New Skills
They may be too numerous to list, but I thought of making a list of new skills we need to have developed that were not necessary. I think these are the things that ironically make everyone feel much busier now than before all the technical productivity enhancers:
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |
A
B
- Playing 'Buzzword-Bingo' in meetings
- Browsing the web on your phone and being successful.
- Buying an album or song over the phone?
- Blog your way into other people's lives
- Balance use of electric and gas power usage through driving techniques?
C
D
E
F
- Fileshare usage: getting software, music, photos, 3D models, movies for free from home & work?.
- Filter information overload?.
G
H
I
J
K
- Keep permanent relationships with ex colleagues and classmates through email and social websites?.
- Know how many miles per gallon your car is getting at all times?
L
M
- Maintain online identity?.
- Maintain relationships with people we've never met, many in foreign countries?.
- Manage and participate in mixed teams containing onshore and offshore resources?.
- Manage database of passwords?.
- Manage personal photos & videos online?.
- Manage schedules and set up meetings via MS Exchange?.
- Manage social engine registrations, contacts, profiles?.
- Mate a Bluetooth earbud with a cell phone?.
N
O
P
- Protect essential personal data from intruders and disk failures?.
- Protect kids from online dangers?.
- Protect personal identity from theft.
- Proper communication styles and etiquite via instant messaging, group chat, discussion forums?.
Q
R
- Reply to legitimate email load?.
- Research online to ensure every purchase is the best product for best price?.
- Research symptoms online before seeing a doctor?.
- Rip a cd or dvd.
S
- Search Engine Optimization?.
- Send a text message?.
- Sell on eBay?.
- Shop online?.
- Skype long distance calls to friends around the globe, and back home from internet cafes in the 3rd-world?.
- Spam control?.
- Spreadsheet skills, and reusing 'relatively' referenced commands, , macros, formulas?.
- Surviving 'Death by Powerpoint', verbose webex's, videoblogs, and other screenshows?.
- Synchronize data between work & personal laptops, desktops, and digital music & video players?.
T
U
- Using and interpreting emoticons in place of facial expressions?.
- Using fax machines.
- Using social networking sites.
- Using a 3G cellphone's advanced features.
- Using a laptop to 'tune' a car.
- Understanding that a mouse doesn't necessarily have fur.