Publisher's Synopsis
People often suggest holding an email meeting as an alternative to face-to-face meetings. Email meetings are ideal if participants are disbursed about the country or the world where getting together for a face-to-face meeting is difficult and costly. However, when they try to apply the ordinary parliamentary rules of order, they soon realise that those rules of order no longer work.To use emails for meetings, we must first study the rules governing face-to-face meeting to discover their original intent. Then determine how to adapt these rules to the email meetings. Some examples include the following.-Seconding a motion - How can this be accomplished?-Voting - How is voting on a motion handled?-Quorum - Do you need to be online to be present?-Minutes - How does the secretary record the meeting?This book answers these questions and identifies other rules that no longer apply, rules that we need to rewrite and new rules that are unique to email meetings.
