New to me … but probably old to you (remember I don’t use an iPhone in everyday life). It took me back to some of the projects I have worked on before and the ever present need of providing relevant information to our mobile users/workers.
So today I bumped into Leaflets -
Leaflets are small, mobile web-based applications you access from Safari on your iPhone or iPod Touch. And since Leaflets are designed to run fast over EDGE networks, you can use them anywhere: no wi-fi or 3G required.
The seeds for Leaflets were planted when we learned that the mobile web would be the primary way to deliver applications to iPhone. We knew what kind of apps we wanted on our own iPhones, so we built those. Then we found a few that other folks had built. Then we put them all together at getleaflets.com. From photos to feeds, Leaflets puts the best iPhone apps at your fingertips.
Interesting little concept which may already be outdated (for these purposes) because of what the iPhone/App Store combo can already do on its own. Although their blog does state that…
The primary goal of Leaflets is to provide relevant public and personal information in the mobile context. This project is meant to upgrade the core product to version 2.0, bringing it up to date with modern convention.
This gives the impression they may still be working on it. However, it looks unlikely since the last blog post is from January 19 of this year.
More to why I find it interesting. Leaflet to me is a simple concept: a gateway to the mobile web. Someone does the initial filtering work for me thus saving me time and effort. I know what you are thinking… as a consumer you want the choice and you want to be the one that navigates, researches and ultimately chooses what you want on your device. Absolutely… as a consumer more freedom and more choice to you! You have spent your hard earned money and helped stimulate the economy with your spending. You should choose your own applications.
But just for fun let’s turn our sites on the enterprise. Let’s not talk about you as an individual but you as an individual in an enteerprise (or other large organization).
I am sure something already exists out there but I would like to see this gateway (actually more like my personalized enterprise dashboard) provide me with quick access to what I need for my job and for managing my device. These of course will already be pre-approved apps or links (behind the icons) which have gone through all the necessary enterprise rigour necessary to get them through your doors (security, c0mpliance, blah, blah).
Thus providing mobile users with quick, safe and approved access to ‘corporate, public and personal information in their mobile context.’
Somethings to provide your users:
- Self-management options through an internal portal (web or on device).
- Submit and review tickets
- Report problems
- Provide suggestions
- Change passwords
- Live chat with your enterprise service desk
- Request approval for new applications
- Load new applications
- Work related applications
- Whatever is needed for your role… SFA, FSA, etc
- Administrative related applications
- Time and expenses
- Flight requests and approvals
- Collaboration and productivity applications
- Email, contacts and calendaring
- Instant Messaging
- Other interesting Enterprise 2.0 apps
- Reference and knowledge based applications
- Reporting and Dashboards
- What else?
There is a lot of integration speak out there… but we haven’t made it so for our valuable resources – our mobile workers.
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