Creating the book in a second- a need for ideas

[Lisa Heft]

Hi, fabulous Avner -

I am delighted at Barry and Esther's recommendation using technology. It
would be interesting to hear what technology is available at your event.  I
think their explanations are very clear and helpful.

Michael mentions some things that I was going to mention, too.
I find it is fine to simply post peoples' original notes (whether or not you
have a printer capability) on the wall.  Give people time for a 'gallery'
walk to read the wall.  Some will, and some will not (some will have
absorbed the information in other ways).  Always works fine.  Then if you
are doing action sessions the data is there for them.

Then you have the opportunity for printing out the book that day, a week
later, scanning it, photocopying it, whatever you need. On-site printing
during a meeting can be very challenging (printers can heat up and stop
printing for awhile, volunteers who have already had long hours can be
worried and stressed, some people may have posted to wiki and some may not
have by your deadline) and time consuming (you would have to build in a time
for printing out and assembling quite a bit of stuff while the participants
are doing something else) so I find that posting on the wall (either just
printed off incoming Newsroom notes or posted as-is in handwriting) seems to
inform people, keep things moving, and not make volunteers run around like
crazy.

I do agree that the ideal situation is time -away- time to reflect.  Before
any decisions or actions. There is one way that people think about things
immediately afterwards, and another way they think of them upon reflection -
upon re-clustering that data in their heads (ideally overnight).  Seems to
me they get integrate more of the full-systems picture before they go to
make decisions or actions, if they are given a time for pause and
reflection.  But there may not be that flexibility in design for you in this
specific situation.

They are in good hands with you and your team, Avner,
Lisa

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