{"id":24911,"date":"2014-02-21T12:30:08","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T18:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=24911"},"modified":"2014-02-21T12:33:38","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T18:33:38","slug":"24911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=24911","title":{"rendered":"A Snow Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imbolc \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Valentine Moon<\/p>\n<p>My first meeting with the America Votes&#8217; folks\u00a0canceled. All that snow. \u00a0There was an hour long presentation over the phone with accompanying slides on an Adobe platform, adobe.connect. \u00a0Polling data. \u00a0Very interesting and completely confidential.<\/p>\n<p>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. \u00a0There were 25 of us on the call and there were few questions. \u00a0Over the phone without video is a terrible way to have a meeting. \u00a0I should know. \u00a0I conducted them weekly during legislative sessions for three years for the Sierra Clubs Legislative\u00a0committee.<\/p>\n<p>(a screenshot of adobe connect)<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/adobe.connect.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24914\" alt=\"adobe.connect\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/adobe.connect.jpg\" width=\"284\" height=\"177\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even so, like today, when participants are dispersed or the timing is inconvenient, then the phone allows everyone access to information and decision making. \u00a0That advantage makes the phone a reasonable alternative, if not a desirable one.<\/p>\n<p>This meeting ended with a time for questions, but there were few. \u00a0Phones isolate us as much as they connect us. \u00a0We were each participants in a meeting for one. \u00a0Not much to discuss with yourself.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to meeting these folks in person in April. \u00a0I&#8217;ll be in Tucson during the March meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imbolc \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Valentine Moon My first meeting with the America Votes&#8217; folks\u00a0canceled. All that snow. \u00a0There was an hour long presentation over the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=24911\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Snow Day<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,100,484],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-great-work","category-politics","category-sierra-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24911"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24918,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24911\/revisions\/24918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}