Paperless Cube

My cubical office environment is not paperless, though we are getting closer.  Many take iPads or laptops to meetings instead of noteboooks and most of us take our laptops home (as opposed to a briefing book for the evening or something).  Many meetings are conducted with the help of PowerPoint in part so that colleagues that are not physically in the office or at another location can easily follow along.  We are utilizing a program similar to google documents to share work in a protected way, though this has some limitations as we cannot share these inter-departmentally at present.  For the most part, I utilize our printer when I need to proof a document or share a draft PPT without setting up a laptop.  I do think that continuing down the paperless trajectory encourages us to share information utilizing more graphics and multimedia.  We recently had an awards event where each team sent in a video (since the teams were located all over the world) and I was so impressed with the AV capabilities of our scientists.  The videos incorporated music, animated graphics and footage in an almost seamless manner.  It was much more interesting than listening to someone discuss the accomplishment.  The challenge of the paperless office is that we do all need to then become savvier with Web 2.0 tools and creating content that is engaging.  I have some work to do on that front, but the tools we've learned here are helping.

I think "paperwork" can now safely be substituted with "email" here.
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