Hi All,
It's been awhile. I hope everyone is doing well. I miss you all.
I met with an IT specialist to research hybrid meetings for work and
thought some of this info might be helpful. Also expensive, but if the Owl
is $1,000 then some of these options are a few hundred dollars more.
Best,
Kathleen
On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 11:02 AM OlgaRobin McIntosh <
olgarobinmcintosh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If we were having office meetings, I would agree. Speaking in a group
setting has never been an issue for me. Turn all the chairs towards me and
the anxiety skyrockets. Speaking in front of a group is not the same as
speaking within a group. I would not support this type of solution. We
must find a way to keep a stage presence. I believe this is what we have
lost during this zoom environment. We will get there. Monday will be
another test meeting with some additional ideas and equipment. The
difficulty lies in the expectations of a TV crowd. Television has made
audience members feel priveledged and special. TV gets the best seat in
the house. They also get advertising revenue. We should do the best we can,
but not at the financial sacrifice of the club nor physical sacrifice of
the attendees who have made the drive to the site. Those that have an
option should be rewarded for taking the extra time and effort.
Those are just my opinions,
Robin, your more humble secretary (Alan already penned “your humble
secretary”)
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Looking at Bill's ideas, I'm thinking that we all need to get creative
here as he has done.
I really like what the Owl does, and maybe we could get TMI or District 26
to pay half and we pay half on a pilot basis. (I'm skeptical, but I can
ask.)
Alternately, maybe we put it on financing and the club raises dues a
little bit to cover that. (Also, last I recall, we had hundreds of dollars
in the bank account.)
Maybe TMI could guarantee the loans, but only for Distinguished clubs
(which helps to assure payment).
The Owl reminded me that there are omni directional mikes, some much less
expensive than the Owl. Another idea would be to use a different physical
layout of chairs, maybe a semi circle around such a mike. The speaker
would then stand in the center, near that mike.
Anyone commenting could be heard by all whether virtual or in person, but
only the speaker would be seen by all. Virtual people would need a way to
get recognized, so they could "take the floor" and appear on the big
screen.
We'd need someone whose role was similar to (maybe identical to) our
current Zoom master.
If there's a device like this that's cost effective, maybe we get one and
try it on Amazon's one month return privilege.
I think we should consider having a chunk of meeting discussion time for
this topic.
On Fri, Jul 16, 2021, 8:40 AM Bill Farrand <whfarrand@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Hey All,
Walking with my dogs this morning (where I get all my best ideas), I was
thinking about the question discussed last night about getting back to live
meetings and trying to keep the remote people engaged. So, two ideas... one
maybe just a short term solution and one maybe too expensive.
1) Maybe if the hybrid thing isn't working as currently conceived, we
could just alternate live and virtual meetings. You know... week 1- live,
week 2- virtual, week 3- live, etc. Yes, the remote folks would miss out
every other week, but do we all attend every meeting anyway? I don't think
this is a long term solution, but at least it gets us meeting live again.
2) This would be probably too expensive for the club, but my research
institute has a lot (most actually) remote researchers and we use this
thing called "the Owl" (I'll link it below). We use it around a conference
table and that's probably the best setting for it, but it turns around to
face whoever is speaking... so that seems to work really well. It is pretty
pricey though...
https://owllabs.com/
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Something to think about...
Bill
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