RE: Balcombe zoom meeting2 Mar 2021 11:34
I've hosted meetings with 100+ folk in attendance. Using modern technology such as Zoom and Teams, it is actually very easy to control those in attendance (mute, unmute, make presenter, evict from session, permit into the session, record, share presentations, share documents, annotate documents/presentations, etc, etc). Efficiency of running an old fashioned town hall style meeting is very poor from a chair perspective when compared to use of the modern tech. The only issues with the use of modern tech are; people who don't have a decent internet connection, people who dont have a decent laptop/tablet/smart phone, people who don't know how to use the application (mute/unmute, share, start video, stop video, etc).
Having watched SCC twice (Loxley * 2), they struggled with their internet bandwidth, but more so, they struggled with people not having decent equipment and basic awareness of application use.
Just as we laugh at the kids today trying to work out how to use an old school telephone with dial rather than buttons, our future generations will laugh at how incompetent some are with modern tech/