Quick Thought – Meeting Free Days Also Say Something About Your Workplace Culture

Quick Thought – Meeting Free Days Also Say Something About Your Workplace Culture

Yes, I am on record as saying that the most important thing in a remote workplace is communication, in fact, I’m a fan of over-communicating. That doesn’t have to mean more meetings though. It can, honestly, just mean making use of all of the communication tools we have, especially when the discussion does not need to be had in real-time. 

If you make Monday “meeting-free” but cram five days’ worth of meetings into the other four days of the week, you’re not helping the situation. You’re just rearranging deck chairs. The real change comes in figuring out how to make do with less meeting time, by taking advantage of alternatives when that makes sense, and by learning how to have more efficient meetings. (Start by not scheduling every meeting for 1 hour, for example. A 10-minute conversation can be a 10-minute meeting. There is no law that says all meetings must be divisible into 30-minute increments just because your Outlook calendar defaults to that.)

Linked: Hidden Dangers of Microsoft 365’s Power Automate and eDiscovery Tools
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Linked: Hidden Dangers of Microsoft 365’s Power Automate and eDiscovery Tools

Look, we’ve always had this issue in the eDiscovery space, in order to put data on hold, and collect it as part of a lawsuit, someone has to be able to access all of it. That means there has to be an account somewhere with unlimited access to both search, and collect, tons of data from your environment, as necessary.

As important as having the ability to do that when faced with litigation, there is also the danger inherent in having an account, and tools, with that level of access.

Linked: A New Skill a Day Keeps the Stress Away
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Linked: A New Skill a Day Keeps the Stress Away

I found this opening paragraph pretty interesting in and of itself. With the current uncertainty in our daily lives, many people are more stressed than ever. Conventional wisdom says to eat well, exercise, and relax to reduce stress. While that’s all great advice, studies show that learning may relieve stress better than relaxing.  In recent…

What I’m Sharing (weekly)
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What I’m Sharing (weekly)

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Linked – 7 Reasons Not to Use Outlook to Forensically Preserve Emails
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Linked – 7 Reasons Not to Use Outlook to Forensically Preserve Emails

With the grain of salt that this is written by a company that makes a forensic email collection tool, I think reasons 2-6 in the linked list are very real issues for any eDiscovery collection, and why I would not rush into collecting any web-based email account. “On the surface, this looks reasonable—Outlook connects to…

Linked – Dictate – Speech Recognition for PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook
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Linked – Dictate – Speech Recognition for PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook

This seems interesting, especially for Outlook. Now, if they could just make a Mac version and a mobile version. But hey, if you’re an Office user on Windows, a free tool to dictate quick emails might be useful to you. http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2017/06/dictate-speech-recognition-for.html Image by JeepersMedia