{"id":3813,"date":"2014-09-01T15:53:32","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T15:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/?p=3813"},"modified":"2014-09-01T20:13:57","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T20:13:57","slug":"instructions-for-attending-the-2014-annual-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/instructions-for-attending-the-2014-annual-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Instructions for Attending the 2014 Annual Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Heinlein Society is running its Annual Meeting as a teleconference with online materials for the first time this year. \u00a0We will be discussing results of our 2014\u00a0work, announce the results of our elections, and briefly talk about our plans for the 2015 year, which officially starts for us September 1st.\u00a0 While all members are invited to participate, if any votes are taken only Regular members may vote.\u200b<\/p>\n<p>The minutes of last year&#8217;s Annual Meeting are <a href=\"https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/THS_2013_AGM_Minutes.pdf\">available for review here.\u00a0<\/a>\u200b\u200b<\/p>\n<p>To participate, dial the phone number below and then enter the participant code when prompted. \u00a0\u200b<\/p>\n<p>To see presentation materials for the meeting you must\u00a0<strong>also<\/strong>\u00a0log on through the URL below.\u00a0\u00a0\u200bIf you have ever used a teleconference service\u00a0\u200bwith a&#8221;GoToMeeting&#8221; or &#8220;WebEx Meeting&#8221;\u200b this is a similar process.<\/p>\n<p>\u200b<strong>To Participate:<\/strong><strong>\u200b<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>On September 7, 2014, shortly before 4:00 p.m. EDT\/ 1:00 p.m.\u00a0PDT dial into:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Phone:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"tel:712-432-0075\">712-432-0075<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Participant Code:<\/strong>\u00a0448547 and then enter the &#8220;#&#8221; symbol<\/p>\n<p><strong>VOIP Link<\/strong> (this lets you listen to the phone call portion for free over the computer if you have a good speaker and microphone&#8211;but results can be mixed with sound quality for you and for others to hear you speak\u200b): \u200b<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freeconferencing.com\/flash-phone.html\">http:\/\/www.freeconferencing.com\/flash-phone.html<\/a>\u00a0then pick the phone number and access code above.<\/p>\n<p>\u200b(International callers may use the VOIP link or use their preferred international calling service to the phone number above. Pennytalk.com may be of interest if you do not routinely use such a service.)\u200b<\/p>\n<p><strong>To view the materials that are being discussed<\/strong>\u200b\u00a0<strong>as they are being discussed, you need to\u00a0ALSO<\/strong>\u200b <strong>be running the Free Screen Sharing application<\/strong> at the same time\u200b. \u00a0When you click on the link below for the first time it\u00a0will ask you to download software. \u00a0You may need to disable virus scanning software or add to your computer&#8217;s\u00a0\u200bfirewall setting for the application to work\u200b. \u00a0Look for popup windows or boxes that ask you if it is\u00a0OK to Allow or make changes the first time you connect to the meeting.\u200b\u200b<\/p>\n<p>PLEASE type in\u200b the &#8220;User&#8221; name in the Free Screen Sharing application\u00a0to be the name we have for your Heinlein Society membership, as that is how we will first attempt to\u00a0\u200btake a Roll\u00a0Call.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ScreenSharing Link:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freeconferencing.com\/meetings\/930-720-518\">http:\/\/www.freeconferencing.com\/meetings\/930-720-518<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(You need software \u200bto be able to see the presentation. \u00a0If you are not able to be near a computer with an internet connection at the time of the meeting\u200b\u00a0you may <a href=\"https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/AnnualMeeting2014Slides.pdf\">download the presentation\u00a0here<\/a> after 9\/2\/2014\u200b\u00a0and follow along with the phone meeting.)<\/p>\n<p>We will guide you through the open question-and-answer session periods with specific instructions on how to contribute when the time comes during the meeting.\u200b<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Heinlein Society is running its Annual Meeting as a teleconference with online materials for the first time this year. \u00a0We will be discussing results of our 2014\u00a0work, announce the results of our elections, and briefly talk about our plans for the 2015 year, which officially starts for us September 1st.\u00a0 While all members are&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/instructions-for-attending-the-2014-annual-meeting\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2874,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frontpage","category-notices"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2874"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3813"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3816,"href":"https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3813\/revisions\/3816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heinleinsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}