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Haha - I did not take the old stuff down, but somehow it is not on the server of my blog, so now I need to dig it out. I found a few pages are still up ....? alas the formatting is all bonkers.?

Some of the blog categories can take you back to some of the old stuff?

There are still tools with discussion threading. But the art of doing it has been buried for a long time.?

Oddly, email still works if you structure it properly. The late, great Marie Jasinski was a goddess of email conversation process!?

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Nancy W

On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 6:49 AM Bev Wenger-Trayner <bev@...> wrote:

Gosh, Emma?

I expect you’re making people over the age of 40 feel old! We only ever facilitated group discussions asynchronously and some of us would say that the conversations were richer and more meaningful then.

The BIG problem, for me, is that technology has changed to facilitate either asynchronous discussions or posts with comments. I feel a deep regret that all the work that went into facilitating asynchronous discussions with threaded replies, ways of weaving someone else’s words or statements into your own, and a myriad of other subtleties have been lost. With it has died the aspiration, at least, for a thoughtful or ponderous conversation - or the co-creation of ideas through experiences.

I’m going to see if I can dig out some of the old facilitation guidelines I have. And Nancy White, for sure has the canonical ones. She probably took all her stuff down because it seemed outdated. But I know it will come back.

Bev

On 2 Mar 2021, at 05:36, Emma Smith <emma@...> wrote:

Hello everyone,?

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I’m involved in an ongoing project with timezone conflicts that cannot be resolved, and wondered whether any of you have experience with facilitating group discussions asynchronously.

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I would like to approximate a group discussion as closely as possible as it’s a spectacular group with much to learn from the cross-pollunation of ideas and experiences.

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Initial thoughts are to split the group in two based on timezones, and then have a process whereby each group reflects on the other group’s output at a later date.

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If you’d facilitated something similar, I’d love to hear what tools and methodologies you found useful.

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Many thanks,?

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Emma?