Many thanks for your thoughts Saran, Sita, and Tony.

The groups I’m looking at are in the 30-40 people range, with everyone online. Since this activity is part of a larger flow, I’ll have just 45 minutes to an hour.

Tony, I love the spacial platforms! To use one of them, I need to find a way to connect people and their messages. While the clusters f2f are in part the people, they’re also the message. In spatial.chat, it looks like chat messages just stay for seconds. ?sets up a separate chat area, like Zoom. I have a sense that would get too confusing with 30-40 people to figure out how to find the person who connects to the message. But I’ll play with it a little more.

Sita - I’ll take a look at Miro lite and check out the clusterizer. Thank you for the suggestion.

Appreciatively,

Peggy

On Mar 24, 2021, at 8:00 AM, Sarah Nehrling <sarah@...> wrote:

Agreed with Sita - hello, Sita! - and happy to learn about a Miro lite.

Peggy, I'm wondering about the size of your group and turnaround time. Here's a recent example involving a large, hybrid group, with at least a few hours turnaround time:

For a recent hyper-hybrid of 400+ people over 9+ countries (Asia/Africa/Europe), we used an approach where there were physical walls in each room for that group to post and do their national-level sensemaking, without struggling with tech or connectivity issues. Someone in each country typed these into Excel, from which I then batch-created Miro stickies from these and batch-tagged them with day/type/country, essentially creating a virtual international wall on Miro.

From here, there were designated "sensemakers" (2-3 people) who would sort through the 100+ stickies of the day, organize them into themes, flow, contradictions, whatever, and then record and share a sensemaking tour of the Miro board. ?(! #linguisticaccessibility ).

Cheers,

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On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 7:46 AM Sita Magnuson <sita@...> wrote:

Hi Peggy,

We’ve been using Miro for this, which I have found very helpful because it also allows you to tag post-its with additional data. There is a tool that connects with it called clusterizer which might be useful. Happy to share more of the approach if you want to talk it through. Also-re bandwidth and accessibility, Miro has a lite version that loads much faster, which may be useful.?

Warmly,

Sita

On Mar 23, 2021, at 7:12 PM, TonyCarr <tcarr.uct@...> wrote:

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Hi Peggy,

There is something about the experience of people spontaneously sorting themselves out in a face to face meeting that comes through strongly in your message. It may also be worth checking out an environment with a spatial movement metaphor such as ?or which allows participants?to form their own groups/ conversational circles. There are also several other environments in this space with similar functionality.?

Best wishes

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Tony

On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 12:27 AM Peggy Holman <peggy@...> wrote:

Hi all,

I have several upcoming events for which I’m searching for good online means for finding patterns, making visible what’s emerging. This is the end of the event, where people have been in different breakout groups and we’re coming towards a close.

In F2F, I’d be using some sort of clustering activity, where people write something on 8.5x11 paper and move around to find others with a similar theme to form clusters that work together on expressing the idea(s) of their cluster.

Or I’d use?, a great form of f2f crowdsourcing.

The best I’ve come up with so far for online is using something like Jamboard for people to generate post-its and cluster them. Then form breakout groups to work the clusters.

Does anyone have approaches they suggest?

Thanks for any suggestions,

Peggy

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