Recently I have attended a number of online meetings, when travel was not appropriate. The results of these were mixed, and demotivating at best. Online meetings need not be a Cinderella service. It's all in the design, and respect for the people involved. If you have part of a meeting as "real" and others as online, you cannot run the event as though it were mainly for those in the room. It just wont work. Over the last 2 years I have run a number of online events, and focussed on helping … [Read more...]