Using your mobile smartphone to record speeches and evaluations

I was reading a forum on LinkedIn where a member was complaining about the time wasted waiting for manuals and brochures to arrive, during which time you could miss two meetings.

The new system due out in two years time will allow you to download manuals. Meanwhile, what can you do?

Many clubs buy spare copies of manuals. At the back of your first speech manual is the first speech from the Entertaining manual to get you started on your next project.

We need a whole section on using your smartphone at meetings. I went to a meeting in Singapore. One evaluator read his evaluation, prompted by his notes on his smartphone.

Another propped his smartphone against a water bottle (on the huge table we sat around) in order to records his speech and evaluation. (He did both at one meeting).

Angela Lansbury, CL, ACB.