Book Review: multiple - Mark Schwartz
Mark Schwartz is the author of four books, which are primarily about Digital Transformation. I've
Like all of us in tech, we have all been working remotely since COVID-19 hit 9 months ago. I've got my home-office setup quite well:
But working collaboratively with others takes some effort. Its not that easy to reproduce standing together in front of a white-board. Since I spend most of my time helping others be more agile on AWS, I needed a way to draw and discuss architectures on a board. I had a whiteboard next to the wall, so for a while I tried swivelling the laptop to point to the whiteboard, while I stood in front of it and drew. It worked well I think, but I wanted to try out a different way.
If you thinking about a tablet, there are two types: with or with-out a screen. An iPad or similiar will allow you to draw on the screen with a pen, and you can see it on the iPads screen/display. Other drawing tablets dont have a screen, so you draw on the tablet, but need to connect it to you computer to see what you are drawing. There have different pros vs cons, with the screen-included ones being more expensive.
A few months ago, I was offered an old Wacom Bamboo that someone had laying around. I've managed to use it a few times on calls to draw, by sharing my screen. The easiest I have found is just to draw in Powerpoint, using the Draw function, with the 4 default pens. It works really well. (It breaks on never version of macOS, so check this fix out)