: Tue Oct 13, 2009 5:08 pm
Ferocious Aardvark wrote:
I'll be taking minutes at my meeting tonight. It's not hard - if you know how to do it. The big mistake is to write down everything everyone says. There's no point. Maybe an oversimplification but basically you only need to write down things that are proposed, and things that are decided.
Exactly.
Key thing is that people appreciate the difference between formal minutes and informal reports - e.g. on here. Then it need not be a pain. Amazing though how many folk over the years I have come across who expect the minutes to be a verbatim record of the discussions!
My earlier comment was referring to managing people's expectations for what gets reported back on here, given that there is likely to be a lot of info imparted and relatively little decision-making. I was worried Mission might be making a big rod for his own back, speaking as one who has done that in the past. The more people post up stuff, the easier it should be, of course.
