Good Stuff from Joan Eisenstodt

Sue Pelletier at meetingsnet.com wrote some great stuff about the need to consider who and when electronic devices are used at meetings - not the 'annoyance factors' - rather the privacy factors.

I commented on her blog and borrowed a portion of her title (for which she also borrowed from the Spellos brothers) for this one.

It's a huge issue.  I'm currently at a client meeting where the information to be discussed will be highly confidential.  If someone, while hearing it, were to text it to someone else, it would be an interesting (at the low end) and highly incendiary (at the high end) PR issue for the group. 

Do we require that all meeting participants sign confidentiality agreements? Is that feasible? Does it protect the information or only provide recourse in the event of a leak?

Certainly a all meetings - corporate, association, not-for-profit, etc. - there is confidential information discussed.  How do we protect it?