豆知识 2009-08-30&09-05 My GADs —助你随想随知

 Once again, you felt unprepared – you left home without something you need, the confirmation¹ number for a rental² car. Where is it? On the back of an envelope? In an email? What a pain! Here's a same situation with a big difference. 

 

This time you use your phone to send a text message that says "rental car number". In seconds, you get a message back with the number. It's like magic, but it's not. It's MyGADs.

 

Here's the basic idea: using MyGADs, you can easily create a webpage with information you need to access. It's as easy as writing a document. Once it's saved, the information becomes accessible from a text message, an instant message or the MyGADs website. All you have to do is ask. 

 

Here is an example. The Comets are youth soccer team and they are good, partly because their parents are so involved. Their problem is keeping up with all the games and which parent is bringing snacks. To solve this problem the coach created a page or GAD³ on mygads.com, and invited the families to use it.

 

A GAD is a different kind of webpage. Anyone on the team can add information to the site. They just click and type. The coach lists all the times and dates of all the matches. One parent creates a place for parents’ volunteer to bring snacks. Because it's on the MyGADs page, everyone on the soccer team can access the information using a text message, an instant message or the MyGADs website. All they have to do is ask for it.

 

Here is how it works: Jessica is at the grocery store and wonders if it's her week to bring snacks. Using her cell phone, she simply sends a text message that says "June 10 snacks", within a few seconds she receives a text message back that says "Jessica", so she buys oranges.

 

Her son Jason uses MyGADs, too. He sends a messaging with a friend and is asked if he can go to a movie on Thursday. He can't remember the time of his match, so he simply opens a chat window for MyGADs and types "Time June 10th". Jason immediately gets an iron reply that says "6 pm". He’s free for a movie after the game. 

 

Because the team website is secure and always up-to-date, the team never gets confused. Jason's dad was inspired by the team's site and learned that MyGADs works for business information, too. Being a sales manager, his team is always in need of up-to-date inventory⁴, price and sales figures. Information is hard to access on the road. So, he wrote to his company to implement⁵ MyGADs. He quickly learns that MyGADs works smoothly⁶ with an internal system. Constantly updated sales, price and inventory numbers can be kept on the MyGADs page without extra work. And because it's on the GAD, his team can access the information by simply asking for it using a text message, instant message or website. Plus, MyGADs offers a smartphone application that makes accessing enterprise⁷ information even easier. Suddenly his team is more efficient. On a sales call, a salesperson⁸ can uses a smartphone to ask for information like "white inventory", and answer the customer's question on the spot, 560 mugs in the inventory. 

 

Just like the other examples, no documents, no search results, just answers. For any group, MyGADs makes it easy to create a website and then access that information from anywhere using simple questions. Now Jason's family has their own GAD, and one of the first things his dad put on the site: anniversary date.

1 confirmation   

n.证实，确认，批准

参考例句：

• We are waiting for confirmation of the news.我们正在等待证实那个消息。
• We need confirmation in writing before we can send your order out.给你们发送订购的货物之前，我们需要书面确认。

2 rental   

n.租赁，出租，出租业

参考例句：

• The yearly rental of her house is 2400 yuan.她这房子年租金是2400元。
• We can organise car rental from Chicago O'Hare Airport.我们可以安排提供从芝加哥奥黑尔机场出发的租车服务。

3 gad   

n.闲逛；v.闲逛

参考例句：

• He is always on the gad.他老是闲荡作乐。
• Let it go back into the gloaming and gad with a lot of longing.就让它回到暮色中，满怀憧憬地游荡吧。

4 inventory   

n.详细目录，存货清单

参考例句：

• Some stores inventory their stock once a week.有些商店每周清点存货一次。
• We will need to call on our supplier to get more inventory.我们必须请供应商送来更多存货。

5 implement   

n.(pl.)工具，器具；vt.实行，实施，执行

参考例句：

• Don't undertake a project unless you can implement it.不要承担一项计划，除非你能完成这项计划。
• The best implement for digging a garden is a spade.在花园里挖土的最好工具是铁锹。

6 smoothly   

adv.平滑地，顺利地，流利地，流畅地

参考例句：

• The workmen are very cooperative,so the work goes on smoothly.工人们十分合作，所以工作进展顺利。
• Just change one or two words and the sentence will read smoothly.这句话只要动一两个字就顺了。

7 enterprise   

n.企业单位，商业公司，事业，计划

参考例句：

• They are determined to carry forward the enterprise.他们决心把事业进行下去。
• The enterprise has excellent prospects.这家企业的远景极其美好。

8 salesperson   

n.售货员，营业员，店员

参考例句：

• A salesperson works in a shop.售货员在商店工作。
• Vanessa is a salesperson in a woman's wear department.凡妮莎是女装部的售货员。