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Ice Breaker

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New Technology – New Work Environments

Dr. Mark Elliott

Overview

Efficiency

Remote Work

Collaboration

Future

Parkinson’s Law

Pomodoro Technique

Online Stopwatch

Bring TIM (Time is Money)

Signup Genius

Email

How do you

manage?

Do you read every

email?

Solutions – Small Fix

Turn off the email notifier

Set a time during the day

to read and respond to

email

Put a brief message in your signature stating

the time you read email

Include instructions for

emergencies

Email Charter10 Rules to Reverse the Email Spiral

1. Respect Recipients' Time 2. Short or Slow is not Rude 3. Celebrate Clarity 4. Quash Open-Ended Questions 5. Slash Surplus cc's 6. Tighten the Thread 7. Attack Attachments 8. Give these Gifts: EOM NNTR 9. Cut Contentless Responses 10. Disconnect!

Screenr (screencasting)

Screenleap (screen sharing)

PollEverywhere

Sample Poll

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McLuhan and the Future (Present)

My Experience with Remote Work

Remote Work

Disadvantages

24,000 people in 95 countries• 59% home disruptions• 43% difficulty concentrating on work issues• 25% no access to company documents

Videoconferencing

• WebEx• GoToMeeting• Join.me• Google Hangouts• Skype• Adobe Connect

Collaboration

Future of the Office

The Impossible Game

• http://impossiblegame.org/the-impossible-game/