24 September 2011

Business future for Facebook

There wasn't a lot of outright prophecy emerging from the Dreamforce conference three weeks ago, but Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff did say this: "Facebook is eating the Web. And the Web is getting smaller now, and we're trying to get our heads ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/readwriteweb/~3/7Hunh_YilKE/how-facebook-ate-the-web.php Shared via my6sense

15 September 2011

I'm keen on saving the planet but a little sceptical about some of the claims in this article.  Yes companies with low carbon emissions may be outperforming other companies but which is causing which?  Might it be that a high performance company can better afford to invest in low carbon projects?  Some projects may have fantastically quick paybacks but I have seen plenty of green projects - recycling especially, that benefit emissions but not the bottom line.

BBC News - Low carbon companies outperform, says CDP

10 September 2011

Drop the Autobot: Manual Posting to Facebook Outperforms Automated

Interesting article about the relative merits of manual or automatic posting to Facebook, Twitter etc

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/manually_posting_to_facebook_significantly_outperf.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+readwriteweb+%28ReadWriteWeb%29

Use of display screen equipment and desk

Took opportunity of client's course to update knowledge of how to safely use a desk and computer screen.  New point to me was that when concentrating on a screen, one blinks less which can lead to dry eyes (which has been a problem for me a few years ago).  The solution: take breaks and blink more.

Certificate is here.

01 September 2011

SAP ZJV Journals

Following on from a 'there has to be a better way of doing this....' discussion, I tracked down someone who could explain about ZJV journals.

SAP (as set up with current client in any case) has 3 main journal methods:

Manual
Best for short jounals

Complex posting Fast Entry jounals
Quicker than manual entry but data has to be pasted in a column at a time (max 20 rows per page) or put through a converter before pasting.

ZJV journals
With these, the data goes straight into a converter spreadsheet, a macro converts it to the correct format and the result is saved as a txt file.  This file is then sucked in by SAP.  Job done.  I fiddle for short journals but a step forward for long journals.