I have been in many more meetings outside of the industry than I have meetings within the industry. In my fraternity we take very detailed minutes. Even though may seem this as unnecessary for a social organization but it is extremely helpful for event planning, and also returning to minutes to see whether a rule was established that someone is saying they did not know about. At the beginning of our meetings the secretary’s ( the person who writes the minutes) begins his report with holding a vote to accept the minutes from the previous meeting. This is an effort to stop anyone from saying they are not aware of something later on. Anyway that does not agree to the vote has to explain what about the minutes they are not agreeing with. This helps force people to be a little more meticulous when they are reading through the previous minutes.