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Comment on Is The iPad Invited To Your Board Meeting? by Shona Eland

Shona Eland — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 05:01:47 +0000

Informative article Zoe. At YMCA Victoria we have recently introduced iPads for Directors and have had great success in ensuring Board engagement, access to information. Our processes supporting the implementation included, training, compulsory security setting for Personal and Office iPads, and added security settings associated with annotations and device tracking to assist in recovering lost or stolen iPads. We also inducted the Board in the usage policy associated with the devices. The key to using iPads successfully is to ensure the system is set up securely.

Comment on Is The iPad Invited To Your Board Meeting? by Pete Macaulay

Pete Macaulay — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:27:28 +0000

Ipads are great for board meetings, but need to have well defined processes to support their use. We have just started down this path. The key appears to be a well managed secure document repository, maintained by staff, which allow documents to be annotated and tracked by the board members. There must be a single app used by all to access the documents. There must be no transfer of confidential documents by personal unsecured email.
Beats hell out of carting around the usual board paper package

Comment on Is The iPad Invited To Your Board Meeting? by Grant Lavac

Grant Lavac — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:21:26 +0000

A very interesting read and certainly reinforces the need for a strong IT & Records Management policy within any organisation…thankfully most secure board portal solutions, take care of this for you.

Here’s is another compelling article about whether the iPad and non-profit boards are a good fit:
http://nonprofit.about.com/od/boardquestions/a/Nonprofit-Boards-And-The-Ipad-A-Good-Fit.htm

Comment on Is The iPad Invited To Your Board Meeting? by Janette Robinson

Janette Robinson — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:57:53 +0000

Food for thought.. and certainly an important discussion item. Thanks for the article.

Comment on Is The iPad Invited To Your Board Meeting? by Morri Young

Morri Young — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:26:39 +0000

Excellent article and highlights the challenges and the remedies for how Boards need to meet the new technology.
Our company supports BoardEffect subscribers in Australia, and the latest version of their ipad app deals with just the issues which Zoe has raised. We really discourage using email and document sharing sites for distributing board papers because of the high risks to confidentiality. Keeping Board documents, discussions and decisions behind a secure portal provides for a higher duty of care for electronic document management.
And from our experience, the ipad is a game changer. Its everywhere.. on the beach, on buses, in meetings, and in Board rooms.. Banning it is short-sighted. Managing it, as Zoe says, is better governance practice.

Comment on Is The iPad Invited To Your Board Meeting? by Catherine Daley

Catherine Daley — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:21:06 +0000

Really informative article thanks Zoe. Our Board is just going down the ipad route so appreciate the thinking and guidance around policies and record keeping. It is all too easy to introduce what you believe is a simpler way of accessing information and being paperless, only to find we may not be compliant with legislation or have not adequately considered all the risks. Appreciate the advice.
Catherine