Imbolc Valentine Moon
My first meeting with the America Votes’ folks canceled. All that snow. There was an hour long presentation over the phone with accompanying slides on an Adobe platform, adobe.connect. Polling data. Very interesting and completely confidential.
The technology interested me. I listened to the presentation on my cell phone while the presenter clicked through a PowerPoint presentation, using small green arrows to indicate his focus. There were 25 of us on the call and there were few questions. Over the phone without video is a terrible way to have a meeting. I should know. I conducted them weekly during legislative sessions for three years for the Sierra Clubs Legislative committee.
(a screenshot of adobe connect)
Even so, like today, when participants are dispersed or the timing is inconvenient, then the phone allows everyone access to information and decision making. That advantage makes the phone a reasonable alternative, if not a desirable one.
This meeting ended with a time for questions, but there were few. Phones isolate us as much as they connect us. We were each participants in a meeting for one. Not much to discuss with yourself.
I look forward to meeting these folks in person in April. I’ll be in Tucson during the March meeting.
