Tuesday
Aug142012
Question: business and personal?
Tuesday, August 14, 2012 at 3:00AM Today's question comes from Jah. What role do the various mobile electronic devices play in your business/personal life. I have try to divide my personal and business devices, but that can be expensive. I use my Nexus 7 for personal entertainment, my S3 for business and my Motorola Atrix for personal use.
Reader Comments (5)
I'm pretty anal about using not using personally owned devices for business and vice versa. I don't use my work laptop for anything personal at all. Of my personal devices, only my cell phone is used for business (and I mean the phone part) and that's only because folks at work insist on calling me on it. (Although I've gotten the vast majority of them trained to call me on my home phone now). I don't keep any business data on my Nexus 7, MBA or Galaxy S3.
We are only allowed to use blackberry phones at work due to the huge security locked in to them. Before you can do anything you have to enter a minimum 9 digit number, even to make a phone call!
Everything else is personal.
You are not even allowed to email your personal email anything.
Work SIM in a personal device; I've done that for seven years now and, on the whole, it works well. I use my work laptop for work, but I do occasionally use my personal laptop too, since sometimes it's easier to use the software I have on it — I don't have Visio in the office, so use Diagrammix on my Air when I need to put together a flow chart.
I use my own iPad in the office too, but don't store anything sensitive on it — just for note-taking in meetings, and then transfer the notes to a work system if needed.
I actually don't use my mobile devices for work at all. And I don't have a mobile device from work. All I have is my laptop which comes home with me every night so that I have access in case of emergencies.
The battery on my work laptop failed after a year, and it's now been a year and a half and it still hasn't been replaced. I also prefer taking my netbook from home to work and various private classes I teach. I also find it much easier to carry it around school taking it from class to class and plugging it into the digital boards in the different classrooms I teach. I keep a folder for work, private classes, private things. My phone is to keep my life organized in terms of agenda, tasks and tracking certain things. It's for my whole life. I rarely make calls or send messages for school on it, but private classes definitely.