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Daily Coping Tip Give sincere compliments to people you talk to today I also have a thread at SQLServerCentral dealing with coping mechanisms and resources. Feel free to participate. For many of you out there working in a new way, I'm including a thought of the day on how to cope in this challenging time from The Action for Happiness Coping Calendar. My items will be on my blog, feel free to share yours. |
Viva I want holographic screens and meetings. Heck, I'd like Teams/Slack/Zoom/etc. to recognize multiple screens and let me separate out different cameras to different screens. I'd like to be able to see more than a tiny thumbnail of a presenter, or of other people that are in a meeting. That might be one of the things I miss most about these virtual meetings. I can often barely see others. Microsoft Viva is a new platform for remote work and collaboration. I'm not completely sure what it is, though there is a video with the cool, enticing holographic screens. It's not an app, but appears to be some way to connect various information in an organization into Teams. It's like an intranet from the 90s, but designed to help someone navigate their organization and work environment. I'm all for bringing together more data, and especially making it easier for people to do so. I love all the single-sign on we have at Redgate, but everyone produces so much data through tickets, feedback from customers, notes in chat apps, emails, announcements made everywhere, including our internal site, video updates, and more. What I really need is some prioritization and triage for me. For my role, which becomes more like a personal assistant, which I don't know I'd have confidence in. I suppose I wouldn't have confidence in a human assistant until I'd trained them, so maybe this is a similar task I'd need. I'd have to build trust, and I'd worry about data privacy, which are still issues with humans, but there is less scale issue, and less secret access to human knowledge than to bits stored somewhere. At least I feel there is. Maybe I'm just worried, but many of the problems I see with computers have to do with the scale of data access, both in the volumes of data, but also the variety of people that can see the data. Microsoft has already had some issues with trying to boost productivity with some of their evaluation of individual's work. Perhaps they are going to find a balance with insights and privacy, but I don't want to be a test subject for this. Changing the way we work, helping individuals be more productive and accountable, while protecting their rights privacy is hard. I applaud Microsoft for trying something, but I suspect that this is like many of their new ideas, half-baked and incomplete. Whether they continue to invest and grow this into a useful tool remains to be seen, but I hope they do. I'd certainly like to have more useful ways to collaborate and communicate. Especially if they build holographic screens. Steve Jones - SSC Editor Join the debate, and respond to today's editorial on the forums |
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