[MassHistPres] MassHistPres Digest, Vol 32, Issue 2 and something I want to add to the conversation

Thu Oct 2 14:39:23 EDT 2008

Best Buy, Target, Walmart, Costco, Circuit City etc. distribute a very
good and relatively inexpensive digital pen ($79.99) called the Fly
Fusion Pentop Computer.  It is intended to help kids with their homework
but is great for anyone tasked with meeting minutes and note taking.
You do have to write on special digital paper (notebooks are about $4
each) but that is your only additional investment.  Here is the website
(www.flyworld.com). It is PC and word compatible and immediately
translates your (neatly formatted) handwritten notes into a word file.
You can edit from there or reformat the pages if needed - no retyping.
[The pen does more that will appeal to those with homework but I'm only
familiar with the great note-taking support that it offers to adults.]
It is stable and reliable and a lightweight alternative to bringing your
computer to meetings.

stephanie c. hodal
associate

617  646. 5128 direct
617 262. 4354  main

marketing

cbt architects
110 canal street, boston ma 02114

www.cbtarchitects.com  

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Today's Topics:

   1. local HC minutes (Marcia  Starkey)
   2. Re: local HC minutes (Jonathan Feist)
   3. Re: local HC minutes (Tucker, Jonathan)
   4. Re: local HC minutes (Joseph S. Larson)

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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 08:53:22 -0500
From: "Marcia  Starkey" <mdstarkey at crocker.com>
Subject: [MassHistPres] local HC minutes
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Hello,

Are there local historical commissions who do other than take longhand
notes of meeting minutes? What are, or are there.. new technologies for
doing it another way? This is always a job that needs help!

Marcia Starkey, Greenfield HC

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Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 10:14:14 -0400
From: Jonathan Feist <jfeist at charter.net>
Subject: Re: [MassHistPres] local HC minutes
To: Marcia Starkey <mdstarkey at crocker.com>
Cc: MassHistPres <masshistpres at cs.umb.edu>
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Lately, as chair, I've been handing out my laptop and having people  
type minutes rather than handwrite them. I get them a lot faster, that  
way.

--Jonathan

On Oct 2, 2008, at 9:53 AM, Marcia Starkey wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Are there local historical commissions who do other than take  
> longhand notes of meeting minutes? What are, or are there.. new  
> technologies for doing it another way? This is always a job that  
> needs help!
>
> Marcia Starkey, Greenfield HC
>
>
>
>
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Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 10:36:05 -0400
From: "Tucker, Jonathan" <TuckerJ at amherstma.gov>
Subject: Re: [MassHistPres] local HC minutes
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The Clerk of Amherst's Historical Commission takes the meeting notes on
her laptop and then refines them into printed minutes which are
reviewed, approved, and archived.  Usually she circulates the draft
minutes via email prior to the next meeting, then staff provide hard
copies at the meeting.  Amendments made during approval are noted on her
laptop and final versions sent to staff.

Jonathan Tucker
Planning Director
Town Hall, 4 Boltwood Ave.
Amherst, MA  01002
(413) 259-3040
(413) 259-2410 [fax]
tuckerj at amherstma.gov   

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Hello,

Are there local historical commissions who do other than take longhand
notes of meeting minutes? What are, or are there.. new technologies for
doing it another way? This is always a job that needs help!

Marcia Starkey, Greenfield HC

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Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 11:12:41 -0400
From: "Joseph S. Larson" <larson at tei.umass.edu>
Subject: Re: [MassHistPres] local HC minutes
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Minutes

I e-mail a formal agenda to each Commission member a few days before
each 
meeting. Our secretary member downloads it to his lap top, brings the
laptop 
to the meeting and fills in a summary of the discussion of each topic as
we 
go. This method means that when we adjourn he has the minutes done with
onlt 
minor editing needed before we see them at the next meeting.

The key to this process is to have a formal agenda in a consistent
format, 
including a section on unfinished topics for later discussion and action
- 
plus a willing secretary member.

Joseph S. Larson, Chairman
Pelham Historical Commission
27 Arnold Road
Pelham, Massachusetts 01002-9757
http://myprofile.cos.com/larson358

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