Topic 2: See and Share

I joined my Panorama colleague Louise's See and Share conference this morning - me at my desk, and Louise in the managers' office at the other end of the building. We shared each other's desktops and tried out various functions. It looks like it is a useful tool for reviewing documents and making changes on the spot rather than emailing attachments back and forth with comments. A change to a document can be decided instantly without having to wait for a turn around time. In terms of task duration once Louise's email invitation appeared in my inbox it was very easy to open the program from my desktop and put in the password and get started, a matter of moments really. I did find a lag time between the desktop sharer's action and seeing the result on the screen. For example, I could see Louise's mouse arrow clicking on a folder but had to wait a second or two for it to show the opened folder. I'd imagine opening the folder occurred much faster than that. So things don't always happen instantaneously for the person viewing the desktop of the other user which should be kept in mind by the person controlling the desktop at the time.