Oxford Real Farming Conference 2022
- Thread starter delilah
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- Hampshire
No I agree, especially when most of these zoom meetings are on in the evening.
Nope. I find I cannot really absorb the info being imparted, or enjoy these "events" very much at all.
I sat through a few last year, but they rarely engaged me for long, which possibly is a criticism of my attention span rather than the content...
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- Location
- Cumbria
I sometimes wish my woman would regenerate
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Same here. The only advantage is that you can duck out when you do get bored, whereas starting to snore in an auditorium is sometimes seen as rude.
Same here,thought of an online zoom event turns me right off,haven’t attended any.
Should really but life is too short.
Should really but life is too short.
Hindsight
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- Lincolnshire
Oil of Ulay?
Hindsight
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- Location
- Lincolnshire
I am the opposite. Think its great that can sit in the kitchen and attend an event anywhere in the world. Can nod off without embarrassment. And pick up work related meetings in the evenings when would have taken most of a day to attend in person. And if recorded can watch on 'catch up'. So I hope they continue and flourish. Sorry, but just an alternative view.
JohnGalway
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- Connemara, Ireland
Given my location, I much prefer the online offerings.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
I think it's great for group meetings too, but sitting and listening without participation can get quite mindnumbing, unless the speaker, or topic, is particularly good.
I remember we had a breed society meeting back in the summer and several of the people participating would rarely be seen in a conventional meeting, purely as they were 'proper' farmers that wouldn't have time to travel 2 hours each way to join in (even if they'd wanted to). I would suggest that those are the very people that make the most valid contributions, which perhaps didn't go down so well with the old guard.
The same society had a physical meeting a couple of weeks back (which I didn't attend as it was 90 minutes each way and plenty on) which, according to teh minutes received, was just attended by the usual handful that always do.
Zoom certainly has it's place.
I "listened" to one from an RPA person last year who was truly, truly awful. I had to go and walk the dogs...
Hindsight
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- Location
- Lincolnshire
But the joy of Zoom Steve is that you can just get up turn it off and go walk the dogs. You are not trapped in a meeting room with the speaker. You have not travelled for miles and thus do not have that emotional baggage of hatred to the speaker and the speakers organisation of the time and expense wasted.
It is all so much better. The social interaction is missing, I accept.
But to follow on from Nielo's point it does offer the opportunity for more folk to engage. In my work I used to deliver technical meetings for Defra. Same attendees most meetings. I could almost forecast the names.
I have noticed in my line of work a desire from agchem manufacturers to return to in room and in field trial meetings. So they can engage in soft skills of persuasion. The last 18 months of Zoom been great. Give them 20 minutes and that is it. So no death by Powerpoint. And get to work out who can deliver concisely information.
Really interesting period of time. Best wishes.
Oh yes, I agree a Zoom meeting can soon be walked away from
On the powerpoint issue, I would have said I have found too many presenter's use these, with a small talking head simply reading them out... Not appealing.
It is the lack of interaction that is the killer, I feel.
On the powerpoint issue, I would have said I have found too many presenter's use these, with a small talking head simply reading them out... Not appealing.
It is the lack of interaction that is the killer, I feel.
- Location
- Hammerwich
I'd agree these don't excite me on the day, but I do like listening to them at my own pace, which often means days, weeks or months later. But I am a bit gutted about not being able to go and actually meet people.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Oh yes, I agree a Zoom meeting can soon be walked away from
unless it’s a speed awareness course.
Hindsight
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- Location
- Lincolnshire
unless it’s a speed awareness course.
Yep, had one of those too. May 2020.