In a message dated 8/19/2005 9:24:49 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 10:19:29AM -0400, Knutson, Sam wrote: > A session Chair always gets a handout, gets the best seat in the house, and > only works for a few minutes. If you have never attended the Chair helps > with the administrative and logistics portion of each session by announcing > the session, collecting evaluation cards, and otherwise assisting the > speaker. I'll second this. The chair's job isn't hard, but it really does help the speaker immensely. I'll third it. I have been a chairman (but never a chair) and/or a speaker at SHARE scores of times. I cannot possibly imagine being the speaker and also having to do all the clerical functions that the chairdude has to do. And one more benefit of being the chairman is that you get to chat very briefly with the speaker, who sometimes is a famous expert. Then you can be a name-dropper as well. Look through the online final agenda and pick a couple of sessions that you know you will attend, then volunteer to chair (here it's a verb, not a noun) that session. Bill Fairchild ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
