[Volunteers] Volunteers Digest, Vol 5, Issue 27

[Karsten M. Self]

on Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 01:38:34PM -0700, Margaret Wendall (mwendall at gmail.com) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is my first post to this list, and I have a suggestion for a
> simple way to tell speakers how much time they have - get a simple,
> digital kitchen timer at something like Fry's or Bed, Bath & Beyond,
> and then turn it on at the start of every meeting. If it's sitting on
> the podium, the speaker could see it, but the audience could not....
> This doesn't have to cost megabucks and I'd kick in a few $$$ if
> necessary.

Nerf guns.... 

;-)


More seriously, a yellow '5 minutes' and red '1 minute' placard held by
someone visible to the speaker, say in the front row, might be the cheap
low-tech solution.

Another is to run a moderated Q&A at the end of the presentation, where
the moderator tends to know when to wind things down more than a speaker
might.


Peace.

-- 
Karsten M. Self <kmself at ix.netcom.com>        http://kmself.home.netcom.com/
 What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?
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    - Oscar Wilde
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