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Bob, In a message dated 6/30/99 3:17:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time, cozzi@rpgiv.com writes: > We're trying to hold two meetings. The Business meeting would be more > business oriented, as required by our bylaws, then we'd hold a 2nd meeting > that isn't being called "COMMON Sound Off" but that's effectively what it > will be. We decided that holding the business meeting with the Q&A session > just went on too long for most attendees and we'd end up loosing all but a > few. This new format, we hope, will allow the people interested in the > business issues to listen without the "burden" of the Q&A session. The > second meeting will be used to accommodate the Q&A session. While I understand the premise behind this decision (being an unwitting contributor to the length of last COMMON's MOM), I disagree with the solution. COMMON is too busy an event to ask people to attend _two_ business meetings, especially when attendance is already poor at the one. MOM and Soundoff both have a common (no pun intended) problem -- some people just come to complain. Case in point, my complaint about the guest program (I believe that _you_ held the mic for me) -- I brought nobody with me to argue the point and received several unsolicited endorsements; however, many of those endorsements were from people that had already spoken several times on _other_ subjects and were, as we say in the South, "Jest itchin' fer a fight". As an alternative, I would suggest limiting voting attendees to two questions and/or responses at both MOM and Soundoff. Non-voting attendees would have no say. This would prevent large companies from bringing hordes of people to represent a particular point of view, prevent "complainers" from complaining about everything they see fit to, and encourage "networking" among those that have several issues to address so that either more people attend (to handle the two issue overage) or that those issues are of import to more than one member. IMO, two meetings are only going to get you a lower quality of content, a plethora of "Robert's Rules of Order" afficionados, and lower attendance. JMHO, Dean Asmussen Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc. Fuquay-Varina, NC USA E-mail: DAsmussen@aol.com +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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