DG Week 22

Monday evening saw me taking my first tentative steps into the wonderful new world of audio conferencing, using the District's recently purchased software. Even with just the four of us, James, Graham and Iain, I was conscious of how much time and expense was being saved, compared with at least 3 of us having to travel to some other venue. With the rain hammering down outside, it made a doubly enjoyable experience! As always with any new system, there are the initial trepidations over the unknown, but despite one or two initial technical hitches, such concerns were quickly dispelled. James was able to take us through the system whereby control was switched from one to another. This will allow us to run our own meetings in the future. This meeting was very much aimed at testing out the links but even from this, I am clear just what a fantastic difference this can make to District communications and both the cost of meetings and, for some, the difficulties of ever getting to meetings. There are obviously skills to be perfected but I am in no doubt that this represents the way forward.