I agree about the hand-held electronic device. Here's an alternate solution (if it's any good, it's probably already been implemented. If not, then it's probably a lousy idea):
Where I work, most important meetings include some attending remotely (by phone in our case, but other voice channels are possible). Therefore, all attendees, both local and remote, announce themselves by speaking their names (actual procedure). The teleconferencing system could easily make a record of each attendee whose name is spoken. New users of the system would be required (one time) to train the system to recognize their name, when they register. Not a big challenge with today's technology. How to organize and ensure the integrity of this information is no different than for any other corporate data, a problem that has been solved many times. On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Michael Fernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I too would vote for a pad and pencil LONG before I would pass around > > an electronic device. Heck, under your scenario, an unscrupulous or > > ham-fisted person could delete previous entries! > > > > ... Or walking away with the device. Or a person with 10 thumbs dropping > it > and losing all the records. When you have an electronic gadget, > maintaining > it (software, syncing, charging, updating it, making sure next version of > your desktop OS can handle its syncing software, etc. etc.) will take a lot > of man-hours than just shoving a paper into a folder. > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
