The idea of going paperless at council and commission meetings sounds great, but the practicalities of actually doing it often get in the way.
For many organizations, going paperless involves providing laptops to the members, setting up the network, training the members on how to; log on – load the document – find the document - store their [...]
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E-readers – the next step in the paperless revolution?
April 29, 2010 – 3:35 pm
Doing more for the public with less…Is this the new reality?
September 10, 2009 – 3:36 pm
Unfortunately, for many organizations there really isn’t any alternative. Fewer people, less available money and more demands on time seem to be the current reality. The challenge then is to get more out of dwindling resources while at the same time responding to the public’s need for more and quicker access to information.
The question is: ”How [...]
Change can be a good thing…
May 1, 2009 – 12:54 pm
One of the biggest advantages to an electronic agenda management system is the potential streamlining of your entire agenda process. In other words, use the software as reason to re-think how you create, prepare, publish and distribute your agendas in order to take advantage of the more efficient options available to you.
For lots of reasons, [...]
Money, Money, Money or lack thereof…
March 11, 2009 – 5:08 pm
It seems to be a standard reply these days that when talking to folks about agenda management software they say “sounds like something we could really use, BUT, we don’t have any money”.
Well, in some cases this is literally true – they’re broke and no amount of creative thinking is going to change [...]
Chocolate and Minutes Preparation
November 5, 2008 – 5:17 pm
OK, chocolate has nothing to do with managing the minutes process, but what if you had a minutes management system that made you feel almost as good?
The terrific thing about an integrated system for agenda/minutes management (like AgendaQuick) is that the minutes feature automatically incorporates the information from the agenda into your minutes template.
The process [...]
Thoughts on Agenda Automation
October 10, 2008 – 2:25 pm
It isn’t always easy to get folks to change their ways. In fact, when it comes to the topic of paperless agendas, sometimes it can get down right confrontational .
We often hear comments like “…my council would never think about electronic agendas, they insist on having a paper copy to work from…” or “…some of [...]
Calculating the Costs of Producing Agenda Packets
September 15, 2008 – 5:00 pm
What exactly does it cost to produce an agenda?
Well, it depends…
Agendas come in all shapes and sizes. Sometimes they consist of a dozen agenda items and maybe 100 to 200 pages of supporting documents. Other times they may have 80+ items and over 2000 pages of documents.
But they all share common characteristics and we can [...]