[starts Friday, 9am Eastern] Facilitator Interview Series: Dr. Michelle Bastian and an International Online Conference

Hi All,

The next of the facilitator interview series starts in 20 minutes (9am Eastern, Friday, April 16) if you'd like to join!??

Dr. Michelle Bastian at the University of Edinburgh shares how she and her team designed an engaging, online conference to explore the fascinating concepts related to time.

Using QiqoChat, Michelle created a superfun event with 400 lovely people.? It was an international conference exploring the concepts of time. ?

Drop in to ask questions as she shares her experience from the facilitator's perspective. In case you miss it, I'll post the recording at that link within 24 hours.

Here's a screenshot of what her team built below.? The conference blended Zoom, Padlet, YouTube, SpatialChat, and other embeddable tools.

Lucas Cioffi

QiqoChat | Lead Software Engineer

lucas@...

+1.917.528.1831

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Live Online Events | Engaging Communities | Real Collaboration

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Re: Tools and apps for virtual working

#1459

This is very comprehensive. Thanks Helen.?

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On Tue., 13 Apr. 2021, 16:57 BEVAN, Helen via , <helen.bevan2=[email protected]> wrote:

Hi everyone,
I recently came across this compendium of tools and apps for virtual collaboration from Collaboration Superpowers. It's the most comprehensive list I've ever seen and there are some real gems on it. I thought I would share it with the group:??

You can get content added or amended by clicking on the "submit a tool" button.

With best wishes
Helen

Miro VS Mural for online facilitation - FREE video reviews

#1458

Hi fellow facilitators!

I created a series of video reviews comparing Miro to Mural for online facilitation.

I explore and compare:

board creation
visitor sharing
zooming
voting
bandwidth utilization analysis

They are free to watch here:?

All the best,

Enrico

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Tools and apps for virtual working

#1457

Hi everyone,
I recently came across this compendium of tools and apps for virtual collaboration from Collaboration Superpowers. It's the most comprehensive list I've ever seen and there are some real gems on it. I thought I would share it with the group:??

You can get content added or amended by clicking on the "submit a tool" button.

With best wishes
Helen

Re: Free Webinar re: Facilitating Groups online by Myriam Laberge

Myriam Laberge, Masterful Facilitation Institute

#1456

Thanks David! I’ve added an “on-demand” webinar option to the available times/dates.

?Cheers, Myriam

Free Webinar re: Facilitating Groups online by Myriam Laberge

#1455

开云体育

Thought some of you might enjoy taking in this webinar

Fire up your Online Facilitation!

This free webinar by Myriam Laberge runs every day for the rest of this week.

I've attended several of Myriam's programs over the last 10 years and learned lots every single time! This one is a great way to get a sense of what Myriam has to offer in some of her other program offerings. Too good an opportunity to miss, I'd say!

Cheers,

David

David Gouthro, CSP
The Consulting Edge
102-2221 Folkestone Way
West Vancouver, BC V7S 2Y6
(604) 926-6858

“How different our world would be if collaboration triumphed over competition every time”

URL:?
LinkedIn Profile:?https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidgouthro/
Skype: davidgouthro
Twitter: @davidgouthro

Re: Instead of Mentimeter use . . . ????

#1454

开云体育

Hi Bill,?
In scenarios where we want people to more easily see the responses in Menti for themselves, I share the "link to live results" link with them (e.g. paste the link in the Zoom chat). It will open in their browser and they can scroll through the results themselves. In case anyone isn't familiar with that option, you can find it under Share, then the Presentation Sharing tab.?

Cheers,
Amanda

On April 6, 2021, enrico@... wrote:

@Bill, you might already know about the flowing grid option:

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which does scroll through the results, and when you click on one it goes full screen.

I hope this helps.

On Mon, Apr 5, 2021 at 6:13 PM 闯辞蝉é M. Guajardo <jguajardo@...> wrote:

Hey, everyone.

In , we've experimented with the use of ?as an embedded component during our live and hostless breakout sessions and have found the tool to be very versatile and intuitive. Granted, you'd have to invest on their cheapest paid plan as a minimum to really get their coolest features, I'd still recommend them.

Best,
闯辞蝉é

On Mon, Apr 5, 2021 at 9:02 AM Bill Potapchuk <bill@...> wrote:

Good morning all.? I’m experimenting with options for a meeting coming up this week.? Here’s what I’m looking for . . . . Mentimeter displays responses to a live open ended questions with great formatting (see example).? However, if there are more responses than fit on a slide, it seems to be impossible to display all of the responses back to participants without exporting to a pdf that awkwardly groups the answers based on screen shots.? Is anyone aware of a tool that nicely displays responses to a question in real time and then offers an alternative scrollable view of all of the responses?

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Thanks for your help!? Have a great day!

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Bill Potapchuk

he/him/his

Community Building Institute

703.425.6296 office

703.431.9943 cell

bill@...

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Peggy Holman
Sent: Thursday, April 1, 2021 4:18 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [f4c-response] Synthesis online round 2

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Hi all,

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In my continued search for good tools and practices for sense making at the end of a conversational session, My colleague, Ben Roberts, suggested using

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Basically, we’d ask the group to enter their responses to a prompt question. The system then has them do paired voting to see what rises. We’d then reflect as a group on the themes that bubbled up and see where that takes us.

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Ben set up a place to play with it:??

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So an invitation: To get some more data into the system, please give it a try at the link above. You can see how it works from a participant perspective.

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And a question:

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If you have used CoDigital, please let me know what you think of it for a realtime use in discovering emergent themes.

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Thanks,

Peggy

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Peggy Holman
Co-founder
Journalism That Matters
15347 SE 49th Place
Bellevue, WA ?98006
206-948-0432

Twitter: @peggyholman
JTM Twitter: @JTMStream

Enjoy the award winning?

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闯辞蝉é 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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Re: Webex! #tech #meetingdesign

#1453

Maybe if the phone folks have their cameras off ask to say their name before speaking. As a way to create connections with others on the line.

Sometimes you don't need boards at all, it really depends on purpose and outcome of the session. So about tools, it depends on how many people but my gut feeling is to strongly discourage using the phone for calls and for digital boards.

For some even switching apps is something they're not confident doing. Beside that, I am a digitally native with heavy technical experience and I hate using the miro/mural apps on?my?iphone X.

If it's only 1/4 of the group, maybe you can do a tech check some days prior to get a gage of the situation? Or maybe you can just pair the "phone people" with "computer people" and create buddies to?help fill in a board. We used to do that pre-covid with remote folks and a buddy in the room.

I like your start simple, the first step then adjust based on what you get. If it's a recurring?collaboration :)

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On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 3:13 PM Christina Merl <christina.merl@...> wrote:

One step at a time sounds very good to me!

Wish you success and keep us posted on how it went :-)

Christina

Am 06.04.2021 um 15:02 schrieb Sara Huang:

Thanks @christina! It seems that we will be dealing with people who are not very digital confident, yet :)

Hence I do not want to overwhelmd them by introducing too much digital tools which might take too much mental space.

My co-facilitator think I am overthinking though. Your choice of words reminds me of the fact that we are all growing! So like getting fit, one step at the time...

Thank you!

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Re: Instead of Mentimeter use . . . ????

#1452

@Bill, you might already know about the flowing grid option:

which does scroll through the results, and when you click on one it goes full screen.

I hope this helps.

Show quoted text

On Mon, Apr 5, 2021 at 6:13 PM 闯辞蝉é M. Guajardo <jguajardo@...> wrote:

Hey, everyone.

In , we've experimented with the use of ?as an embedded component during our live and hostless breakout sessions and have found the tool to be very versatile and intuitive. Granted, you'd have to invest on their cheapest paid plan as a minimum to really get their coolest features, I'd still recommend them.

Best,
闯辞蝉é

On Mon, Apr 5, 2021 at 9:02 AM Bill Potapchuk <bill@...> wrote:

Good morning all.? I’m experimenting with options for a meeting coming up this week.? Here’s what I’m looking for . . . . Mentimeter displays responses to a live open ended questions with great formatting (see example).? However, if there are more responses than fit on a slide, it seems to be impossible to display all of the responses back to participants without exporting to a pdf that awkwardly groups the answers based on screen shots.? Is anyone aware of a tool that nicely displays responses to a question in real time and then offers an alternative scrollable view of all of the responses?

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Thanks for your help!? Have a great day!

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Bill Potapchuk

he/him/his

Community Building Institute

703.425.6296 office

703.431.9943 cell

bill@...

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Peggy Holman
Sent: Thursday, April 1, 2021 4:18 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [f4c-response] Synthesis online round 2

?

Hi all,

?

In my continued search for good tools and practices for sense making at the end of a conversational session, My colleague, Ben Roberts, suggested using

?

Basically, we’d ask the group to enter their responses to a prompt question. The system then has them do paired voting to see what rises. We’d then reflect as a group on the themes that bubbled up and see where that takes us.

?

Ben set up a place to play with it:??

?

So an invitation: To get some more data into the system, please give it a try at the link above. You can see how it works from a participant perspective.

?

And a question:

?

If you have used CoDigital, please let me know what you think of it for a realtime use in discovering emergent themes.

?

Thanks,

Peggy

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________________________________

Peggy Holman
Co-founder
Journalism That Matters
15347 SE 49th Place
Bellevue, WA ?98006
206-948-0432

Twitter: @peggyholman
JTM Twitter: @JTMStream

Enjoy the award winning?

?

--
闯辞蝉é 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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Re: Synthesis online round 2

#1451

开云体育

Great question Ellen! I was planning to approach it the way I would with 35, which doesn’t do any clustering. It favors those who express their ideas clearly and succinctly. And it does mean that redundancy can mask clarity.

Unfortunately, I don’t think CoDigital supports clustering. That would be an interesting capability to add to the tool.

For this situation, it will be good enough. But I will keep thinking about how to deal with redundancy for other uses I’ve got coming up. My current thought is to work it in as part of the reflection following the voting. In essence, we use our innate human capacity for finding patterns to look at what bubbles up and see where similarities might cause us to understand the picture more fully.

If anyone has suggestions, I’m all ears!!

Appreciatively,

Peggy

________________________________

Peggy Holman
Co-founder
Journalism That Matters
15347 SE 49th Place
Bellevue, WA ?98006
206-948-0432

www.peggyholman.com
Twitter: @peggyholman
JTM Twitter: @JTMStream

Enjoy the award winning?

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On Apr 5, 2021, at 8:54 AM, ellen@... wrote:

Thanks for sharing this, Peggy. Do you plan to refine the group's suggestions before making the list? Seems like without some refinements, you could end up with a list that is long and redundant, which might render the paired voting unwieldy.

Ellen

Re: Webex! #tech #meetingdesign

#1450

开云体育

One step at a time sounds very good to me!

Wish you success and keep us posted on how it went :-)

Christina

Am 06.04.2021 um 15:02 schrieb Sara Huang:

Show quoted text

Thanks @christina! It seems that we will be dealing with people who are not very digital confident, yet :)

Hence I do not want to overwhelmd them by introducing too much digital tools which might take too much mental space.

My co-facilitator think I am overthinking though. Your choice of words reminds me of the fact that we are all growing! So like getting fit, one step at the time...

Thank you!

Re: Webex! #tech #meetingdesign

#1449

Thanks @christina! It seems that we will be dealing with people who are not very digital confident, yet :)

Hence I do not want to overwhelmd them by introducing too much digital tools which might take too much mental space.

My co-facilitator think I am overthinking though. Your choice of words reminds me of the fact that we are all growing! So like getting fit, one step at the time...

Thank you!

Re: Webex! #tech #meetingdesign

#1448

开云体育

Dear Sara -

My experience is that digital natives or people who are digitally very fit have no problem using their smartphones and several tools; people who are less digitally fit might find it challenging and awkward. Some of them use two devices so it's easier, eg, smartphone and ipad. 25-30% is a small number of participants and they might be able to handle it. Hopefully this helps you to make a decision.

Christina

Am 05.04.2021 um 21:17 schrieb Sara Huang:

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Happy Easter for the ones celebrating. Here is a challenge for you, wondering how you might approach it.
I will co-facilitate a two day online gathering for civil servants using Webex.

The challenge here is that some (25 to 30%) of the participants will join by smartphone only as they do not have other devices available to them, nor can they go to the office for acces to a computer.
My main concern is to take care of people in those two days and make sure they do not get exhausted.
The design now rely mostly on 1-3-all, 'what, so what and now what','min specs', fish bowl and using chat for harvest. Plus plenty of breaks between each chunks. We will also have a visual harvester.
I am hestitating to incorporate tools like Mural/Jamboard/Slido/Mentimeter as I am not sure if that would be too much as an ask for the smartphone/iPad users on their small screens and fingerwork only (no keyboard and mouse).

What are your experiences when working with participants using smartphones and Webex?Any lessons learnt, mistakes to avoid or tips to follow would be highly appreciated!Thank you in advance.

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Warmly,

Sara Huang 黃詩惠 ????

Crafting transformative (online) spaces > Connection, collaboration & creative conflict > Intentionally designing spacious and courageous conversations?

Webex! #tech #meetingdesign

#1447

Happy Easter for the ones celebrating. Here is a challenge for you, wondering how you might approach it.
I will co-facilitate a two day online gathering for civil servants using Webex.

The challenge here is that some (25 to 30%) of the participants will join by smartphone only as they do not have other devices available to them, nor can they go to the office for acces to a computer.
My main concern is to take care of people in those two days and make sure they do not get exhausted.
The design now rely mostly on 1-3-all, 'what, so what and now what','min specs', fish bowl and using chat for harvest. Plus plenty of breaks between each chunks. We will also have a visual harvester.
I am hestitating to incorporate tools like Mural/Jamboard/Slido/Mentimeter as I am not sure if that would be too much as an ask for the smartphone/iPad users on their small screens and fingerwork only (no keyboard and mouse).

What are your experiences when working with participants using smartphones and Webex?Any lessons learnt, mistakes to avoid or tips to follow would be highly appreciated!Thank you in advance.

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Warmly,

Sara Huang 黃詩惠 ????

Crafting transformative (online) spaces > Connection, collaboration & creative conflict > Intentionally designing spacious and courageous conversations?

https://www.bureautwist.nl/english

Re: Instead of Mentimeter use . . . ????

闯辞蝉é M. Guajardo

#1446

Hey, everyone.

In , we've experimented with the use of ?as an embedded component during our live and hostless breakout sessions and have found the tool to be very versatile and intuitive. Granted, you'd have to invest on their cheapest paid plan as a minimum to really get their coolest features, I'd still recommend them.

Best,

闯辞蝉é

Show quoted text

On Mon, Apr 5, 2021 at 9:02 AM Bill Potapchuk <bill@...> wrote:

Good morning all.? I’m experimenting with options for a meeting coming up this week.? Here’s what I’m looking for . . . . Mentimeter displays responses to a live open ended questions with great formatting (see example).? However, if there are more responses than fit on a slide, it seems to be impossible to display all of the responses back to participants without exporting to a pdf that awkwardly groups the answers based on screen shots.? Is anyone aware of a tool that nicely displays responses to a question in real time and then offers an alternative scrollable view of all of the responses?

?

Thanks for your help!? Have a great day!

?

?

Bill Potapchuk

he/him/his

Community Building Institute

703.425.6296 office

703.431.9943 cell

bill@...

?

From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Peggy Holman
Sent: Thursday, April 1, 2021 4:18 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [f4c-response] Synthesis online round 2

?

Hi all,

?

In my continued search for good tools and practices for sense making at the end of a conversational session, My colleague, Ben Roberts, suggested using

?

Basically, we’d ask the group to enter their responses to a prompt question. The system then has them do paired voting to see what rises. We’d then reflect as a group on the themes that bubbled up and see where that takes us.

?

Ben set up a place to play with it:??

?

So an invitation: To get some more data into the system, please give it a try at the link above. You can see how it works from a participant perspective.

?

And a question:

?

If you have used CoDigital, please let me know what you think of it for a realtime use in discovering emergent themes.

?

Thanks,

Peggy

?

?

?

?

?

?

________________________________

Peggy Holman
Co-founder
Journalism That Matters
15347 SE 49th Place
Bellevue, WA ?98006
206-948-0432

Twitter: @peggyholman
JTM Twitter: @JTMStream

Enjoy the award winning?

?

--

闯辞蝉é 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.

?

Re: Synthesis online round 2

#1445

Thanks for sharing this, Peggy. Do you plan to refine the group's suggestions before making the list? Seems like without some refinements, you could end up with a list that is long and redundant, which might render the paired voting unwieldy.

Ellen

Instead of Mentimeter use . . . ????

#1444

开云体育

Good morning all.? I’m experimenting with options for a meeting coming up this week.? Here’s what I’m looking for . . . . Mentimeter displays responses to a live open ended questions with great formatting (see example).? However, if there are more responses than fit on a slide, it seems to be impossible to display all of the responses back to participants without exporting to a pdf that awkwardly groups the answers based on screen shots.? Is anyone aware of a tool that nicely displays responses to a question in real time and then offers an alternative scrollable view of all of the responses?

?

Thanks for your help!? Have a great day!

?

Bill Potapchuk

he/him/his

Community Building Institute

703.425.6296 office

703.431.9943 cell

bill@...

?

Show quoted text

From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Peggy Holman
Sent: Thursday, April 1, 2021 4:18 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [f4c-response] Synthesis online round 2

?

Hi all,

?

In my continued search for good tools and practices for sense making at the end of a conversational session, My colleague, Ben Roberts, suggested using

?

Basically, we’d ask the group to enter their responses to a prompt question. The system then has them do paired voting to see what rises. We’d then reflect as a group on the themes that bubbled up and see where that takes us.

?

Ben set up a place to play with it:??

?

So an invitation: To get some more data into the system, please give it a try at the link above. You can see how it works from a participant perspective.

?

And a question:

?

If you have used CoDigital, please let me know what you think of it for a realtime use in discovering emergent themes.

?

Thanks,

Peggy

?

________________________________

Peggy Holman
Co-founder
Journalism That Matters
15347 SE 49th Place
Bellevue, WA ?98006
206-948-0432

Twitter: @peggyholman
JTM Twitter: @JTMStream

Enjoy the award winning?

?

Synthesis online round 2

#1443

开云体育

Hi all,

In my continued search for good tools and practices for sense making at the end of a conversational session, My colleague, Ben Roberts, suggested using

Basically, we’d ask the group to enter their responses to a prompt question. The system then has them do paired voting to see what rises. We’d then reflect as a group on the themes that bubbled up and see where that takes us.

Ben set up a place to play with it:??

So an invitation: To get some more data into the system, please give it a try at the link above. You can see how it works from a participant perspective.

And a question:

If you have used CoDigital, please let me know what you think of it for a realtime use in discovering emergent themes.

Thanks,

Peggy

?

________________________________

Peggy Holman
Co-founder
Journalism That Matters
15347 SE 49th Place
Bellevue, WA ?98006
206-948-0432

www.peggyholman.com
Twitter: @peggyholman
JTM Twitter: @JTMStream

Enjoy the award winning?

Quick Tips to Help Frame Virtual Speakers on Camera #tech #speakers

#1442

For anyone looking for tips on framing Speakers for Digital, I just added a showing what we share with clients' talent. I hope it helps.

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Joe

Webinar - How to go beyond discussion and do more online to lead productive group work #facilitation #meetingdesign

Myriam Laberge, Masterful Facilitation Institute

#1441

Hi Everyone, I?have created a webinar - Go Beyond Discussion and Do More Online. Lead Productive Group Work for?professionals, project or group leaders who are not so much wishing to become professionals facilitators but would like to learn how to design/lead some simple and successful work sessions online (beginner to intermediate).?This is the link to learn more and sign up:?. ?Thank you, Myriam Laberge