Re: COMMON -Thoughts

Vincent (et al),

In a message dated 97-04-19 03:16:16 EDT, you write:

> >Heck, bring your own tape recorder....
>  >
>  
>  Too bad.  A lot of trade shows have a commercial service tape their
>  seminars.  You get a lot more out of the actual speaker than just
reviewing
>  their Powerpoint slides from the CD-ROM.  It would be nice of COMMON did
>  the same.
>  
>  It also makes some long commutes to client sites a little more useful, at
>  least for me.

Let me get this straight.  The same group of people that griped about COMMON
raising their rates a year or so ago is now wanting everything VIDEOTAPED?
 Can you imagine the effort, personnel, money, and equipment involved in
taping 20-30 presentations every hour for five days?!?  I know that there are
several repeat sessions and some that run for more than an hour, but come on
folks!

Granted, the hand-outs are often useless without having attended the class --
perhaps that was the intention!  I realize that in many instances the
handouts are JUST THAT BAD, but they are often accompanied by a speaker of
equal incompetence that you wouldn't want videotaped anyhow.

Given that I'm a principle billing agent as well as manager of my meager
enterprise, I have a hard time taking off work for COMMON, let alone paying
the hotel and other fees associated with the conference.  I CERTAINLY don't
want to pay for video tapes of classes that I wouldn't have attended had I
been at the conference in the first place...

JMHO,

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-Mail:  DAsmussen@AOL.COM

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