{"id":563,"date":"2020-07-11T11:49:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-11T10:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.norfolkra.org.uk\/?p=563"},"modified":"2020-07-11T11:53:04","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T10:53:04","slug":"succesful-area-council-zoom-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.norfolkra.org.uk\/index.php\/2020\/07\/11\/succesful-area-council-zoom-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Successful Area Council Zoom Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.norfolkra.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screenshot-2020-07-11-at-11.39.53.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-564\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.norfolkra.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screenshot-2020-07-11-at-11.39.53-300x275.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.norfolkra.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screenshot-2020-07-11-at-11.39.53-300x275.png 300w, http:\/\/blog.norfolkra.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screenshot-2020-07-11-at-11.39.53.png 567w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, current events mean that we can&#8217;t meet together for our usual area council meeting. So, instead, we went on-line and used Zoom to at least be able to hold some sort of meeting. 17 members from the area went on-line and there were only a few technical issues.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t use photos of everyone in the Zoom meeting as some people (well, primarily, me, Julian) need a hair-cut (that&#8217;s happening this week, woooo), but above is Richard May, confidently chairing the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>We hope that we can return to normal in future meetings, but perhaps we can look at having an on-line element to them to allow for more people to engage with them.<\/p>\n<p>It was great to hear today from groups that were embracing social media and WhatsApp, using this as a tool to attract new members. Lockdown has made more people think about exercise, and we&#8217;re ready to help people get walking and make new friends.<\/p>\n<p>There was also discussion about things such as risk assessments, the less exciting side of these meetings perhaps, but important to show that we&#8217;re taking the safety of walkers and communities seriously.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re sending out a programme to members, to help them feel informed of what&#8217;s going on. We can&#8217;t list walks in this one, but we&#8217;ll be publishing a printed programme again as soon as walking is more back to normal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately, current events mean that we can&#8217;t meet together for our usual area council meeting. So, instead, we went on-line and used Zoom to at least be able to hold some sort of meeting. 17 members from the area went on-line and there were only a few technical issues. I won&#8217;t use photos of everyone &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.norfolkra.org.uk\/index.php\/2020\/07\/11\/succesful-area-council-zoom-meeting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Successful Area Council Zoom Meeting<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[63,32],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.norfolkra.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.norfolkra.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.norfolkra.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.norfolkra.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.norfolkra.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.norfolkra.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":566,"href":"http:\/\/blog.norfolkra.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions\/566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.norfolkra.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.norfolkra.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.norfolkra.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}