posted28/10/09
My mom is diabetic, and each time I take her to the clinic for her quarterly check-ups, the physician asks me to monitor her blood sugar levels regularly. She often tells us how serious diabetes is although it is very common and manageable. However, I wondered if the physician was only exaggerating about the subject to make us more cautious.
Well, having a family member with diabetes, I thought its essential to expand my knowledge on this topic. Thus, I did a bit of self reading and figured out some interesting facts and figures about diabetes; I decided to pick a few important notes and presented them in this KWL (Know-Want-Learn) chart.
In Creately we have a whole bunch of ready-made graphic organizers which makes life so easy. Hence, I pulled out a KWL template from the Creately dashboard to present the information I thought is essential in understanding Diabetes.
Hope you find this interesting!
posted27/10/09
Last week before Charan left to Hyderabad to attend the TiE-ISB event, he asked me to come up with some useful diagrams to demonstrate the power of Creately. As usual I was active during my power hours of 10p.m. to 3 a.m. generating ideas. I had random ideas running through my head, but didn’t quite understand the importance of each of them. So even before I figured out the effort required to build a diagram, I spoke to a few of my online friends.
I asked them about their knowledge on Creately. I was excited to hear a few of them say, “I love it!!” They rate Creately 5 stars each time they used it, and they have recommended it to many of their friends. But on the other hand, I was quite surprised to see a few others say “What’s Creately?”
Well… that’s when I realized that a simple flowchart on Creately about Creately would be a great diagram. Since flowcharts are easy-to-understand, they are a great tool for communicating how things work and I believed this simple diagram will help people understand what Creately is all about.
So here’s a simple flowchart for all of you who want to learn about Creately!
posted20/10/09
On Thursday night I went to Ideapitch ‘09 with was run by Student Entrepreneurs | Agents of Change. This was the finals of the IdeaPitch ‘09 events. There were 8 student groups pitching in two categories. The first being for plain ideas, and second for established ideas or businesses.
There were some fantastic ideas, my favourites being Heart Park (compassionate car parking) and iWannaTutor (social tutor and student network). Special mention to Green Wall Garden, this is very much what apartment dwellers need to grow their own fresh fruit and veg - although its pretty expensive. Finally 37tweets (you might be able to guess where they get their inspiration from) have an interesting idea, and if they work very hard they could well be on the right track to achieving their dream. Take a look at the final results.
Beside the pitching there was also a chance to network with the other attendees. I met some interesting people, all of whom have great ideas. These events always remind me that there are so many great ideas around.
The nicest surprise of the evening was to run into an enthusiastic Creately user. As you know Creately appeals to everyone and it is no surprise that we meet Creately users in all sorts of locations and situations. This user is a student at Monash University where he and his friends had used Creately to collaborate on a piece of course work for their university degree. He said he found it quick to use and it made it much easier for him to finish his coursework and get it handed in on time. It is always fantastic to meet Creately users in person and get that first hand feedback. After all, this is part of why we made Creately and why we want to make it even better. Hearing how much people love it and how it helps them provides us with the impetus to carry on and strive to be the best diagramming tool and number one visual collaboration business.
We would now like to reach out to all our current and future Creately users and invite you to meet up with us to discuss your Creately usage and to get your ideas for future development and usage. We would especially like to meet those individuals and organisations that are using Creately to help with software development or web development. So if you are based in Melbourne, London, Colombo or Jakarta or the surrounding cities please email us and we can arrange a meet up in the coming weeks (or perhaps even a short chat on the phone). If you’re not based in these cities please email us or leave a comment, we’d love to know how you use Creately.
@nick_foster
posted15/10/09
Perhaps you have been wondering who the people behind Creately are? Or perhaps you haven’t. Well in case we’re piqued your interest, you can now check out our brand new About Us page and finally put a face to the name on the support email or enquiry email we have answered for you. Charan has done a great job putting the page together.
We have also provided a map of our office locations so you can also get an idea of where in the world we are.
Finally we have some ideas and pointers for those of you who want to talk about Creately to your business or user group in your organisation or perhaps even just your friends.
@nick_foster
