Use Your NOOK in the Next Business Meeting

Whether directing or attending, everyone wants a way to make business meetings run smoother, more easily and more efficiently. A great way to make this possible is with a NOOK new Samsung Galaxy Tab version in particular. Any tablet can help make your meetings better, but this device works particularly well in business because of special features only from Samsung.

Keep Attendees Apprised

How many times have you started up a meeting by asking if everyone received the information packet you emailed out the other day, only to have one or two people state it never arrived? Using a tablet, you can quickly resend the message, attachments and all, to make sure they have access to it on their own tablet or smartphone for the course of the meeting. This also makes it easy to make changes to scheduling on the fly no matter where you are—if you find an error in your literature at the last minute, or something in the agenda changes ten minutes before a conference is supposes to start, rather than running all the way back to your computer (if you can even access it from your location) you can use the easy apps on your tablet to make the necessary changes, save the file and send it back out to everyone involved before they arrive.

Upgrade Your Slideshows

According to Business News Daily, another great way to use a tablet to make your business meetings better is the ability to turn your tablet into a smart remote with the right apps. Using Bluetooth or Wi-Fi, you can connect your new Samsung NOOK to your computer and use the tablet to control the slideshow from anywhere in the room. This allows you to move around the room during presentations, keeping you from being tied to the computer and allowing you a more natural presentation method. Most apps also allow you to preview the following slide, which will help to keep you organized and keep the meeting on track.

There are even apps that you can use to create slideshows for presentations directly on your tablet, which can then be broadcast to everyone in a digital meeting live with the right conferencing software. As long as you’re all running the same application on more or less the same speed, this could really cut down on the amount of equipment you need to present to your colleagues.

Make a Note

If you have poor penmanship or just can’t stand taking notes by hand, a tablet is the best solution. Laptops are large and a standard model needs to be plugged in for long meetings or you risk losing everything when the battery gets too low and it shuts down; furthermore, data shows that taking notes by laptop is actually less effective than taking note by hand regardless of how poor your penmanship. Techlicious reports that tablets are the absolute best way to take notes, whether it’s in a meeting, seminar or even lecture. You can use an on-screen keyboard or a stylus to transcribe notes easily, quickly and effectively—all without shuffling through pages upon pages on a notepad.

The right note-taking app can even save your content to the cloud and allow you to access it from any computer to which your cloud storage account syncs. This works both ways as well, making it easy to review content from previous meetings from your tablet after you’ve had a chance to clarify and streamline your notes from a larger interface.

Conference Anywhere

As far back as 2011, PC Mag reported that mobile video conferencing was the future of long distance communication. The new NOOK is no exception to this rule, allowing you to participate in video conferences from anywhere you have Wi-Fi; with a front-facing camera, you can attend a digital meeting from a vacation resort in the Bahamas just as easily as you can from your desk back home. The difference is that you don’t need to carry around a bulky, heavy laptop. Plugging in the device can help speed things up a bit, but with the quick processing speed and impressive processing power of this tablet eReader hybrid, it’s easy to get through a meeting on a single charge without worrying about disconnection. As long as you close up the background apps you can before you start, you could even be in the meeting for hours without dropping from a loss of power. You want to make every second of a meeting count, but using a mobile device allows you to take those seconds from any location on the globe.

Improving Efficiency

Now that you know what your NOOK can do, it’s time to get started. Always make sure that you’re familiar with how your device works before you try to use it for any official function. The last thing you want is to look like you don’t know what you’re doing when your new equipment should make you look more competent than ever. Figure it out, get comfortable and then start making your meetings better.

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