Comments on: Ban Crackberries from Meetings? http://stevenmsmith.com/ban-crackberries-from-meetings/ Accelerating Team Productivity Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:16:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: George Dinwiddie http://stevenmsmith.com/ban-crackberries-from-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-192 George Dinwiddie Sat, 22 Dec 2007 01:48:21 +0000 http://www.stevenmsmith.com/wordpress/?p=27#comment-192 David Maister just wrote on a similar topic. http://davidmaister.com/blog/528/Meeting-Rules David Maister just wrote on a similar topic.

http://davidmaister.com/blog/528/Meeting-Rules

]]> By: Steven M. Smith http://stevenmsmith.com/ban-crackberries-from-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-190 Steven M. Smith Mon, 10 Dec 2007 04:52:56 +0000 http://www.stevenmsmith.com/wordpress/?p=27#comment-190 Priceless, Dwayne. Happy Holidays, -Steve Priceless, Dwayne.

Happy Holidays,
-Steve

]]> By: Dwayne Phillips http://stevenmsmith.com/ban-crackberries-from-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-189 Dwayne Phillips Sun, 09 Dec 2007 10:41:35 +0000 http://www.stevenmsmith.com/wordpress/?p=27#comment-189 Amen. I first encountered something similar to crackberries in meetings ten years ago. A manager I knew had to sit in endless upper manager meetings each day. He had his secretary print out about 3 dozen of his more important emails and put them in a folder. He would read his emails from the folder while sitting in meetings. I love to attend meetings, seminars, classes where there is WiFi available. That allows me to augment the subject via the web. Some people running meetings hate to see this. They want my undivided attention. My reply has always been that if the subject of the meeting is less interesting than is what is on the Internet, well improve your meeting. I am currently in the middle of a two week (super boring) class at work. The "facilitators" have told us several times to give our undivided attention to the guest speakers and that it "is rude" to be looking at papers while they are speaking. I have done a lot of practice writing during this class. :-) Amen.

I first encountered something similar to crackberries in meetings ten years ago. A manager I knew had to sit in endless upper manager meetings each day. He had his secretary print out about 3 dozen of his more important emails and put them in a folder. He would read his emails from the folder while sitting in meetings.

I love to attend meetings, seminars, classes where there is WiFi available. That allows me to augment the subject via the web.

Some people running meetings hate to see this. They want my undivided attention. My reply has always been that if the subject of the meeting is less interesting than is what is on the Internet, well improve your meeting.

I am currently in the middle of a two week (super boring) class at work. The “facilitators” have told us several times to give our undivided attention to the guest speakers and that it “is rude” to be looking at papers while they are speaking. I have done a lot of practice writing during this class. :-)

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