Re: [alac] ALAC Statements to the Board - lessons learned

[Jacqueline Morris <jam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Maybe the closing for each document should be:
"Looking forward to your prompt response" instead of "sincerely"
Jacqueline

On 12/5/05, Annette Muehlberg <Annette.Muehlberg@xxxxxx> wrote:
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> hi,
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> at saturday's public forum we learned something about the board's attitude to 
> alac's and other committee's contributions to the board.
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> I think Vint Cerf's response to Vittorio's crtitique was priceless!
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> I checked the real-time captioning. Vittorio's critique on how the board 
> handles ALACs inputs, e.g. our statement/proposals on transparency, ended 
> with the words:
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> "I HOPE THAT WE DON'T HAVE TO GO TO THE OMBUDSMAN TO GET INFORMATION ABOUT 
> HOW THE BOARD IS CONSIDERING WHAT WE SAY."
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> Vint Cerf gave a very enlightening answer: "...AS I HAVE LISTENED TO MANY OF 
> THE EXCHANGES THIS WEEK, I HAVE CONCLUDED THAT WHAT HAPPENS IS THAT WE 
> SOMETIMES DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT A PARTY WHO HAS SAID SOMETHING IS ALSO 
> LOOKING SPECIFICALLY FOR A REPLY…
> THIS IS NOT TO EXCUSE ANYTHING, BUT WHEN WE — IF WHEN YOU ARE COMMUNICATING 
> SOMETHING SPECIFICALLY TO THE BOARD AND AN EXPLICIT RESPONSE IS EXPECTED, 
> PROBABLY IT WOULDN'T HURT TO SAY THAT, JUST TO UNDERSCORE THE POINT."
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> Wow!
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> From now on we will put a reminder on all our statements: ANSWER EXPECTED!
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> just bloged that on my german blog: http://www.wecann.net
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> Annette
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