Re: COMMON -Thoughts

Dean,

CSI (computer security institute) subcontracts out the audio recording of
their sessions and makes the tapes available to attendee's and
NON-attendees  for a fairly nominal fee...  They use a local or
subcontracted service providor for this.  Tapes are great...I get them all
the time when I can't make the sessions and listen to them during rush
hour traffic...much more edifying than Howard Shithead or the
greaseball...

I GAVE common the contacts on this 2 years ago....Guess it wan't their
idea so it died....

But the price per tape wasn't that much when I last ordered them a year or
so ago....also you can pick and choose what YOU want to listen to as
opposed to someone else deciding what's the best topics...

JMHO....

DR2

On Sun, 20 Apr 1997 DAsmussen@aol.com wrote:

> 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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