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Is Zoom Here To Stay?

Who’s Who at the It is difficult to think of many good things
Keystone which have materialised from the
COVID -19 pandemic over the last year,

but the need to communicate with
The Keystone is the family, friends and fellow Freemasons
publication of the during the lockdown had us all
Provincial Grand searching for the best communication tools available
Lodge of Mark Master online.
Masons of Somerset Most found Zoom but many were warning against its use
as it was thought to present a security risk. Most just
ignored the warning after all we were informed that the PM
Editor and the cabinet were using it.

R. J. Dredge So, the zoom journey began, and many were happy to
2 Styles Park
Frome sign on to requests sent from known friends and
Somerset BA11 Freemasons.
5AL
01373 467145 No account was required unless you were the host and
this made it very simple for anyone with the internet, a
laptop, iPad or iPhone to gain access.
preg@somersetmarkmason.co.
uk What followed next I believe will change for ever the way
we hold certain meetings after the pandemic is over and
Publisher lodge meetings have resumed.
T.B.Hulbert
92A High Street Many of the Masonic orders have through their Provinces
Chapmanslade purchased zoom accounts which allows unrestricted time
Wiltshire
BA13 4AN limits and other special features.
01373 832343 The ability to hold small or large group meetings online
thulbert@msn.com
has been embraced by many Freemasons and it has
become very clear to all that this is a really sensible
approach to holding meetings, so the question is, why
Check the Provincial
Website at have we not done this before, no traveling, no time
wasting, and more home time, it just makes so much
www.somersetmarkMasons sense.
.co.uk
We have now seen Provincial meetings on zoom along
with many lodge business meetings and social gatherings.

Our own Open House meeting is a great success, and it
has certainly brought the brethren together in a time of
unparalleled uncertainty.
@SomersetMasons Based on the success of zoom within our fraternal

organisation I am positive that it is here to stay and that
the days of traveling a total of two hours for a one-hour
for UpToDate news from meeting are behind us.
the Mark Province of
Somerset Stay Safe Brethren

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