RE: [council] Regarding web conferencing tool that was trialed during the call

["Marilyn Cade" <marilynscade@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I certainly volunteer to be part of any active trial. I use Net Meeting for
other purposes, but typically with more central control -- e.g. often use it
for press briefings, etc. 

But our needs are a bit different and this can be quite an enhancement. We
need to be cognizant that it might not be as useful in developing countries,
where two connections are needed. In that case, we would want to have
documents distributed ahead of time as much as possible and not rely on real
time distribution. Just some initial thoughts.

Marilyn 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Robin Gross
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 7:05 PM
To: council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [council] Regarding web conferencing tool that was trialed
during the call

I wasn't able to use the Net system since I'm on a MAC and there didn't 
seem to be an option for my operating system.

Robin


Bruce Tonkin wrote:

>Hello Marilyn,
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>>I found the Net meeting support helpful. However, I note that 
>>it is really a tool for the use of the staff and chair, to 
>>provide documents, and to show editing on line while we meet. 
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>That was how it was used during the call, as we were just learning how
>to use the software tools.
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>>I am not objecting to that but have a question. Let's say, 
>>hypothetically, Bruce wanted to turn to two councilors and 
>>ask that they draft something online in terms of language... 
>>can those councilors be "given the pen"? 
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>>I tried to post a "note" and wasn't able to do that. I 
>>thought that was a feature. That would allow councilors to 
>>self queue, for example. 
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>There are a few features that could probably be used here.
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>For example, it is possible to ask the presenter a question, and the
>question is queued.  That could probably match the requirement you
>describe.
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>E.g the Question could be: "Marilyn to speak please".   I can respond
>with "Go Ahead".  This can be displayed to all people in general.
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>Alternatively with staff support - it is possible that the function of
>managing the queue could be delegated to a staff person, that could
>enter the names of those in the queue and display that information.   It
>was helpful in Wellington for example, when Liz Williams kept track of
>the queue.
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>I think these types of tools can be quite powerful - but there is a
>learning curve to get used to any tool.
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>>What do we pay for Netmeeting, Glen? I'm wondering if it is a 
>>tool that we can trial for use in the TFs as well. 
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>I think we can certainly trial at the task force level.  Olof, Glen, and
>I spent about an hour experimenting with the tool prior to the call.
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>We probably need to get a few people "up-to-speed" with such a tool, and
>then run some general tutorials for Council/task force members that are
>separate from our normal meetings - so that we can run through the
>features - and document how to use the features in our context.
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>Regards,
>Bruce Tonkin
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