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Thoroughly Modern Meetings
Reorienting Conference Rooms with New Technology
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Technology has changed the way we exchange information but meeting rooms have not kept pace. We bring our laptops, iPads, and other digital information to a typical meeting room and it's like taking a well tuned sports car onto a dirt road. Connect113 in Alexandria, VA is paving the way for modern meetings.
Most conference rooms today look like they just removed the ashtrays from the table. Indeed, these rooms worked well back in the days of the smoke filled office when the predominant item to be shared was paper. You pushed a copy of your report on pork belly production across the table to your partner. You discussed it face to face with some privacy or perhaps some others joined as well. But there was nothing between you.
Today everyone brings some sort of electronic device to the table. There is very little paper and most sharing is done with a screen. Traditional meeting room configurations make sharing digital information awkward. How many meetings have you seen where people are sliding their machines across the table so folks can see something on a 13" screen?
It's time to change. The canvas of a modern meeting is a digital screen, not paper. So let's orient ourselves that way.
At Connect113, a shared workplace community in the Washington, DC metro area, workers come together to meet in rooms designed for the digital age. Chana Morrow, manager of the facility notes, "there is access to power everywhere. We also have a cabinet full of adapters so that everything from old PC's to the latest MacBook Pro can be connected to a screen."
The rooms are arranged so that there are comfortable positions for people to interact with each other as well as with the information on their computers or on the white boards which are typically wall to wall. Some rooms use cleverly designed switch boxes so that multiple users can connect their machines to a single large HD screen with the touch of a button. With wireless printing screen images is easy. Webcams can bring in outside participants via Skype, Facetime, etc..
Connect113 is membership based and has meeting rooms for rent to the public. It is located in old town Alexandria in the heart of the Washington DC metro area. For information call 703-738-9998.
SOURCE Connect113
Connect113
CONTACT: Billy Winburn, Connect113, +1-703-738-9998
Web Site: http://www.connect113.com
Thoroughly Modern Meetings
Reorienting Conference Rooms with New Technology
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Technology has changed the way we exchange information but meeting rooms have not kept pace. We bring our laptops, iPads, and other digital information to a typical meeting room and it's like taking a well tuned sports car onto a dirt road. Connect113 in Alexandria, VA is paving the way for modern meetings.
Most conference rooms today look like they just removed the ashtrays from the table. Indeed, these rooms worked well back in the days of the smoke filled office when the predominant item to be shared was paper. You pushed a copy of your report on pork belly production across the table to your partner. You discussed it face to face with some privacy or perhaps some others joined as well. But there was nothing between you.
Today everyone brings some sort of electronic device to the table. There is very little paper and most sharing is done with a screen. Traditional meeting room configurations make sharing digital information awkward. How many meetings have you seen where people are sliding their machines across the table so folks can see something on a 13" screen?
It's time to change. The canvas of a modern meeting is a digital screen, not paper. So let's orient ourselves that way.
At Connect113, a shared workplace community in the Washington, DC metro area, workers come together to meet in rooms designed for the digital age. Chana Morrow, manager of the facility notes, "there is access to power everywhere. We also have a cabinet full of adapters so that everything from old PC's to the latest MacBook Pro can be connected to a screen."
The rooms are arranged so that there are comfortable positions for people to interact with each other as well as with the information on their computers or on the white boards which are typically wall to wall. Some rooms use cleverly designed switch boxes so that multiple users can connect their machines to a single large HD screen with the touch of a button. With wireless printing screen images is easy. Webcams can bring in outside participants via Skype, Facetime, etc..
Connect113 is membership based and has meeting rooms for rent to the public. It is located in old town Alexandria in the heart of the Washington DC metro area. For information call 703-738-9998.
SOURCE Connect113
Connect113
CONTACT: Billy Winburn, Connect113, +1-703-738-9998
Web Site: http://www.connect113.com