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The concept of a meeting room is interesting. It has to have a video camera/speaker and a whiteboard. If you ask my team, they don’t want to have meetings with me in rooms with whiteboards. I do tend to step to the whiteboard and work through things. Which is funny, many years ago I published a poem about Dancing Bears and paintbrushes. It was written about a meeting I had with a bunch of coworkers.
If you can imagine, Dancing Bears do not often listen. Bears are not known as great listeners. They are known for eating honey and for catching salmon. Bears with color paint brushes then might pose a problem. You see, once the Bears start painting, they don’t listen. It becomes hard to get a word in edgewise sometimes, add unicycles, and you have a circus show!
To end this discussion of meeting technology, what do you like to see when you walk into a meeting room? A carafe of tea or coffee? Perhaps three carafes, tea, coffee, and decaffeinated coffee. Do you prefer a muffin tray or cookie tray? One of the things I always check is the chairs. There are conference rooms at my office that have awesome chairs. And conference rooms that have horrible chairs. I think the horrible chairs are in the conference rooms that are for short meetings!
What do you need to have in your meeting rooms?
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Question of
Do you ever facetime with someone?
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Yes
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No
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Question of
have you ever skyped?
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Yes
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No
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Do you have a camera attached to your computer?
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Yes
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No
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If I call for a meeting the tenants get nervous, if they see me with a paper in my hand they rally freak out!
I tend to leave “Love notes” 🙂
The repairman loves them because its a list of things he did not do and needs to be done.
I can see you standing at the white board. Talking to loud to keep their attention.
i usually tell a couple of jokes if they aren’t listening!
That would work, do they stop and listen then?
they do sometimes and sometimes they don’t luckily i have other former teacher tricks!
Q: DO YOU EVER FACETIME WITH SOMEONE?
Yes (5 votes) – 36%
No (9 votes) – 64%
Q: HAVE YOU EVER SKYPED?
Yes (14 votes) – 93%
No (1 votes) – 7%
Q: DO YOU HAVE A CAMERA ATTACHED TO YOUR COMPUTER?
Yes (11 votes) – 79%
No (3 votes) – 21%
I thought whiteboard is a must in the meeting room. I remember in my ex-company, we have flip chart (with large paper sheets) too. I think this can be quite useful, as we can keep the papers with some important discussion notes or ideas. We also have projector. I think these are useful in the meeting room. I don’t really concern about coffee or food, I don’t remember eating while having discussion. 😀
whiteboards are also very important – smart boards (that convert the whiteboard into digital) even more so!!!
There are very few things that are comfortable and practical.
it is important to have comfortable chairs – otherwise have very short meetings!!!!
As I get distracted easily, the less distractions, the better.
i get so busy with work sometimes I forget to stop!
I sometimes forget to start, lol.
that is a very different situation!
When I met in the meeting room we always had coffee, tea and water. The chairs were not good.
bad chairs usually keep meetings I am in short~
Coffee and windows are all that I need.
what no Brendel? 🙂 sorry in a mood today
A little “sassy” are you? I like it. That makes things interesting!
my wife doesn’t call it sassy she calls it annoying.
Got to have coffee! When I worked in the legal division with Pipeline Safety, the hearing room was always frigid. We had coffee but not always sugar and/or creamer. This is when I learned to drink coffee black and got hooked on coffee. You actually needed it to keep your blood flowing and to stay awake. You can only imagine how boring these hearings were.
my guess is that on a good day they were boring!
The last time I was on Skype was between 2005-2006.
Meetings at where I am involve a pen and paper, nothing less nothing more?
well that is good that you have people taking notes,
I have a camera on my computer and have never used one ….. as far as the chairs are concerned, I think the chairs should be good quality if you sit a lot
they are critical – a good chair makes the difference.
Very important especially if you are sitting really long ….
it really is very critical I love my chair!
Thanks for sharing that with us.
i am most happy to share thanks!
He says I do skype with the grandkids. Sometimes they are like bears.
Skype is fun when both sides have video!
I know many people these days have meetings/conferences via these video apps like Facetime, Skype etc. I normally use Whatsapp. But I only use the video on there when I talk to my mum.
i have been on, then off, then on, Whatsapp several times over the years.