Wednesday, 3 December 2014

COUNTDOWN ~ Board Meetng

DAY 331

Interesting thing, the Internet. One of the groups that I volunteer for has their Board meetings via Yahoo as a conference. The host for the meeting creates an invitation on Yahoo Messenger. Once logged in and accept the invitation, you are off and reading...reading more than typing. Sometimes your comments get overlooked and several conversations are going on at the same time, it just depends on who types the fastest. Looking back at the script, sometimes it has quite the comedic potential. The only drawback is that it can last for hours. As with all good Board meetings the conversation can run amuck or go on a tangent. Good though, business is discussed, matters settled and follow-up assigned. As members of this group live throughout the U.S. and Canada (mostly U.S.) as organization is American this was the only feasible way to have a board meeting. When I first joined the group and received my first newsletter I marveled at the varied locations that each Board member lived...how on earth did they hold their meetings. I did ask and was told by the Internet. Still was a bit of a mystery to me until I became a volunteer, now when I'm asked the question "how does the Board communicate"...the Internet!

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