https://padlet.com/profsiyuwang/l78kp6r6hj5j Made with the help of a typing monkey en-us 2018-03-24 10:58:36 UTC 2023-02-17 00:58:16 UTC hello@padlet.com profsiyuwang https://padlet.com/profsiyuwang/l78kp6r6hj5j/wish/245715703 Waking Up, Inc. Is a busy company with need for frequent meetings to discuss directions of the firm. The meetings are more often that there is need to introduce and implement use of virtual means of meeting. There are many options to choose from, thus there is need to vividly use five steps of reflective thinking to come up with two better options.

]]> 2018-03-24 11:00:03 UTC https://padlet.com/profsiyuwang/l78kp6r6hj5j/wish/245715703 profsiyuwang https://padlet.com/profsiyuwang/l78kp6r6hj5j/wish/245716343 This problem fits '6 journalist questions' which include  (who, what, where, when, why, and how). Waking Up Inc. is a busy company with many meetings each week. There is definitely a strain for the administrative members to attend all such meetings.  As a result, there is need to come up with the best option of meeting virtually thus saving on time and resources. Virtual meetings will also ease the strain and ensure higher turn up rate. ]]> 2018-03-24 11:08:48 UTC https://padlet.com/profsiyuwang/l78kp6r6hj5j/wish/245716343 profsiyuwang https://padlet.com/profsiyuwang/l78kp6r6hj5j/wish/245717574 Factors such as market competition, vision and crisis in the company may lead to increased need for meetings to make policies or decisions to mitigate the problems. All this leads to overwhelming number of times to meet. Attached is the Ishikawa diagram to demonstrate cause effect relationship.
Use of virtual meeting is thus required to ease the effect of increased physical meetings while maintaining the purpose of meetings. Members will instead be meeting on an online platform at their on comfort to actively participate in administration. The criteria for possible virtual options for the meeting should include (1)one site that involves visual and audio meeting to serve as a perfect replication of the real meeting. (2)he second option is to provide easy message sharing to allow posts, comments and discussion]]> 2018-03-24 11:26:12 UTC https://padlet.com/profsiyuwang/l78kp6r6hj5j/wish/245717574 profsiyuwang https://padlet.com/profsiyuwang/l78kp6r6hj5j/wish/245718914 For the first criterion, Meetup.com is the best option. It offers online audio and visually enabled meetings. The members need to join one group. It is common to many people and relatively affordable.
For the second criterion, LinkedIn is the best option. It allows for creation of company administration  group where members will join. Information is then posted and members react with their comments. It efficient for text message communication and discussions]]> 2018-03-24 11:44:37 UTC https://padlet.com/profsiyuwang/l78kp6r6hj5j/wish/245718914 profsiyuwang https://padlet.com/profsiyuwang/l78kp6r6hj5j/wish/245721473 The implementation process uses Action. This involves the following steps
1. Raising awareness about the desired change to use of virtual meeting
2. Training of meeting members on how to use LinkedIn and Meetup.
3. Constitute a team of IT experts to monitor if the change is effective, affordable, friendly and efficient
Widen the use of virtual meeting
Identify problems and offer solutions]]> 2018-03-24 12:21:42 UTC https://padlet.com/profsiyuwang/l78kp6r6hj5j/wish/245721473 profsiyuwang https://padlet.com/profsiyuwang/l78kp6r6hj5j/wish/245721475 Use of Meetup.com offers visual and audio meetings. It is easy to set up, quality audio and video. It is however expensive to setup an extensional microphone and needs a high-speed internet connection. It Has a rating of position 15 worldwide. the second criterion is made by use of LinkedIn. This is a professional platform that offers quick message posting and comments making it suitable for text announcements and discussions. Has a rating of position 12 worldwide. All ratings are obtained from https://www.dreamgrow.com/top-15-most-popular-social-networking-sites/]]> 2018-03-24 12:21:43 UTC https://padlet.com/profsiyuwang/l78kp6r6hj5j/wish/245721475