Technology for the Farmers

Have you seen the green scenery of paddy field? How does it look like? Or have you been to the dairy farm? What could you say about that?

Yeaa.. This post will give you an idea about the relation between agriculture aspects that we use to see in the village with the modern technology  that we own in today’s world. How it can be used together? And what are the related technologies?

So, now… you have to fasten your seat belt and keep reading!

Technology is one of the biggest influences in our life. Am I right? Nowadays, around the world everyone starts to use technology to solve their daily problems and it is also happened to the farmers. FARMERS?? Does technology help them? yaa.. Technology does!

There many agricultural problems that has been solved by using technology. Let us start with Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). This technology can be applied to the agricultural sectors in two ways:

-Production management (from tracking growth and reproduction records to integrating transportation information.

-Inventory management (from boosting operational efficiency to minimizing loos and damages).

So, how it can be really meet with the solution? Ok, this RFID works really simple but totally efficient. Let us take an example of dairy farms. As we used to know that, traditionally dairy farmers are using simple livestock tags and stick it to the cow‘s ear which need to be absorbed every day. In the other hand, RFID –enhanced microchip which will give instant identification and moreover, it can give a complete information of each individual such as body type, growth development and greatly facilitate vaccination managerial efficiency. So, at the end of the day, the farmers are no longer need to worry on how to identify their cattle herds, swine litters or sheep flocks.

Another useful technology that can be used for agricultural is Geographic Information System (GIS) which is used in mapping the world. Yuupp… Those of you who are already familiar with GPS will also know how this tool works. It used for surveying landscapes and quickly capture large amount of spatial data for the analysis. This tool is really helpful for all the agricultural industry in measuring the size of the land.

Last but not least, we have Cloud Computing. It provides remote services to distance user by using Internet.  By implementing this, farmers can input and keep track of expenses, sales, inventory levels, total salary paid to hired hands, quarterly production quantity and other accounting figures. In advance, not only farmers who get benefit from cloud computing, but the costumers also can benefit it by making the wealth of information public through cloud computing. It keeps the nation’s farmers informed of the latest changes in the environment, market prices and economic trends, which will help balance domestic supply and demand.

With all these handy services and practical information at hand, the nation’s agricultural sector is one step closer to becoming healthier, less complicated and more superior than ever before!

so, thank you technology for helping our farmers!

Link to the Reference!

The importance of adaptability and interpersonal skills to IT professionals

What comes to your mind when we talk about being as IT professionals? Having high knowledge as higher as a doctor? Having so many work experiences? Or having a good looking appearance? Ya… everyone can voice out their opinions but the truth is adaptability together with interpersonal skills is the two important keys to success at work place.

So, what adaptability is all about?

Adaptability is the ability to change (or be changed) to fit changed circumstances [source: loveleague.com]. In my point of view, adaptability is a must behaviour that each of individual should has in order to survive in today’s job market. This kind of behaviour included in long life learning process. Why? Because, IT professionals have to keep enriching their knowledge with the changes of technology which is highly unstable. As we know that, there are always changing at work place and the new competitors keep coming with more and more expertise. Due to this, IT professionals are required to be more flexible and dynamic to deal with this phenomenon.

Is it enough to have adaptability in order to be IT professionals?

Absolutely no, there is this skill that IT professionals tend to forget when they already have enough knowledge, it is interpersonal skills. An interpersonal skill is the ability to interact with people around and it is also included your personality awareness, communication skills, conflict management, and trust building. As we all know that IT professionals deal with many people including clients, employers, and suppliers and so forth. So, again, IT professionals are highly required to have this skill in order to communicate with others as well as to avoid miscommunication that might occur in the work place. 

From the two explanations above, we can say that it is not an easy to be IT professionals but it is also not difficult if we keep learning and updating ourselves with the new invention or technology. We also need to show up our understanding toward others by improving our interpersonal skills in a professional way. To me, being a professional is in YOU, yourself! It just a matter of knowing your true ability to start the things on to change you and your world!

Snail mail versus E-mai

            A very good day for all of you J

Today, I would like to bring you to the real application of technology which works together with business field.  Yupp… Actually, IT and business are two different fields that if we combine together then it will make a very perfect combination. So, let us talk about one of traditional businesses that have moved to digital firm for some of their systems in order to market products more efficiency. It is the used of snail mail (mail sent through the postal system) to electronic mail (e-mail). 

Yea... Nowadays, many companies use e-mail to market their product. It is an easy process by only clicking buttons in the computer without costing you much money, unless for your internet access. People say that e-mail can be a great way to generate leads and sales to contact prospects and build their business better. This is how globalization has changed their way to do business. There are no more papers flying in your home and make your dustbin full because the only thing you need to do is sit calmly in front of your computer or laptop and read through the spam or advertisement. This is why those companies do to reduce wasting papers and save the environment as well cut down their expenses. So clever right?

In addition, there is no doubt email is faster than snail mail. When communicating with someone in another state or country, email is the practical route because most of the time email is immediate. Snail mail takes days and can be costly and sometimes impractical. So, we can say that, the most obvious benefit of email is that it is immediate. In an office setting, it is much easier to send an email to an entire department. Email is also relatively cheap if not free in most cases.

However, while snail mail is slower than email, it is more personal. It is about how you bring the costumers to the real tangible approaches by the company. Though you can say the same things in an email that you can say in a letter, a letter is something someone can touch and keep. For example, cards and letters can be filed away and saved as mementos same goes to the other customers who like to keep the promotion papers and refer to it later. 

And I am one of the people who really appreciate the valuable of a handwritten notes and cards up until now.

*This is a postcard which I received a couple month ago from someone in Bandung Indonesia. 

i heart this so much!*

Creativity as the power of managing complexity

I have been red through the slide share about 2010 IBM Global CEO Study  which I get from the Internet. So let me give my response to it!

Yes, I do agree with the statement that says:

“For CEOs and their organizations, avoiding complexity is not an option — the choice comes in how they respond to it “.

Moreover, to me, it is not even an option because it is a must! Avoiding complexity in an organization is not an easy process to go but the very most important thing is that how you handle the situation which will not harm the relation between employees, customers and their happiness towards our company.

The idea is that you have to show your creativity to see, identify and finally manage the complexity.

Creativity

“Creativity” as the single most important leadership competency for enterprises seeking a path through this complexity which has become a more important leadership quality than attributes like management discipline, rigor or operational acumen.

It is true! Nowadays, there are many competitors which can simply make you and your organization down, so in order to keep moving, we need to be more creative in every single plans for long-term period as well as short-term to keep our costumer stay with us.

“Creative leaders expect to make deeper business model changes to realize their strategies. To succeed, they take more calculated risks, find new ideas, and keep innovating in how they lead and communicate.”

Indeed! This is what we call as “what book does not tell us”. There is nothing to do with higher education if we want to talk about being creative leaders. It is more on your instinct, your passion as a leader towards what do you do then you can really feel on how to manage everything in front of you. Another word for this is “Love what you do and do what you love”. Let me give a simple example for this. As we know that “Go Green” is a common method in every business nowadays. They compete each other to distribute free eco-friendly bags in order to make costumer satisfy with them and they did it! People have changed their habit to bring along the recycle bag in every shopping time. So, I am really proud with whoever started with this excellent idea!

“The most successful organizations co-create products and services creative with customers, and integrate customers into core processes. It is interesting that CEOs selected creativity as the most important leadership attribute. Creative leaders invite disruptive innovation, encourage others to drop out-dated approaches and take balanced risks. They are open-minded and inventive in expanding their management and communication styles, particularly to engage with a new generation of employees, partners and customers.”

Another support from me towards this study is for above statement. Engaging good relationship between employees and customers is one of the greatest methods to sustain the company. It will not only benefit you and your business but as well as people around. For me, which is also as a costumer, I will be really glad if the product company can listen to me and response to my feedback to make better product in future.

*My reference link, do Click here, please!

Welcome to the World's most Depth

Hello everyone!

I know I have owed you blog post for so many weeks. I am sorry for thatL, but telling you the truth that there is no other reasons accept “I have been really really busy with loaded work these days”. But do not worry because I am going to pay that with tons of interesting information from me, my lecturer and the technology around the world!       So, keep patient, please ;)

Ok! Now, I would like to welcome you to the world’s most depth of technology. Jeng..jeng..jeng..

Yea… let me introduce you with Nanotechnology. What actually this technology is all about? How is it work? I am pretty sure that those kinds of questions were flying in your mind once you hear about nanotechnology. Am I right? So now, let us start to dig deeper to find out the idea. Based on CRN (Center of Responsible Nanotechnology) it says that “nanotechnology is the engineering of functional systems at the molecular scale” or in simple way we can say that nanotechnology is a study and application of very tiny things that can be functioned for all other science fields, such as chemistry, biology and so on. Through this idea, people now call nanotechnology as:

Yeah… The power of small which has been developed using techniques and tools to make a sort of completed high performance of products. It is Richard Feymen, who is the father of nanotechnology. This physician’s invented nanotechnology to make scientist would be able to manipulate and control individual atoms and molecules which anything smaller than 100 nanometers. In addition, Richard Feyman also says that we can build complex products, advance technology in a tiny body by molecular machine system. Click here for further information!

I want to build a billion tiny factories, models of each other, which are manufacturing simultaneously. . . The principles of physics, as far as I can see, do not speak against the possibility of maneuvering things atom by atom. It is not an attempt to violate any laws; it is something, in principle, that can be done; but in practice, it has not been done because we are too big. — Richard Feynman, Nobel Prize winner in physics.

There are also four generations of nanotechnology:

Based on this picture above, we can see the improvement of nanotechnology. And nowadays, Nanotechnology is sometimes referred to as a general-purpose technology. That's because in its advanced form it will have significant impact on almost all industries and all areas of society. It will offer better built, longer lasting, cleaner, safer, and smarter products for the home, for communications, for medicine, for transportation, for agriculture, and for industry in general.

So, how will Nanotechnology change our world? kriik..kriiik..kriiik..krriiikk

Another kind of technology that I would like to share here is Grid Computing. Truly speaking, I did not understand what the meaning of grid computing at first is. Haahaa… But according to Hostinfohub, Grid computing is one of the high performances computing systems that act as a distribution system which has no interactive parks with a large number of files involved. Grid computing can perform very large task as similar as super computer can but the different is that each computer can be communicated over some type of network such as Ethernet with over long distances.

Here are a couple of companies that use grid hosting in their organization:

• ·         GoDaddy
• ·         Media Temple

Thank you for Host Infohub for being my guide to understand more about Grid Computing!

Now, let us move on to the next advance technology, it is Quantum Computing. The main idea of quantum computing is that to create ways of storing, transmitting and manipulating information that work using quantum technology rather than classical one of our everyday world. Quantum computer could be so powerful compare to the normal computer because it could have collections of bits with high amount of it which can exist in two or more different states at the same time. This will make quantum computer could perform many different calculation at once rather than the ordinary computer we have now. Still need more elaboration on this? do Click Here!

The rumor says that Diamond is the perfect material for creating quantum computer. What DIAMOND? *shine bright like a diamond* Don’t you think it is too much expensive for only a single computer? Huh? I simply cannot effort it? Zzzzz… Well, if you are the true lovers of an advance electronic device, it must not be a big problem for you and for those who is just curious about this, you also do not have to worry. Because nowadays scientists are looking for other material to use in order to make quantum computer.

*Diamond in Quantum Computing System*

So, keep waiting for the new quantum computing guys!

Ok, last but not least, now we have Semantic Web. What? Again, unfamiliar words?? *trolling face*        hee… no worries guys, because that is the main purpose of “me” posting here because I know what it is all about ha ha ha ha ..

  

So, Semantic Web is actually the extension of World Wide Web that we know normally but this one can share content beyond the boundaries of applications and websites.  It has attracted many people to create innovative semantic technologies and applications. And the best part of this is 

“There is NO PLACE for SPAM in the Semantic Web”.

 So we all do not have to worry about the convenient of using this tools and to get to know better about this technology and its development, we have semanticweb.org as the common platform for this community. Very very interesting, right?  So what are you waiting for go and check this website nowwww.. also Check this out!

What is usability in software design?

Let us bla bla bla about application..

hum... Can I ask you one question?  How you define a good application? Is it based on its appearance or its ease to use? Hum… you might choose both of them, am I right? Hee… but research has proved that the ease to use an application is more popular in public in order to satisfy their needs. To me, I do agree with that because I prefer to use an application when it serves an easy tool to navigate me here and there.

This kind of behavior we call it as “usability in software design” where you can get your precious right as the user to perform prescribes tasks. This easiness of using an application basically produced by the software designer incorporates with user concerns and advocacy from the beginning of the design process to fulfill the need of the user as the most important aspect in any design decisions. click here for further information!

Don’t you think that it is wonderful when you can access anything by only clicking one button? Indeed! In this modern world, people are more aware of what they are doing. They intend to have a simple life rather than a complicated one. This also becomes a trend in every technology industry. They will do their best to bring a world in the hands of user.

So, thank you to every software designer all over the world who has created a very friendly user-centered design for us because now we don't have to use the old-fashioned of technology. Thank you!

Greeting to all Blackberry lovers!

Talking about application system will never finish until the end of time, it simply because the technology is keep changing every day, every hour moreover every minutes. So, for this very good day, I would like to talk about an application system which has the best user centered design for mobile devices from my own personal view. It is Blackberry!

Aawww… who does not know Blackberry? No one right!… yea… Booming up in 2003 as the first modern smart phone, Blackberry has remarkably managed to completely change the way that people communicate. Not only functioned as a telephone for sending and receiving of email and text messages or web browsing but also contains lots of features which clearly helpful for the owner without having to find a computer. One of the features that appear with its comfy tools is QWERTY keyboard that many people prefer to use it.

*Blackberry Messenger (BBM)

*Application which available in it

*The appearance inside

A long the way, since the introduction of the Blackberry a lot of competitors have appeared on the market and this has really hurt sales since they are now competitors with some of the biggest companies in the telecommunication industry. But yet, Blackberry continues its improvement! The current models are not only a communication device but also a personal assistant and a multimedia player. In addition, a number of applications have been developed by other mutual parties that add even more features to the phone especially blackberry protection which is really essential to safe your data. 

*Blackberry Protection

So, Blackberry is still shining with its amazing features and design which is really friendly to everyone.

Huh? That is so great right? So, what are you waiting for? Go and get your own Blackberry to run the world in your hand!! 

This is mine and yours?

*I think I am a good advertiser now!! Haaa :D 

Blackberry, LOVE WHAT YOU DO...