Exactly. The situation largely determines what is appropriate and most
generally acceptable to everyone in the room. However, there will be times
when technology distractions created by others requires some way of
intervention or correcting the situation as politely as possible.

To this day, I still cannot believe the number of people who will sit down
right next to you in an airport or on an airplane and start talking very
loudly on their cell phones. I have on occasion just gotten out my cell
phone and started talking louder than they do while facing them. They
usually get the message and move elsewhere. ........ Usually, but not
always.

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John Phillps
Information Technology Decisions
www.infotechdecisions.net



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Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 6:42 PM
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Subject: Re: OT: Mobile Device Etiquette

I'm of several minds about this.

Like John Philips I work onsite with customers. The customer is paying for
my time. What I do is still the people attending the meetings that I need
their undivided attention since I am onsite for a limited amount of time. I
let them know that I do understand that they are away from their regular
work, but management thought this meeting was important enough that you
needed to attend. With that said I explain that I do give breaks so that
they can return calls or emails. If you receive a critical phone call or
email, just excuse yourself from the meeting we understand.

As a speaker if I see someone in the audience gazing at a smartphone or
laptop then I'll assume that I have failed because that individual is bored
by my talk.

as a member of the audience I'm there to learn, if the information isn't
engaging then I will leave otherwise i'll try to give the speaker my
undivided attention and respect, but from time to time I may peak at my
emails

now to tweeting a meeting, well i've seen some of that done, but I don't
see how one can impart the full sense of the presentation in messages of
less than 140 characters sent out every few minutes. why not take good
notes then either post a message to a listserv or to a blog

when I worked for a large telcon we had certain phone etiquette standards
such as set your phone to vibrate when in a meeting or turn it off.
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