> To satisfy a request for management, would anyone on the list who does
> so please send me info on how they handle committee papers, minutes etc.
Most people here use paper. However, I am about to try using Basic Support
for Co-operative Work (http://bscw.gmd.de/) as a poor man's equivalent of
Lotus Notes for our JCC staff/student minutes.
In BSCW you can upload a document in whatever format is convenient (Word,
ASCII, HTML, ...) and put it under version control. So you can upload a
draft to a folder that only the committee members can access. Then they
can suggest modifications (creating new versions).
Finally, the secretary to the committee can put a corrected version to the
next (f2f or virtual) meeting. Once it is approved, then obviously it
would be published more widely, typically in HTML on a web server and on
paper on a notice board.
If you actually want to support discussion, then BSCW is not so good, as
it is designed on the upload document principle. Web4Groups
(http://www.web4groups.at/) is a good system to support computer
conferencing via web/news/email/telephone.
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Dr. D. R. Newman, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's School of Management,
BELFAST BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland (UK). http://www.qub.ac.uk/mgt/
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