Re: participation sans meeting attendance (was RE: Alternative formats for IDs)

[Andrew Newton <andy at hxr.us>]

On Jan 30, 2006, at 2:15 PM, Melinda Shore wrote:

1) Make sure the chairs and speakers are miked.  This one seems

   obvious but frequently, during exchanges between the floor and

   the chairs or speakers, there's an assumption that if someone

   in the front of the room shouts loudly enough they can be heard

   in the back.  That's very likely true, but it doesn't mean they

   can be heard on the audio feed.

Besides remote participation, the audio feed can also be reviewed later for creating the meeting minutes.  On one occasion, I had to construct the meeting minutes entirely from the audio feed due to exceptionally poor note taking.

-andy