Thing #14

For Thing 14 it was time to look at another office application alternate. Instead of Visio I chose to use Gliffy to create one of my diagrams (well the first draft - I need the completed presentation by the 16th) for a presentation I have to give to my departments server committee. In this diagram (shown below) I have outlined how the departments data servers connect together and provide the data to the backup server.

In this diagram I attempt to keep it as clean as possible and only provide minimal textual information. The rest of the required information for this slide will be provided verbally, explaining how the data flows using the agent software or the robocopy software.

The next piece of software I looked at was bubbl.us, which is classed as a mind map. Going into this lesson I assumed that a mind map was very similar to a flow chart. While similar I realise that they are not the same.
In learning about mind maps I came to realise that while it does flow that there are no right paths, that it is taking ideas and mapping them out step by step. In the image above I made the mistake of selecting a task that I now feel would more suit a flowchart. I believe it took making this mistake for me to realise the differences.

I chose Gliffy over flowchart.com simply because of the one day wait. When I read the assignment I wanted to test it out. Bubbl.us was selected simply because of the graphical feel to it. I will admit that in a work environment that I feel the mind miester would be more suited to what we do.