WLP224 What's Going On and Do Online Meetings Matter?

<p>This podcast is brought to you by Virtual Not Distant Ltd. </p> <p>For full shownotes, and details of Pilar Orti's new book Online Meetings That Matter, please see <a href= "https://www.virtualnotdistant.com/podcasts/online-meetings-connections"> https://www.virtualnotdistant.com/podcasts/online-meetings-connections</a>.</p> <p>And here's What's Going On:</p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href= "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-02/coronavirus-forces-world-s-largest-work-from-home-experiment"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Coronavirus Forces World’s Largest Work-From-Home Experiment</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">- This article reflects a moving target in a fast-moving situation, as it was published 2nd February, but it indicates an ongoing phenomenon. Virtual Not Distant do not advise waiting for a global health crisis as a strategy for transformation, but it’s great if technology can rise to the occasion and encourage people to try new things - so long as they don’t judge the remote-first approach from the outcome of an ad-hoc reactive solution.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href= "https://thenewstack.io/googles-plan-to-reduce-its-carbon-footprint/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Google's Plan to Reduce Its Carbon Footprint</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">- For us, this piece triggered lots of reflection about the carbon footprint of digital ‘things’ in general. We think of remote as very ‘green’, but data, tech and storage</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">does</span></em> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">have a cost in terms of energy, when you scale up. Or even how they suck power on your own laptop… See also:</span> <a href= "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/06/why-irish-data-centre-boom-complicating-climate-efforts"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Why Irish data centre boom is complicating climate efforts</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href= "https://www