{"id":4401,"date":"2018-10-23T08:58:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T15:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/?p=4401"},"modified":"2018-10-23T08:58:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T15:58:00","slug":"devices-in-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/devices-in-meetings\/","title":{"rendered":"Devices in Meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Oct 23, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been in the business world for a long time. For the first half of that time, no one brought computers into business meetings. And having your mobile phone out during a meeting was considered rude. Of course now, all that is commonplace. Especially since using a laptop or even a smartphone for note taking is so normal.<\/p>\n<p>But I sometimes wonder whether going back to &#8220;the old days&#8221; wouldn&#8217;t make sense.\u00a0This recent article lists many of the objections I still hold to allowing devices in meetings:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/10\/03\/success\/meeting-laptops-phones-ban\/index.html\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/10\/03\/success\/meeting-laptops-phones-ban\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To add a thought to that article, I still feel that using a tablet ink capability for notetaking in a meeting is a good compromise. Something about writing notes with one hand seems to leave enough awareness open for full meeting participation. In contrast, typing with two hands with a screen in your face does not. But that just might be me.<\/p>\n<p>What is your opinion on this?<\/p>\n<p>Michael<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oct 23, 2018 I&#8217;ve been in the business world for a long time. For the first half of that time, no one brought computers into business meetings. And having your mobile phone out during a meeting was considered rude. Of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/devices-in-meetings\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4402,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4401\/revisions\/4402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}