It is more and more likely that you will see fewer and fewer handouts at
SHARE in the future. The trend seems to be toward not 'requiring' or
not 'suggesting' that speakers provide handouts for their sessions. A
position that I very strongly support.
Providing handouts is expensive. I paid $122 for the 25 handouts for my
session. That's $122 that I would much rather spend on other things.
A large number of attendees bring laptops and/or Blackberrys to the
conference. Most presenters (like myself) will put the presentation on
the SHARE web site well before SHARE. You are certainly welcome to
download the presentation at any time, even when you are sitting in the
session so that you can follow along. Open up Word or your fave text
editor and take notes. Make a note of the page number so that it's easy
to keep track of which note relates to which page.
It doesn't take much to look at the handouts table on Friday morning to
see how much paper is just going to be *wasted* when SHARE is done.
Shame, shame... This needs to change.
Warner Mach wrote:
This is slightly off-topic, but relevant.
.
SHARE is now wrapping up and was, as usual, highly
worthwhile ... However, one aspect bothers me greatly:
That is a new emphasis on 'being green.' And how does
SHARE propose to save the planet? A: By encouraging
speakers to NOT pass out the customary handouts which
show the slides to be presented during their talk.
The assumption is that attendees can later download
the presentation slides from the web if they so desire.
.
One speaker actually suggested that the attendee might
take notes on a pad of some sort (remember college?) and
then download the presentation and transfer the notes to
the presentation; rather than write the notes directly
on the presentation handout, as was customary.
.
It is interesting how companies and organizations are
eager to show their alignment with 'green-ness' when being
green corresponds with less expense and trouble for those
in charge.
.
To my mind there are a world of good reasons why this new
policy is a bad one (fill in the blanks). I asked at the
headquarters desk where to send comments on the new policy.
I was told: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
.
If you are a member of SHARE and have an opinion on this
issue you might drop them a line. Let's discourage this trend
before a large number of speakers adopt it.
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