[OSList] is our voting software dead?

[Chris Corrigan]

Yup…Opening space for action is still the best way to get things moving.  It has several advantages, the best of which is that it allows people to digest themes and ideas that cross through many many sessions.  Often you can have a project come out on the action day that takes care of issues raised in several different sessions.  

It allows for convergence to happen within the heart, and for those with the passion who are willing to make time to initiate something to call it in.  It has always resulted in much better sustained result, in my experience.

Sometimes though, there is a need to vote on things, and what I have done recently is to hire a developer called Luke Closs  to build a little a tool called SMSHarvest and you can find that at www.smsharvest.com.  Basically it allows people to use their phones to send a text to a number.  That text can contain any kind of information including preferences, and text….we deliberately designed the tool to be useable without any sign up and to be totally familiar, as almost everyone knows how to text and if you don’t someone can show you or do it for you.  Easy.

You can use the tool for free, or throw some money Luke’s way as a mark of appreciation.  And if you want him to build a tweak for you, he does that well, quickly and directly to what you need.  

Chris



On Aug 28, 2014, at 8:40 AM, Harrison Owen <hhowen at verizon.net> wrote:

> Actually I still have the old software, but I agree with Michael. There are much better ways. The problem for me with that software, as with all efforts (including Sticky-dots) to prioritize the issues that were raised on the first day or so of the OS is that it is  measurement of “yesterday’s passions.” Very much like the most recent Quarterly Financial Report... all it tells you about is old news. On a standard 2 ½ day OS, when the 3rd day dawns, everybody had had a night to sleep on everything. Almost inevitably a lot will have changed. Hot issues will merge with other hot issues, hot issues will cool, new issues will have been thrown up thanks to the interaction of the preceding two days. There is also the question of Actionable Issues (which is the focal point of the 3rd day) which don’t necessarily include all the issues previously discussed. I believe Chris Corrigan started it all when he talked about “opening the space for action.” Anyhow that is what he did, and I do as well. Very simple procedure which I think I covered in the 3rd Edition of The User’s Guide. Nowhere near as elegant as Michael’s “Praxis” – but it will do in a pinch, and is not in German. J
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> hi all, especially those of you who've used the old multi-voting software.
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> i'm wondering when was the last time you used the multi-voting software to do prioritization at the end of an OS meeting?  i'm trying to figure out if it's still useful on the latest PCs.  i'm a mac guy, so can't test it locally here.   
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> and if not using the old software, what are you using on day 3 of os events that are too big for dots?  is there a new state-of-the-art when it comes to converging into action with larger groups? 
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> many thanks, m
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