The membership of your Governance committee should consist of individuals that are ‘action oriented’ and that are focused on making decisions and then executing against those decisions.  The members chosen to serve on the committee should  have both an appropriate level of business savvy, industry experience and are champions of technology (whether they understand it or not) and be enthusiastic regarding the capabilities that SharePoint will provide to the organization.

Rather than simply discuss SharePoint, the committee will be expected to learn the platform and act as its champion within the organization.  If some on your committee feel as though the governance committee meetings are ‘just another meeting’, then you will need to replace them.  Also, business people who speak entirely about ‘strategy’ and ‘theory’ and don’t bring actionable ideas to the meeting are not doing you any good.

I.S. Departments also usually avoid adding people to the committee that they see as not being ‘technologically aware’.  Why do we avoid adding these people?  Because it takes more time to explain technology and SharePoint to them.  But when you think about it, aren’t those EXACTLY the type of people that you want represented on your committee?  If you are like most companies, you will be spending the majority of your time explaining to the user community exactly what SharePoint does.  So, why not have your ‘technology luddite’ help prep you with content that will explain to the end-user what SharePoint can do for them?