Good luck with finding session presentations.  I had an email string with 
Jackie from ARMA hdqtrs yesterday.  Here are snippets.  I also don't think 
they are printers available but the hotel business centers should be busy 
:)

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Good Morning Steve,
 
Thank you for your email.  While we strongly encourage our facilitators to 
utilize learning resource materials, they are not required to.  For those 
who do submit materials to us, that material is available before 
conference on our website for the first time this year.  You do not need 
to complete the agenda planner to view the learning resource materials. 
Simply search for the events you would like to attend, if those events 
have learning material, it will be available via a link with the 
description of the course.  Not all of our education events include 
presentations. Many facilitators are utilizing more interactive teaching 
techniques rather than PPT/lecture.  We have over 130 facilitators this 
year and are unable work with each person individually to assist them in 
the development of learning material.  If we were to eliminate all 
facilitators from our faculty who did not submit learning materials, we 
would lose nearly 50% of our educational programs.  We continue to train 
our trainers in the value of learning resource materials and hope to 
continue to see an increase in their use of more engaging teaching 
techniques and learning resources.
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(MY RESPONSE BACK)

Jacki, Thanks for the prompt response.

The problem I see is that the conference material is only good then if you 
go that particular conference session and even then only if you take 
notes.  If I want to reference something from a session I attended or 
material on a topic I didn't attend at a later date, I'm SOL.  That really 
limits the use of any kind of material distribution to me if I can't use 
it as a future reference source.

It also come down to an ease of use thing.  If I want to see if 
presentation material on any particular topic or what the presentation 
consists of (beyond the summary blurb)  I've got to click on each 
individual session (130 plus)  to see if it's available.  There needs to 
be a page where by day you can pull up the complete list of sessions that 
have submitted copy and provide the links that way.  I don't decide on 
sessions by the title-instead by the content and possibly in area's I'm 
not educated on.

I'm also not sure why we don't demand a little more structure/discipline 
out of presenters as that's what we do -add structure.  It looks like the 
networking structure I have in place will be of more benefit at conference 
than actually attending many sessions.

Thanks

Steve Petersen CRM

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