Winston: Digital cameras are almost a must for me these days. Often my proceedings documents include photos as well as text. For a very basic set of proceedings using a digital camera, you can look at http://www.chriscorrigan.com/sweetspace. It's probably not much different from what you have done in the past. That set of proceedings could have been enhanced a lot more with pictures of groups meeting and so on, but no one had the time or energy to produce anything other than that little web page.
As far as do's and don'ts, make sure that you have a flash on the camera and that whatever you are photographing is well lit. You'd be surprised how dim meeting rooms can be (:-)). Flip chart notes can often gain something from being transcribed, so I would be sure that you had a copy of both the photo and the text if you planning to make photos of all the proceedings. Another consideration would be the size of the final document. Also, you would not be able to use the report in classical digital way by cutting and pasting things into other reports and documents without transcribing. Those are issues I can think of. Chris --- CHRIS CORRIGAN Consultation - Facilitation Open Space Technology Bowen Island, BC, Canada http://www.chriscorrigan.com [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: OSLIST [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Winston Kinch Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2002 6:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Using digital cameras... >From time to time, I have used flip charts as the medium for small group reports. It seems that, when the group is not so large that wall space becomes a limiting factor (perhaps less than forty or so folks) it allows greater freedom of individual expression, and to be less sterile than homogeneously aligned printed pages in 12 pt. Arial... The challenge is of course converting them into replicable "proceedings" with a minimum of work. Once, I had someone with a digital camera offer to take pictures of some reports that were not readily transmogrifiable into printed pages (mind maps, group art) and we distributed the pics along with the other reports "as is" by e-mail as part of the proceedings. I am facilitating a small group (20 - 40 people) next month and am thinking about using this process exclusively (no re-typing) with a digital camera and e-mail or where necessary copies of the photos. I would appreciate any thots you might have from experience (or theoretical speculation) for "do's and don'ts" in going this way... Winston
