Electronic Attendance

2023 VFW Handbook The following paragraph was added to the VFW national handbook sometime after COVID-19 shut down the country: It describes what a hybrid meeting is all about! “Any of the above stated meetings [regular, special, committee] may be conducted or attended electronically that allows [the] participating members to communicate with each other simultaneously.”…

UPCOMING BOOK

Coming on Jan 6 We are publishing a book of our hybrid meeting checklists! Every venue is unique, and each organization has its own requirements. This book is a collection of the checklists that we have created for two of the organizations we support. We invite you to use the book to create your own…

Turn off chat?

Should I turn off chat? Meetings are designed for people to interact with each other – to share ideas and opinions. What should you do if two people in the room have a private conversation between themselves, without sharing it with everyone else. For starters, they are extremely rude to the leadership and the audience….

How is a Meeting different from a Presentation?

How is a Meeting different from a Presentation? This is an important discussion: what is the difference between a “presentation” and a “meeting.” A presentation asks for nothing from the audience. Whether they are in the room or online, the audience is expected to pay attention and learn, but they are not expected to contribute…

Hello World!

Hello World! This is usually the first post or page for any website. Actually, goes back to early the early days of computers when programmers were learning the trade. The very first computer program was only a line or two long, and its sole function was to print something on the screen. In a Eureca!…