hi christine, <br><br>this question came to me from two different directions, here on the oslist and from a local chicago colleague. glad to see it's getting around.<br><br>i haven't seen sensemaker (yet), but i had a chat about this with my wife, who does employee engagement surveys for tens of thousands of employees at once, often with participants able to make comments in their own words. <br>
<br>in their proprietary software, the first thing they do with all those comments is create a word cloud, with most frequent words displayed largest. their system also allows cutting the data in many ways, and making word clouds for subset groups. the latter didn't seem necessary, as the whole point of your exercise is not about dividing people but rather working toward agreeemnt. add to that my thought that the challenge is not so much technical, as social: how to get people to read/listen in mulitple interations, so that the processing happens inside of them, not just or only in an online server someplace.<br>
<br>so what i imagined was a system that would allow the following:<br><br>1. ask a big question, ai/ost open question<br>2. collect lots of written responses<br>3. build a word cloud from all the replies<br><br>now, this is where it starts to get interesting... <br>
<br>4. allow people to click on any word in the cloud<br>5. show them 10 or 12 or whatever responses from others<br>6. let them mark each one as "disagree tend-to-disagree neutral tend-to-agree and agree"<br><br>
now we have a pile of comments that can be sortable by keywords, how much we agree, so for some subset of the most-used keywords, make a word cloud, using only the most highly agreeable comments. this sets up a system that gives more and more attention to the most agreeable comments. <br>
<br>then the loop could be closed by asking for comments on what could/should be done and/or what other next questions should be asked. the system might allow those who've read/rated some threshhold number of comments to post a new question. <br>
<br>the key thing it seems to me is to give some incentive to listening, not just commenting.<br><br>to that end, another system i envisioned was based on the 2x2 maps the nytimes has been doing on big issues, like the debt ceiling vote this summer. their system is a big grid, two overlapping axes... so people can pick any spot in one of four quadrants, based on their thoughts on two overlapping questions, and leave a comment in that spot. my thought was to have that sort of map, but make it able to prompt people to come back and comment again every few days -- and then be able to display each person's and the whole group's (flock's) movement over time. in a for instance, we might take an issue as the first question and "explore vs act" as the second question... as pressure builds on the action end of the one axis, the conversation might spill into multiple action conversations, or a new grid with four actions to be deliberated. <br>
<br>anyway, these are the ideas that came up here as a result of this question.<br><br>m<br><br><br><br>--<br><br>Michael Herman<br>Michael Herman Associates<br>312-280-7838 (mobile)<br><br><a href="http://MichaelHerman.com" target="_blank">http://MichaelHerman.com</a><br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Christine Whitney Sanchez <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cwhitneysanchez@gmail.com">cwhitneysanchez@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word">Thanks for the suggestion, Ria. Sensmaker is coming up quite a bit. And who knows, we may just invent something new. <div><br></div><div>Hugs to you and Mary-Alice!<div class="im"><br>
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<div><div class="im"><div>On Jan 12, 2012, at 6:34 AM, Ria Baeck wrote:</div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"> <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#330033"><div class="im"> The only one that I know would be Sensemaker, from Dave Snowden and his Cynefin framework. Not Open Source though, not for free I guess, and I'm not sure if you can use it as 'outsiders'.<br>
<br> Otherwise we could invent maybe something new? Then you would need to invite Mary-Alice Arthur; master storyteller and co-inventor of Collective Story Harvest.<br> <a>Mary-Alice Arthur <mary-alice@getsoaring.com></a><br>
<br> With love,<br> Ria<br> <br> On 12/01/12 06:08, Christine Whitney Sanchez wrote: </div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="im">Dear Open Space Friends, <div><br> </div> <div>A vision is emerging from <a href="http://www.occupycafe.org" target="_blank">Occupy Cafe</a> to conduct a mass mobilized Appreciative Inquiry into the Occupy Movement. The vision is potent and includes, as Ben Roberts said,<i> the huge need for developing harvesting/synthesizing processes.</i></div>
<div><i><br> </i></div> <div>In my experience, being able to make meaning with thousands of interview summaries is both an exciting and formidable task. I would appreciate any ideas or experience you have in using software or online tools to do large-scale collective meaning making.</div>
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