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The Dangers of Sharing Your Screen With Co-Workers (seattletimes.com)
"if you must goof off at work, then at the very least manage your notification settings so that your alerts are muted, and aren't broadcast on the big screen when you screen share in the boardroom," warns the New York Times -- offering several examples of what can go wrong.
An anonymous reader quotes their follow-up report: Whether it's happened to you or in front of you, many of us are familiar with the screen-share disaster: the accidental exposure of something private while projecting your screen before a group of colleagues.
The only surefire way to avoid this is to do as the lawyers recommend and keep your personal things on your personal devices and your work things on you work computer. Sonia Farber, a partner and founder of , acknowledges that may not be feasible for everyone. "But, to the extent that you can keep some separation of church and state, you should make every effort to do that," she said.
The Times offers a checklist for "how not to ruin your life (or just die of embarrassment) with a screen share" -- offering common-sense tips like managing desktop notifications and signing out of messaging apps before meetings. (And of course, not leaving open any tell-tale browser tabs.) But have Slashdot's readers seen (or experienced) any screen-sharing disasters in their own lives?
Share your stories in the comments. What are the dangers of sharing your screen with co-workers?
An anonymous reader quotes their follow-up report: Whether it's happened to you or in front of you, many of us are familiar with the screen-share disaster: the accidental exposure of something private while projecting your screen before a group of colleagues.
The only surefire way to avoid this is to do as the lawyers recommend and keep your personal things on your personal devices and your work things on you work computer. Sonia Farber, a partner and founder of , acknowledges that may not be feasible for everyone. "But, to the extent that you can keep some separation of church and state, you should make every effort to do that," she said.
The Times offers a checklist for "how not to ruin your life (or just die of embarrassment) with a screen share" -- offering common-sense tips like managing desktop notifications and signing out of messaging apps before meetings. (And of course, not leaving open any tell-tale browser tabs.) But have Slashdot's readers seen (or experienced) any screen-sharing disasters in their own lives?
Share your stories in the comments. What are the dangers of sharing your screen with co-workers?
Solid job by the submitter and editor on this one. A++.
I once saw an uber-boss who, unadevertly let us see a black window with letters.
It ended up being a vim session from some code she was debugging.
Imagine the tremendous embarrassment: a boss doing something useful!
The Seattle Times subscribes to - and republishes - stories from the New York Times (and other places) - that's what happened here. I regularly see gardening stories in the Seattle Times which are completely worthless because they're actually written by someone living in a completely different east coast climate zone. Oh, and last fall they had a headline story about a huge (but harmless) spider invading houses and scaring people... a spider which only lives on the US east coast.
I understand why they purchase stories from elsewhere, but before publishing they should at least vet whether the stories make any sense for the Puget Sound audience...
Anyway, back on topic: I read about four paragraphs of the linked story - you shouldn't bother. It's drivel written by someone pretending to be a writer - it would be a better fit as a Facebook post or in a supermarket magazine targeting women.
#DeleteChrome
I find it much simpler to have a double personality. If something happens, just blame the other guy.
#DeleteFacebook
I had a co-worker who would throw those in to keep people attentive and paying attention to his presentation, so they wouldn't miss the next easter egg to show up. They weren't necessarily naked pictures; most of them were humorous and did well to keep people from falling asleep or (these days) doing something else on their phone.
If I have to screen-share, I have a VM for that.
Sounds like you're doing your best to make your job as difficult as possible. What's wrong with using the flexibility of the tools at your disposal. There's no reason to share screens when modern conferencing programs let you share individual windows or secondary desktops.
A coworker of mine was hosting a presentation on his laptop, but left on his Outlook notifications. Every time he received an email, a bubble would pop up over the right lower corner of the presentation for a few seconds with the subject of the incoming email. People's eyes are naturally drawn to things like that, so I knew everyone was reading his email subject lines, just as I was.
I took out my mobile device and sent my coworker an email with the subject line, "Dave, you should turn off your Outlook notifications so ppl do not read them."
I got big laughs.
And your typical presenting programs should recognize that and use your laptop screen for showing a big timer, the slide notes, and a miniature of the next slide up. PowerPoint Advanced Skill.
Conferencing programs might, but projectors generally don't have the option.
Instead, what one properly does is set the projector as an extended desktop screen. The laptop screen is the main display, the projector the secondary display. If you need to show something on there, you move the window over to the secondary display. Slideshows are easy - every presentation package I've seen has the ability to use a secondary screen for the slide while leaving the application in full view on the primary screen, so you can muck about on your computer while giving your presentation (it's also used to display slide notes to the presenter).
Only amateurs set the projector to mirror the main display. (It also helps to have laptops with non-HDTV resolutions, so if you don't want everything resized awfully on unplugging the projector, you quickly learn to use the secondary display function.)