I'm going to be a facilitator for a round table "Autism Speaks" town meeting, next week. This week I am taking the webinar. A very curious phenomena. You take one very relational old fashioned thing like a lecture, or a discussion and you add elements of technology and all of a sudden it's new and accessible to so many more people. My webinar class consists of people from LA, Chicago, Atlanta etc. listening to a lecture on the phone, busily multitasking and interacting via social media and our very own laptops. How far people have come in a few short years. And we're running the facillitation in the same way too. People communicating to the others in the room and to the others who are in a completely different city across the continent. Will it make us better at policy conversations? Will it make us more sensitive to different perspectives? I can only hope. Otherwise I'm making friends with totally irrelevant technology and we're spending an awful lot of time and money trying to stay current with machine advancements.
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