Office Productivity - Using Computers

The adoption of ICT tools in offices will not produce desired results, untill and unless it is used effectively. The list of top 10 websites , Productivity software's and Internet software's are given below. The listed sites and tools will help the user to effectively use computer and Web for Communication and Document Management.

Top 10 Web Sites (Personal)
􀂄 Bnet.com
􀂄 Slideshare.net
􀂄 Youtube.com
􀂄 Learnthis.ca
􀂄 Brint.com
􀂄 Google.com
􀂄 Wikipedia.org
􀂄 robinsharma.com
􀂄 Scholar.com
􀂄 Blogspot.com

Top 5 Productivity - Internet Tools
1. Firefox is one of my top picks here and it really is a great browser. I’ve switched to it from using Opera for years because some of the new extensions to sync data with online accounts(Google Browser Sync) I just can’t go without them anymore. The new Firefox version 3 seems to have really improved on its major drawbacks in speed and memory usage. I’m looking forward to its full release soon.

2. Google Services and Products really are a wonderful set of tools available completely for free. There are so many applications available from Google, there is something for everyone. he tools I use regularly from Google are search, gmail, reader, picasa, notebook, maps, earth, docs, finance, books and toolbar.

3. AVG Antivirus is a great free antivirus solution. It is the most popular free solution, has great capabilities and updates available.

4. Spyware Terminator is a recent find of mind after several other tools I had didn’t protect against some nasty spyware/malware that ended up destroying my install. I hunted through many free tools and was shocked to find as many products as I did. The problem with them is that most of them were not that great. One exception to this is Spyware Terminator that I now really like. Its simple to use and has a lot of capabilities to protect your system. It includes antivirus protection based on ClamAV which is also free and integrated into Spyware terminator’s interface.

5. Filezilla is a great internet tool for accessing FTP sites. This is commonly needed for web content and online storage solutions which more and more people are becoming familiar. It is now up to version 3 and I still prefer Filezilla 2 as there are a few more options and features like file editing with automatic re-upload to the server.

Top 5 Productivity Software's
1. Acute Finder – Searches duplicate files.
2. Backup Utility - To back up and restore back ups.
3. JKDefrag - Most people do not realize that their harddrive gets incredibly slow by fragmented files. The windows defragmentation tools are very slow and poor, and your productivity can be easily improved by using JKDefrag as a disk defragmenter and optimizer to speed up your system with better file and disk access.

4. Open Office - This is a extremely impressive and capable multi-platform and multi-lingual complete office suite. It includes several applications all highly compatible with commercial office packages, including:
Writer (Word Processor)
Impress (Presentation / Slideshows)
Math (Formulas and Calculation)
Draw (Full Paint and drawing)
Calc (Spreadsheets)
Base (Relational Database)

5. Google Doc – For online collaboration

6. Irfanview is a super fast, small graphic and picture viewer. It offers many powerful features, excellent support of hundreds of graphic formats and great features to view images and to make slideshows from them. A close competitor is XnView.

7. Picassa is a great photo organizer, especially if you have a lot of photos from a digital camera. It lets you easily locate and organize all your photos and movies. Its easy to apply some simple effects and touch ups and offers a number of ways to share your photos. It includes
quick support to share photos on email, free online web photo albums as well as with Blogger and printing and exports for web pages. Its very easy to learn and will definitely save you time organizing your photos.

8. Xplorer2 Lite will help you browse your desktop files more productively and give you a much more capable file management engine and feature set than what is available natively in windows. It gives you dual listers and trees to make file management much easier. Its multithreaded and has many additional features like better filters, renaming, enhanced search and simple file viewing.

9. File Hamster - This is a fantastic little tool that makes backups and version tracking for any set of files. Its ideal for anyone who edits a lot of documents, files, pictures or any other content and want to have it backed up with each revision tracked and made historical. I find that I use this more than a regular backup tool since it archives all file changes and lets me quickly revert to any version with a safe backup on another harddrive in the event of a failure. And of course I also maintain other drive and offline backups.

10. Notepad++ is a text editor (notepad replacement) and source code editor which supports various languages, multiple files open at a time, auto completion and many other great features. If you ever use notepad or wordpad to edit a text document, STOP! Replace it with Notepad++.

How to Stay Young n Happy Always :-)

1. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down. (Keep this in mind if you are one of those grouches!)

2. Keep learning: Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain get idle. 'An idle mind is the devil's workshop.' And the devil's name is Alzheimer's!

3. Enjoy the simple things

4. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath. And if you have a friend who makes you laugh, spend lots and lots of time with him or her!

5. The tears happen: Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person who is with us our entire life, is ourself. LIVE while you are alive.

6. Surround yourself with what you love: Whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge.

7. Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.

8. Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, even to a foreign country, but NOT to where the guilt is

9. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.

Managing Demographic risk in large organizations

As employees get older and retire in large organizations, The organizations may appear to be lean and profitable, but the organizations can face significant losses of critical knowledge and skills, as well as decreased productivity. In some cases, an organizations ability to conduct organizational business may even be hindered. When people begin retiring in droves, there may be no one left who knows how to carry out usual business activities. The nature of risk could be Productivity risk (due to aging workforce) or capactiy risk (due to mass retirement). Therefore there is an immediate need to access the risk and mitigate the problem. The solutions is to compute productivity risk and may be re- employ the retiring employees to compensate for the immediate loss of knowledge. The best strategy could be to deploy knowledge management tools to avoid productivity risk.