Innovative Meeting Equipment
Posted in General, Business on May 31st, 2008It’s amusing how meeting rooms are some of the last rooms you’ll find technology in the office. Sure, you’ll see the latest IP TV technology in the offices themselves. And, yes, every managerial-level employee in the company will have a Blackberry, a sexy, quick little laptop, and an office with IP TV.
After a digital projector, the next step in conference room technology is the electronic whiteboard. The traditional dry erase board has been a conference room standard for years. But it has limitations which really can be seen when compared to some of the IP TV technology accessible today. For one, everything written on a marker board is temporary, and must be erased to leave room to write more. This means that, if the discussion notes will have to be referred to later, an attendee will have to be assigned to take notes from the board. But this old-fashioned system is a thing of the past. Electronic whiteboards abolish the need to take notes by hand, as all that is put on their surface can be printed (as with Copyboards), stored as digital information (as with Peripheral boards), or even be organized, grouped, and interacted with (Interactive Whiteboards).
In general, knowing what kind of meeting room technology you need for your office is just a matter of surveying your needs. Do you generally hold important meetings with associates across the country? Do you find that most of the notes taken at meetings are fragmentary or incoherent, or you don’t have anyone to take them? Then some of the products discussed here may be for you. It’s just as easy to have too much IP TV technology in the boardroom as it is to have too little, so be sure not to spend more than you need. The technology you choose should make meetings run more smoothly, not slow them down while attendees spend all their time figuring out how to use these new tools.



