We understand how busy it is this time of year with planning a convention, attending quarterly meetings, getting ready for all the partying and celebration at the Annual Convention. Surely, somebody just forgot to call StreamText or Remote Counsel or Vitac to request their services during the Annual Business Meeting.

We are a profession about access, about fairness, about openness and transparency, aren’t we?

This is a time to showcase our own technologies – the technologies that we expect the world of clients to use. If we don’t use these technologies at our very own Annual Business Meeting, why would our clients think it is important to use them at their meetings?

This is also a time for membership to engage with their board of directors of NCRA. This is a time for the NCRA board of directors to engage with their membership. This is a time to hear what membership attendees have on their minds. There are so many captioners, CART providers, freelancers and officials who can’t take the time off work to attend the annual convention, but they have the time and the desire to attend the Annual Business Meeting remotely or to read the rough-draft transcript after the meeting.

Is there something going on that can’t be seen or heard by the entire NCRA membership? You see, not opening the windows and the doors leaves icky suspicions.

But, all of us here at FNS believe that missing this little detail must surely just be an oversight.

Wake up, NCRA! Let the Sun Shine In! Stream the Annual Business Meeting LIVE and post the rough draft as soon as possible after the meeting.

Frank N. Sense

P.S. Please don’t forget to VOTE on the important bylaws amendments on July 30th.