With the right applications, the iPad can become more than just a content consumption device for videos, music, and electronic books. It can be a content production device as well -- generating documents, spreadsheets, and presentations for the workplace. This ability to produce content, given the right applications, immediately shifts the iPad into a useful business device. For example, businesses that depend on fast, accurate business processes can utilize the iPad to supply data quickly, invoice customers, and manage vendors from a reliable, highly mobile platform. TAKE YOUR IPAD TO WORK is for anyone who wants to get started using the iPad in a professional environment. By demonstrating the different types of business apps available for the iPad, this book will show you how using an iPad in many situations is actually more convenient and productive than using a laptop or a PC. You'll also be able to make a stronger case for using the iPad effectively in your place of business.
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Brian Proffitt is a technology expert who blogs on ITworld.com about OpenSource, Mobile, and Big Data technology and Twitters as @TheTechScribe on a wide range of technology sectors. Currently, he is an adjunct instructor at the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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I selected this book because I've been an iPad user since the first month it came out. I've consistently tried using my iPad at work in a number of ways and am still tweaking my ways I use it at work to be most effective. So when I had the opportunity to read this book I thought it would be great! A book on using your ipad at work, how neat...
Well this book is a great book... for beginner ipad owners that have no idea what to do with the iPad. The book is approx 350 pages long and the author spends the first 96 pages telling you first what an ipad is (2 pages) to what the buttons are on the ipad and how it works.... This has nothing to do with using the iPad at work, this has to do with remedial iPad use. This is beginner stuff. I would imagine you wouldn't attempt to use an iPad at work without some basic understanding of it.
This book spent 1/3 of it's length with remedial information, for any current iPad user you can fly by pages 1-100 and start out on chapter 7 which is where the business apps really start coming into play where the author writes about iWork. But then a few chapters later they talk about setting up a twitter page and facebook pages... ??? More content not relevant in my opinion to using your iPad at work.
I don't get it. This is a fantastic book for the beginner to iPads, NOT someone who has been using one and is looking for tips on "taking your iPad to work." If this book was "you just got an iPad FROM work and you have no idea how to use it" then sure cover the basics, but this is TAKING YOUR IPAD TO WORK. In other words you own it, you play with it, you know the basics. Show me the good stuff, give me tips, techniques to use it in meetings, ways to be more productive.
If you want a book for beginners get this, if you want a book for anyone that has had an iPad for more then a week you should probably skip on this.
Oh and a lot of the apps they discuss in this book are the higher dollar apps. iWork is $10 a piece for 3 apps totaling $30, I personally use google docs which is free or a DocsToGo which is $14 total for similar functionality where you save over 50% over iWork. They don't mention GoodReader which I found over the last year to be the best reader for PDF's, docs, etc and is only a dollar. They talk about LogMeIn which I do have but is $30 and there are other free options that are suitable. Almost every app they mention is one of the more expensive apps in the Apple app store, there ARE a few cheap/free mentions but this book really doesn't do justice to the selection of apps out there that are much cheaper and in most cases more effective.
For a beginner like I said who needs help this will be good, but for anyone else I would pass on this.
Well this book is a great book... for beginner ipad owners that have no idea what to do with the iPad. The book is approx 350 pages long and the author spends the first 96 pages telling you first what an ipad is (2 pages) to what the buttons are on the ipad and how it works.... This has nothing to do with using the iPad at work, this has to do with remedial iPad use. This is beginner stuff. I would imagine you wouldn't attempt to use an iPad at work without some basic understanding of it.
This book spent 1/3 of it's length with remedial information, for any current iPad user you can fly by pages 1-100 and start out on chapter 7 which is where the business apps really start coming into play where the author writes about iWork. But then a few chapters later they talk about setting up a twitter page and facebook pages... ??? More content not relevant in my opinion to using your iPad at work.
I don't get it. This is a fantastic book for the beginner to iPads, NOT someone who has been using one and is looking for tips on "taking your iPad to work." If this book was "you just got an iPad FROM work and you have no idea how to use it" then sure cover the basics, but this is TAKING YOUR IPAD TO WORK. In other words you own it, you play with it, you know the basics. Show me the good stuff, give me tips, techniques to use it in meetings, ways to be more productive.
If you want a book for beginners get this, if you want a book for anyone that has had an iPad for more then a week you should probably skip on this.
Oh and a lot of the apps they discuss in this book are the higher dollar apps. iWork is $10 a piece for 3 apps totaling $30, I personally use google docs which is free or a DocsToGo which is $14 total for similar functionality where you save over 50% over iWork. They don't mention GoodReader which I found over the last year to be the best reader for PDF's, docs, etc and is only a dollar. They talk about LogMeIn which I do have but is $30 and there are other free options that are suitable. Almost every app they mention is one of the more expensive apps in the Apple app store, there ARE a few cheap/free mentions but this book really doesn't do justice to the selection of apps out there that are much cheaper and in most cases more effective.
For a beginner like I said who needs help this will be good, but for anyone else I would pass on this.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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This book is truly for the beginner. It goes over the nuts and bolts, which is good. I'm a teacher so I had to adjust my thinking mode while reading this book. I'm very interested in the business side of things so it didn't take that much adjusting so don't judge me.
First he tells you how to use your iPad. This is important if you're a novice and some people in the business world (and education world) are. How to turn it on, off, search, use apps, etc... The problem lies in the fact that he is using the iOS that came out before 4.2. Granted, viners get copies, supposedly, before public release. I hope he updates the book before it hits shelves as there are MANY changes with 4.2. I couldn't find where he has a site for updates-an important concept when dealing with idevices.
Next he walks you through various apps and how to use them. Pages, Keynote, etc... Some are free, some are moderately priced and some are downright expensive. However, you don't really know this information unless you look it up. There are tons of apps out there that do the same thing. I've researched. He doesn't give lists which is what I feel he should do. Then he could say which one(s) he likes the best. This would make the book much better.
Finally, and this is just a quirk with me, it's in black and white. I like color books. It's a $24.99 book that's in black and white. Add some color and increase the cost by about $5.
Good but not great. The title will catch the eyes of business people but there are sites out there to find the right apps and better books to learn the how to's.
First he tells you how to use your iPad. This is important if you're a novice and some people in the business world (and education world) are. How to turn it on, off, search, use apps, etc... The problem lies in the fact that he is using the iOS that came out before 4.2. Granted, viners get copies, supposedly, before public release. I hope he updates the book before it hits shelves as there are MANY changes with 4.2. I couldn't find where he has a site for updates-an important concept when dealing with idevices.
Next he walks you through various apps and how to use them. Pages, Keynote, etc... Some are free, some are moderately priced and some are downright expensive. However, you don't really know this information unless you look it up. There are tons of apps out there that do the same thing. I've researched. He doesn't give lists which is what I feel he should do. Then he could say which one(s) he likes the best. This would make the book much better.
Finally, and this is just a quirk with me, it's in black and white. I like color books. It's a $24.99 book that's in black and white. Add some color and increase the cost by about $5.
Good but not great. The title will catch the eyes of business people but there are sites out there to find the right apps and better books to learn the how to's.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Intro to using an iPad with an overview of its business potential
February 27, 2011
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From the title of this book, I thought this would be a great resource for work. Some higher ups where I work were issued iPads and I was issued one quite on accident, but allowed to hold onto it. I wondered, how can I use my iPad productively at work? This book is really not a manual on how you can segue from using a laptop to an iPad in your workplace... rather it is an overview of its potential in the workplace.
I'm very critical on the usefulness of reference books, especially when it comes to the index. A poorly done index makes the rest of the book unusable unless you choose to read it cover to cover as you would a novel. I looked up "keyboard" in the index to see if there were recommendations for external keyboards. The index referred to page 9 for bluetooth keyboards. I read all 9 and found no such reference... then found mention of the concept on page 8, but without specific brand recommendations. An unreliable index makes for a frustrating manual. Period. Thankfully, I had already found a decent wireless keyboard for my iPad that uses bluetooth and is full-size with 10-key as well, but it would have been nice if there had been a section on this. I don't care how efficient you are with an iPad, without tactile feedback as you'd have on a keyboard, you cannot type as fast, since you must look at what you're typing. The book goes over how to use specific programs, it would have been nice if it went over specific hardware as well.
I found the sparse mention of cases to be lacking as well. The book goes over using the iPad as a POS (Point of Sales device). The iPad is not something that can comfortably held in one hand indefinitely. A case with a strap handle to make it easier to manage and swipe credit cards would be nice. These exist, but you're on your own for information about this from the book - it only hints that a case is desirable for protection from falls and from the eyes of thieves.
There is a lot of intro information on the iPad itself - how to connect it to iTunes, how to delete apps and rate them in the App Store, etc. It's a lot of filler that doesn't really tell you how to use your iPad in the workplace.
There's a nice overview on how to use Apple's iWork suite made especially for the iPad - Pages, Numbers and Keynote. The book also spotlights specific apps for invoicing, web editing, POS, etc. For someone new to some of these areas, however, the book kinda goes all over the map. On Web editing, for example, it goes into this explanation of the usefulness of Google Analytics. If you have a website and want to edit it on an iPad, do you really need someone telling you about how important Google Analytics is? This is supposed to be a book about using the iPad at work, not how to be a guru at all things. You're then told that "The iPad features a very useful app, Analytics HD, that logs into your Google Analytics account...." This is not true. The iPad does not 'feature' this app. It's an app you can acquire in the app store.
I don't have a problem with a book highlighting how to use what the author considers to be the best app in its field, but the book is written in such a way as to imply that the apps its showing you are the only options available. It does not tell you how to find them in the app store and no other apps that are competitors are even cited or acknowledged.
There are a lot of screenshots (all in black and white - there are no color images inside the book) to guide you, and the book is a fairly easy read - but it could really use some polishing up. The filler text on how to delete Netflix from the iPad, and similar rabbit trails could easily be nixed for more information on how to use the iPad in the workplace. While many businesses connect to Twitter and Facebook, the rabbit trails into how to set up a Twitter & FB account were eye-rolling considering how the book falls short in other areas - this data was not needed. The first 6 chapters, 96 pages worth, can easily be skipped for anyone who already feels savvy with sending & receiving e-mails and surfing the web on their iPad. I would have preferred more paper and ink devoted to more practical ways I could use this at work. Since I'm not going to have a POS or setting up invoices at work, it makes very little of the book of value to me or most people who are going to pick it up for that purpose.
I'm very critical on the usefulness of reference books, especially when it comes to the index. A poorly done index makes the rest of the book unusable unless you choose to read it cover to cover as you would a novel. I looked up "keyboard" in the index to see if there were recommendations for external keyboards. The index referred to page 9 for bluetooth keyboards. I read all 9 and found no such reference... then found mention of the concept on page 8, but without specific brand recommendations. An unreliable index makes for a frustrating manual. Period. Thankfully, I had already found a decent wireless keyboard for my iPad that uses bluetooth and is full-size with 10-key as well, but it would have been nice if there had been a section on this. I don't care how efficient you are with an iPad, without tactile feedback as you'd have on a keyboard, you cannot type as fast, since you must look at what you're typing. The book goes over how to use specific programs, it would have been nice if it went over specific hardware as well.
I found the sparse mention of cases to be lacking as well. The book goes over using the iPad as a POS (Point of Sales device). The iPad is not something that can comfortably held in one hand indefinitely. A case with a strap handle to make it easier to manage and swipe credit cards would be nice. These exist, but you're on your own for information about this from the book - it only hints that a case is desirable for protection from falls and from the eyes of thieves.
There is a lot of intro information on the iPad itself - how to connect it to iTunes, how to delete apps and rate them in the App Store, etc. It's a lot of filler that doesn't really tell you how to use your iPad in the workplace.
There's a nice overview on how to use Apple's iWork suite made especially for the iPad - Pages, Numbers and Keynote. The book also spotlights specific apps for invoicing, web editing, POS, etc. For someone new to some of these areas, however, the book kinda goes all over the map. On Web editing, for example, it goes into this explanation of the usefulness of Google Analytics. If you have a website and want to edit it on an iPad, do you really need someone telling you about how important Google Analytics is? This is supposed to be a book about using the iPad at work, not how to be a guru at all things. You're then told that "The iPad features a very useful app, Analytics HD, that logs into your Google Analytics account...." This is not true. The iPad does not 'feature' this app. It's an app you can acquire in the app store.
I don't have a problem with a book highlighting how to use what the author considers to be the best app in its field, but the book is written in such a way as to imply that the apps its showing you are the only options available. It does not tell you how to find them in the app store and no other apps that are competitors are even cited or acknowledged.
There are a lot of screenshots (all in black and white - there are no color images inside the book) to guide you, and the book is a fairly easy read - but it could really use some polishing up. The filler text on how to delete Netflix from the iPad, and similar rabbit trails could easily be nixed for more information on how to use the iPad in the workplace. While many businesses connect to Twitter and Facebook, the rabbit trails into how to set up a Twitter & FB account were eye-rolling considering how the book falls short in other areas - this data was not needed. The first 6 chapters, 96 pages worth, can easily be skipped for anyone who already feels savvy with sending & receiving e-mails and surfing the web on their iPad. I would have preferred more paper and ink devoted to more practical ways I could use this at work. Since I'm not going to have a POS or setting up invoices at work, it makes very little of the book of value to me or most people who are going to pick it up for that purpose.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good book, but technology keeps moving ...
This book provides a perfectly fine old-fashioned introduction to the iPad. But perfectly fine five years ago may no longer cut it: The book form is just too clunky to translate... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Fine Craft Fan
4.0 out of 5 stars
Solid Source of Information
This is a very good book when it comes to introducing the iPad to people who have never used one before, especially. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Richard Wagoner
3.0 out of 5 stars
Take Your iPad to Work... Plus a bunch of other unrelated stuff
First off, "Take Your iPad to Work" suffers from the same affliction as many other supposedly focused computer and tech books... Read more
Published 21 months ago by Wildness
5.0 out of 5 stars
Very Informative
This book is packed full of useful information for making the iPad a much more useful item than just playing games. Read more
Published 23 months ago by J. Miller
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good missing tree manual for those who need it...
We've had our iPad since week one so a lot of the info here was of limited use. If you're new to the iPad and want an actual hard copy book to help you out this is probably a good... Read more
Published on February 24, 2011 by J. Flood
4.0 out of 5 stars
Simple explanation of specific business apps and the iPad
This is a simple book that starts by detailing how to use an iPad for anyone, then delves into several apps that you can buy to help with business-related chores (word processing,... Read more
Published on February 17, 2011 by D. Solberg
4.0 out of 5 stars
Clear, well-written and pretty useful
I am an early-adopter and have had my iPad from the start. While I do use it for some work purposes, I tend to agree with the general consensus that it excels more at consuming... Read more
Published on January 30, 2011 by P. Lio
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good desk resource
It's somewhat ironic that in this day of iPads, tablets, apps, ebooks that books are still printed on things like this, because they really become outdated immediately due to the... Read more
Published on January 26, 2011 by N. Berry
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good introduction to using an iPad
Take Your iPad to Work is really an introductory manual to using an iPad for any reason. It's very basic and covers everything from setting one up to getting the most out of it in... Read more
Published on January 25, 2011 by W. Maite
5.0 out of 5 stars
Your Expressway into work...with the iPad
Take your iPad to work is exactly what you'd expect from this book: how to use your iPad in business settings. Read more
Published on January 16, 2011 by D. Greenbaum
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