<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Did a similar thing over here last May. About 500 people smsd and those w/o phone got assistance from those with phones. Within 10 mts we had a graph on a widescreen showing the top 10 votes ( everyone got 3 votes to use in any way). Found an IT company that solved our needs. My sponsor probably paid a bit. </div><div>Did have a plan B this time. Everyone got a paper with the 67 topics. Marked there...but it all worked out. </div><div>Thomas<br><br>Skickat från min iPhone</div><div><br>28 aug 2014 kl. 20:08 skrev Michael Herman <<a href="mailto:michael@michaelherman.com">michael@michaelherman.com</a>>:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">wow. and this might be the answer to my technical question, chris. i'll check out this new tool and include it in the site updating. specific words, specific tools. this is exactly what i was looking for.<div>
<br></div><div>as i go off to try to understand the new tool. can you say more here about how it works. you've got 200 or 300 or 50 or whatever folks in the circle, day three, or two weeks after a one-day event, or sometime. you've got a set of proceedings from the first time. maybe you've re-opened the space. or are going to. there is some interest in polling the crowd. now what?</div>
<div><br></div><div>in the old days, we numbered the issues and everyone ranked their top ten. how does this new tool make work? what do you ask them to text into the center? what do they send? how is that processed and turned back to the group? does the form of this make it necessary to ask about individual issues? what possibilities are opened by the new form? how does it not devolve into a simple yes/no polling or how does it support ongoing or in-the-moment conversation? </div>
<div><br></div><div>i guess i'm really wondering if this is a tool for converging or diverging, or both. and how that works. can you put it in that old familiar context? or is that the wrong way to think about it?</div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Chris Corrigan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chris.corrigan@gmail.com" target="_blank">chris.corrigan@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word">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. <div>
<br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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 <a href="http://www.smsharvest.com" target="_blank">www.smsharvest.com</a>. 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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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. </div>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Chris</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></font></span><div><br><div><div><div class="h5"><div>On Aug 28, 2014, at 8:40 AM, Harrison Owen <<a href="mailto:hhowen@verizon.net" target="_blank">hhowen@verizon.net</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div><div class="h5"><div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">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 3<sup>rd</sup><span> </span>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 3<sup>rd</sup><span> </span>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 3<sup>rd</sup><span> </span>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.<span> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:rgb(31,73,125)">J</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<b>Sent:</b><span> </span>Thursday, August 28, 2014 5:41 AM<br><b>To:</b><span> </span>OSLIST<br><b>Subject:</b><span> </span>[OSList] is our voting software dead?<u></u><u></u></span></div></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">
<u></u> <u></u></div><div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">hi all, especially those of you who've used the old multi-voting software.<u></u><u></u></div><div>
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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. <u></u><u></u></div>
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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? <u></u><u></u></div></div>
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many thanks, m<u></u><u></u></div></div><div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><u></u> <u></u></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">
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