Monthly Archives: June 2023
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Whether you are working from home or at the office, it is easy to get distracted by technology when trying to be productive. Whiteboards are a simple technology-free way to keep yourself organized and increase your productivity while at work. Below are a few of Whiteboard.com’s tips on how to use a whiteboard to keep yourself on track:
Make a prioritized list of tasks
Your job likely has a set of daily tasks as well as tasks related to particular projects you have on the go. Make two lists: one that will stay on the whiteboard, your daily tasks, and another that will be constantly changing. As you complete your tasks for the day, cross them out. This motion will keep you motivated to complete the rest of your tasks. At the end of the day, erase and update your board
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Production planning is a crucial part of a production managers day-to-day. Whiteboard planners can schedule, prioritize, and display any pertinent or vital information to an entire production team. There are a variety of production planning whiteboards depending on the needs of the manufacturing facility. Why are production planning whiteboards important?
Production Planning Whiteboards Are Visual
A production planning whiteboard can streamline the efficiency of the production process as it helps teams effectively communicate across departments. The board show can showcase what jobs need to be completed, what orders are going out for delivery, or what stage each individual job is at. The production team can see relevant information quickly and effectively.
Production Planning Whiteboards Help Teams Prioritize
A production manager can prioritize jobs by strategically ordering the jobs based on importance. The order of priority can be based
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The flow of information is crucial in a healthcare setting. Healthcare whiteboards are an efficient way of improving and aiding communication. They can help caregivers give patients and their families timely and accurate information.
1. Healthcare Whiteboards Increase Safety
Whiteboards in a healthcare setting can be used to note down key safety concerns and information that needs to be easily accessible to a healthcare team. This can include information such as the current staff ratio, current medication and supply issues and other safety concerns relevant to the shift.
2. Healthcare Whiteboards Improve Team Organization
Staff-to-staff communication is important for accuracy and efficiency. In a study conducted by the Department of Defence and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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In this age of fast-paced, high-tech living, it’s easy to turn to technology when we need to increase our production. Whiteboards allow you to keep track of important information without the temptation to jump online if you’re using a digital app, and they are much more eco-friendly and easier to keep track of than paper notes. Whiteboards also offer more flexibility when it comes to brainstorming and organizing thoughts. You can quickly jot down ideas as they come to you and move them around easily until you find the perfect arrangement. In a world where we are constantly inundated with choices, a whiteboard can help you focus on what’s important and eliminate distractions. So next time you’re feeling overwhelmed, try reaching for a whiteboard instead of your phone. You might be surprised at how effective it is.
Divide Your Whiteboard into Sections
The sections you choose will depend on what you use the whiteboard for. Students may want to list their class
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Notice Boards can change the way we communicate and create a greater sense of community in the workplace, in stores, or at home. These boards are an extremely effective method when trying to interact with masses of people as they allow you to promote information, messages, or your business, to every single person who travels by.
Create an Interest in Important Information
How we choose to communicate can have dramatic effects on work performances. Deadlines can be forgotten within the office, which can result in rushed projects, missed deadlines or poor client experiences. With color-coded notice boards, you can promote activity within the office, prompt tasks and allow employees to see important deadlines all day, everyday. Using color coded paper, pens, and pencils your business can accurately represent the importance of each message that is posted. You can use the colored notes to represent meetings, deadlines, and last-minute project changes. This is a valuable method
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Step 1: Erase
Using your board’s eraser, clear the entire board of any writing and eliminate any left over dry-ink dust. Ensuring that the board is 100% clear is vital to achieving a perfectly clean surface. Depending on the type of board you have, may affect which eraser you need to use. Some are used for only whiteboards, while others are better suited for glass boards.
Step 2: Cleaning Solution
The cleaning solution will help your board resist ghosting or staining if used regularly. It also helps to pull up any dry-ink dust that may be embedded slightly below the surface.
Using your cleaner, spray the entire surface of the board. Standard cleaner can be used on all whiteboard surfaces including porcelain, melamine, and painted steel, while
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Whiteboard.com announces today the official launch of its specialty e-commerce retail website selling a broad range of visual communication products across the United States and Canada.
Whiteboard.com was created to provide people with the tools they to need to help organize their thoughts, communicate a message, share ideas and innovate around the things that move the world forward. Whiteboard.com has partnered with market leading brands and suppliers from across the globe to offer the largest online assortment of whiteboards, glass boards, mobiles, retail signage, point-of-sale displays and other visual communication products.
Each category offers a “good-better-best” range of products that give customers plenty of choice when evaluating price, quality, function, and design. The website will serve both Business-to-Business (B2B) and Business-to-Consumer (B2C) customers across all industries with a focus on education, office, healthcare, retail and at-home work environments.
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Are interactive whiteboards a thing of the past?
Not so long ago interactive whiteboard were the next big thing. Every classroom was throwing out their old wall mounted whiteboard and replacing it with a shiny new interactive whiteboard. Interactive whiteboards made learning more fun! They gave students the opportunity to absorb information in multiple formats which helped to increase retention and synthesis of information. They also helped to increase participation, allowing students to participate in the learning and collaborative seasons. All in all interactive whiteboard are just better than standard whiteboard in a teaching environment. But are they now dying out? Are there some new products on the block that are about to knock the interactive whiteboard off the top spot. Let’s take a look at some of the new products that are trying to take on the almighty interactive whiteboard.
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A major challenge in today’s classrooms is getting students engaged. Students have spent many months learning on a tablet or laptop and now that kids are back in the physical classroom, getting them focused and excited is proving to be quite a challenge.
Classroom whiteboards are often underused. They are a simple, technology-free way to get students excited about learning. Sometimes, the only thing that teachers need is some fresh ideas for activities and strategies for using their classroom whiteboard.
Here are a few of Whiteboard.com’s trusted ways to use a whiteboard in the classroom:
Comprehension Checks
A great way to engage students in classroom discussions is to integrate comprehension checks throughout the lesson. You can pass out individual whiteboards and
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Whiteboarding is common throughout tech interviews for many reasons, but mostly for its simplicity. Armed with a whiteboard and marker, candidates are free to illustrate their thoughts in an efficient way.
System design questions, commonly asked of software engineers, engineering managers and technical program managers, are infamously ambiguous and complex. They're practically made for whiteboarding, as enumerating requirements and outlining a high-level system diagram are critical first steps.
So what's the most effective way to use the whiteboard when answering system design interview questions? We wrote this article to guide you.
In the past, whiteboarding sessions mostly happened during on-site interviews. These days, due to COVID-19, most system design rounds are conducted virtually
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