re: taking meeting minutes

["Carol Chung" <cychung55 -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

I'm relieved someone brought up this topic because I thought I was being 
defensive when asked to do this during a couple developer meetings.

I agree with a few people who preferred to be included in high-level 
planning and development meetings, even if requested to take notes. I think 
it helps not just to write but also make thoughtful comments or ask critical 
questions.

At some regular dept. meetings, it's been suggested that note-taking duties 
be rotated.

For the last meeting notes, I was able to experiment w/ an idea for taking 
white board diagrams w/ digital photos. It wasn't perfect but workable for 
capturing quickly changing plans. If you feel like you're adding something 
original to the task, it can be more meaningful.

-HTH, Carol Chung

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