Christine Forbes of The Daniel and Henry Co. in St. Louis, was the session leader. Anderson recalls there was a span of seven hours from place to place while the session was going on. Forbes notes that ASCnetU makes people more comfortable with asking questions. In an office setting, an individual might be embarrassed to ask a question because then colleagues would know they didn't know. With ASCnetU, people don't see each other.
People are less inhibited.
While her question encourages participant interaction and use of the technology, she says it also gets the participants to do a bit of disaster planning. Maureen Boeing of Landmark Insurance Agency in Cincinnati will be leading ASCnetU sessions once she becomes a certified ASCnet presenter. She's already presented a demo of an ASCnetU session for the Southwest Ohio ASCnet Chapter. The members were enthusiastic about the concept, she says. Everyone in the agency doesn't have to have access, but someone in the agency needs to have access.