Wall and Technology
Harrison Owen
hhowen at verizon.net
Wed Jun 3 11:54:55 PDT 2009
I have less concern about the tech-break (always possible, but you survive)
and more that the technology may get in the way of the people. Erik mentions
that a "transcriber" could handle the task of posting -- true -- but at the
cost of "direct control of the board." My objective is always to have
nothing (at least little) in the way of the people and their task. Over the
years multiple techies have come up with all sorts of truly great stuff, but
more often than not I found it to be a technology in search of an
application as opposed to a transparent assist to folks in Open Space. The
more we do for the people, the less they do for themselves. The antidote is
to just get out of the way. Being totally present and absolutely invisible.
Definitely works with facilitators and I think the same should apply to
technology.
Harrison
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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Erik
Fabian
Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 11:43 AM
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Subject: Re: Wall and Technology
Hi Mark,
I have seen virtual walls at techie, barcamp style events. They had a paper
sign-up board and then
an organizer transcribed it to a calendar which was projected on a main
screen.
Last month someone posted a link to this..which could be
projected:http://wallwisher.com/wall/smallcreativeideas
Maybe you could use a collaborative calendar program like Google cal.
Regarding tech breaking...this is possible but let's not over-blow the
issue. Effective systems have
backups and redundancies built in to mitigate the problems...you can always
fall back on pen and
paper. Any system has a possibility of failure but the real question is
whether the value outweighs
the risk...in this case you can't enable thousands to see and interact with
a piece of paper simultaneously but you can with a tech solution.
If I was trying to set something like this up, I would ask first about the
space and the attendees.
Who are they? Do you want them to have direct control of the board or have
the posting be
managed through a transcriber? Do you have visible walls for projecting onto
or enough
wifi/laptops access so everyone can get the info that way?
The simplest set up from a paper presentation is a video projection. You
have a possible break
point in the computer, the video projector, and at their connection.
You might use a projection as a distribution method by enabling multiple
computers to access the
same image of the "wall" and project it throughout the event. You might
create multiple points of
input by have folks email/text posts to a secretary of the wall. Or you
might have a few computers
available in the spaces with access to a collaborative program and just let
the software aggregate
the info.
Hope that helps.
Feel free to email me if you want to talk further.
Cheers,
Erik
On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 16:28:58 -0400, Matlock, Mark
<Mark.Matlock at youthspecialties.com> wrote:
>Thanks for the ideas Harrison,
>
>As they say. Live by High Tech, Die By High Tech. I think I like the idea
of having both. First from
the ritual/organic perspective it brings. And as a back up should technology
fail. I've also
considered using Twitter or a custom texting tool to update people about
changes to the
schedule, or a way to search for topics that interested them.
>
>Has anyone out there used a video wall or digital Agenda Wall?
>
>Mark
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>accomplished when you are dealing with pieces of paper that can be taped
>together. I am not quite sure how you cold handle all that on a =
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