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Tag: meetings
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Machine Vision Will Soon Bring a Watchful Eye to Meetings
Video technology, coupled with facial recognition, will make attending a meeting an entirely new experience for both attendees and the company.
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Atlassian Debuts Stride, Its 'Most Ambitious' Enterprise Collaboration Tool
Atlassian released its largest and "most ambitious" enterprise collaboration tool today, called Stride. Officials at the enterprise collaboration provider, which has headquarters in San Francisco and Sydney, told CMSWire that Stride is the amalgamation of lessons learned about how teams communicate. The tool does not replace 15-year-old Atlassian's existing team
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Will Forcing Telecommuters Back to the Office Stimulate Creativity and Collaboration?
When IBM summoned part of its telecommuting workers back to the office earlier this year, there was a huge uproar. Onlookers and IBMers alike theorized that Big Blue was changing its remote worker policy to surreptitiously get employees to quit so it didn't have to lay them off and
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New Tools for All Hands Meetings
Anyone who's worked in a large organization in the last decade has experienced an “all hands meeting.” Usually called by an executive or a department head to broadcast information to employees, these meetings tend to be one-to-many, with little support for interactivity.
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Cisco Sheds More Light on Spark's AI Future
Over 27,000 attendees gathered this week in Las Vegas at Cisco Live 2017 to hear the latest news, expert insights and learn about the company's future direction. Here are the top stories that came out of the event.
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5 Surmountable Hurdles to Collaboration Success
We invest in digital collaboration tools, therefore we see collaboration as the outcome, right? Unfortunately, the answer is largely a resounding no. Over the last year, I have been running workshops for multinational organizations on how to overcome collaboration's hurdles.
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Life's Too Short for Dumb Meetings
Listen to your coworkers or skim the latest hacks on maximizing efficiency in your workday and one recurring scapegoat will emerge: the meeting.
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Cisco Spark Board Takes Aim at Bad Meetings
Cisco's new enterprise meeting collaboration technology comes in the form of a 70-inch, wireless touchscreen device designed to end bad meetings. The all-in-one platform — Cisco Spark Board — comes with an interactive digital whiteboard.
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7 Foolproof Ways to Make Your Meeting Rooms Suck
Like many, I spend a lot of my work life in meeting rooms. And so many seem to be set up by people who have never had a meeting in their life.
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The Curious Connections Between Zombies, Ghosts, Teen Blood & Meetings
Think how much you could get done every day if you could avoid the pain, the anguish, the thought terminating drain of Yet Another Meeting. Say, "nothing kills productivity more than an onslaught of inefficient meetings during the workday" — and odds are no one will argue. So. Much. Wasted.
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Ditch Your Office & Watch Employee Productivity Soar
Six years ago, we surveyed our employees with the goal of determining the optimal place for each of them to work in terms of maximum efficiency and productivity. What we quickly determined was that no one wanted to work in the office. Workers Can't Concentrate in the Office When
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Smarter Meeting Planning Tools Try to Save You the Headache
Nobody likes them, but everybody has them. I'm speaking, of course, of meetings. Executives spend an estimated half of their days in meetings and other employees while away three hours a day in meetings.
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Tell Your Boss to Shower & Other Ways to Survive Soul-Sucking Meetings
Cut the crap. Your perpetual smile and feigned enthusiasm don’t fool me. I know you'd rather watch an infinite loop of a sleep-inducing movie like Dances With Wolves than drag yourself into one more business meeting. Between the anxiety generated by the cell phone bans (Who might have called? What did I miss? OMG … what celebrity is naked today? ) and the frustration
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Are You Sure You Want to Schedule Another Meeting?
Economist John Kenneth Galbraith once said, “Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything." Collaboration and
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