ZOOM, ZOOM, ZOOM.

DO NOT COOPERATE IN ADVANCE. "I'd LIKE TO IMAGINE A TIME ..."

ZOOM, ZOOM, ZOOM.

In at least two of the Zoom meetings I have attended, one or more participants worked hard to get access for another member who was having a hard time getting into the meeting. I am sure that many people have experienced times when a person, maybe you have been that person once or more, cannot get into a Zoom meeting due to some technological difficulty beyond the control of ordinary humans.

It takes time to fix these tech problems, time that would ordinarily go to the length of the meeting but which is spent on "a tech issue" that probably is not the reason for the meeting in the first place. Both times that I am thinking of when someone already in the meeting took the time to make sure the missing member could participate, the previously missing member ended up contributing in ways that none of the rest of us had said or even thought of.

If the time had not been taken by a few for the one, then the many would have been less. In more concrete terms: Be the person that takes the time to help another person get into the meeting. Having them there can make all the difference. Having you there can make all the difference.

GO FORWARD

P.S.

I mention Zoom here in particular because it's the only audiovisual assistive tool I recall using. I have used others and I am aware of still others. Zoom is very good. But as everyone I know knows, nobody's perfect. Including the others, from what I hear. We do the best we can.--Dennis Wall