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This is a stellar thread!
I'll add to the points about in-person/remote pairing and remote participants' representation, as I think it could be easy to get stuck in the technology and simple mechanics - which are essential but not sufficient.
I wrote a listicle in 2019 about . This needs updating for the new world of work, but some points are still worth putting on your list. For example: 6. Name and empower an in-room advocate: As much as you design for remote inclusivity, it will still be challenging for a virtual participant to naturally interrupt, ask a question, make a suggestion. It may also be tough for them to get the attention of you, the facilitator, as you have so much going on! Unlike completely virtual collaboration, you are not sitting in front of your computer, so you may not be seeing the confused faces or text chats of remote participants. Name someone in the room who will be in charge of advocating for remote participants, and assign them specific advocacy duties. These duties could include items such as ensuring that they have access to all presentations and handouts, reading aloud from the text chats, and requesting that the facilitator call on a remote participant who wants to speak to the group.
I'm eager to read more suggestions!
Sarah
Facilitator, Trainer, Coach, Learner? (Virtual & In-Person)??|??
Ed.M.,?Learning?&?Teaching?Program |?Harvard Graduate School of Education Associate Certified Coach (ACC) | Learning Travel Blogger ? | ??Hi Alwin,
I planned one interactive hybrid event (that was moved fully online a day before the event because of COVID exposure of the whole facilitation team, but that's a different story). In our planning we had a strong discipline to only include things that everyone could do, i.e. no paper post-its in the room, but rather access to online whiteboards (in our case jamboards) for everyone.
In our minds we set this up as a large zoom call where some people were in a room together - instead of setting it up as a face-to-face meeting where some people called in.
We had booked a room 3 times the size we would normally use and would have had small groups huddled around laptops for breakout groups. I was surprised how decent the noise cancelling was, so small groups could actually have a conversation, with, e.g. three people huddling in the room and three people on the zoom screen, each typing on the same jamboard.
The aspect of this that took the most choreography and practice was switching from large room audio (with hand held microphones and room speakers projecting sound) to small group audio (room audio off, laptop audio on). Also, we had one of our facilitators to be online, while the other was in the room.
One big insight from planning and nearly executing this: You need far more tech support than in a face-to-face or online only meeting. And practice transitions until you are like a well organized ballet.?
All the best,
Eva
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Re: Seeking lighting + wide angle camera recommendations
Trina
I¡¯m also curious to know what people recommend.
We are still using Logitech wide-angle cameras for groups of people around a table that are in-person. It¡¯s been around for so long, but we haven¡¯t found anything better. We use a separate good mic. for the sound.
We were invited to facilitate a small meeting where the university used an Owl (your expensive example). It really was a terrible experience - somehow you could never quite see who you wanted to see or hear what you wanted to hear (despite what it says about sound). It assumes you want to see a primary speaker and so focuses on who it thinks ¡±the" speaker is. But we just simply wanted to be able to see everyone in the room. Perhaps it could have been set up better, but we put it on the list of equipment we »å´Ç²Ô¡¯³Ù want.
Bev
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Thanks Mark. To add more clarification, I'm looking for a wide angle camera so that for some hybrid meeting situations, a wide-angle camera can capture a group of people around a table that are in-person. Not for just my face. One (pricy) example is??that is a 360 camera and microphone.
So still would love tips for face lighting, and for a wide angle camera + 360 microphone for hybrid meetings.
Trina
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Re: Seeking lighting + wide angle camera recommendations
Thanks Mark. To add more clarification, I'm looking for a wide angle camera so that for some hybrid meeting situations, a wide-angle camera can capture a group of people around a table that are in-person. Not for just my face. One (pricy) example is??that is a 360 camera and microphone.
So still would love tips for face lighting, and for a wide angle camera + 360 microphone for hybrid meetings.
Trina
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Re: [NCDD-DISCUSSION] Best platforms for building online communities in 2022?
You're all welcome to join our Circle community. Free, open, focused on innovation and questions related to business meetings:?
Lucas, if you'd like to host a QiQo event exploring?your current dev focus there, that would be a great event for that community.
On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 10:50 AM Michael Randel < Michael@...> wrote: Agree with Peter and Fernando
We assessed the following tools for a new community: Ning (yes, it still exists!) MightNetworks Circle LearningStone HowSpace Mobilize.io
Taking account of pricing and our other selection criteria, our shortlist was Ning and Circle. We asked a small group of community members to engage with both platforms in a test site, and then selected Circle.
It has a lot of features that make it easy to create and manage engagement. The posts can be fun and quirky (it's super easy to add images and gifs). Searching is simple. And there are some useful analytical capabilities.
** Based in Washington D.C, supporting organizations globally! **
+1 for circle. We¡¯re just about to use it to stand up all our communities. No experience yet, but it won our ¡°bake off¡± against the other tools!
Hi Lucas, one another awesome tool is??Created by people from Teachable.? I am part of one community running in Circle, and it¡¯s very effective. I can mention Facebook Groups as well, the one we use for Virtual Facilitation so far.?
Cheers,
Fernando Murray??? ?Boosting Human Connection through Virtual Facilitation.
? Connect with a larger Community at? ? Follow us on Instagram:?
On Feb 10, 2022, at 2:10 PM, Lucas Cioffi < lucas@...> wrote:
Thank you very much to everyone for sharing their?answers.? I shared this question on the NCDD discussion list and the Facilitators for Covid Response list.?
The only community tools that were recommended were the following: - Mighty Networks
- Sutra
- Welo
- Discord
- Email + Zoom
These helpful lists of tools were shared by Tim Bonnemann: It is surprising to me that with so many community tools out there, so few community tools were recommended.
Lucas Cioffi
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CEO?: The Meeting Innovation Company? Author of?:?The Meetings that Make or Break Your Organization Second Rise LLC dba Lucid Meetings is a proudly remote-first, majority woman-owned company.
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Hi Alwin,
I planned one interactive hybrid event (that was moved fully online a day before the event because of COVID exposure of the whole facilitation team, but that's a different story). In our planning we had a strong discipline to only include things that everyone could do, i.e. no paper post-its in the room, but rather access to online whiteboards (in our case jamboards) for everyone.
In our minds we set this up as a large zoom call where some people were in a room together - instead of setting it up as a face-to-face meeting where some people called in.
We had booked a room 3 times the size we would normally use and would have had small groups huddled around laptops for breakout groups. I was surprised how decent the noise cancelling was, so small groups could actually have a conversation, with, e.g. three people huddling in the room and three people on the zoom screen, each typing on the same jamboard.
The aspect of this that took the most choreography and practice was switching from large room audio (with hand held microphones and room speakers projecting sound) to small group audio (room audio off, laptop audio on). Also, we had one of our facilitators to be online, while the other was in the room.
One big insight from planning and nearly executing this: You need far more tech support than in a face-to-face or online only meeting. And practice transitions until you are like a well organized ballet.?
All the best,
Eva
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Re: Seeking lighting + wide angle camera recommendations
Strangely?enough - I just saw this a second ago:? - I have heard others say good things about it. I have no personal experience. Although 24mm wide angle is as wide as I would go and f2.4 - should mean shallow depth of field and so little in focus in the background.
Cheers Mark
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Re: Seeking lighting + wide angle camera recommendations
Camera - any recent iPhone or Android equivalent can be turned into a good camera.
I've been taking notes on this part recently: Reincubate Camo - Use your phone as a pro webcam, free
I don't know what your photographic background is, so I'm trying to avoid mansplaining. Are you aware that wide angle lens tend make things that are closer appear big and things further away seem small? This often doesn't work for faces. I can't speak to the lighting or audio portion.
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Seeking lighting + wide angle camera recommendations
Hi all,
I'm looking for recommendations for: - Face lighting for Zoom calls, something smaller that fits on a desk, and is strong enough to overcome some backlighting.
- Wide angle camera/360 microphones to support hybrid meetings.
This is just for me and my business of 1, so I'm not looking at institutional pricing, something more affordable.
Thank you
Trina --
Trina Isakson pronouns:?
778.955.8733
nonprofit governance, leadership, and change // quiet changemakers
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Hey, ? I work a lot with break out sessions and let onsite people also work on a digital whiteboard or with pen and paper and add a photo of this to the digital whiteboard. Both works fine, of course every solution has up and downsides. ? Love using piccles, sli.do oder mentimenter for equal interaction. ? At least two cameras are helpful, one for the speaker and one room camera. If not enough cameras are available, using a phone I found easy and helpful. ? I wrote an article about hybrid meetings, maybe this is helpful too. ? Hope that helps, curious to find out what helps ? Best regards, Sonja ? #LinkedIn ? __________________________ Sonja Hanau | meetingschmiede Moderation ¨C Workshops ¨C Trainings. F¨¹r bessere Zusammenarbeit. Vor allem, aber nicht nur in Meetings. ?
Regelm??ige Impulse zu Meetings und (hybrider) Zusammenarbeit gibt¡¯s im Blog auf meetingschmiede.de ? ? Dear Friends,? Been here since the pandemic began and I've been helped so much by the various conversations in this group -- thank you very much. This question has been asked before, but I think a lot of the discussion has been earlier during the pandemic, and last year. I've been meaning to facilitate a conversation where a group of people (some physically present, others through MS Teams (Zoom is also a possibility) need to put together a bigger-picture understanding of Work in the context of Catholic Social Teaching and the various frames re: Labor existing in the world right now. I don't want it to happen in the traditional way it's been happening (people around a table, formal conference style, with microphones, and some people on screens participating.). I'd like to try out a way with more interaction, and a more visual workspace and harvest, to support participation?and documentation. I'd like to hear how some of you have done this, given some participants are online, and some can actually hold things (like post-its, etc). Did you keep outputs separate? Did you use cameras for the physical setup? An illustration (description) of how you did it, what tools did you?use, and how it went (what worked, what didn't. Lessons!) will be helpful.
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Hi All,
QiqoCON is the user conference for QiqoChat platform.? It starts at 8am Pacific / 11am Eastern / 17.00 CET.
If you want to spend some time chatting and networking with great facilitators, please do join us. Here is the .? The agenda is pasted below.
We'll also be joined by official team members of SpatialChat, Worldly?(for AI translations), and Ideaflip (online sticky notes) so you can get a chance to meet them, ask them for advice, and make feature suggestions. Lucas Cioffi QiqoChat | Lead Software Engineer lucas@... +1.917.528.1831 ? 
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-- Hello
With the Omicron wave came the discouraging perspective of going back full speed with Zoom for a while. Along with this is the distinct possibility that some people will hesitate for a long while to go back to face to face meeting even if sanitary conditions allows groupe to reconvene.
I decided to invest in a Owl Camera () which I purchase directly from the manufacturer . Great service over the phone, speedy delivery etc.
I have done some test ?with Zoom and will try live soon.
SO far my set up will be as follow
-the Owl camera at a reasonable distance for people in remote to see the speaker and the screen
- somebody at each table acting as the interface with the remote people ( in numerous enough)
- somebody responsable to follow the zoom call on a phone , table ou laptop to monitor the chat activity.
- a phone charging device at every table (Zoom call deplete batteries on a phone or a table)
See attached for a crude graphic representation of my set up ...hey I am not a graphic artist at all!! LOL!!
As far as collaboration...Miro will probably be used to share information. Either directly of my sharing photos of post it from the table discussion.
Moreover, I have hired a Sketchnote-proficient colleague to train the group on this note taking technique ?and I have provided the participants with a nice sketchnotebook and coloured pens.
We will share our Sketchnotes on Miro after the meeting
Francois Lavallee , M.Sc.
Organizational biologist
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Dear Friends,?
Been here since the pandemic began and I've been helped so much by the various conversations in this group -- thank you very much.
This question has been asked before, but I think a lot of the discussion has been earlier during the pandemic, and last year.
I've been meaning to facilitate a conversation where a group of people (some physically present, others through MS Teams (Zoom is also a possibility) need to put together a bigger-picture understanding of Work in the context of Catholic Social Teaching and the various frames re: Labor existing in the world right now.
I don't want it to happen in the traditional way it's been happening (people around a table, formal conference style, with microphones, and some people on screens participating.). I'd like to try out a way with more interaction, and a more visual workspace and harvest, to support participation?and documentation.
I'd like to hear how some of you have done this, given some participants are online, and some can actually hold things (like post-its, etc). Did you keep outputs separate? Did you use cameras for the physical setup? An illustration (description) of how you did it, what tools did you?use, and how it went (what worked, what didn't. Lessons!) will be helpful.
Thank you for your help!
Alwin
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Re: Looking for intercultural simulation game suggestions, for a group of 50 people
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On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 6:46 PM Nicole Martin < nlmartin1@...> wrote: Hi Ann,
I am familiar with Ecotonos by Dianne Hofner, but I'm not finding a lot of info online so it may be out of print.?
Nicole
Hi all,
I know of Bafa bafa, Rafa Rafa, and Barnga...any others? Would love to highlight the gender angle.
It's for an event in Gaza. If anyone has other experience in Gaza they'd like to share, please do.?
Thanks for any suggestions.?
Best, Ann
-- Ann
Hendrix-Jenkins Facilitation,?Localization, Writing & Editing
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Re: Looking for intercultural simulation game suggestions, for a group of 50 people
Hi Ann,
I am familiar with Ecotonos by Dianne Hofner, but I'm not finding a lot of info online so it may be out of print.?
Nicole
Hi all,
I know of Bafa bafa, Rafa Rafa, and Barnga...any others? Would love to highlight the gender angle.
It's for an event in Gaza. If anyone has other experience in Gaza they'd like to share, please do.?
Thanks for any suggestions.?
Best, Ann
-- Ann
Hendrix-Jenkins Facilitation,?Localization, Writing & Editing
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Looking for intercultural simulation game suggestions, for a group of 50 people
Hi all,
I know of Bafa bafa, Rafa Rafa, and Barnga...any others? Would love to highlight the gender angle.
It's for an event in Gaza. If anyone has other experience in Gaza they'd like to share, please do.?
Thanks for any suggestions.?
Best, Ann
-- Ann
Hendrix-Jenkins Facilitation,?Localization, Writing & Editing
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Re: [NCDD-DISCUSSION] Best platforms for building online communities in 2022?
Agree with Peter and Fernando
We assessed the following tools for a new community: Ning (yes, it still exists!) MightNetworks Circle LearningStone HowSpace Mobilize.io
Taking account of pricing and our other selection criteria, our shortlist was Ning and Circle. We asked a small group of community members to engage with both platforms in a test site, and then selected Circle.
It has a lot of features that make it easy to create and manage engagement. The posts can be fun and quirky (it's super easy to add images and gifs). Searching is simple. And there are some useful analytical capabilities.
** Based in Washington D.C, supporting organizations globally! **
+1 for circle. We¡¯re just about to use it to stand up all our communities. No experience yet, but it won our ¡°bake off¡± against the other tools!
Hi Lucas, one another awesome tool is??Created by people from Teachable.? I am part of one community running in Circle, and it¡¯s very effective. I can mention Facebook Groups as well, the one we use for Virtual Facilitation so far.?
Cheers,
Fernando Murray??? ?Boosting Human Connection through Virtual Facilitation.
? Connect with a larger Community at? ? Follow us on Instagram:?
On Feb 10, 2022, at 2:10 PM, Lucas Cioffi < lucas@...> wrote:
Thank you very much to everyone for sharing their?answers.? I shared this question on the NCDD discussion list and the Facilitators for Covid Response list.?
The only community tools that were recommended were the following: - Mighty Networks
- Sutra
- Welo
- Discord
- Email + Zoom
These helpful lists of tools were shared by Tim Bonnemann: It is surprising to me that with so many community tools out there, so few community tools were recommended.
Lucas Cioffi
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Re: [NCDD-DISCUSSION] Best platforms for building online communities in 2022?
+1 for circle. We¡¯re just about to use it to stand up all our communities. No experience yet, but it won our ¡°bake off¡± against the other tools!
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Hi Lucas, one another awesome tool is??Created by people from Teachable.? I am part of one community running in Circle, and it¡¯s very effective. I can mention Facebook Groups as well, the one we use for Virtual Facilitation so far.?
Cheers,
Fernando Murray??? ?Boosting Human Connection through Virtual Facilitation.
? Connect with a larger Community at? ? Follow us on Instagram:?
On Feb 10, 2022, at 2:10 PM, Lucas Cioffi < lucas@...> wrote:
Thank you very much to everyone for sharing their?answers.? I shared this question on the NCDD discussion list and the Facilitators for Covid Response list.?
The only community tools that were recommended were the following: - Mighty Networks
- Sutra
- Welo
- Discord
- Email + Zoom
These helpful lists of tools were shared by Tim Bonnemann: It is surprising to me that with so many community tools out there, so few community tools were recommended.
Lucas Cioffi
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Re: [NCDD-DISCUSSION] Best platforms for building online communities in 2022?
Hi Lucas, one another awesome tool is??Created by people from Teachable.? I am part of one community running in Circle, and it¡¯s very effective. I can mention Facebook Groups as well, the one we use for Virtual Facilitation so far.?
Cheers,
Fernando Murray??? ?Boosting Human Connection through Virtual Facilitation.
? Connect with a larger Community at? ? Follow us on Instagram:?
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On Feb 10, 2022, at 2:10 PM, Lucas Cioffi < lucas@...> wrote:
Thank you very much to everyone for sharing their?answers.? I shared this question on the NCDD discussion list and the Facilitators for Covid Response list.?
The only community tools that were recommended were the following: - Mighty Networks
- Sutra
- Welo
- Discord
- Email + Zoom
These helpful lists of tools were shared by Tim Bonnemann: It is surprising to me that with so many community tools out there, so few community tools were recommended.
Lucas Cioffi
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Re: [NCDD-DISCUSSION] Best platforms for building online communities in 2022?
Here is a spreadsheet of video tools and some platform tools that I have been working to explore. There are many angles to the question of facilitation and what it means to have a collaborative meeting.
I have yet to find a good one that covers my basic needs and end up gluing several together.
I am about to try a Startup weekend with Miro and Discord... We will see how that goes...
You might find this organizer dashboard interesting as a concept -?
Here is the list of tools:?
Please comment if you learn something or if you see something missing.?
On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 2:11 PM Lucas Cioffi < lucas@...> wrote: Thank you very much to everyone for sharing their?answers.? I shared this question on the NCDD discussion list and the Facilitators for Covid Response list.?
The only community tools that were recommended were the following: - Mighty Networks
- Sutra
- Welo
- Discord
- Email + Zoom
These helpful lists of tools were shared by Tim Bonnemann: It is surprising to me that with so many community tools out there, so few community tools were recommended.
Lucas Cioffi
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