Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Event Board


"Reclaiming lost productivity, one meeting at a time."


Technology today is eternally growing and evolving. It affects nearly every aspect of our lives. Communication and more specifically professional communication is one aspect in particular that continues to be modified constantly by the ever-changing entity of technology. One technological gadget that has and will innovate professional communication is Eventboard. 

As we continue to expand our professional communication circles domestically and globally, it becomes more and more difficult to coordinate everyone’s schedules and arrange an appropriately sized room with the necessary technology present to accommodate the needs of everyone involved. Event board is the solution to all of these obstacles to professional communication. 

Eventboard uses a cloud-based platform that focuses on two major feature sets: employee-focused meeting tools and activity-driven insights.  
The employee-focused meeting tools help members of an organization connect with the right rooms and resources for their needs. There will be no need for squabbles over who should actually get a conference room, or why the technology in the room isn’t right for what was needed. It will ultimately keep meetings on track. This not only helps on a micro level with individual groups or employees, but also on a macro level because this feature sets streamlines for how your employees schedule and direct meetings and as a result it is easier to manage meeting told across the entire organization.  
The activity-driven insights will be extremely useful in enhancing professional communication within a company because it is powered by data collected from employee meeting tools and it will suggest things for a company to do to improve productivity. This feature helps figure out how many attendees are in a typical meeting and the times and days that employees would like to have meetings. It also finds out which rooms are over and under used as well as how many cancelled meetings there are. This feature singles out which technologies are needed for which employees and can figure out which types of technologies produce the most problems.  
By using Eventboard, professional communication can be more organized, time efficient, and effective. This will effect everything from groups to entire organizations. According to Eventboard, 11 million meetings take place in a day throughout the US. That is a lot of meetings and even more people that are involved in these meetings. Imagine how much time this technology will reduce if implemented. Imagine you are personally in charge of planning a meeting that involves 10 people, 2 of which are over seas and you will need a room big enough to fit those people comfortably, and the technology needed to connect with the members overseas. With Eventboard, you could easily look up which rooms are available, have the proper technology, and can fit everyone. With Eventboard, you wouldn’t need to worry about people knocking the door on your important meeting to ask how much longer you need, or that they scheduled the room. All of these problems will be avoided because everyone will have access to it.  

6 comments:

  1. Katelin,
    This is a very interesting post. I have never heard of this eventboard technology before but as i read your post it was very easy to identify the main features and purposes of it. As a student who is often involved in group projects (most of which are poorly planned by myself or other students) I think that this technology could be really helpful in making sure that we have the resources that we need. I think that the real world application example that you used in the last paragraph was really helpful in encouraging us, the readers, to understand how this technology could be used in out own lives.
    Good job!!

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  2. This is an interesting concept. I believe that it could definitely make communication in the workplace more efficient and more organized. Any platform that allows access to multiple people is a benefit in collaborating in office/work settings. It could help things run more smoothly and mitigate arguments and misunderstandings around the office.

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  3. I have not heard of this before, but it seems like it could be a very useful concept. At my old job, the company I worked for had to share a building with another company, and there was only 1 conference room, and it caused conflict. I can see how this technology could be helpful.

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  4. Boy this would have been nice in the library. I have actually seen this tech implemented in the Park City city offices and it seems like it would be pretty cool.

    This was very well written. So well written I actually suspected it may have simply been copied from another site. You did a very good job of explaining this product and getting me, the reader, interested in it. Good job!

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  5. I haven't heard of this technology before, it sounds really neat. It would be really useful. Having meeting schedule organized and easy to understand would be really nice. I really liked your blog and the pictures you used were very useful

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  6. I thought you did a really good job with the pictures and hyperlinks! The layout was really slick and easy to navigate. Interesting idea for technology. I guess the designers saw a need and they jumped to fill it! I'm curious to see if it will actually catch on.

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