Jame is posturing

Everyone is trying to go green.  Here a few easy ways your business more green.
1.  Minimize the number of individual printers on employees desks.  It is amazing how much less people print when they need to walk further.  ;)
2.  Convert to digital paystubs, if you haven't already.  I imagine many employees review, scan, shred.  This cuts out lots of steps for your employees and you HR team.  And Adobe Acrobat or similar PDF creation tool is cheaper than the time you spend on postage/stuffing envelopes.
3.  Get you employees mugs and water bottles.  You probably have company swag.  And these 2 are popular ones.  Give on to each employee and lead by example: use it for you water cooler, tea and coffee.  Sure you have to wash a few more dishes, but you'll have less trash.
4.  Ditch the bottled water for a cooler of better yet filtered tap.  Either way you'll use less plastic and decrease transport costs.

I thinks these are a few easy and low cost ways.  Chime in if you have ideas.

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Raise your hand if you know a blackberry user.  Keep them raised if the use it for personal stuff.  

Keep them raised if the personal > work.

I'm sure if we were in a room of 100 people the number of hands left in the air would be less than 20.

Blackberries are the consumate work phone.  To get your mail your company needs a special server.  Cell phone carriers tack on the $30/month Blackberry surcharge, which frankly, even for the biggest Facebook addicts, isn't worth it unless someone else foots the bill,

In contrast the iphone is the consumate "play" phone.  Games, music, and movies are a breeze.  Work? Steadily improving.

If you recall, when Palm launched the Centro, it was called the "life" phone for work and home.  But it lacked the work streed cred of the Blackberry and the cool factor of the iphone.  It sold a lot, but didn't convert many existing smartphone users.

The Pre aims to change this by getting some work friendly features, and some play friendly ones.  Let's call it the crackberry for people looking for balance.

With that goal, Palm could be on to something.  And the idea behind Synergy and WebOS support this notion.

Here's to balance for work and play.

(BTW I wrote this on my Pre)

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One of the things I'd like to do with my phone is fire off quick blog posts when I'm out or I have a brainstorm.  The Pre looks like it can help with this.

This wasn't really possible from my Centro and was way too much work with a virtual ipod touch keyboard.  Ok well maybe it was on the Centro, but I'd didn't spend much time on apps other than transit schedules, text to twitter, light web browsing and light email.

Anyway I have been using posterous [www.posterous.com] a little over the past few months as a psuedo personal blog.  I like the email to post everywhere: twitter, facebook, friendfeed, blog.  Great for pic updates to twitter from basically any phone.

So now I am giving posterous my endorsement for blogging from you Pre.  Your Pre is an email machine.  In fact I just found this.  And posterous is the blog for emailers.

So start blogging and post everything everywhere you are online.  

If you are looking for me:
http://jameane.wordpress.com
http://jameane.posterous.com

P.S second posterous from my Pre, first press from the Pre.

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Ridiculous.  Women scripts in theater = no chance

Rethinking Gender Bias in Theater

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Argentina?!?

Gov. Sanford Admits Affair and Explains Disappearance

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Wrapping my first day with my pre.

A few thoughts:
I love the screen and the UI.  The screen is really sharp and the system font looks great. It's modern and polished at the same time.  

About the cards:  I have hit the limit a few times.  Noticed that when I use Tweed from the launcher it starts a new card.  I think that's a bit annoying.  Otherwise they work great.  The limits have com at the >10 mark.

About the battery: well I was down to 30% at 4 or so after nonstop pandora over wifi for at least 6 hours interspirsed with a few phone calls, texts and email notification set to as they arrive.  The day started at 7 for me so that's not bad.

The email:
The push gmail was pretty good.  It typically arrives sooner than meebo's notifier but there were a few occasions when meebo won by a hair.

What I miss from my centro? The transit schedules.  They were apps but they required no internet and loaded fast.  Perfect for when in Bart's bay tunnel.  Might have to get classic.

Stay tuned for  more.

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t Palm Pre Wish List | AboutPalmPre

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Friends needs your help with ticket sales more than ever. The poor economy has decreased our sponsor participation, and our needs have more than doubled. Increased tickets sales and attendance could help make up our shortfall.

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