<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">A few years ago we built a tool for a 600 person world cafe called SMSHarvest. It allows participants at a gathering not post real time insights using text messages (meaning that you don't need smartphones mor even things like twitter which require registration and so on) The tool can be managed by using commands sent by text as well and can output things like word clouds, live streaming and tables of text categorized depending on the commands you have used. <div><br></div><div>At any rate, the developer, Luke Closs, made a little tool from the original code which you can learn about here: <a href="http://smsharvest.com">http://smsharvest.com</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>Chris</div><div><br><div><div>On 2013-09-30, at 8:03 AM, Michael Herman <<a href="mailto:michael@michaelherman.com">michael@michaelherman.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">I just started a new project using <a href="http://wikispaces.com/">wikispaces.com</a>. I find it <span></span>easy to use, even for beginners, as it works a lot like Word or other wordprocessing software. That said, there are a lot of special tools that allow organizers to do quite a number of tricky advanced things. <div>
<br></div><div>The number of members in a single wiki is limited to five in the free version, but that can be easily worked around in a newsroom setting. And if many users want to be able to edit on an ongoing basis, there is a fee-based plan for unlimited users. The fee is waived for education applications. <br>
<div><br></div><div>Another important function, to add to those Ben mentioned, is the ability to export contents. <a href="http://Wikispaces.com">Wikispaces.com</a> does support exporting. </div><div><br>Michael</div><div><br></div><div><br><br>On Monday, September 30, 2013, Ben Roberts wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">At the recent WOSonOS gathering in St. Petersburg FL, we had excellent success with the use of Google docs as the main newsroom platform. Participants could choose to take notes directly onto Google doc templates during a session (sometimes collaboratively in real time), or to take notes in some other way and then transfer them (with tech assistance from the newsroom “staff” if needed) to a Google doc. All notes were placed into a general folder with sharing settings granting access to anyone with the link. It contained sub-folders for each of the days of the engagement so that it was easy to find the notes online as soon as they were posted. I believe this approach has been used at some other OS engagements since then as well.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Another platform to which I am partial is called “Hackpad” ( <a href="http://www.hackpad.com/" target="_blank">www.hackpad.com</a> ). This tool makes it easy to create a linked set of “pads” that I have found particularly valuable for virtual OST experiments such as this one: </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="https://hackpad.com/NDN-June-Open-Space-Home-Base-X0sVLLcTGtF" target="_blank">https://hackpad.com/NDN-June-Open-Space-Home-Base-X0sVLLcTGtF</a>. <span style="color:#1f497d">I have also used it successfully for in-person gatherings. It is much simpler to create links between various documents that belong to a given set using this platform. It also displays authorship, which is very nice for collaborative note-taking. And it has a very easy to use table of contents feature to help people move around a given document. Formatting and commenting options are more limited than Google Docs, however.</span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Regards,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Ben<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#4f6228">Ben Roberts<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#4f6228">The Conversation Collaborative<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#4f6228"><a href="http://www.conversationcollaborative.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">www. ConversationCollaborative.com</span></a> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#4f6228">(203) 426-1039<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#4f6228">Skype: benjamin_j_roberts<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><span><image001.jpg></span><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org');" target="_blank">oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org</a> [mailto:<a href="javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org');" target="_blank">oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Carmela Ariza<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 27, 2013 8:43 AM<br><b>To:</b> World wide Open Space Technology email list; World wide Open Space Technology email list<br><b>Subject:</b> [OSList] Please recommend a good website to post daily breaking news for OS!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dear fellow OS practitioners,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Good day!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Would you have websites you can recommend to me for the daily uploading of the documentation of the OS sessions? Kindly share from your experience the advantages and disadvantages of using this site...was it easy to access, did the documents open easily, etc...<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Looking forward...<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Carms<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><strong><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#60bf00">If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having. -- Henry Miller</span></i></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style=""><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><br><br>-- <br>Michael Herman<br><a href="http://MichaelHerman.com">MichaelHerman.com</a><br>(312) 280-7838 <p>Sent from my iPhone<br></p>
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