What Kind of Seating Suits The Tech Workers Best!

What is the best seating arrangement for IT people! Is it a complete open space or cabin/cubicle based arrangement is better! Basically the spectrum is completely private arrangement or completely open arrangement that encourages easy interaction. The complete open arrangement probably is good for creative teams. Agile process teams possibly could do with the open arrangement, but adding some space where an individual can duck into(even if it is not a complete cubicle) becomes necessary. Closed offices does not promote interactive work. What comes out from the discussion in the article is that you need to balance between the open and some private space depending on the type of work.


Cubicle wars: Best and worst office setups for tech workers 

T4E Conference

Google's Buzz feature came on-line recently, then I received a call for paper from the technology for education 2010 international conference. It immediately struck me that the Google Buzz could be a huge help in actually teaching a class very conveniently. particularly in institutes of higher learning, technology & engineering and MBA schools. Most comm0n scenario is a campus wide Wi-Fi, students with laptops and with the Buzz, I can be in constant touch with my students. one could do this with facebook or twitter too. But this more general, besides announcements, I can direct them to specific slide shows at connected web sites, I can have a forum like situation where one student asking a question and the answer to that are visible to rest of the community. May be, I'll write a paper on that!