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GOVERNANCE & MINISTRY
by Dan Hotchkiss
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by Dan Hotchkiss Glitchy video and scratchy sound still spoil a lot of online meetings, but the technology gets better all the time. Meeting “virtually” by audio and video can be convenient, but it raises some new issues and exacerbates some old ones, especially for governing boards. Boards that want to meet and vote online need to sharpen and update their policies and skills. Most congregations are technological bottom-feeders. Like halibut and flounder at the bottom of a pond, we wait as gadgets and software filter down to us from upper regions of the water. As a rule, we adopt technology only after it has become commonplace in better-funded parts of the economy. The advantage is that some of the kinks have been worked out by then. But even when technology works perfectly, the shift to virtual meetings is not easy. When a board begins to “meet” by phone or video, the
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