wiki wireless and other innnovations
Michael Herman
mherman at globalchicago.net
Wed Sep 14 17:56:31 PDT 2005
ditto on harrison's bit. especially on the verbatim reports. i'll add
that the product
is also fairly hidden, rather than being in everybody's hands. online
is great if you have folks who are gathering as a subset of many
others who want to peek in, like at an osonos. another idea, untried
to date, is to do the proceedings in the usual paper ways, then post
them into a blog, some at a time, so that many others who didn't
attend could comment with those how did. this idea only works if
there is a large group that really does want to keep the conversation
going. the only exception to most of this is my experience with
omidyar network members, but then again, online meeting is the
*primary* and virtually only way they know each other in the first
place. special case, they are. posting after the event is fine, as a
record and fodder for next invitation round. one alternative would be
to do the proceedings in the usual way, on paper, but invite anyone
with a laptop to use/share it to post individual notes, ideas,
observations, reflections, descriptions etc... in a common weblog
space. so the record would be paper and posted later, if needed, but
meanwhile all of that energy that wants to be tinkering with the toys,
could be generating *something* in this other, online space.
this reminds me... of a couple of other places in an upcoming event
that i've had to do something quite un-ost, but have finessed it into
closer alignment with the flow and spirit of what we do.
the event is noon sunday to noon tuesday. they wanted to open with an
icebreaker session. i see that it might help create some 'sparse
connections' that may well be missing when we start. this will be 100
folks who mostly don't know each other, but are all bigwig leaders.
so i managed to get them to have this special, highly-skilled leader
who had donated her time do her thing in teh evening on sunday, after
the opening and first session. we make it optional. so this way, it
might help, many might opt out, and it all happens inside of the
space, so it's more like one more offering session, rather than an
imposed tone-setting session.
second aligning move is in response to a request to have a panel
discussion. "some of us need structure" they say. i first ask what
the purpose of the structure is... to make everyone say the organizers
are smart? ...that they did well to raise the right issues? ...to
make certain participants or would-be speakers feel good? and so this
way it seems that there are no *real* needs to be met by the
structure, except that it would quiet those who think it should be
there. that realized, we made a panel discussion. sort of. we
agreed to pick out 5-6 leaders, not to give planned remarks, but to
comment on the end of second day, monday, about what they'd seen
happening and what they think should happen next. now, put the panel
in the center of the circle. and then, after a little time, let
others "tag into" the conversation. now you have the requisite
planned evening activity, but nothing imposed from outside, rather
some leadership in reflecting and bubbling up the next things. and it
all dissolves into the last day's morning session, where we re-open
for whatever else wants to get finished or started before we finally
close for good. because of holidays, many will need to leave after
the panel monday night, so those leaving early get some sense of how
others are talking about what happened, but that talking doesn't
actually close the space, it just sets up the next opening for those
who stay. or so we imagine from here.
good luck, lisa! m
On 9/14/05, Harrison Owen < hhowen at comcast.net
<mailto:hhowen at comcast.net>> wrote:
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> For the wired community, I can understand that they would like to have
> laptops all over. And they probably will. Major downsides in my
experience
> are several. First, the notes taken tend to be almost verbatim – which
> generally yields an enormous amount of "stuff" of questionable value.
Having
> to type a report from a stack of news print tends to focus the mind,
to say
> nothing of the input. The second thing you lose with instant entry is the
> camaraderie of the News Room. Actually I find some of the best
discussions
> (ideas) are generated when folks get together to figure out what they are
> really talking about. I guess I am getting old, but lo-tec wins out in my
> book.
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<mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>] On Behalf Of Lisa Heft
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> Hello, dear colleagues –
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> To those of you who have used high-technology methods of collecting
> discussion notes during the real-time of an OS event that look like
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> - People on their laptops writing notes directly to wiki or other website
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> - Wireless – folks sending their notes to somewhere without physically
> having to walk over to a Newsroom table to coordinate input/transcription
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> - Other things that look like that
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> What are some advantages, disadvantages, things you wished you had
known /
> done before you did this in a next OS event, and so on?
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> I often work with clients / communities that have *zero* technology
of the
> electronic kind (so I am very good at when you *don't* have computers, or
> xerox machines and so on). Or with 'basic' electronic technology like a
> bunch of computers in the Newsroom with a Newsroom Coordinator present,
> discs or drives or network to share / send files, and so on. But I
have an
> upcoming situation where a majority of the participants are *very* into
> electronic technology. So I just want to learn from you-all what to plan
> for, look for, invite, beware of, and so on. I know that several of
you have
> had these interesting and sometimes wild experiences.
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> Thank you for your thoughts and recommendations,
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> Lisa
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