BCSS ZOOM Talks
Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2021 7:16 pm
I'm aware there is already a topic on this subject, but that one is mainly intended to remind BCSS members of the 'next to come soon' talk. This topic should be a bit different and I'd appreciate it if admins/mods could pin it to the top of this section because we believe it might be interesting to all forum members.
When I say 'we', I mean the BCSS ZOOM Talks Team, which has 3 members: Tina Wardhaugh (ladies first
), Nigel Cole and my humble self. Finding speakers, working on details with them, preparing written materials for e-news, testing and finally conducting and supervising talks themselves is a really time consuming activity that became very time consuming for even our Mr Chairman (aka Ian Thwaites ). So, a few months ago, it's become a 3 person job.
The three of us are always looking for help of some kind, especially when it comes to finding speakers or new ideas for talks, 'in my greenhouse' maybe... As far as we know, BCSS has the longest tradition of ZOOM talks in the world, we had more talks / speakers than any other society and that set a kind of tradition (or addiction, take it the way you like it ), even nowadays when Corona measures are easing. Hopefully we'll all 'soon' have a chance to meet face to face, but in most cases it will still be a more or less local kind of meeting. ZOOM easily connects us to other branches, other countries and other continents... people that we'll see rarely or never in our lifetime.
To shorten the long story, we would like to hear what forum members think about ZOOM talks, good or bad. It helps to make them better. But above all, we'd really appreciate suggestions for possible speakers. 3000 BCSS members know far more people than us, 3 Team members. If you know someone, if you think you are that one… please PM or email (BCSS.Talk@gmail.com) any of us. Don't be shy
When I say 'we', I mean the BCSS ZOOM Talks Team, which has 3 members: Tina Wardhaugh (ladies first
), Nigel Cole and my humble self. Finding speakers, working on details with them, preparing written materials for e-news, testing and finally conducting and supervising talks themselves is a really time consuming activity that became very time consuming for even our Mr Chairman (aka Ian Thwaites ). So, a few months ago, it's become a 3 person job.The three of us are always looking for help of some kind, especially when it comes to finding speakers or new ideas for talks, 'in my greenhouse' maybe... As far as we know, BCSS has the longest tradition of ZOOM talks in the world, we had more talks / speakers than any other society and that set a kind of tradition (or addiction, take it the way you like it
), even nowadays when Corona measures are easing. Hopefully we'll all 'soon' have a chance to meet face to face, but in most cases it will still be a more or less local kind of meeting. ZOOM easily connects us to other branches, other countries and other continents... people that we'll see rarely or never in our lifetime.To shorten the long story, we would like to hear what forum members think about ZOOM talks, good or bad. It helps to make them better. But above all, we'd really appreciate suggestions for possible speakers. 3000 BCSS members know far more people than us, 3 Team members. If you know someone, if you think you are that one… please PM or email (BCSS.Talk@gmail.com) any of us. Don't be shy
