Green Communications: The Case Studies
I am sitting in the Microsoft Executive Customer Briefing Center at 1290 6th Ave. in Manhattan, waiting for the Green Communications: The Case Studies event to begin. I recall seeing this in the Social Media Club email and website, but the title did not strike a cord in me until I received a call from Howard Greenstein yesterday encouraging me to consider attending. Billed as an event that bridges the area between corporate communications and green / corporate social responsibility initiatives, this is directly within my area of personal and professional interests as a corporate communications instructor at NYU Stern School of Business.
While I am awaiting the beginning of the event, there are a few things about this space that strike me as somewhat unusual.
- Firstly, for being in a large conference room at a Microsoft facility, I am surprised there are so few power outlets. I have one of the only two near any of the seats that I found in the entire room (which I scouted out as I arrived early).
- Another thing that surprises me is that I am the only one with a laptop out and in use. Not that I expect others to be liveblogging this event (can I ever stop my research once I have started it??!!), but for an event that targets corporate communications people, I wonder if more traditional note-taking strategies (I see lots of pads of paper and pens) are still more commonplace. Nevertheless, live and learn.
- Another thing that I find somewhat interesting is that there is not any publicly available wifi that I can determine. There are lots of available streams, but they all require authentication (which I as an attendee do not appear to have). Of course, without live wifi, this liveblogging will again be done using Ecto, where I will maintain things as written and post them later in the day when I again have wireless.
Ahh, two others now have laptops out . . .
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