Using digital cameras...

[Chris Corrigan]

Winston:

Digital cameras are almost a must for me these days.  Often my
proceedings documents include photos as well as text.  For a very basic
set of proceedings using a digital camera, you can look at
http://www.chriscorrigan.com/sweetspace.  It's probably not much
different from what you have done in the past.  That set of proceedings
could have been enhanced a lot more with pictures of groups meeting and
so on, but no one had the time or energy to produce anything other than
that little web page.

As far as do's and don'ts, make sure that you have a flash on the camera
and that whatever you are photographing is well lit. You'd be surprised
how dim meeting rooms can be (:-)).  Flip chart notes can often gain
something from being transcribed, so I would be sure that you had a copy
of both the photo and the text if you planning to make photos of all the
proceedings.  Another consideration would be the size of the final
document.  Also, you would not be able to use the report in classical
digital way by cutting and pasting things into other reports and
documents without transcribing.

Those are issues I can think of.

Chris



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CHRIS CORRIGAN
Consultation - Facilitation
Open Space Technology

Bowen Island, BC, Canada
http://www.chriscorrigan.com
chris at chriscorrigan.com
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Winston Kinch
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Subject: Using digital cameras...


>From time to time, I have used flip charts as the medium for small group
reports. It seems that, when the group is not so large that wall space
becomes a limiting factor (perhaps less than forty or so folks) it
allows greater freedom of individual expression, and to be less sterile
than homogeneously aligned printed pages in 12 pt. Arial...  The
challenge is of course converting them into replicable "proceedings"
with a minimum of work. Once, I had someone with a digital camera offer
to take pictures of some reports that were not readily transmogrifiable
into printed pages (mind maps, group art) and we distributed the pics
along with the other reports "as is" by e-mail as part of the
proceedings.

I am facilitating a small group (20 - 40 people) next month and am
thinking about using this process exclusively (no re-typing) with a
digital camera and e-mail or where necessary copies of the photos.

I would appreciate any thots you might have from experience (or
theoretical speculation) for "do's and don'ts" in going this way...

Winston

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