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What to do during boring teleconference calls

Posted on October 30th, 2009 by Sacha Chua

What do you do during boring teleconference calls?

Redesign other people’s presentations, if you’re Lesley. That’s how she keeps herself interested in a call. She corrects typos, makes fonts and colours more readable, adds diagrams and animation, and generally experiments with how to make presentations better. She often sends the presentation to the original speakers so that they can take advantage of her work.

Want to try that during your next call?

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2 Responses to “What to do during boring teleconference calls”

1. wireguy // Oct 30, 2009 at 2:21 pm

   I make art… 30 days of meetings

2. Saqib Ali // Oct 30, 2009 at 6:31 pm

   So, is you saying I ought to be doodling during teleconferences???

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