Our first virtual guild meeting
 

Have any of you attended a virtual guild meeting? If so, how did it go?

Our guild hasn't had a virtual meeting, but my sewing buddies and I have had 2 Zoom meetings. We meet on Tuesday which is our usual sew day. It's really nice to see the other ladies "in person" rather than just a voice on a telephone.
We have a laugh when a pet shows up onscreen!

My sewing bee has a Zoom meeting every Monday. It's been nice to see everyone and learn how they spent the week. My guild hasn't had a Zoom meeting or other type of virtual meeting, there are about 200 ladies in our guild and it would be a rather large gathering. We have about 100 ladies attend our monthly meeting when it's able to meet.

No, but it sounds like something doable for our small guild. I will have to put a good deal of thought and put it out to our president and other officers. This could be a lot of fun.

My guild has a Facebook page and we have Show and Tell there. It's fun and keeps us connected without a schedule.

My sewing buddies and I go Zooming every week. There are definitely some etiquette guidelines to follow to make it a pleasant experience for everyone, but I really enjoy the meetings. It's so nice to be able to visit with my girlfriends, especially since I'm in a house with 3 grown men and no other females.

Never have done that as I am not real smart with technology. My group of 6 ladies that used to meet at my house every Monday are just too afraid to come out so we connect by text or e-mail. I miss those days as that was my fun social time. Maybe some time soon we can get together for sewing and laughter again. Just want everyone to stay safe and healthy at this time.

have done Zoom with my quilting buddies, who are also in my one guild. But our president is hesitant on a full guild zoom as we are a large guild and worry that it would be very chaotic. But she is doing both a FB and an emailed video of a "virtual guild meeting" that has been well received and is requesting photos to be posted this weekend for our virtual retreat (our retreat for this weekend had to be canceled). Helps many of us stay in touch--unfortunately some of our members are not as digitally connected. One thing I'm trying to do and suggest others do is to actually make a real phone call to anyone that you know that lives alone--it's a very lonely place to be right now!

Thanks for your comments about meeting virtually. I will do a follow up on how our first virtual guild meeting goes.

We will be meeting tonight on our regularly scheduled meeting time. We have the option to call in with a landline, or use a smart phone, tablet or laptop. The President will be the only one allowed to speak. Comments or ?'s will be addressed when the Pres. chooses to read them. There will be a message or chat box that members type their comments/questions at any time they wish.

Our guild has a Facebook page, but only half the members have joined it.

Yes! My guild started the first week-end of April. That was supposed to be our spring retreat. We Zoomed for two hour segments 3 times each day. It was such fun that we are continuing to meet each Tuesday and Thursday from 1 - 4. We chat, we sew, we problem solve, we whine and we do show and tell of what we are working on and there are lots of laughs. A few, about 5/6, are regulars but there are lots of others that just check in when they can working around family and "work from home" responsibilities. It works very well. Highly recommend it. It is fun to just all be together for a couple of hours and zoom is easy. BTW, use the "waiting room" and the host must allow us into the meeting. No, Zoom bombing for us!

About half of my small Tuesday group is not computer savvy at all. Unfortunately, 3 of the ladies have husbands with end of life conditions and so we have stopped coming together while the Seattle area has been on lockdown. Most of us live pretty close, and we have exchanged fabric or groceries and such outside a couple of times, but mostly now we are sending daily emails, sometimes multiple emails a day which is unusual for most of us. We all have phones of course, even if mine is a land line, but none of us are the type that like to have a phone stuck to our face.

Our pre-Covid days were pretty well lock-downed anyway, and that weekly group was enough of a social thing we could accumulate our week's worth of conversation and hold it until Tuesday but after so many weeks we do seem to need/want more contact. Pre-covid I just checked my main email once a week! Now it is 4 or so times a day and there is usually something there, not just from my local group but from my other spread out friends. I've always been a believer in the power of touch and human contact, think a lot of us are feeling it nowadays.

Update on meeting....Success!

We joined together on our devices and some members called in with their phones to chat and listen to the meeting.
The President muted our microphones when the meeting began, so no background talking. When someone raised their hand, she would address the person and allow just that person to speak. No chaos! At sew and tell we all could speak freely again as we ooohed and awed at the projects being shown.

Today we have our monthly guild sew day using the virtual setting. No muted mikes today!