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Hi all, let me quickly introduce myself. I'm Kevon and I run an interactive video conf platform called Toasty ( designed for facilitation & engagement.
We want to make it very easy for any meeting facilitator to engage their audience without juggling between different platforms, and so we have a series of engagement activities that the host can grab, customize, and use to drive conversations and collaborations.
Recently we've added some Liberating Structures templates to the platform, and because we're definitely not professional facilitators (more passionate tech builders), what I want to seek help is for experienced facilitators to take a look and give feedback on how we can improve the set up of those templates to re-create an "almost like" physical experience.
I'd appreciate it so much if we can hear your insights!
Here are the steps for anyone interested:
1. Go to?and click the top right orange button
2. Sign up for a free trial account
3. Create a new session, pick a Liberating Structure template
4. Doing so will populate the structure using different "Toasty activities" - this is the interactions list that you can use to engage the audience during the live session
5. If you can, use another computer (or open another tab) to join as a participant and test run it
6. By now you should have tons of feedback! I'd love to hear them. (I can reach out to you to say hi!)
Thanks a lot,
Kevon
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Hi Kevon,
thanks for letting us know about toasty.ai.?
I had a quick look at the website and checked for the number of participants that are included in your different account tiers.
25 participants is a rather small group (at least for those of us here who work with large groups online). Is there any large group add-on that you are providing? And if yes, what are the costs for that??
Greetings,
Michaela?
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Hi Michaela,
Thanks for sharing with me!?Currently our design is for a single session of meeting/workshop so each one holds up to 25 pax, we haven't gotten to design around larger sessions and letting people hop around yet. Some people do run a few sessions at the same time, though def agree it is not as good of an experience.
This is the type of feedback I'd love to hear - def keen to explore whether Toasty is useful in larger settings too. Are you thinking about Open Space?
Thanks,
Kevon
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Kevon, I tried out Toasty, and really like the ability to quickly pull in the templated activities. However, it's important for me to walk away with a visual summary of what everyone says. Can it do that?
Teletha
Hi Michaela,
Thanks for sharing with me!?Currently our design is for a single session of meeting/workshop so each one holds up to 25 pax, we haven't gotten to design around larger sessions and letting people hop around yet. Some people do run a few sessions at the same time, though def agree it is not as good of an experience.
This is the type of feedback I'd love to hear - def keen to explore whether Toasty is useful in larger settings too. Are you thinking about Open Space?
Thanks,
Kevon
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Also, is there an option to manually select groups? I don't always want to do them randomly. On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 1:39 PM Teletha McJunkin | Resolutionist via <teletha= [email protected]> wrote:
Kevon, I tried out Toasty, and really like the ability to quickly pull in the templated activities. However, it's important for me to walk away with a visual summary of what everyone says. Can it do that?
Teletha
Hi Michaela,
Thanks for sharing with me!?Currently our design is for a single session of meeting/workshop so each one holds up to 25 pax, we haven't gotten to design around larger sessions and letting people hop around yet. Some people do run a few sessions at the same time, though def agree it is not as good of an experience.
This is the type of feedback I'd love to hear - def keen to explore whether Toasty is useful in larger settings too. Are you thinking about Open Space?
Thanks,
Kevon
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Teletha: how are you creating a visual summary of your on-line meetings today? How are you meeting the need now?
Sean Murphy 408-252-9676
On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 10:39 AM Teletha McJunkin | Resolutionist < teletha@...> wrote: Kevon, I tried out Toasty, and really like the ability to quickly pull in the templated activities. However, it's important for me to walk away with a visual summary of what everyone says. Can it do that?
Teletha
Hi Michaela,
Thanks for sharing with me!?Currently our design is for a single session of meeting/workshop so each one holds up to 25 pax, we haven't gotten to design around larger sessions and letting people hop around yet. Some people do run a few sessions at the same time, though def agree it is not as good of an experience.
This is the type of feedback I'd love to hear - def keen to explore whether Toasty is useful in larger settings too. Are you thinking about Open Space?
Thanks,
Kevon
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Hi Sean, I use whatever tool works best for what I'm doing. I've used?Miro,?GDocs, GSheets, Zoom's whiteboard and others. I'll create the structure or container and fill it in, live, with the group. Then every participant can walk away with the co-created results. That is particularly important when I work with organizations who will use the results for planning and implementation.
On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 1:44 PM Sean Murphy < skmurphy@...> wrote: Teletha: how are you creating a visual summary of your on-line meetings today? How are you meeting the need now?
Sean Murphy 408-252-9676
On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 10:39 AM Teletha McJunkin | Resolutionist < teletha@...> wrote: Kevon, I tried out Toasty, and really like the ability to quickly pull in the templated activities. However, it's important for me to walk away with a visual summary of what everyone says. Can it do that?
Teletha
Hi Michaela,
Thanks for sharing with me!?Currently our design is for a single session of meeting/workshop so each one holds up to 25 pax, we haven't gotten to design around larger sessions and letting people hop around yet. Some people do run a few sessions at the same time, though def agree it is not as good of an experience.
This is the type of feedback I'd love to hear - def keen to explore whether Toasty is useful in larger settings too. Are you thinking about Open Space?
Thanks,
Kevon
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Kevan, this is really interesting. But hard to practice by one's self. Anyone?want to organize a few trial runs??
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@Teletha
- About a summary: yes, I think that's really useful too, not only you can add quick engagement, but you can also use the inputs afterward. Right now we offer an analytics page, click "View Details" on the session and go to "Analytics", but it is not complete yet. Really good point!
- About manually select groups: yes, at the bottom you can find "Participants & groups" and you can create groups and assign people in.
@Nancy
That's true - you can open another Chrome tab to join yourself but that's not intuitive. Would love to gather a few people to test. Maybe UTC 1am is a good time for everyone in US/Asia/AUS?
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Hi Kevon,
Re Toasty:
I¡¯ve got a fun activity that I often run at the beginning and end of a virtual session to gauge how people are feeling (and how feelings have shifted over the course of the virtual session). It¡¯s
based on toast so I thought I should tell you about it:
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I hate using other people¡¯s ideas without giving credit but I don¡¯t know the actual origin of it. Maybe someone else in the group will know.
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Best wishes
Helen
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Subject: [f4c-response] Vision: Make running Liberating Structures online easy - feedback wanted #liberatingstructures #technology
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Hi all, let me quickly introduce myself. I'm Kevon and I run an interactive video conf platform called Toasty (
designed for facilitation & engagement.
We want to make it very easy for any meeting facilitator to engage their audience without juggling between different platforms, and so we have a series of engagement activities that the host can grab, customize, and use to drive conversations and collaborations.
Recently we've added some Liberating Structures templates to the platform, and what I want to seek help is for experienced facilitators to take a look and give feedback on how we can improve the set up of those templates.
I'd appreciate it so much if we can hear your insights!
Here are the steps for anyone interested:
1. Go to?and click the top right orange button
2. Sign up for a free trial account
3. Create a new session, pick a Liberating Structure template
4. Doing so will populate the structure using different "Toasty activities" - this is the interactions list that you can use to engage the audience during the live session
5. If you can, use another computer (or open another tab) to join as a participant and test run it
6. By now you should have tons of feedback! I'd love to hear them.
Thanks a lot,
Kevon
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Hi Helen, this is awesome! Using toasts to gauge how people are feeling :D!
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Set up a few trial runs of LS on Toasty and a number of facilitators have signed up, if anyone is interested, do join us :)
Eastern time & Asia time:
Pacific time:
See you all!
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This looks awesome, Kevon.
I think many facilitators try to do similar things with just Google Docs or some other general purpose tool, but I think they'll find what you've built makes the whole process much easier.? I signed up for your event (the links are below for anyone that didn't catch them) and I look forward to learning. Lucas Cioffi Lead Software Engineer, QiqoChat Scarsdale, NY 917-528-1831
Set up a few trial runs of LS on Toasty and a number of facilitators have signed up, if anyone is interested, do join us :)
Eastern time & Asia time:
Pacific time:
See you all!
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Thank you Lucas - your platform is really awesome as well allowing people to move around! Looking forward to catch up.
@Vanh - not sure where your message went - you asked "would you record the session Kevon?"
I don't think so, but I can share some tutorial videos of Toasty to you so you can get a quick overview. Will send to you!
Happy weekend everyone!?
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New to this group.? First event I've signed up for, because I use LS in my work.? I'm a Luddite, can't imagine on-line facilitation, but I have no choice.? So I'm looking forward to getting involved.? Thank you Kevon for this first introduction. And HELLO! everyone.
Set up a few trial runs of LS on Toasty and a number of facilitators have signed up, if anyone is interested, do join us :)
Eastern time & Asia time:
Pacific time:
See you all!
-- Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D.
President, Center for Emergent Diplomacy
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA twitter: @Merle_Lefkoff
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Hi, Merle!
I am also new to this group and glad to be here.? Kevon, I look forward to hearing what you learn about using Toasty with Liberating Structures. Your demonstration session sounds very interesting!
All the best,
Caren
Caren Levine
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Will see how these two sessions go and perhaps I can host another one next week, will keep you posted :)
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Alas, I'm too slow and they are sold out! Congrats. Good sign!
Set up a few trial runs of LS on Toasty and a number of facilitators have signed up, if anyone is interested, do join us :)
Eastern time & Asia time:
Pacific time:
See you all!
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Hi all, For those who didn't get to join this week's experiment session as it is sold out, here is a session next week Thursday 10:15am Eastern time!? Check out the fruitful session yesterday! Look forward to exchanging ideas with some of you on building the future of virtual facilitation. 
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Him running a Zoom/MURAL-based ecocycle session this Friday on COVID's impact on collaboration. It's pay-what-you-can...
Registration here:?
Best, Sherry
Hi all, For those who didn't get to join this week's experiment session as it is sold out, here is a session next week Thursday 10:15am Eastern time!? Check out the fruitful session yesterday! Look forward to exchanging ideas with some of you on building the future of virtual facilitation. 
-- Sherry P. Johnson, she/herFacilitator, Engagement Consultant, and Complexity Coach 651.776.3060
To-do every day:
1.?sustain what works
?2.?nurture good patterns
?3.?stimulate growth
?4.?intervene with integrity
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Kevon
Nancy White
BEVAN, Helen
Lucas Cioffi
Caren Levine