Todd Wilkens wrote this interesting piece about his war against Blackberries and laptops in office meetings. Entitled “My personal war against Crackberry,” Wilkens points out how these devices can divide people’s attention to matters. He shares seven ways on how to curb this phenomenon in office meetings.

In this age of wireless Internet and mobile email devices, having an effective meeting or working session is becoming more and more difficult. Laptops, Blackberries, Sidekicks, iphones, and the like keep people from being fully present. Aside from just being rude, partial attention generally leads to partial results. Multi-tasking is a myth (and there are lots of other articles corroborating Merlin’s points). This is especially damaging in highly collaborative and interdisciplinary fields like UX.

It’s quite interesting for someone to push this. I, myself, prefer to have my laptop on and connected during meetings. Nothing beats some quick Googling to provide more data or perspective on the topic at hand. But I do admit, that for some uninterested parties, having laptops can be quite a distraction. So maybe there is some point to Todd’s suggestions.

Any thoughts?

Via: Adaptive Path