Re: handouts at meetings

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-----Original Message----- 
From: C.L. Fornari
Subject: Re: [GWL] handouts at meetings

>This discussion has a take home message for those of us who speak. If you 
>think that a print-out of plant names or an outline will enhance your 
>audience's experience, be sure to bring them or check with >the venue and 
>ask that paper handouts be provided.

I'm a fogy, but I'm moderately computer literate fogy -- generally have two 
computers and an iPod touch running at once, swapping back and forth. I was 
using the Web when it was text based and had an estimated 80,000 Web pages 
and I had my own web page back when you had to write HTML code by hand. But 
I miss paper. Paper has advantages you young'uns don't appreciate, the least 
of which is that it is lighter than a laptop to lug around a convention 
center and the batteries don't run down. I genuinely miss my mailbox filling 
up with press kits in spring, kits which I can file away in a manner I can 
find them, press kits I can very quickly leaf through to find something I 
remember seeing, press kits I can browse in my leisure (even perhaps while 
doing certain things in a room where a computer would be awkward). Going to 
Google for information and coming up with 222,000 hits to sort through is 
very different from going to a file drawer and pulling out exactly what you 
want.And those file drawers are also stuffed with session hand-outs which I 
can also find, with hand written notes, in moments, even though they may 
have been filed a decade ago.

Duane Campbell
Syndicated garden columnist
Author: Best of Green Space; 30 Years of Composted Columns 

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