Presentation at the 19-21st of Dec 2012 "Serendipity Machine" by Seats2meet.com roadshow in the Netherlands.

1. REDESIGNING the way
we ME T
E
Teemu Arina Follow @tar1na & @meetin_gs
Meetin.gs

2. ANCIENT
CHINA

3. EVOLUTION OF COMMUNICATION
Telegraph Telefax Telephone Internet Email Web Social media
1790- 1865- 1870- 1960- 1970- 1990- 2010-

4. COMMUNICATION
POINT-TO-POINT
1910, France

5. COLLABORATION
CONTEXT-BASED
COMMUNICATION

6. SENDER AND CONTEXT OF
RECEIVER COMMUNICATION

7. COORDINATION
HIERARCHY

8. COOPERATION
WIREARCHY
Ref: Ruby on Rails, Github

9. “First we shape our structures.
Then, our structures shape us.”
Winston Churchill, British politician

10. MEDIA
SENDER MESSAGE RECEIVER
MANUFACTURER PRODUCT CONSUMER

11. ART
RENAISSANCE MODERNISM POSTMODERNISM
1400-1800 1890-1940 1975-
ARTIST WORK AUDIENCE
VISION FORM DIVERSITY
CRAFTMANSHIP PRODUCTS SOCIAL OBJECTS

12. MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE
“Societies have always been shaped
more by the nature of the media by
which men communicate than by the
content of the communication.”
Marshall McLuhan, Canadian media theorist

13. SOCIAL MEDIA

14. ?

15. “If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the
human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its
full potential, that word would be meetings.”
Dave Barry, Comedian
Hours of meetings / day
8
7.4
6.4 6.5
6.1 6.2
4.8
4.7
3.2
1.6
0
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

16. EMAIL
IS BROKEN
Incoming email / day
150
120 132
90 93
60
59
30
25
19
0
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 16

17. “Email is not a messaging protocol. It is
a todo list. And it is a shitty todo list.
Anyone of you can put stuff on my todo
list and I don't want that.”
Paul Graham, inventor of Bayesian spam filters

18. What was the agenda?
Where is it?
Who is going to be there?
...where is that email?
Meeting related data
is scattered across
multiple applications

19. Has everyone read
the agenda and
materials?
Cathing up
is a chore

20. Meetin.gs – The smartest way to meet

24. Product Workshop
Design Session
On Skype

25. Find a suitable Share agenda Discuss everything
time quickly and materials on the same page
Sync with calendar Catch up where Analyze your
and contacts ever you are meeting habits

26. PHYSICAL SPACE
FROM PRIVATE OFFICE
TO OPEN PLAN

27. DIGITAL SPACE
FROM POINT-TO-POINT (PERSONAL INBOX)
TO CONTEXT-BASED COMMUNICATION (SHARED MEETING PAGE)

28. “It is the framework which
changes with each new
technology and not just the
picture within the frame.”
Marshall McLuhan, Canadian media theorist

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