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SpatialChat/Gather
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#technology
Wondering if anyone has any experience with Spatial.chat as a tool for virtual happy hours? I like the look and feel of it better than Gather, but have not tried neither yet. What are your experience with the tool?
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Fun, celebratory, brief online activity
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This week, I am closing out a four-month virtual community engagement process in three cities. I'd like to end our meetings with some sort of activity that celebrates our work together and helps to galvanize them for future collaboration when this engagement is done. Does anyone have suggestions for something engaging and fun? And probably no more than 10-15 minutes? There will be 30-40 people in each meeting. Thank you! Ellen
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Resources for a Virtual Conference (from the LD4 2020 Conference)
Thanks to everyone who has been sharing great resources here (love the infographic in the below resource!). I was recently part of a team who transformed a planned in-person event to a virtual conference (Linked Data in Libraries: ld42020.sched.com). To prepare to move our conference online, I began compiling various guides to planning a virtual event, and have continued to update the list: Resources for a Virtual Conference That document also includes resources used by the LD4 conference organizing team, such as an event planning checklist and a list of tools we used. I hope it will be helpful to others planning virtual events. Best regards, * Michelle Futornick Linked Data for Production (LD4P) Program Manager Stanford University Lathrop Library Stanford, CA 94305 From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Michael Victor <Omichael@...> Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2020 12:44 AM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: [f4c-response] Moving science events online in a lockdown Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic Dear Friends, We just wanted to share a blog some of us at ILRI wrote (Peter B, Michael V, Mirielle Ferrari and Iddo Dror) as part of the CGIAR Big Data Convention on Digital Dynamism. We focus on some of the lesson we have learned in transforming our face to face meeting to go virtually. Its been a steep and exciting learning curve and took a real shift in thinking and ways of working. https://www.ilri.org/news/moving-science-events-online-lockdown-lessons-covid-19-pandemic-0 It also includes a neat infographic we made. Keen to continue hearing what others are learning on this ! Best, Michael
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Moving science events online in a lockdown Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic
Dear Friends, We just wanted to share a blog some of us at ILRI wrote (Peter B, Michael V, Mirielle Ferrari and Iddo Dror) as part of the CGIAR Big Data Convention on Digital Dynamism. We focus on some of the lesson we have learned in transforming our face to face meeting to go virtually. Its been a steep and exciting learning curve and took a real shift in thinking and ways of working. https://www.ilri.org/news/moving-science-events-online-lockdown-lessons-covid-19-pandemic-0 It also includes a neat infographic we made. Keen to continue hearing what others are learning on this ! Best, Michael
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Starts in 30 min... Facilitator Interview Series: Open Space with Fran?ois Knuchel and Karen Gimnig
Hello F4C List, Here's a facilitator interview that might be of interest... Facilitator Interview Series: Open Space with Fran?ois Knuchel and Karen Gimnig Starts today at 5pm CEST / 11am Eastern Join Here! Hear about creating an event on Qiqo from the facilitator's perspective.Fran?ois and Karen will share how they created an open space event inside a larger conference for the National Workforce Registry Alliance.They will share what they learned and will be happy to answer your questions. The video will be posted there for anyone who visits the page in the future. Lucas Cioffi Lead Software Engineer, QiqoChat.com Scarsdale, NY 917-528-1831
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Qiqo Chat Volunteers: Health Data Forum Global Hybrid Summit
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Greetings list members Do you know anyone eager to learn more about to use Qiqo Chat and to volunteer time to learn by doing and to become the Qiqo chat tech host in a global event? She/he will be learning directly from Qiqo Chat team and training resources and event management and virtual facilitation mentorship by the Health Data Forum organizers. If you know about someone that may be interested please pass along this message and my contact details below. Best wishes Paul Nunesdea | Paulo Nunes de Abreu https://www.architectingcollaboration.com/ https://www.healthdataforum.eu/ https://www.healthyvirtual.eu/ +34 667 643 688 Twitter: @nunesdea
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United Nations' Consultancy Opening : Individual Contractor for the Development of an Online Training Toolkit (07-14 October 2020)
Might be of interest to some of you? ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Benedicte Francoise Niviere <niviere@...> Date: Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 5:38 PM Subject: United Nations' Consultancy Opening : Individual Contractor for the Development of an Online Training Toolkit (07-14 October 2020) To: Dear Friends, I am pleased to inform you that the Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs has advertised a consultancy position for an Individual Contractor for the Development of an Online Training Toolkit. Please click on the link below for further details on this consultancy which you may share with your network: https://careers.un.org/lbw/jobdetail.aspx?id=142091&Lang=en-US Best regards, Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government | Department of Economic and Social Affairs | United Nations | Room DC2-1717A | Email: niviere@... | Tel: +1 (212) 917 5786 | www.un.org/desa https://publicadministration.un.org | www.unpan.un.org
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A challenge/opportunity
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I have an opportunity to connect online with the entire employee base (300 people) of a newly amalgamated organization for 90 minutes. This can be used as the launch of a process to develop a set of organizational values. The tools I have at my disposal are Zoom Meetings, Google Docs and ThoughtExchange. Any and all wild ideas, thoughts, suggestions and accumulated wisdom on design ideas will be most appreciated. Unfortunately, the tools I mentioned above are the only ones available for this session. No Miro, Mural, or other platforms . . . 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.¡± [#calmference, #calmvention, #calm-versation, #dancingonshiftingsands] URL: http://www.davidgouthro.com LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidgouthro/ Skype: davidgouthro Twitter: @davidgouthro
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Combining Miro and Zoom for Open Space Process
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Does anyone have experience with combining Miro and Zoom for setting up an open space process or something similar. I am very curious to try this and would love to see any examples or hear you thoughts and recommendations. Especially how do you create different zoom room and link to them? What is the visual design like in the Miro board? Market place, topics, breakout areas...? Warm regards, Rowan -- ================= Rowan Francis Simonsen Tel. +57 311 4790 656 E-mail: rowan@... Web: www.beehive-productions.net
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Looking for Japanese Facilitator
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#technology
Hi, I'm looking for a number of different international facilitators. Currently, we are looking for a Japanese facilitator. Thank you, Liz witi.com
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Pros and cons of WebinarJam?
I'm looking for advice from facilitators who have used WebinarJam, as we prepare to test and transition with a large group. I'd love to hear anything you think might be useful to know, based on your experience, but below are some particular questions I'd eventually like to understand: What do you like? What do you dislike? How user-friendly is the platform for those less comfortable with new technology? (Think: avid WhatsApp users, relatively new Zoom users.) How low-bandwidth-friendly is the platform? (Think: slow West African internet connections.) If you're not a big fan of WebinarJam: Are there similar platforms that have the breakout rooms and integrated apps for a similar price point? (Think: annual unlimited license for less than $1000usd) Thank you in advance for sharing your wealth of knowledge! Cheers, Sarah Facilitator, Trainer, Coach, Learner | Virtual & In-Person Support | Garabam Consulting Ed.M., Learning & Teaching Program | Harvard Graduate School of EducationLearning Travel Blogger | Designing for Learning by Travelling @sfnehrling
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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). 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: https://www.dropbox.com/s/khi2ju3sa2b9hwq/idenk%20virtual%20working%20survey%20July%202020.pdf?dl=0 Here is my draft taxonomy: 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. Here is a link to the taxonomy as a Googledoc: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Gqt2tv7tLX972ELDx6caJW7xLoHxxpMgqfnhTyJPHxU/edit?usp=sharing Please feel free to change it. It doesn¡¯t need to look beautiful, I can do that afterwards. I will share the finished version with the group. Thanks so much in advance. Helen PS: if you want to see the kinds of things that my team and I do, find us on Twitter at @HelenBevan and @HorizonsNHS * This message may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient please inform the sender that you have received the message in error before deleting it. Please do not disclose, copy or distribute information in this e-mail or take any action in relation to its contents. To do so is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Thank you for your co-operation. NHSmail is the secure email and directory service available for all NHS staff in England and Scotland. NHSmail is approved for exchanging patient data and other sensitive information with NHSmail and other accredited email services. For more information and to find out how you can switch, https://portal.nhs.net/help/joiningnhsmail
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Free Online Engagement Showcase offered on Sept 29th
Hello lovely Facilitators for Change! I don't think this has been shared on the listserve, and I know this will interest many of you. The National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation (NCDD) and the Center for Public Deliberation at Colorado State University are running a FREE "Online Engagement Showcase" next Wednesday (September 29th) at 1-3 PM Eastern, 10-12pm Pacific. The Showcase will allow participants to browse booths for numerous platforms and tools for synchronous online engagement. They'll also have presenters available in zoom rooms for Q&A. More info is at http://ncdd.org/31592 and below, and you can sign up on QiqoChat at https://bit.ly/3gXkllb. Looking forward to seeing some of you there! Best, Sandy Sandy Heierbacher Founder, National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation sandyheierbacher@... ? @ncdd & @heierbacher Join Us for the Online Engagement Showcase! Add Comment Posted by Courtney Breese | September 16th, 2020 NCDD is excited to partner with the Center for Public Deliberation at Colorado State University to host our first Online Engagement Showcase! This free event takes place September 29th from 1:00-3:00 PM Eastern/10:00 AM-12:00 PM Pacific on Zoom and QiqoChat. RSVP at this link in order to save your spot! The Online Engagement Showcase will feature synchronous tools and platforms that can help you with your virtual engagement. In this uniquely formatted event, you will have the opportunity to learn about numerous platforms in a booth format in QiqoChat, where participants can learn more about each tool they choose to. Presenters will be available in private zoom rooms for participants to engage with, ask questions, and learn more! Some of the presenters will include: Axis Workshops Common Ground for Action Ethelo GroupMap QiqoChat And more! Join us for this first event in what we hope will be a recurring series featuring these and other platforms and tools in the future! To register go to https://bit.ly/3gXkllb ¨C this will take you directly to QiqoChat. Our event flyer is linked here ¨C please use this to spread the word with your networks: Showcase-Announcement! NCDD is extremely grateful for the partnership of the Center for Public Deliberation on this event. We¡¯ve been working on a resource to share of the different tools and platforms out there as well ¨C stay tuned! Note: NCDD is a membership organization, and we need and value your support! Please join, renew or upgrade your membership today. NCDD's discussion and announcement lists are generously donated by L-Soft (www.lsoft.com) and are powered by L-Soft's LISTSERV mailing list management software (www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html). Learn more about all of NCDD's email lists at www.ncdd.org/listservs -- and please read over the NCDD Discussion list's ground rules before you post. Email joy@... to change the email address you're subscribed with or to switch to a daily digest. To unsubscribe from the NCDD-DISCUSSION list, click the following link: http://lists.ncdd.org/scripts/wa-THATAWAY.exe?SUBED1=NCDD-DISCUSSION&A=1
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Looking for expert with CVENT CrowdCompass and Online Event Guide
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#events
#facilitation
#technology
All - I just joined this group today. I have a prospective client who is using CVENT CrowdCompass and Online Event Guide as their conferencing platform for a conference with 150+ people, 32 breakout sessions plus 5 general sessions. They had told me they were using Zoom meetings as their platform, but I just learned they're using CVENT CrowdCompass and Online Event Guide. My client says: "Basically every time we bring up the Zoom integration piece of the conference, CVENT throws their hands up and says ¡°oh that¡¯s Zoom only ¨C consult with them, not in our lane.¡± The project I'm talking them about is to coordinate all the session moderators and be the go-to person for all the moderator coordination and training/preparing their speakers. If they're having issues between CVENT and Zoom, I want to be sure I know what to expect. I am very knowledgeable about Zoom meetings with large 50-100 person groups. But not CVENT CrowdCompass and Online Event Guide. Does anyone have experience with this specific set of platforms and can offer guidance or talk to me about what to be aware of and watch out for? I haven't confirmed that I will be submitting a proposal yet, but I need to decide in the next day or so as the conference is last week of October! Yes - they just decided to hire this out. Thanks. Linda
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Hi all, let me quickly introduce myself. I'm Kevon and I run an interactive video conf platform called Toasty ( https://toasty.ai/workshop-facilitators/) ( https://toasty.ai/workshop-facilitators/?&utm_source=groupsio&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=feedback-wanted ) 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 https://toasty.ai/ ( https://toasty.ai/?&utm_source=groupsio&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=feedback-wanted ) 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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Hello all - just wanted to share a free webinar taking place next week called Creating Connection Online. This webinar shares some specific approaches to embodied communication and social resonance on a zoom call. Our work is heavily inspired by Theory U and Thomas Hubl and we've been supporting small group learning experiences on our platform, sutra.co, for the last five years. We'll cover how to create intimate online experiences where there's a deep level of presence, connection, and meaningful sharing between participants. These webinars are super fun and participatory. Please register here to join us: https://pages.sutra.co/creatingconnection
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For those interested in experimenting with large online events
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The Age of Conversation Summit is starting soon and runs all day (Central US time). There are about 500 people who have registered and you can start to see them RSVPing and attending in the screenshot.20 event planners got together to plan the most fun online event they could imagine for themselves and others in the event industry. It's an example of how you can use QiqoChat to make a highly customized event (includes 100+ hours of presenters, a magician, an online arcade to play video games, etc). You can RSVP here for $20. If you'd rather not pay, please reach out; I have a few free tickets. Lucas Cioffi Lead Software Engineer, QiqoChat.com Scarsdale, NY 917-528-1831 From the Organizers: Who is Age of Conversation Summit for? We thought we'd break it down for you, but basically there are conversations here for corporate, association, nonprofit, suppliers, hoteliers, agencies, freelancers, soloprenerus, and entrepreneurs.You should consider joining us¡ If you are a marketing or event professional looking to make your virtual events not suck (we have conversations about it and experiences that you can try out and consider for your upcoming event)! If you are a marketing or event professional looking to make your resume rise to the top of the pile (we have conversations on virtual interviewing, resume reviews, and identifying transferable skills)! If you are a marketing or event professional who wants to get some skill-building and professional development in during these times of lockdown (we have conversations ranging from organizing events to get better ROI to setting up your tech stack to doing your own hair during lockdown)!
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Thread for People Trying to do Large (150+) Online Gatherings
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#large
#facilitation
#meetingdesign
Based on requests coming in here and there, I think it might be useful to open a thread for particular kinds of events online. Those having to consider VERY large events - in the thousands, will be rare, but many are looking at the 150-500 size meetings. So let's dedicate this thread to asks for help, ideas, resources for larger events. First off is a really tangible set of tips from Xplane. https://cmxhub.com/a-comprehensive-list-of-tips-tools-and-examples-for-event-organizers-during-the-coronavirus-outbreak/
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Dear all, Mentimeter, Slido, Polls everywhere..... I believe these instrument all vary just a bit. I am specifically looking for a tool which is billed monthly, like Zoom is offering. As I will be using the tool for a hybrid event and the participants on site probably won't use to laptop but will have their phones to give input. Any recommendation for a tool? Thanks in advance!
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How to export zoom chat data without name and date?
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A quick question: Does anyone have experience with how to export the content of the zoom chat in a cleaned up version, without names and dates of each entry? I am playing with the idea of copying into a spreadsheet and ordering all posts alphabetically and deleting all the lines that say "From...." But it seems like there should be an easier way. Looking forward to hear what you are learning about this? Cheers, Rowan
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