Monday, March 27, 2017
Making Sure your Meetings are Productive and Effective
Making Sure your Meetings are Productive and Effective

Meetings are something that all managers and leaders need to be able to plan, organize, run and follow up on. When I was a project engineer, I had to run lots of meetings and had training in effective meetings at a couple different companies. Ive attended good meetings, and really bad meetings. In education, many meetings seem to be a complete waste of time, or the entire faculty is at a meeting that only affects a small number. Meetings are expensive - you have to take into consideration the time and salaries during the meeting and the fact that people arent doing other work. Make your meetings effective - have a clear objective and keep them short and to the point.
1. Define purposes of meeting - why are you meeting? What is the objective of the meeting? Also, does this meeting have to be face-to-face, or can it be virtual, via email, Google Docs, etc. Do we need to meet as a group or could certain people deal with issues?
2. Develop agenda - what are the key points that need to be addressed. Who needs to be at the meeting? What tasks need to be assigned during the meeting? What is the time frame for the meeting?
Use this checklist when preparing for your meetings:

Source: A Checklist for Planning Your Next Big Meeting | HBR
3. Distribute agenda prior to meeting - this gives attendees a chance to prepare any materials or information prior to the meeting and to be prepared. This also keeps meetings moving faster. The agenda can be emailed, shared as a Google Doc, or posted online.
5. One speaker at a time - follow rules. One person talks at a time, no side conversations.
6. Review agenda and set priorities - what is the top priority to be addressed at the meeting? What needs to be accomplished?
7. Stick to agenda - items not on the agenda should be held to the end or put off to a later meeting.
8. Assign task responsibilities - make sure people know what they are responsible for and where to go for support. Give them resources and help to accomplish their tasks.
9. Establish target dates - when do things need to be done by? When is the next meeting? When will follow ups be done?
10. Summarize agreements - summarize what was accomplished, decided, and agreed upon.
11. Close at or before agreed time - do not run over unless absolutely necessary. Things can be discussed online or at a later meeting.
12. Keep a written record of meeting - assign a secretary and keep notes of the meeting including attendees, agenda, what was discussed, tasks assignments, and follow up information.
13. Edit and distribute minutes promptly - minutes should be distributed within 24-48 hours of a meeting.
14. Encourage completion of tasks - remind persons of task assignments and due dates and offer them help and support.
15. Put unfinished business on agenda for next meeting. - Unfinished business should be addressed at the beginning of next meeting.
Related:
Meeting Organization with Evernote
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Wednesday, March 22, 2017
MacTubes 3 0 8 Player and downloader especially designed for YouTube
MacTubes 3 0 8 Player and downloader especially designed for YouTube
MacTubes is a handy YouTube video player and downloader that allows you to create playlists and download video files.
The program allows you to subscribe to video channels on YouTube and view them from your desktop with no need to actually visit the YouTube site itself. MacTubes can then search and download files directly onto your desktop. It can also allow you to create playlists based on what youve downloaded or what youve searched on. So just line up what you want to watch and let it all go on while you sit back and enjoy.
Searches in MacTubes are more or less the same as using the YouTube site, allowing you to view videos by keyword, theme and even the user who uploaded it. The disadvantage is that you cant see any of the comments without going to the YouTube site, which is one of the best aspects of YouTube anyway. The other big drawback is of course that it only works with YouTube - other major sites such as DailyMotion and Metacafe are completely ignored.
MacTubes is a really easy-to-use and handy YouTube searcher and downloader that will make sure your favorite YouTube clips remain in your hands.
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Wednesday, March 15, 2017
Minoo WordPress Theme for Creative Businesses Portfolio and Photographers Portfolio download
Minoo WordPress Theme for Creative Businesses Portfolio and Photographers Portfolio download


If You’re looking for a theme that can be used for any kind of Creative Business, Portfolio or Photography site, is extremely easy-to-use thanks to drag&drop page builder (no coding knowledge is required) and comes with powerful sorting and filtering – take a look at Minoo. Minoo is fully responsive and fast WordPress theme coded with current standards. Built on fully responsive front-end framework works and looks good on mobile phones, tablets, laptops and desktops. Theme comes with possibility to create password protected projects that can be shared only with selected clients and will help you to keep your work private if needed.
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Sunday, March 5, 2017
Motor Motor Coolest And the Worlds Fastest
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3. Honda CBR1100XX Blackbird

4. Yamaha YZF R1

5. MV Agusta F4

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Monday, February 20, 2017
Minitool Partition Wizard Professional 8 1 Crack and Serial keys Full version Free Download
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Friday, February 10, 2017
Thursday, February 9, 2017
Metal Slug Defense World 3 V1 6 0 Canada Australia and Central Africa
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| World 3: Central Africa |
In the version 1.6.0 of the Metal Slug Defense, three more areas are unlocked - Canada, Australia and Central Africa. Moreover, there are new units introduced as well. Each area completed would reward you 10 Medals.
The thing is, compared to the China last time, the stage 4 in the latest 3 areas are relatively more defeat-able. With the usual troops in your deck, you are still able to complete the stages without much hassle.
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| World 3: Canada |
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| World 3: Australia |
But the challenge is, how to achieve a S rate? You may think that it isnt important to get a Rank S (speed factor) in the World 3. But from my experience, a Rank S may give you a higher chance of obtaining a random item such as mobile satellite, rewards x2 (Ok. that might not be useful to you lol).
To make it short, in order to beat the 4th stage of Canada, Australia and Central Africa faster, the use of Leona and Ralf are critical. I dont remember how many times I have emphasized the importance of Leona. Her special skill has been proven super effective in a number of New Missions.
A video paints a million words. I will post some videos of the V1.6.0 soon.
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Friday, January 27, 2017
Mobile web apps front end and back end sample
Mobile web apps front end and back end sample
This code sample is to demonstrate how to develop a mobile web apps using HTML + jquerymobile as the front-end, and PHP+mySQL to serve as the online database.
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The FRONT-END
Pls change the apps ID in the config.xml.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<widget >"http://www.w3.org/ns/widgets"
>"http://phonegap.com/ns/1.0"
id = "com.yourhosting.yourappID"
versionCode = "2"
version = "1.0.2" >
<!-- versionCode is optional and Android only -->
<name>JPA Directory App</name>
<description>
Directory for JPA
</description>
<author href="http://kerul.net" email="khirulnizam@gmail.com">
Khirulnizam Abd Rahman
</author>
<gap:splash src="splash.png" />
<icon src="icon.png" />
</widget>
Change the link to your web server. The buttons SEARCH AJAX, SEARCH STAFF and ADD NEW STAFF require connection to your web server (back-end). Change the links accordingly.
*this tutorial might help you to generate Android APK file for the front-end.
The BACK-END
On the back-end, we are using PHP as the server-script and mySQL as the database. Inside the folder of the server-script, you will find file
SQLdump - The database sql-dump is available in jpa_dir.sql
Config file - Please change the config.php file to connect to your database.
<?php
$servername = "localhost";//change your db servername
$username = "root";//change to your db username
$password = "";//change to your password here (if any)
$dbname = "YOU_DB_NAME";//change your DB name here
// Create connection
$conn = mysqli_connect($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);
// Check connection
if (!$conn) {
die("Connection failed: " . mysqli_connect_error());
}
//echo "Connected successfully";
?>
Header file the header.php contains the header for the HTML template of the page.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>JPA Directory</title>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<link href="css/jquery.mobile-1.4.5.min.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/themes/test-theme2.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/themes/jquery.mobile.icons.min.css" />
<script src="js/jquery-1.11.1.min.js"></script><script src="js/jquery.mobile-1.4.5.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div data-role="header" data-add-back-btn="true" data-back-btn-text="Back" data-position="fixed">
<h1>JPA Directory</h1>
</div><!-- /header -->
Footer file the footer.php contains the header for the HTML template of the page.
<!-- footer -->
<div data-role="footer" data-position="fixed">
<h2>Copyright @2015 JPA</h2>
</div><!-- end footer -->
dy>
</html>
Search facilities
The search facilities contains two files; list-staff.php and view-staff.php .
The list-staff.php is to generate list of all record of the table sd_users and populate the data in a filterable. Selecting one of the record as in figure below will invoke another page, view-staff.php.
<?php
header("Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *");//this to allow page to be accessed from the mobile app
include "config.php";
include "header.php";
//search facilities
?>
<div role="main" class="ui-content">
<?php
//sql statement
$sql = "SELECT * FROM sd_users";
//return the resultset
$result = mysqli_query($conn, $sql);
if (!$result) {//sql query error
die(mysqli_error($conn));
}
?>
<form class="ui=filterable">
</form>
<ul data-role="listview" data-inset="true" data-filter-placeholder="Find staff..."
data-filter="true">
<?php
if (mysqli_num_rows($result) > 0) {//records found
// output data of each row
while($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)) {
$url="<a href=view-staff.php?id=".$row["id"].">";
echo "<li>".$url.$row["name"]."</a></li>";
}
} else {
echo "<li>No record found</li>";
}
?>
<ul>
</div> <!-- end main div -->
<?php
mysqli_close($conn);
include "footer.php";
?>
The view-staff.php will display all information of the selected staff.
<?php
include "config.php";
include "header.php";
//view complete staff info
?>
<div role="main" class="ui-content">
<h2>View staffs full info</h2>
<?php
$id=$_GET["id"];
//sql statement
$sql = "SELECT * FROM sd_users WHERE id=$id";
//return the resultset
$result = mysqli_query($conn, $sql);
if (!$result) {//sql query error
die(mysqli_error($conn));
}
//fetch the record
if (mysqli_num_rows($result) > 0) {//records found
$row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result);
?>
<img src="images/man.png">
<form id="view-staff" name="view-staff">
<label for="txtname">Staff name</lable>
<input name="txtname" id="txtname" type="text"
value="<?=$row[name] ?>" readonly>
<label for="txtemail">Email</lable>
<a href="mailto:<?=$row[email] ?>"
class="ui-btn ui-btn-inline ui-icon-mail ui-btn-icon-right ui-btn-icon-notext ui-btn-corner-all"> </a>
<input name="txtemail" id="txtemail" type="text"
value="<?=$row[email] ?>" readonly>
<label for="txtphone">Phone</lable>
<a href="tel:<?=$row[phone] ?>"
class="ui-btn ui-btn-inline ui-icon-phone ui-btn-icon-right ui-btn-icon-notext ui-btn-corner-all"> </a>
<input name="txtphone" id="txtphone" type="text"
value="<?=$row[phone] ?>" readonly>
</form>
<?php
} //staff id exist
else {
echo "Staff not exist";
}
?>
</div> <!-- end main div -->
<?php
mysqli_close($conn);
include "footer.php";
?>
INSERTing a new record is accomplished in the insert-new-staff.php. In this page were utilizing the window.location facility in JavaScript to redirect to list-staff.php after a new record is successfully saved to database.
<?php
include "config.php";
include "header.php";
//insert facilities
?>
<div role="main" class="ui-content">
<h2>Add new staff</h2>
<form id="view-staff" name="view-staff" method="post" action="">
<label for="txtname">Staff name*</label>
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