Re: A taxonomy of virtual events
Helen: thanks for sharing this I found it thought provoking. I added a fourth slide you are welcome to rework.
I think these are orthogonal dimensions / aspects to meetings.
- # of participants in meeting
- Length of meeting (or a single synchronous segment
- Parallel channels - e-mail, public voice, public chat, private chat, shared edit in a document, ?
- Parallel meetings - e.g. breakout and reconvene / multi-threaded?
- Sequence of meetings - all day conference / multi-day
- Goal of meeting: problem framing, option generation, deciding upon a course of action, ?
- Records kept: written summary, recording, transcript (linked), hypermedia, ?
- before/setup vs. during vs. after/de-brief/followup
There may be some basic building blocks of different kinds of interactions that once they are exceeded require some kind of scatter-gather or broadcast and feedback to reach to limits of a group or organization and collect feedback.
- Knowledge Cafe model does this with small groups meeting in parallel and frequent rotation.
- Liberating structures does 1-2-4-all
- Open Space uses rule of two feet
Anyway happy to schedule a call and walk around this or take part in a larger discussion if it's of interest. I am in California but do calls to Europe on a regular basis.
My key take-aways from your notes from Hadridge 1. Being a good participant (in regular or creative sessions)
2. leading a small short meeting
3. hosting a larger longer interactive session (webinar+)
4. Running an experiential, immersive capacity building
i. The ability to keep in touch with a wider (larger, dispersed) group¨Cthe opportunity to connect the world
ii.
Use of ¡®chat¡¯ for quickfire discussion, saved for post event records
and analysis. This can be much faster than ¡®going-round the group¡¯ in a
f2f session. ¡®Non-verbal¡¯ features help too.
iii.Integrated polling
and whiteboard, and the ability to bring in other tools like Howspace,
Miro, Menti, Mural, Google Jamboard etc.
?iv.The speed in and out of breakout groups¨Cwith very little lost time.
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v. The ability to ¡®see¡¯and visually connect with the whole group all
at?? once and in one gaze, with none of that tiresome neck moving!
?vi.
Bringing more diverse session leaders to the fore, as younger and?
junior colleagues are seen to have well-developed online session??
leadership skills
vii. Meeting each other in their home spaces may? deepen the sense of trust
Warm Regards Sean Murphy 408-252-9676 / skype skmurphy On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 7:07 AM BEVAN, Helen (NHS ENGLAND & NHS IMPROVEMENT - X24) via <helen.bevan2= [email protected]> wrote:
Hello everyone. My team and I need some help!
?
In large organisations, when decisions are made about purchasing virtual platforms, they are often driven by the ¡°back end¡± (the technical specification) more than the ¡°front end¡± (what facilitators and leaders of events want/need to get
the outcomes they seek).
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My team does a lot of virtual facilitation and hosting within a large system. Through the pandemic our session have got bigger, more complex and daring in their approach and with increasing level of interaction. We have started to make
the case in our organisation for access to a wider set of platforms to work with. I have been trying to find a ¡°taxonomy¡± which sets out different kinds of virtual events. This is to enable us to match the kinds of virtual events that my team is being asked
to provide with the tech platforms that we have available. This is where I need your help.
?
I haven¡¯t been able to find such a taxonomy. I can find plenty that are written from the ¡°back end¡± that contrast the tech specifications of different platforms but nothing that is written from the ¡°front end¡± perspective of facilitators
and leaders of meetings.
?
The nearest I have been able to find is the ¡°four bases¡± that Phil Hadridge of Idenk wrote from his research on learning from virtual meetings. So I used Phil¡¯s framework as my starting point and created a draft taxonomy. Here is Phil¡¯s
paper:
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Here is my draft taxonomy:
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So can you:
- Let me know if such a taxonomy already exists and give me the link?
- Help me to improve this. I know that many of you are very experienced virtual facilitators and I would appreciate it if you were as challenging
as you want to be.
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Here is a link to the taxonomy as a Googledoc:
Please feel free to change it. It doesn¡¯t need to look beautiful, I can do that afterwards.
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I will share the finished version with the group.
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Thanks so much in advance.
Helen
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PS: if you want to see the kinds of things that my team and I do, find us on Twitter at @HelenBevan and @HorizonsNHS
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Re: A taxonomy of virtual events
Thanks for the mention, Nancy. One other resource we put together that could be useful to you is this catalog of existing meeting technologies.
It's organized by functional category (meaning what you do with each tech) rather than specific feature sets. We have work to do to break it down some more, but at the very least clicking through some of these should spark some ideas.
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Re: Bid opportunity and question about job market / facilitation capacities for organizations
2. As I work with colleagues across Africa, I am wondering what the group thinks about the future of remote facilitation as a career option for individuals,?or an important capacity/skill set for civil society organizations to?make sure they have. Any thoughts about the demand and value of such capacity???
I think it is a core capability and it is essential to have local capacity. For years I have been trying to find the business model/niche as I've helped build capacity, only to have the practitioners fail to find internal or consulting work beyond those serving the business sector (with their bigger scale/budgets) and while facing uneven connectivity/power challenges. With COVID there may be a turning point where these skills?make sense in every way. But building the capacity is not enough. There also has to be a sustainable business model/practice model.?
The other thing that I SENSE might be useful (sense, not KNOW!) is a network where we can refer people to find practitioners. I can easily refer to the handful of people I know and can recommend, but that is such a tiny micro sliver. Directories? Communities of practice at country, regional, language, domain levels? What would be useful? For example, within the global network we are trying to hold space for Africa based practitioners. There is an immersion workhop in Ghana starting soon which may be a good seed. What more is needed?
Nancy
Anne, ?I would be interested to talk with you about both of these topics. I have been engaged as a volunteer with agriculture NGOs and networks that support agroecology on the ground and at policy levels and I am an opener and partner in two facilitation and event planning businesses.? So yes would be interested in partnering with others for the RFP.
On the second issue, in do believe there is a need for capacity building in online and in person facilitation.? ?I am also in contact with facilitation and participatory specialists on the continent. It would be interesting to develop? partnerships to innovate online processed and tools that come from the African experience in some kind of knowledge sharing. That could help the field as a whole. Best, Bill Hi all,
1. I am attaching a call for proposals which might be of interest to some of you.??
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION Africa Regional Services (ARS) / Bureau of Africa Public Diplomacy
(AF/PD) of the U.S. Department of State announces an open competition for organizations to submit
applications to carry out virtual and in-person thematic programs in Africa.??
?Deadline for Applications August 17, 2020
2. As I work with colleagues across Africa, I am wondering what the group thinks about the future of remote facilitation as a career option for individuals,?or an important capacity/skill set for civil society organizations to?make sure they have. Any thoughts about the demand and value of such capacity?
Best,
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Re: Bid opportunity and question about job market / facilitation capacities for organizations
Hi Ann and William.
We have been offering regular online facilitation training since 2012 primarily for colleagues across higher education in Africa though we have attracted a lot of participants from the training sector (and several others) this year. The course runs entirely online over 8 weeks and is part of the e/merge Africa professional?development network hosted by the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching at University of Cape Town.?
Best wishes :) Tony
Anne, ?I would be interested to talk with you about both of these topics. I have been engaged as a volunteer with agriculture NGOs and networks that support agroecology on the ground and at policy levels and I am an opener and partner in two facilitation and event planning businesses.? So yes would be interested in partnering with others for the RFP.
On the second issue, in do believe there is a need for capacity building in online and in person facilitation.? ?I am also in contact with facilitation and participatory specialists on the continent. It would be interesting to develop? partnerships to innovate online processed and tools that come from the African experience in some kind of knowledge sharing. That could help the field as a whole. Best, Bill Hi all,
1. I am attaching a call for proposals which might be of interest to some of you.??
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION Africa Regional Services (ARS) / Bureau of Africa Public Diplomacy
(AF/PD) of the U.S. Department of State announces an open competition for organizations to submit
applications to carry out virtual and in-person thematic programs in Africa.??
?Deadline for Applications August 17, 2020
2. As I work with colleagues across Africa, I am wondering what the group thinks about the future of remote facilitation as a career option for individuals,?or an important capacity/skill set for civil society organizations to?make sure they have. Any thoughts about the demand and value of such capacity?
Best,
-- Tony Carr? Educational Technologist Convenor of the e/merge Africa Network CILT -?Centre For Innovation in Learning and Teaching Centre for Higher Education Development? University of Cape Town Cape Town South Africa? tony.carr@...? +2721 6505033? ? Twitter: @tony_emerge; @emergeafrica
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Re: opensource alternatives to google slides?
Hi Brigitta,
I am happy with , a European open office collaboration software and GDPR compliant¡?
(There is a free hosting service for nextcloud in Germany also (up to 5 GB). Actually, I have not yet tested it with 20plus people¡ but I assume it works, and it¡¯s worth a try: ).
Best, Karen
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Hi there,
we are working with social movements and are looking for a free and opensource alternative to google slides. Tools that run stable with 20+ people editing would be very helpful! Alternatively to opensource, recommendations for non-profit or non-data-collecting tools would be great.
Thanks a lot to all of you for organizing this awesome exchange and sharing your knowledge!
Birgitta
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Re: Bid opportunity and question about job market / facilitation capacities for organizations
Anne, ?I would be interested to talk with you about both of these topics. I have been engaged as a volunteer with agriculture NGOs and networks that support agroecology on the ground and at policy levels and I am an opener and partner in two facilitation and event planning businesses.? So yes would be interested in partnering with others for the RFP.
On the second issue, in do believe there is a need for capacity building in online and in person facilitation.? ?I am also in contact with facilitation and participatory specialists on the continent. It would be interesting to develop? partnerships to innovate online processed and tools that come from the African experience in some kind of knowledge sharing. That could help the field as a whole. Best, Bill
Hi all,
1. I am attaching a call for proposals which might be of interest to some of you.??
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION Africa Regional Services (ARS) / Bureau of Africa Public Diplomacy
(AF/PD) of the U.S. Department of State announces an open competition for organizations to submit
applications to carry out virtual and in-person thematic programs in Africa.??
?Deadline for Applications August 17, 2020
2. As I work with colleagues across Africa, I am wondering what the group thinks about the future of remote facilitation as a career option for individuals,?or an important capacity/skill set for civil society organizations to?make sure they have. Any thoughts about the demand and value of such capacity?
Best,
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opensource alternatives to google slides?
Hi there,
we are working with social movements and are looking for a free and opensource alternative to google slides. Tools that run stable with 20+ people editing would be very helpful! Alternatively to opensource, recommendations for non-profit or non-data-collecting tools would be great.
Thanks a lot to all of you for organizing this awesome exchange and sharing your knowledge!
Birgitta
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Hey all -?
I¡¯m reaching out to F4C's online facilitator base, we¡¯re launching a technology platform that I think many of you might find useful, and we¡¯re looking for some ¡°good causes¡± to offer free accounts to.??
Anyone trying to engage 1000s of people in interesting conversations, and related to something of real impact?? Please let me know, we want to partner and offer some free services.
Given the breadth of your experience, and how much is now online with the pandemic, you seemed a good group to ask.
Ps. If anyone has ideas or proposals for a conversation for this community or Organization development professionals, I¡¯m definitely receptive to that as well.
--
Jos¨¦ M. Guajardo
Partnerships Director, VoiceVoice
The Platform for Conversations that Scale
+52 1 818 018 9945 WhatsApp + mobile
VoiceVoice allows a facilitator to record the inputs to a small group conversation, with videos, activities, and creates any number of small groups without the need of a host leading the way.
?
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Bid opportunity and question about job market / facilitation capacities for organizations
Hi all,
1. I am attaching a call for proposals which might be of interest to some of you.??
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION Africa Regional Services (ARS) / Bureau of Africa Public Diplomacy
(AF/PD) of the U.S. Department of State announces an open competition for organizations to submit
applications to carry out virtual and in-person thematic programs in Africa.??
?Deadline for Applications August 17, 2020
2. As I work with colleagues across Africa, I am wondering what the group thinks about the future of remote facilitation as a career option for individuals,?or an important capacity/skill set for civil society organizations to?make sure they have. Any thoughts about the demand and value of such capacity?
Best,
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Re: Seeking academic research on the impact of facilitation (F2F or virtual) as an intervention in organizational change and learning processes, through the lens of systems theory
#facilitation
#research
Hi Gillian,
some interesting empirical research on effects of facilitation. In the context of deliberative democracy, rather than organizations, and not particularly coming from a systems perspective.
Kuhar, M., Krmelj, M., & Petri?, G. (2019). The impact of facilitation on the quality of deliberation and attitude change. Small Group Research, 50(5), 623-653.
all best wishes,
Rosa
Rosa Zubizarreta
coaching in participatory leadership ? advanced group facilitation services & learning opportunities
Gilllian, ?I think your research direction is very important. You accurately point out that there a lot of opinions about what works, and a lot of frameworks proposed for evaluation, but most of those seem limited in their usefulness in comparing the effectiveness of various techniques.? It will be interesting to see what you might emerge with... Bill
? ? ? William Aal 2067199665 Principal Associate Tools for Change Managing Partner Unconference.net On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 3:18 AM Gillian Martin Mehers < gillian@...> wrote: Dear Antonio, Hector, Rituu, William, Peggy and Sean,
Thank you very much for these leads, I will enjoy the journey's they take me on.?
Hector, it seems that the IAF Journal has not been published since 2016 (if I am not mistaken), but past articles will be useful.?
Peggy, thank you for the resources around complexity theory, I will review your unpublished chapter, and look at the two references with interest and thank you for sharing that!
Sean, thank you for the Hardin reference, and those rules of thumb. This sounds very much like Jay Forrester from MIT who observed (and I paraphrase broadly) that complex social systems are incredibly resistant to change, that people do not tend to understand them, and when they try to intervene they are also likely to get the inverse of what they intended (or even to make matters worse).? I will enjoy reading Hardin.?
Bill, thank you for Kirkpatrick connection and it is interesting what Peggy shared about Marv Weisbord's reference to principles over techniques. I am finding literature from practitioners, but less with an empirical component. There are a number of studies that use university students as their subjects but less in real organizational contexts and even less in NGOs. The health sector is pretty good at documenting impact of faciliation in the field of nursing, mental health, and counseling, etc.? - business too from quality circles to large-scale facilitated change processes. Even short term impacts seem to be less a focus than tools, techniques, qualities, prestige of facilitators, etc.?
And, thanks Antonio, for those two additional avenues to follow, I hadn't thought of outcome evaluation.?
What a rich list, thank you all so much! I really appreciate this community for this kind of crowdsourcing.? This will keep me busy for a while (and if you think of others I will be happy to have them!)
All the best, Gillian
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Re: Seeking academic research on the impact of facilitation (F2F or virtual) as an intervention in organizational change and learning processes, through the lens of systems theory
#facilitation
#research
Gilllian, ?I think your research direction is very important. You accurately point out that there a lot of opinions about what works, and a lot of frameworks proposed for evaluation, but most of those seem limited in their usefulness in comparing the effectiveness of various techniques.? It will be interesting to see what you might emerge with... Bill
? ? ? William Aal 2067199665 Principal Associate Tools for Change Managing Partner Unconference.net
On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 3:18 AM Gillian Martin Mehers < gillian@...> wrote: Dear Antonio, Hector, Rituu, William, Peggy and Sean,
Thank you very much for these leads, I will enjoy the journey's they take me on.?
Hector, it seems that the IAF Journal has not been published since 2016 (if I am not mistaken), but past articles will be useful.?
Peggy, thank you for the resources around complexity theory, I will review your unpublished chapter, and look at the two references with interest and thank you for sharing that!
Sean, thank you for the Hardin reference, and those rules of thumb. This sounds very much like Jay Forrester from MIT who observed (and I paraphrase broadly) that complex social systems are incredibly resistant to change, that people do not tend to understand them, and when they try to intervene they are also likely to get the inverse of what they intended (or even to make matters worse).? I will enjoy reading Hardin.?
Bill, thank you for Kirkpatrick connection and it is interesting what Peggy shared about Marv Weisbord's reference to principles over techniques. I am finding literature from practitioners, but less with an empirical component. There are a number of studies that use university students as their subjects but less in real organizational contexts and even less in NGOs. The health sector is pretty good at documenting impact of faciliation in the field of nursing, mental health, and counseling, etc.? - business too from quality circles to large-scale facilitated change processes. Even short term impacts seem to be less a focus than tools, techniques, qualities, prestige of facilitators, etc.?
And, thanks Antonio, for those two additional avenues to follow, I hadn't thought of outcome evaluation.?
What a rich list, thank you all so much! I really appreciate this community for this kind of crowdsourcing.? This will keep me busy for a while (and if you think of others I will be happy to have them!)
All the best, Gillian
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Just registered Kevon, looking forward to it!
I have highlighted your post in the Group. I hope that?as many members as possible can join too.
Best wishes
If anyone is interested to join us at this week's community meetup to talk about the future of virtual facilitation and exchange ideas on how technology like Toasty can make a difference. You can join us at this special edition with a facilitator community called "Digital tools for virtual collaboration". Let's hang! Eastern + Asia time:? Pacific + Asia time:?  Last week was pretty awesome :) 
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Re: Seeking academic research on the impact of facilitation (F2F or virtual) as an intervention in organizational change and learning processes, through the lens of systems theory
#facilitation
#research
Hi Gillian? Please keep me posted on your?progress. I have written?back in 2000 my PhD dissertation without actually being aware that facilitation existed as a discipline, yet when I have republished recently I immediately?discovered why I am in this profession today, because?I always have been.? I used a systems framework to analyse intervention in organizational change and learning processes it's called SSM Soft Systems Methodology.? My thesis is available on Amazon, should you be curious to find out more?about it. Best wishes
I just thought of? ?Donald Kirkpatrick's work.? His dissertation?in from the 50's? Evaluating Human Relations Programs for Industrial Foremen and Supervisors. It has had an impact over the years,? and? his organization is still going.? The model has 4 levels,? impact, learning, behavior?change, and impact. Best, ?Bill |
William Aal 2067199665 Principal Associate Tools for Change Managing Partner Unconference.net
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Re: Seeking academic research on the impact of facilitation (F2F or virtual) as an intervention in organizational change and learning processes, through the lens of systems theory
#facilitation
#research
Gillian: thanks for pointing that out. I had collected Forrester's Law in my Feb 2019 "Quotes for Entrepreneurs"() but had not noticed the similarity until you suggested it.
¡°In complicated situations efforts to improve things
often tend to make them worse, sometimes much worse, on occasion
calamitous, because the obvious thing to do is often dead wrong.¡±
This and several variations are known as ¡°Forrester¡¯s Law.¡± Related quotes from is his Urban Dynamics (1969):
In complex systems cause and effect are often not closely
related in either time or space. The structure of a complex system is
not a simple feedback loop where one system state dominates the
behavior. The complex system has a multiplicity of interacting feedback
loops. Its internal rates of flow are controlled by nonlinear
relationships. The complex system is of high order, meaning that there
are many system states (or levels). It usually contains
positive-feedback loops describing growth processes as well as negative,
goal-seeking loops. In the complex system the cause of a difficulty may
lie far back in time from the symptoms, or in a completely different
and remote part of the system. In fact, causes are usually found, not in
prior events, but in the structure and policies of the system.
in (1969)
also
¡°Any intuitive alteration of a complex system will cause it to become worse off.¡±
in (1969) page 9
last is h/t Henry M. Boettinger in (HBR Jan 1975) It's a somewhat pessimistic view but probably realistic. I think Forrester and Hardin are both illuminating that in an established system you are in a local maximum and small changes will normally make it worse. Pareto optimal moves are probably only available early in the evolution of a new system.
Sean Murphy 408-252-9676
On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 3:18 AM Gillian Martin Mehers < gillian@...> wrote: Dear Antonio, Hector, Rituu, William, Peggy and Sean,
Thank you very much for these leads, I will enjoy the journey's they take me on.?
Hector, it seems that the IAF Journal has not been published since 2016 (if I am not mistaken), but past articles will be useful.?
Peggy, thank you for the resources around complexity theory, I will review your unpublished chapter, and look at the two references with interest and thank you for sharing that!
Sean, thank you for the Hardin reference, and those rules of thumb. This sounds very much like Jay Forrester from MIT who observed (and I paraphrase broadly) that complex social systems are incredibly resistant to change, that people do not tend to understand them, and when they try to intervene they are also likely to get the inverse of what they intended (or even to make matters worse).? I will enjoy reading Hardin.?
Bill, thank you for Kirkpatrick connection and it is interesting what Peggy shared about Marv Weisbord's reference to principles over techniques. I am finding literature from practitioners, but less with an empirical component. There are a number of studies that use university students as their subjects but less in real organizational contexts and even less in NGOs. The health sector is pretty good at documenting impact of faciliation in the field of nursing, mental health, and counseling, etc.? - business too from quality circles to large-scale facilitated change processes. Even short term impacts seem to be less a focus than tools, techniques, qualities, prestige of facilitators, etc.?
And, thanks Antonio, for those two additional avenues to follow, I hadn't thought of outcome evaluation.?
What a rich list, thank you all so much! I really appreciate this community for this kind of crowdsourcing.? This will keep me busy for a while (and if you think of others I will be happy to have them!)
All the best, Gillian
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If anyone is interested to join us at this week's community meetup to talk about the future of virtual facilitation and exchange ideas on how technology like Toasty can make a difference. You can join us at this special edition with a facilitator community called "Digital tools for virtual collaboration". Let's hang! Eastern + Asia time:? Pacific + Asia time:? Last week was pretty awesome :) 
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Re: Seeking academic research on the impact of facilitation (F2F or virtual) as an intervention in organizational change and learning processes, through the lens of systems theory
#facilitation
#research
Dear Antonio, Hector, Rituu, William, Peggy and Sean,
Thank you very much for these leads, I will enjoy the journey's they take me on.?
Hector, it seems that the IAF Journal has not been published since 2016 (if I am not mistaken), but past articles will be useful.?
Peggy, thank you for the resources around complexity theory, I will review your unpublished chapter, and look at the two references with interest and thank you for sharing that!
Rituu, thank you for the specific link to your NGO work, I think that is valuable and it is interesting to think about their external versus their internal work.
Sean, thank you for the Hardin reference, and those rules of thumb. This sounds very much like Jay Forrester from MIT who observed (and I paraphrase broadly) that complex social systems are incredibly resistant to change, that people do not tend to understand them, and when they try to intervene they are also likely to get the inverse of what they intended (or even to make matters worse).? I will enjoy reading Hardin.?
Bill, thank you for Kirkpatrick connection and it is interesting what Peggy shared about Marv Weisbord's reference to principles over techniques. I am finding literature from practitioners, but less with an empirical component. There are a number of studies that use university students as their subjects but less in real organizational contexts and even less in NGOs. The health sector is pretty good at documenting impact of faciliation in the field of nursing, mental health, and counseling, etc.? - business too from quality circles to large-scale facilitated change processes. Even short term impacts seem to be less a focus than tools, techniques, qualities, prestige of facilitators, etc.?
And, thanks Antonio, for those two additional avenues to follow, I hadn't thought of outcome evaluation.?
What a rich list, thank you all so much! I really appreciate this community for this kind of crowdsourcing.? This will keep me busy for a while (and if you think of others I will be happy to have them!)
All the best, Gillian
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Re: Anonymous Online Survey Tool
This list of decision support tools is slightly different, but I found the analysis useful for a first glance by Jason Diceman (a maker of an offline decision support tool - he's now looking for virtual ones)?
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Hi everyone,
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We have a Zoom webinar scheduled for next Wednesday and just realized the Rev CC service we have does not work in the webinar format! It is only available for Zoom meetings as it turns out. Has anyone used third party close captioning through the API feature in Zoom webinar, and how did you set it up? It is like going in circles trying to find the correct information.
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Thank you in advance!
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Alec Shannon
Content Strategist,?Agenda for Change
Email: Alec@...
Mobile / WhatsApp: +1 919-360-8127
Skype: aks0813 | Twitter: @alecshanno
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Always good to remember this excellent article from Sam Bradd, with links for more resources as the how to guide from Amanda Fenton:?
Cheers,
Fernando
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On Jul 23, 2020, at 6:06 PM, John Sechrest < sechrest@...> wrote:
The new remo pricing now is supposed to allow for tables of 8. If you need more than 8 in a breakout room, IE, you are trying to do something like an unconference with the law of two feet, then remo won't work.?
Thank you David, John and Hector for your valuable comments.?
To confirm, the conference has a majority of speakers and panel presentations intermixed with 'small group discussions', Q&A and follow up with the speakers / panel. There will also be 1-2 working sessions of participants where I had imagined breakout groups.?
I have trialled Remo once with a handful of people. Perhaps I need to try again to see if it will meet these needs.?
In terms of the team, there are 2 tech hosts at the moment. Depending on what I discover, the team may need to be enhanced.?
I'll keep searching and happy to hear from anyone?else with large conference?experience using breakouts for discussions after presentations.?
Thank you again,?
Michelle Michelle Laurie +1-250-231-0635 Email: michelle.k.laurie@...SKYPE: michellelaurie? Twitter: @Mklaurie
Occasionally blogging @
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Michelle Laurie
Strategy-Assessment-Engagement-Faciltation
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JOHN SECHREST
Founder,?Seattle Angel Conference
? @sechrest
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The new remo pricing now is supposed to allow for tables of 8. If you need more than 8 in a breakout room, IE, you are trying to do something like an unconference with the law of two feet, then remo won't work.?
Thank you David, John and Hector for your valuable comments.?
To confirm, the conference has a majority of speakers and panel presentations intermixed with 'small group discussions', Q&A and follow up with the speakers / panel. There will also be 1-2 working sessions of participants where I had imagined breakout groups.?
I have trialled Remo once with a handful of people. Perhaps I need to try again to see if it will meet these needs.?
In terms of the team, there are 2 tech hosts at the moment. Depending on what I discover, the team may need to be enhanced.?
I'll keep searching and happy to hear from anyone?else with large conference?experience using breakouts for discussions after presentations.?
Thank you again,?
Michelle Michelle Laurie +1-250-231-0635 Email: michelle.k.laurie@...SKYPE: michellelaurie? Twitter: @Mklaurie
Occasionally blogging @
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Michelle Laurie
Strategy-Assessment-Engagement-Faciltation
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JOHN SECHREST
Founder,?Seattle Angel Conference
? @sechrest
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