The Wall Street Journal has tapped into the controversy around phone calls and email messages during meetings. Paul Kedrosky picked up on it with his comment that he thinks it’s OK to do it discretely, once in a while, but the sentiment from his commenters is running against. Paul Sweeney points out that iotum’s Talk-Now is about solving this problem.Â
Exactly!
Checking your email during a meeting is sometimes necessary, especially if your day is back-to-back meetings. That’s reality. Discretely doing it, without conveying the message to other participants that the topic of the meeting is not interesting, is the name of the game.Â
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry make Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
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Only 60%? This would be an improvement for myself