[DM-MUG] Meetings...

[Ray Bowler]

Agree.

At 8:15 AM -0500 7/25/06, Victoria L. Herring wrote:
>I don't want to seem unduly critical, but it's difficult when lives 
>are so busy to make meetings a priority which have no focus, no 
>agenda, no reason to be there.  A general meeting occasionally is 
>fine, but a program is a good idea since it gives people information 
>that allows them to decide whether to go, or not.
>
>It might be a good idea to poll the membership and ask them what 
>topics, programs etc. they would like to see and then design the 
>meetings around them.  For instance, if there were a program on 
>Aperture, then people who wanted help with Word could stay away, but 
>people who wanted to know more could decide to attend.  But just 
>holding meetings for the sake of meetings, given all the work, 
>groups and family responsibilities we have [esp. in summer] means 
>these meetings take the lowest priority.
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