Shine Energy Systems Inc.

There are a lot of different ways to store and share information but we’ve found a few useful enough that it warrants sharing.

We use Blackberries.  Nothing groundbreaking about that.  You get phone calls.  You get e-mails.  You can text back and forth.  You can even send site photos to one another.  But what we’ve found especially useful is syncing our contact list with Google Contacts (off of gmail).  This means our contact list is always accessible to us.  Drop a phone down a borehole and we can still track down the phone number.  When we get a new phone, we just re-sync and we have all our contacts ready to go again.   Yes, Blackberry does have its own software that you can connect to your computer with – we don’t even load it.

The other syncing we can do with our Blackberries is to Google Calendars.  I don’t think I need to go in to how important scheduling is to a contractor.  The added bonus is we can use the same web-based program to track employee hours as well.

One of the funnest is Google Earth.  By using placemarks we track our geothermal system locations.  In the description we add a few details relevant to us, but basically it is a nice way of tracking what we have done and where.  See an example printout below.

P.S. This is free software.