My friend Trent posted last week, “[m]eeting organizer Protip: select a location that gets cell phone service.”.<\/p>\n
I am fairly certain I disagree. I disagree with Joel Spolsky<\/a> on this, too.<\/p>\n If you are organizing a meeting, conference, or the like, there should\u00a0ONLY<\/strong><\/em> be connectivity if you want your attenders to ignore the meeting – whether they ignore it by live-tweeting, or by playing Angry Birds, having access to the internet (or your cell phone) during meetings is bound to end poorly.<\/p>\n If you’re 100% OK with attendees missing >90% of what is said\/shared\/taught, then go ahead and ensure connectivity. If the purpose of the event is primarily a networking and socialization one, and the presentation content is only to help enable those other two activities, then by all means ensure your attendees can get online.<\/p>\n But if your intent is for attendees to\u00a0remember<\/em> what they hear and\u00a0use<\/em> it later, you’re far better off ensuring they cannot<\/b> get online easily (if at all).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My friend Trent posted last week, “[m]eeting organizer Protip: select a location that gets cell phone service.”. I am fairly certain I disagree. I disagree with Joel Spolsky on this, too. If you are organizing a meeting, conference, or the like, there should\u00a0ONLY be connectivity if you want your attenders to ignore the meeting – …
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