... routinely¹

About half of all inter-site meetings scheduled at Edgemont Road use the video system, and the fraction would be higher but for room scheduling conflicts.

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... chair²

The ``continuous presence", (i.e., ``Hollywood squares") modes that are now available on the video hubs may also help this problem, though at the expense of smaller images of individuals in a meeting and possibly some longer time delays.

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... clearly³

This is helped by using camera presets, as the cameras slew faster and more precisely between presets than they can be panned

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... effectively⁴

Several sidebar discussions at the Communications Task Force have noted that good chairing of meetings could increase the effectiveness of meetings at the NRAO in other ways (clear agendas and purpose, keeping discussions relevant, summaries or minutes made available on the web, etc.).

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