Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: taking minutes for a Zoom meeting

[STEPHANIE FASSNACHT (fassnach]

Zoom meetings can be recorded, an option available to the moderator.  This 
might help.



> On Jul 12, 2020, at 2:20 PM, Muriel Kranowski <murielk [at] vt.edu> wrote:
> 
> I take most of the meeting minutes for our plenary meetings and for the
> meetings we hold a week ahead that set the plenary meeting agenda (among
> other tasks).
> 
> I have found it harder to do via Zoom. People's audio isn't always clear; I
> lose track of late arrivals to add to the list of attendees nor do I always
> notice who left the meeting after a few minutes; it isn't always clear
> which spouse is in the meeting. Most annoyingly, I can't always tell who is
> speaking. My solution for that has become to not identify speakers and do
> more summarizing, which might be an overall positive for minutes readers.
> I've thought of asking everyone to say their name before speaking, but I
> don't know if that would happen consistently enough to be worth bringing
> up. Occasionally I interject "who is speaking?"
> 
> I am curious about other minute-takers' experience in this online meeting
> environment.
>  Muriel at Shadowlake Village
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