Hello mobilewarriors and visitors. Quite some time I didn’t write any articles. World’s been busy, and same as me.

So here goes article. A quick article I’ve wrote, Tissue Tips.

If you realize, if you come to every cafes or even fast food chains, they will give tissues. Tissues being served for your convenience. Aside from wiping our mouth and hand, tissue can be most useful to one mobile warriors. Usually, the shops will give you at least 2-3 piece of 2 ply (helaian) tissues. From my observation, unused/extra tissues will be left untouched by customer and those unused tissues, usually, following the restaurant code of conduct ( I was a Shakey’s Pizza service crew before so I know ) will be thrown away.

I’m serious. It is same as leftovers. Untouched tissues will be thrown away. ( I didn’t know if there’s restaurant keeping it )

How to fix this?

While it maybe hard for us to change the code of conduct of restaurant, unless we are the one in control, I would suggest we, mobile warriors, do something. That is not to left any tissues behind, even if we don’t need it. This is why you should keep unused tissue in your backpack

• Use it for ideation and sketches (as pictured above). Maybe in dire need you just need to jot down important number so yeah. Tissue ftw.
• Use it to wipe dirty tables at food court, cafes, or when you want to put your laptop to work.
• Use it to wipe anything that in the situation there’s no cleaner can wipe it for you
• Best replacement for whiteboard duster.
• And women best friend too :p
• And if you’re scouts/ first aid expert, tissue is one of important thing, If i’m not mistaken.
• Lastly since I’m motorcyclist, sometimes I wipe my wet

So yeah,let’s reduce unused tissue wastage. Let’s take our part  :)

End of article

Sidenote: I’m quite glad that ever since I talk more about Officekami this year, more and more people coming in to give support. While this is a non-profit movement, support is all I need to elevate it and yeah, you can see a lot of submissions; almost every weekday one place being published. And there be no updates on Saturday and Sunday because it’s weekend. And every Wednesday, I allocate like a special day to wrote articles.

Ahoy fellas. If you’re on twitter and following famous fellas on Social Media or foursquare junkie, best bet is that you heard this a day before KLSpecial

In a nutshell the idea is to get shops signed up as “owners” on foursquare and have them make specials available for the rest of us. We seek support of other 4squarers out there along with some of the bloggerati and twitterati of KL.  If you want to help just drop us your contact details and we will touch base with you on how you can get involved. – taken from their site.

Officekami is a proud supporter of this movement. Every location submitted and shall their owner want to promote it as one of #mobileoffice destination, it will be automatically listed in the Officekami Locations. So it will definitely help mobilewarriors in finding best locations + discounts, if they’re frequent visitors or mayor.

So dear mobilewarriors, if you have extra 10 minutes at your locations, or you’re feeling burnout from working, go to the respective contact person of that shop, and educate them. It is for their benefit afterall The resources to educate them on #KLspecials is here.

And if you’re asking benefit on your part, what you get is special itself. Imagine if you’re frequent visitor to The Bee, check in X5 will reward you a cappucino. Doesn’t that sounds nice? Or maybe some other locations give you X% discount. It is all that we want. And we need more and more shops to join.

Lastly, you can help to promote #KLSpecial by clicking the link below

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Let’s make Malaysia a more happening place to be!

Hi All, I guess by now you may figure out Wednesday is the day I gave review, App Showdown, rants, articles and many more. So for today, an achievement for this project is to get featured in one of mainstream papers in Malaysia

If you click the picture, it will lead you to the news excerpt online, in Malay language. For English readers, it is about

• The evolution of how human works ( E-Mail, file sharing.. )
• The technology nowadays enabling human to work from distance + multiple location
• A lot of people working mobile in public areas
• The Officekami project is about providing crucial info required by mobile workers
• Such as WiFi, plugs, toilets, stationery shops
• Everyone can submit the recommended Mobileoffices. Submitters such as @victorliew, @fiona, @iwani, @shamsuljafni
• There’s also a mobile-app in development, thanks to @nazroll from Redboot Solutions
• Last March there’s Co-Working event celebrating Earth Hour sponsored by San Francisco Coffee
• Social Media Expert @thechannelc also involved in that day
• Mobileoffice is the growing working trend.

I’m quite glad to be featured. After all, featured in mainstream papers mean I can spread the idea of telecommuting and maybe in next 5-10 years, at least you don’t get that weird look when you said you work everywhere, your office is mobileoffice.

And in next 20 years, a bill of Telecommuting enacted in Malaysia.

Boy I’m such a dreamer. Thanks to the submitters of Officekami. And by the way, if you’re new here. Consider share your location with us. There will be others be thankful of it

Aha. Now that I guess most of you benefitted from the last Officekami Discount Meal Sheet last week, I believe you find this useful too, Discount Card Comparison.

Clicking on the page will view the bigger version of the picture. Alternatively, you can also download Officekami Discount Card Comparison PDF version and stick it on your partition wall, if you still not practicing #mobileoffice :p (because if you mobileoffice, you’ll miss that partition wall )

The resource of that Old Town White Coffee Citizen Card promotion was taken from Longlibra here. And the card picture is from Mietos. Since I don’t have Old Town Card.

Looking forward to hear your feedback, and spread the news fellas!

Apparently I have much time to kill so I created this based on my experience

Click on the image above to see bigger version, And you may download PDF version (A4) so you could stick it on your office space.Now download > Officekami Discount Meal Sheet.

Few things to take account to

KFC & McDonalds = Non-ergonomic chairs. Noise, and may only have few plugs ( but certain McDonalds have a lot of plug )

Secret Recipe = Their WiFi is protected by Streamyx Zone. Lately, they open a connection. Kindly ask the server first.

Old Town = Non-ergonomic chairs. Few exclusive oldtown do have comfy chairs. One of it is Bangsar South.

Coffee Bean = their Breakfast meal only coffee/tea-refillable before 11AM.

San Francisco Coffee = Non-uniformed rules on ‘Buy One Free One’ (BOFO). In Menara UOA Bangsar, you can buy BOFO after lunch. In Ampang Point, BOFO only available during weekends.

Above all, kindly ask the waiter if there’s WiFi available at the outlet.

If you’re a great graphic designer, then feel free to redesign this cheat sheet. It is under attributions/share-alike. Just credit back us okay And feel free to reblog this

The second App Showdown is Teambox. I myself tried few Team collaboration tools. Namely Bantam Live. Then last two weeks I remember fellow Mobilewarriors Arzumy/Hakim Albsrawy twitted about Teambox. Since Flavert/Weddingkami work remotely in every own spaces, we need few stuff like virtual whiteboards or service to share project updates.

Since I’m a fan of desktop apps, most of screenshot is desktop app version. Don’t worry, still the same with webview.

Let me start with an Overview Panel when you login to your Teambox

When you login, you can see the overview of your Projects. Definition: Projects in Teambox is a project that being run in a company. However, since we want to use the apps for free, I decided that Weddingkami is a Project. And all projects received by clients will be defined as Tasks.

Read more yea

And now this is task. I have one task not completed. That’s why 10 May is in red.

Now let’s proceed to Project View. Currently I only have Weddingkami, but with many task inside.

The Overview is the first view that you’ll see once you go into Projects. It is much alike Yammer window. You can paste attachment and all. You can see some attachment below the long post I blurred.

This is All Conversation. Conversation: Threaded topic/ discussion. And you can paste attachment and all too. The diffierence with the overview is I see Overview is kinda like announcement, and Conversation is much more topic oriented. Let’s go deeper into one of the Conversation

In this ‘Online Advertisement’ Conversation, as you can see, there’s a list of people following that conversation. Here it can be more oriented without roaming to other topics rather than Overview.

This is All Task List. Since most of our Task List using clients name, we decide to blue-ed it. Every main task have a sub-task. As you can see, Weddingkami Template Design is empty. And all below are our clients. So the Ideation has left behind is my assigned task, and there’s remaining two site assigned to Faisal Arba’in for Publishing task.

Now this is inside specific task. This task is assigned to Faisal Arbain and the status is still open. I can also view completed task to keep track with.

Now this is Pages. For me, this is can be a single repository to everything. Here I kept all details/notes/everything about the project and also future plannings. It is a directory that serve as references. Let see inside one of the Pages.

Now this is one of the Pages. Here I put all related info about this particular client. I can put inside Task list too but again as I said, for better maintenance, refer everything and every details inside Pages.

And lastly, this is Files. It simply list all files that you’ve uploaded. Now this is neat.

I skipped Time Tracking since we’ve yet to use it. It’s only one month we’ve been using it, and love it when we paired with Yammer. This video below is to show you how we make Teambox, originally a web-apps to become Desktop apps.

So get your Teambox now. Pair it with Fluid and you got a nice desktop apps

Stay tune for more App Showdown!

One year before, I said Hello World.

Within this one year, Officekami has reviewed 120 Locations and 15 articles. Err the articles is a bit few.

And to date, @Nazroll from Redboot Solutions has elevated the presence of Officekami by hacking it and WIN FOR IT WEI! during Yahoo OpenHack Southeast Asia, and even did a mobile test version for Officekami site.

And day by day, me myself assisting in suggesting fellow mobile warriors finding nearby mobileoffice via @officekami twitter. Even it’s not much of a followers, just 77, but I’m intrigued and amazed at the reception. It even featured at InfoMalaya and Amanz.my, just few tech blogs here.

Imagine you got a phone call asking where to work, that’s how crazy, well at least for me.

and thanks to bunch of mobile warriors for joining first co-working event in conjunction with Earth Hour,  thanks to our sponsor of that day, San Francisco Coffee.

I’ve given talks to TEDxMMU on how Mobileoffice could save the world, and at BarcampKL too. No available slides uploaded, sooner seriously.

And I must thank all for the support. But I would not stop here.

I will propose a Bill of Telecommuting in Malaysia. Okay at this point you should laugh.

Officekami is a Weddingkami community project, where we share our corporate culture with others, by doing work mobile. There’s no business activity behind Officekami, and the value of Officekami is the info that will help the community.

Mobile Office for the win

Sincerely, Ikhwan Nazri

P/S: CUT THE CRAP WHY THIS POST SOUNDS SO EMO LOL!!  (maybe coz of that last line sincerely hahaha) Okay on the shorter note, I’ll will definitely bring Officekami more alive and kicking in the 2nd year. Chale!

Last november, @Nazroll from Redboot Solutions, just ‘hacked’ Officekami and won ‘Best Productivity Hack’ at Southeast Asia Open Hack Day organized by Yahoo. I’m really happy to heard someone make use of Officekami data. And now he further develop it for mobile devices. Below are some of the screenshot of it inside my mobile phone.

This above is map view

And this is Info view.

I’m very excited about this. With his hack, people can easily access stuff but it is currently in Alpha stage. He need some feedback so help him to help you in getting all of this info being feeded into your mobile device.

Help Officekami Mobile here.

And meanwhile if you have some time to kill, view his video at Yahoo South East Asia Open Hack Day here below

If you want to develop something for Officekami, do let me know. Since this is intended to be Community Project, every hacked is warm welcomed. Afterall, we’re all mobilewarriors, may change the world.

Hello all mobilewarriors! Aha. In less than a week we’ll be celebrating Earth Hour that will be held on the last Saturday of March annually. This Saturday, see all local house turning off their lights for an hour for a change. And since it falls on Saturday, which is non-working day, it is not that beneficial for us, who are working so I was thinking if I could pull an Officekami day, a day where most of mobilewarriors going out, co-working at mobileoffices to save their Office electric.

Now what are the benefit of Officekami day ?

• Save your electricity
• Meet other Mobilewarriors from other profession
• To celebrate Earth Hour, a day before.

Last year during BarcampKL, I’ve stated this in my Mobileoffice presentation

Consider this

You and your department, 10 people, decided to go mobile on every Friday, or working at home

By deciding that, you’ll turn off all the electrical appliances in the office,

Wasn’t that earth day? kinda

What do you think? Read more please.

From my point of view, by using ‘shared resources’ in mobile office, might contribute some effect to the electricity. Imagine that during day, office complex are one of those places with higher priorities in supplying electric. But shopping malls and cafes, operates day and night. So it might be beneficial if a whole bunch of us going to work at these cafes.

If you think I’m correct, and wanna support Earth Hour, the Officekami way, then this Friday, 26th March, come to your nearest cafes and make them your mobileoffices. Invite your colleagues, or even another mobilewarriors. Co-working with some of your friends from different background. Together, we can cut electricity being spend at these electricity-hungry areas. And another one thing, please use public transport, if that’s an easy task for you

Act Now Mobilewarriors!

This friday, since you’re going to mobileoffice to celebrate Earth Hour, below are the list of mobileoffices that is near with rail system.

1. San Francisco UOA Bangsar (Bangsar / Putra LRT Kelana Jaya Line )
2. San Francisco Sunway Tower / Wisma Denmark ( Bukit Nanas Monorail / Dang Wangi Putra LRT Kelana Jaya Line)
3. Old Town White Coffee CIMB/ Jalan Esfahan ( Bandaraya / LRT Ampang Line )
4. Starbucks Jusco Maluri ( Maluri / LRT Ampang Line )
5. And most of stations (KLCC, PWTC, Medan Tuanku Monorail  and all ) are near with any cafes.

And if you’re mobileoffice-ing that day, do tag/twit us at @officekami and use hashtag: #OKEH. OKEH stands for Officekami Earth Hour

Looking forward for your participation towards officekami day and also, Earth Hour. Celebrating Earth Hour, the officekami way. This might be the small step before huge or worldwide telecommuting/mobileoffice-ing event (lol I’m must be dreaming). This friday, I’ll be co-working with some fellas from different background. So hope you’ll be doing the same too.

P/S: I’m not sure I’m totally true on this, but I’m standing on my basis still correct me if I’m wrong. An article worth reading – Is Telecommuting Really Greener.

Just checked San Francisco Coffee website, they give 25% discounts for orders made while Earth Hour on the run. Wow!! details here.