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After reading our textbook by Mark Walton, Generating Buy-In: Mastering the language of leadership, I sudden feel that this is another great and powerful book in management, leadership, and business world. Walton provides us the tools to become great communicators so that we can drive success in business, politics, or even in our family. Generating Buy-In is using a lot of examples and inspirations about top leaders have applied through the ages.

What is Buy-In exactly? According to the textbook, Mark Walton defined Buy-in as the understanding, commitment, and action of people working to achieve strategic objectives. In 21st-century business, buy-in has become a crucial asset, and the ability to generate it has emerged as the leadership competency, especially for the leaders. The achievement of buy-in depends heavily on the communication skills of the seller, the executive, or whoever is asking us to believe, to act, to buy. Great, powerful and full of understanding communication skills could make any impossible things possible. This is like a belief, but it is real.

Mark Walton uses a lot of examples of individuals and organizations that used this method, such as Jack Welch, Ted Turner, several U.S. Presidents, Coca-Cola, and the U.S. Army. All of those vivid examples make me feel that I could improve my communication skills right now and take into my actions in a jiffy.

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As everybody knows, WiMax is getting more and more popular. Will WiMax score over 3G mobile services? Many operations have already commissioned and some are doing field trials of WiMax services. Since WiMax is expected to shower in high speed data and advanced digital video streaming for mobile users.

Paradigm shift to a new mobile environment facilitating Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) is most welcome by consumers from the corporate houses and industry people in general, as the dream of any mobile customer “to get connected any time anywhere” is materializing. As the allocation of spectrum for 3G operations has been sorted out, the existing players and new entrants in the field are very enthusiastic on the prospects of a new wireless environment. WiMax is a standard based (IEEE 802.16e) technology proving high speed data and voice services by networks covering long distances and wide ranges. It provides carrier-class solutions to support even in rural unreached pockets by deploying a single base station for a radial distance of 35-40 kilometers. And also the implementation cost is about one tenth only in the case of WiMax as compared to 3G.

In my opinion, WiMax is designed to provide E1 level bandwidth to business and equivalent of Cable and DSL access for home users. It can be used for a number of applications including “last mile Broadband services”, hotspots, mobile, fixed mobile, cellular backhaul and high speed enterprise connectivity. I believe this new technology will be highly developed and utilized specially for the large developing country with big population. For example in China, over 70% of 1.3 billion populations live in the rural area. The 3G and other Cable and DSL technologies are impossible to implement for them due to the huge cost. However, the significant factor contributing for WiMax viability is the spectral efficiency as the technology is standardized to have long distance coverage just with a single BTS. And so does the cost is low. I believe WiMax will benefit the people and this technology has a large potential market.

References

Ganesan, BSNL Inc. Will WiMax score over 3G mobile service? (2008) Retrieved on September 16, 2008 from http://www.hindu.com/seta/2008/09/18/stories/2008091850081500.htm

Brad Reed, Network Word. WiMax lab puts mobile broadband to the test. (2008) Retrieved on September 16, 2008 from: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/091708-wimax-lab.html?hpg1=bn

WiMax.com. Why WiMax is important for mobile broadhand wireless? (2008)
Retrieved on September 16, 2008 from http://www.wimax.com/education/faq/faq5b

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Some Data

A 2 page Microsoft word file is 30,000 bytes
Average 100 pieces of paper per filing inch
A 4-drawer filing Cabinet has 116 inches of filing space
A 4-drawer filing cabinet contains 11,600 pieces of paper
A 1 GB USB drive = 6 filing cabinets of documents

Green Energy Resources, the big direction in the future industry

With the development of human industry, any kind of resource or energy is running out. One day, natural gas will be gone, the petro oil we use will run dry, there will not be enough trees in the forests to cut down for human use, clean water will run out. What can we do? With the depletion of energy and resources, the demand for human capital has been growing to extremely high point. This is the real situation that all the humans have to face to. Therefore, what is our next step?

According to the lecture of the former Prime Minister of Singapore, the founding father of the country, Lee Kuan Yew, once said, “the Green Energy Resources will be the leading direction in the future industry, who wins the Green Energy Resources will win the future industry”. (www.ce.cn, 2008)

What is green energy? Green Energy is described sources of energy that are considered to be environmentally friendly, low energy cost, and non-polluting. It is worthy to point out that digital storage is about meeting our needs, which is right on the leading edge of Green Energy field.
According to the equation in the beginning of the essay, ‘’A 1 GB USB drive = 6 filing cabinets of documents’’. We could imagine and figure out how many pieces of paper we could save, and how many trees would not have to be cut down. This is the power of the innovative Green technology. This is also the purpose and highlight of the digital storage world.

Briefing of Digital Storage Market

What is digital storage? What does a digital storage device look like? There are a lot of digital storage devices in this field. In a word, a digital storage device is a device for storing data. With the highly innovative development of technology, more and more modern high-tech devices become part of people’s daily lives. There are many different consumer electronic devices that catch people’s attention, such as, digital cameras, flash memory cards, iPods, USB flash drives, CD-R or DVD-R, mobile hard drives and so on.

The history of digital storage is accompanied by the development of the computer. The timeline is short but technology development happens at a rapid pace. With the popularity of personal computers, digital storage steps into a person’s daily life almost directly from a lab or research center. Whether for personal or business use, digital storage brings great benefits for the global economy.
According to the method of using the digital storage equipment, there are three ways to differentiated digital storage equipment:

Portable device Easily replaced, such as, tape drive, disk drive, flash memory devices

Semi-portable device Requires mechanical disassembly tools and/or opening a chassis, such as, hard disk drive, circuitry with non-volatile RAM

Inseparable device Meaning the equipment will be loss of memory if disconnected from the unit, such as, circuitry with volatile RAM

Digitalization, the second big direction in the future industry

The 21st century is also well known as the high tech century. In a person’s daily life, technology is ever-present, no matter where one goes. In the morning, when he/she is driving to work, he/she probably is using GPS to direct the route. When he/she is dealing with daily work, he/she is using computer to fix the problem, or using Internet to contact the outside world. When he/she needs to talk with some else, he/she probably is using E-mail, telephones, online meeting tools and so on. Even in spare time, he/she is probably watching digital TV, DVD movies, or playing online games with friends. And also, digitalized books and digitalized newspapers play a more and more important role in people’s daily study and lives.

This is the tendency of the 21st century. Diverse forms of information, including text, sound, image and voice, are encoded in a single 0 and 1 binary code. This single 0 and 1 binary code stands for the digitalized life in the 21st century. No one can live without it. People are able to enjoy a lot of convenience and benefit from this digitalized innovative technology.

Huge Market for Digital Storage Market

As we know so far, Green Energy Resources and Digitalization are the main trend for the future industry. Both of them meet the needs of people, and also bring a lot of benefits for humans in the long run.

Those two reasons make the investment into the digital storage field wised and important. Pretty much like water flows, which is always from the higher to the lower position, the direction of the future market is toward the digital storage. For example, iPod is much like digital storage integration, which has music, personal information, and movies. The format of the digital storage device could be very diverse, as long as it has its target market (e.g. iPod is popular in Generation Y), the market will be huge and bring many benefits.

All in all, with the highly developing of technology and the real situation of human needs, digital storage will keep on having the big market and also will have the huge potential demands. Step into the digital storage field will be a best choice and wised decision. Therefore, Lycus Communications highly recommends Searching Out Great Investment to pay attention on this field and invest the capital into Digital Storage.

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The real estate world is a significant sector of the economy with huge financial implications, as we see in the daily news of late. It is big business and is driven by technology. Why? Any kind of business is pushed and developed by the highly innovative and many uses of technology. Consumers make decisions not only by the location or the price of the real estate, but are also attracted by helpful technology that allows them more “access” to the property.
What are the innovative uses of technology, or software, in the daily business of real estate?

I would love to introduce five innovations in the following paragraph.

The first technology is 3-D animation. It can create virtual tours of commercial and residential properties for customers. It helps bring a property to life. The broker gives the customers a very fast and real visual overview of their property in a very short time. The customers can get an idea of what is offered easily and have a very complete overview at the same time. Virtual tours help the broker’s business to be much more productive, says Helder Santos, president of Digital Vision, which is an architectural design and illustration company. Santos says some residential developers have approached Digital Vision to produce renderings and animation to make their projects stand out. “What people are coming to us for is to give them outstanding images that set them apart from the other projects, which at this point is important, because there is a good amount of competition out there, but we could make them difference”.

A second technology is upholstery and decoration visualization by using computer software tools. Everybody wants their houses to be well designed, comfortable, and also special, unique and different from others. The computer generated renderings are good solution. It is like 3-D animation, but utilizing many other types of software, such as, CAD, LISCAPE, and PHOTOSHOP. The broker could add a lot of value by using these upholstery tools for their business. The broker could make the project much more attractive, and the customer also could visualize their idea of the property. This interactive process enables the broker to adjust their product depending on the customer’s demands.

Therefore, I would love to introduce Adobe Photoshop Express to improve this process. In the article “Adobe Photoshop Express Goes Live” from My Tech Opinion, Reggie notes,
“Real Estate is very much a photo-dependant business. That’s why I’m excited to share the news about Adobe Systems launching their beta Adobe Photoshop Express. This new addition strengthens Adobe’s online offerings by adding a photo editing tool for the “average user”-not the professional designer. Adobe is also taking advantage of the growing popularity of social networks and communities with ability to connect and share photos from Facebook, Photobucket&Picasa. They also built in public galleries for you to showcase these photos. Perfect for real estate agents looking to store listing photos online and present them in animated slideshows. Adobe will give users 2 gigs of photo storage; and all albums will have a direct link and embed code supplied.”

The next two technologies are communication tools. The broker has already introduced the property and the project to the customers. A good question is how good is the communication between the broker and the client? In other words, how efficient is the communication with the customer in daily business? This is a key point of the business. Since there will always be a large amount of competition in the real estate world, the broker has to follow up with his clients as quickly and efficiently as possible.

First of all, with the wide use of Internet, brokers work on developing a web site, either by creating new sites to showcase company properties and services, or to make existing sites more interactive so tenants or clients can submit requests or inquiries. A powerful and well designed web site can always add value to a real estate company. The web site should contain 3-D modeling, videos and online chatting functions. All of those functions could allow the customer to get a comprehensive sense of the business and hold their attentions 24/7.
There are two great features for email that will be introduced below.

First, and also the third innovative technology in this research paper is Jott for Blackberry, which is “The Secret to Speaking Your Emails”. Reggie, from My Tech Opinion, makes a strong case for using Jott for Blackberry:

“In March I started using Jott for Blackberrybeta, in hopes that I could save time by replying to email with my voice via my Blackberry. To my surprise this voice to email application was remarkable and accurate. Although as I’ve been talking with real estate agents I’m learning that many have not heard of this useful technology. That’s unfortunate because as a busy real estate agent you are probably sending many emails while out of the office and maybe even while you are on the road. Needless to say, emailing while driving can be dangerous. If that email needs to be sent immediately, using Jott for Blackberry you can simply attach your Bluetooth headset and speak your email while keeping both hands on the steering wheel. (We are not endorsing emailing while driving…simply sharing the technology).”

The next one, and also the fourth innovative technology in this research paper is Eyejot Video Email. On My Tech Opinion, Niknik notes in the article “Make Real Estate Personal with EyeJot Video Email”:

“Make it personal….make it with Eyejot! New technology makes sending video email to your real estate clients a snap…thanks to Eyejot.com. To get started, you will obviously need a Webcam. I like the Logitech Quickcam Pro 9000, but just about any Webcam will do. Visit Eyejot.com and sign up for free! Take a snapshot of yourself and select your preferences. Then you’re ready to start sending emails. The FREE version of Eyejot allows you to record up to 60 seconds of video. Sending your video is as easy as clicking a button and you can manage all your video messages from Eyejot’s online interface.”

Last, but not least, are security developments. Security issues are one of most important topics among real estate corporations in their daily business. Each corporation or client has to take care and pay attention to protect their sensitive online real estate data and ensure the information is accessible only to authorized users. RSA Security launched a good technology solution to resolve this issue, as notes on the RSA Security web site. The press release states:

“RSA Security solutions enable members of the real estate industry, including Multiple Listing Service (MLS) organizations, to establish – with certainty – the identity of a person accessing MLS and transaction data online. A cornerstone of this program is RSA SecurIDtwo-factor authentication solution, which organizations offer to members via a small device (called a “token”) that fits on a keychain and displays a six-digit numeric passcode that changes randomly every 60 seconds. Users enter the passcode along with a traditional password to access data online. Because users provide something they know (their password) and something they have (the token’s random passcode), the system ensures data are available only to authorized users.”

In conclusion, technology has a great influence on the daily business of real estate. With the development of technology, people will make decisions based on the innovative technology surrounding their daily lives. In the twenty-first century, if a real estate company wants to succeed in the real estate world, the company will have to develop and stay on the edge of innovative technology.

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Everything happened has its reason. People make decision by their ideas in mind. The European Renaissance happened hundreds years ago. Why? What was the reason made Renaissance happened? In my opinion, the new thoughts and new ideas in that period speeded up the Renaissance happened and spread.

In that period, people suffered and also were sick and tired of living under the Middle Age, which limited people’s daily lives and rights by all name of religion. The Renaissance began in Italy with the Italian Renaissance and roll through Europe. The new thoughts and ideas marked as aware of people-oriented, sing a song of beautiful life, open up education, and look the world by science in the new eyes.

This is a list shows that famous philosophy from the Renaissance.

Petrarch (1304–1374)
Giovanni Boccaccio
Leonardo Bruni (1374–1444)
Nicholas of Cusa (1401 – 1464)
Lorenzo Valla (1405–1457)
Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499)
Pietro Pomponazzi (1462–1525)
Pico della Mirandola (1463–1494)
Desiderius Erasmus (1466–1536)
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527)
Copernicus (1473–1543)
Thomas More (1478–1535)
Francisco de Vitoria (c.1480–1546)
Martin Luther (1483–1546)
Huldrych Zwingli (1484–1531)
Juan Luis Vives (1492–1540)
William Tyndale (1494 – 1536)
Franciscus Patricius (1529–1597)
Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
Giordano Bruno (1548–1600)
Francisco Suárez (1548–1617)
Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
Galileo Galilei (1564–1642)
Tommaso Campanella (1568 – 1639)
Charles de Bolvelles
Hugo Grotius (1583–1645)
Micheal Marcardies (1583–1646)
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)

References
Renaissance philosophy. (2008, December 7). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 08:01, December 8, 2008, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Renaissance_philosophy&oldid=256389135

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We are living in an Information Age. Dr. Jay Gillette said, “Knowledge is power, information is wealth”. Everywhere we are surrounded by information. What is the Information Age exactly? According to Wikipedia, the” Information Age is a term that has been used to refer to the present era, generally beginning within ten years of 1990. The name alludes to the global economy's shift in focus away from the production of physical goods (as exemplified by the industry age) and towards the manipulation of information“ (Wikipedia, 2008).

This is a list that shows what technologies spring up like mushrooms in our daily lives.

• Z3 - first general-purpose digital computer - 1941
• Atanasoff–Berry Computer - electronic digital computer - 1942
• ENIAC general purpose electronic digital computer - 1946
• Earliest form of the Internet - 1969
• Email - 1971
• Personal computer - late 1970s
• World Wide Web - 1989
• Laptop (also Notebook) - 1990s
• Online gaming communities - 1990s, mainstreamed early 2000s
• Cellular phones - 1984, mainstreamed late 1990s and early 2000s
• Webcams 1990s mainstreamed 2000s
• Digital Television 1990s mainstreamed 2000s
• Broadband mainstreamed 2000s
• Wireless networking - early 2000s
• Wireless headphones - early 2000s
• GPS mainstreamed mid-2000s
• Satellite radio - circa 2003
• Bluetooth - early-to-mid 2000s
• DAB -Digital Radio 2004
• Digital Audio Player - mainstreamed early 2000s
• Digital Video Recorders (c. 1999) mainstreamed early-to-mid-2000s
• HDTV mainstreamed mid-to-late 2000s

Once reading this list, I sudden felt that our lives have been framed by Information and Communication Technologies. We cannot live our daily lives without ITC.

References
Information Age. (2008, December 4). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 22:49, December 6, 2008, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Information_Age&oldid=255810386

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According to our interview results for ICS 602 class, we found that Muncie Central High School is lack of using modern Internet communication tools to enlarge and strength its communication during their daily education and lives. There are tremendous open sources and web 2.0 solutions on the web site that could benefit the way of education. What is Web 2.0 exactly? Let's give a little introduction of web 2.0 by using web 2.0 technology:

Furthermore, it is worthy to point out that, young generation students are big fan of using latest technology. Information and communication technology is that adaption to the new tools for Web 2.0 is needed and if the school does not adopted; the students may be left behind. Why? According to Gartner states "through 2010, the number of enterprises using social computing software in ICT operations will increase by 100%." Based upon the recommendation outlined by Gartner, "IT operations should adopt social computing software to improve collaboration between it and application development, which is needed to support modern applications based on service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Web 2.0 technologies."

There are many useful Web 2.0 applications could be used in the daily activity of education, such as, Dimdim, Huddle, and OfficeZilla. Take an example of Dimdim, which is a great free web meeting application. The teacher could use this to do presentation, and the students could communication with each other in a real time. Dimdim by creating a simple, free service that lets everyone everywhere to communicate using rich media in real time. It is really convenient and easy to use. The same as Huddle and OfficeZilla, both of them are “robust and interactive web communication tool that empowers users to deliver rich media trainings, presentations, or events in real time and on demand. With Huddle and OfficeZilla you can schedule and hold a global virtual meeting with dozens, even hundreds of people in a fraction of the time and cost it would take to meet face-to-face.” They are right the necessary things need to be deployed and promoted among high schools.

Therefore, we highly recommend Muncie Central High School could consider using more open source and Web 2.0 technology to strength their education achievements. This way is the trend of future education and also will bring a lot of conveniences and benefits to both teachers and students.

Reference Link:
1. http://www.gartner.com/resources/160800/160882/the_business_impact_of_socia_160882.pdf
2. http://www.dimdim.com/aboutus/Who_is_dimdim.html
3. http://www.livehuddle.com/whatis.php

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