but isn't it intriguing to think that the latter, rather than the former, might be true?

Don't we know that
important role is to lead?

Although the answers to these questions seem obvious, too many leaders have a hard time taking the steps to implement them. Here are a couple ways that you can move toward doing nothing and, in the process, be more effective:

First, identify the breadth and range of your team members' skills so that you can let them do what they do well.

Second, do what you can to facilitate their performance. Think of it this way: what would your life be like if all of your team members lived up to their maximum potential? If you now have a very rosy image in mind, why not define your job as facilitating their performance? They will do better and your life will improve!

Fourth, think of yourself as a mini-CEO. You are the leader of your team; you are probably their most important contact in the firm. When you think of yourself as a mini-CEO, you should follow the first rule for a CEO: Walk the floor.

Translated, this means being in touch with your team members and asking them how they are doing and how you can help make their jobs easier. They won't ask for a multi-million dollar piece of equipment and they'll appreciate the personal attention. Not only that, if you provide them with resources that they can use to do their jobs better, they will be motivated to do even more -- and an appreciative light will shine on you.

The moral of this story is simple: People love to be trusted; they dislike micro managers; leaders are naturally programmed to be pro-active, and this can get in the way of effective performance.

The conclusion: give yourself a break; trust your team members more; and realize that you can actually achieve more by doing less yourself.

Saturday, August 25, 2012

Prof Nelson Tansu

Professor muda di Amerika ini bernama Nelson Tansu, lahir di Medan (Sumatera Utara) pada tahun 1977. Ia seorang pakar nanoteknologi dan optoelektronika asal Indonesia yang menjadi tenure-tracked Assistant Professor di Universitas Lehigh (Lehigh University) pada usia 25 tahun (sejak Juli 2003). Tansu menyisihkan lebih dari 300 doktor untuk mendapatkan jabatan Assistant Professor tersebut di Universitas Lehigh sejak Juli 2003.

Prof. Nelson memiliki pesan-pesan untuk generasi muda, khususnya bagi generasi muda di negara kelahirannya, Indonesia. Mari kita simak pesan-pesannya dibawah ini:

1. "Menurut saya, keberhasilan bukanlah berasal dari tingkat kepintaran. Saya sendiri tidak pernah merasa bahwa saya sendiri lebih cerdas atau lebih dari yang lainnya terutama orang-orang Indonesia lainnya. Sebenarnya menurut saya, saya biasa-biasa saja tetapi saya memang orang yang rajin dan kerja keras. Jadi, menurut saya, kerja keras dan fokus yang luar biasa adalah kunci dari keberhasilan. Di samping kerja keras dan fokus, saya juga mendapat dukungan dari istri (Adela Gozali Yose) dan keluarga saya untuk dapat memberikan kontribusi sampai sekarang."

2. "Banyak sekali talenta-talenta terbaik dari Indonesia yang mungkin jauh lebih bagus dan telah berkontribusi dengan banyak bagi Indonesia dan dunia. Semoga, saya sangat berharap bahwa banyak generasi-generasi muda Indonesia akan terus memiliki motivasi untuk terus bekerja dengan giat dan fokus untuk dapat memberikan kontribusi kepada pembangunan bangsa dalam jangka panjang di kemudian hari."

3. "Saya sendiri sebenarnya masih jauh dari banyak talenta-talenta terbaik Indonesia yang telah berhasil di tingkat dunia. Saya sendiri masih berusaha keras dan giat untuk meningkatkan kontribusi dari diri sendiri dan juga mahasiswa kita untuk dapat memberikan kontribusi di bidang sains dan teknologi. Masih banyak hal yang harus saya belajar dan kembangkan sebelum dapat dibilang berhasil, dan kami belajar untuk maju setiap hari."

4. "Negara Indonesia adalah Negara besar dengan populasi ke-4 terbesar di dunia. Banyak talenta-talenta luar biasa dari generasi muda kita yang melebihi kita-kita yang sudah lebih senior, dan kita harus dapat memberikan motivasi untuk memajukan mereka, dan juga memberikan bimbingan dan semangat yang tepat untuk dapat mengembangkan talenta-talenta muda tersebut secara optimal. Bangsa Indonesia adalah bangsa yang besar yang harus mampu untuk memberikan kontribusi besar untuk tingkat dunia. Dengan adanya generasi muda bertalenta tinggi di Indonesia (yang menurut saya, banyak yang lebih luar biasa dari kita-kita yang senior), maka saya yakin Indonesia dapat menjadi negara maju dengan masyarakat yang sejahtera dan juga dapat memberikan kontribusi yang luar biasa di tingkat dunia."

5. "Sewaktu pertemuan di I-4 (Ikatan Ilmuwan Indonesia Internasional) di Jakarta bulan Desember 2010 , saya benar-benar sangat impressed dengan enthusiasm dari generasi muda yang ingin Indonesia maju. Dengan semangat yang demikian positif dan saling mendukung di antara kalangan ilmuwan Indonesia, maka saya yakin Indonesia akan maju dan generasi muda akan terus berkembang melebihi generasi sekarang".

6. "Di antara kalangan ilmuwan Indonesia, banyak di antara mereka yang dapat menjadi sukses jika mendapatkan kesempatan yang cukup. Jadi semoga di kemudian hari, bangsa and negara Indonesia, dan masyarakat Indonesia, dapat memberikan dukungan yang secukupnya bagi ilmuwan generasi muda sebanyak-banyaknya."

7. "Tujuan dari saya di Lehigh adalah hanya untuk fokus dalam bekerja keras untuk menghasilkan mahasiswa-mahasiswa yang dapat berkontribusi dalam bidang teknologi dan sains, dan semoga kami dapat memberikan kontribusi untuk mahasiswa Indonesia juga dalam pengembangan ilmu pengetahuan dan teknologi terutama dalam membimbing mereka di program S3. Sekarang ini, group kita telah memiliki 2 alumni dari Indonesia (1 untuk S3, dan 1 untuk S2). Semoga kita dapat lebih berkontribusi untuk di masa depan dalam pengembangan sumber daya manusia."

8. "Salah satu hal yang paling penting bagi kita untuk melakukan adalah untuk memberikan ruang kepada ilmuwan-ilmuwan Indonesia yang sudah establish di berbagai bidang di dalam negeri dan luar negeri untuk dikenal bagi generasi muda. I-4 diharapkan untuk menjadi wadah bagi memberikan wacana untuk memberikan kesempatan terhadap ilmuwan-ilmuwan Indonesia tersebut. Ada beberapa yang saya kenal (atau tahu) sejak beberapa tahun ini yang merupakan ilmuwan yang bagus dari Indonesia yang berkarir di berbagai Negara (termasuk Indonesia) yang harusnya bisa menjadi role model untuk anak-anak muda kita, yaitu: Bapak Yohanes Surya, Bapak Ken Soetanto, Bapak Yow Pin Lim, Bapak Oki Gunawan, Bapak Hery S. Djie, Bapak Jeffrey Rufinus, Bapak Yanuar Nugroho, Ibu Desi Anwar, Ibu Etin Anwar, Bapak Terry Mart, Bapak Wilson Wenas, Bapak Jhony Setiawan, Bapak Nasir Tamara, Bapak Andreas Raharso, Bapak Rudy Raymond, Bapak Khoirul Anwar, Ibu Rose Amal, Bapak Romulus Godang, Bapak L. T. Handoko, Bapak Agus Purwanto, Barry Herry Kwee, Bapak Hendra Kwee, Bapak Wirawan Purwanto, Bapak Gunawan Witjaksono, Bapak Rudiyanto Gunawan, Ibu Lea Goentoro, Bapak Anies Baswedan, dan lain-lainnya (banyak). Tentu saja masih banyak yang lebih senior yang telah merupakan role model yang bagus seperti Bapak Habibie, Bapak Bambang Hidayat, Bapak M. O. Tjia, Bapak Barmawi, Bapak Sangkot Marzuki, Bapak The Houw Liong, dan lain-lainnya (masih banyak). Saya kira mereka-mereka ini adalah yang telah menunjukkan kemampuan dan dedikasi tinggi, dan kita semua (termasuk saya sendiri terutama, dan generasi muda lainnya) dapat terinspirasi untuk belajar dari mereka-mereka yang memiliki kemampuan luar biasa dan dedikasi luar biasa di bidang mereka masing-masing."

Biografi singkat

Prof. Nelson Tansu lahir pada Oktober 1977 di Medan (Sumatera Utara), ia menerima gelar BS dan gelar Ph.D. dari University of Wisconsin-Madison Mei 1998 dan Mei 2003. Dr. Tansu memulai karir sebagai Profesor Asisten (Assistant Professor) termuda di Lehigh University pada Juli 2003 (umur 25). Dr Tansu menjabat sebagai Profesor Asisten (Assistant Professor) (Juli 2003 – April 2007) dan Peter C. Rossin Assistant Professor (April 2007 – April 2009) di Departemen Teknik Elektro dan Komputer (ECE) dan Pusat Teknologi Optik (COT) di Lehigh University. Ia menjadi professor dengan tenure (Associate Professor) di Lehigh University pada Mei 2009. Sejak Mei 2010 sampai sekarang, Dr Tansu telah menjadi Class of 1961 Associate Professor (dengan tenure) di Departemen Teknik Elektro dan Komputer (ECE) dan Pusat Teknologi Optik(COT) di Lehigh University. Dr Tansu adalah memiliki beberapa penghargaan dari Universitas Wisconsin-Madison dan Lehigh University, dan dia juga telah mempublikasikan riset mereka di beberapa-beberapa jurnal internasional. Istri Tansu adalah Adela Gozali Yose, dan mereka tinggal di Pennsylvania, Amerika Serikat.

Conference Room Design Tips by Brian Hill, Demand Media


Conference Room Design Tips

by Brian Hill, Demand Media


For small businesses the conference room usually has multiple uses. It could be a formal setting for board meetings or presentations to important clients. The room could be used for brainstorming sessions where team members get together for longer meetings such as during the annual strategic planning process. It could have a social function as well, hosting birthday parties or other celebratory events. Increasingly it is used for videoconferencing, linking the company with customers, partners or its own employees who are on the road.

The Basics

Determine the maximum capacity -- the largest number of individuals who will be attending meetings. If you want space for 32 people, you will need a room with dimensions of at least 32 feet by 14 feet. You most likely have been in a meeting in a cramped, claustrophobic conference room that made you feel as though you couldn't wait to for the meeting to end. In designing your conference room, make sure there is ample room for attendees to get up and move around. There may be times when it is advantageous to break up into smaller conversational groups during the meeting. Don't have so many chairs around the conference room table that people feel elbow to elbow. Comfort is important in the design elements you choose. Chairs in particular must have cushioned upholstery, be roomy and have back supports.

Company Image

You might have people from outside your company attending in-person conferences, or you might invite them to participate electronically through videoconferencing. Either way, the design and décor of the room will influence how they view your company. Think about the image you want to convey. If yours is a small but trendy, cutting-edge company, you might be able to have a more striking, modernistic décor with bolder colors, unusual chair shapes and striking artwork. Be careful about using colors and shapes that are too bold -- they may draw attention away from the presentation you are making. Tasteful, traditional-style tables and chairs are the most popular choices for most small businesses.

Conference Efficiency

Design the conference room so attendees do not have to leave the room to take care of tasks related to the meeting. Install telephone and data ports in the room. Laptop computers, printers and a fax machine also are typically included in the design. The audio/visual screen can be permanently installed or be portable. White boards with erasable markers have long been conference room staples, but you can also install "smart boards" or electronic whiteboards that save the information you mark down into digital files, eliminating the need for transcribing during the meeting.

Table Configuration

Choices include the standard boardroom table -- a rectangular or oval table with chairs placed all round it. Variations on this include a U shape and a V shape. You might prefer a classroom style, often seen at business conferences in hotels, in which a series of smaller rectangular tables are spaced so all attendees face the front of the room, where the podium is. Two or three people sit at each table. This style allows people to easily get up and leave the room and come back. Another choice is the hollow rectangle, with smaller tables set up so they are joined at the ends with a space in the middle left open. This style is thought to facilitate collaboration.

Amenities

Having a buffet table with built-in cabinets gives you a surface for serving beverages or snacks and allows you to keep serving dishes, glassware and cutlery neatly put away when not in use. Put a small refrigerator in the conference room so you don't have to send someone out of the room to bring the refreshments in, and so you can provide a wider variety of beverages.

Videoconferencing

Lighting design is particularly critical for a conference room where videoconferences will frequently be held. The environment should be evenly lit to minimize shadows in the images so all the participants can be seen clearly. Diffuse fluorescent light is recommended. To prevent glare from sunlight, either set up the room in an area of the building that does not have windows, or install blinds designed to completely darken the room. The area within view of the camera should not be cluttered with objects such as artwork, plants or wall treatments with busy patterns. These can reduce video quality by causing the video compression technology to essentially work harder to clearly capture the images of the people in the room. Reverberation -- sound bouncing off hard surfaces -- can interfere with audio quality. The solution is to put sound-absorbing material on the ceiling, walls and floors. The U- or V-shaped tables work well -- each participant is easily visible on camera.

Technology Integration

Anyone who has ever given an important presentation worries that something will go wrong with the technology he is using. The sound won't work on the videoconference call, or he isn't able to get the presentation on his laptop to show up on the overhead screen. Besides embarrassment, these technical snafus can cause your small business to lose credibility with the people you are meeting with and trying to impress. A solution is to integrate the technology elements into one "touch panel" control that is as easy to use as a TV remote. For example, if you want to do an in-room presentation, you just touch that button on the panel and the system takes care of the rest. The projection screen is lowered, the projector is turned on, the window shades are closed and the presentation is displayed on the screen.

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