For the wired community, I can understand that they would like to have laptops all over. And they probably will. Major downsides in my experience are several. First, the notes taken tend to be almost verbatim - which generally yields an enormous amount of "stuff" of questionable value. Having to type a report from a stack of news print tends to focus the mind, to say nothing of the input. The second thing you lose with instant entry is the camaraderie of the News Room. Actually I find some of the best discussions (ideas) are generated when folks get together to figure out what they are really talking about. I guess I am getting old, but lo-tec wins out in my book.
ho Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, Maryland 20845 Phone 301-365-2093 Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com <http://www.openspaceworld.com/> Open Space Institute www.openspaceworld.org Personal website http://mywebpages.comcast.net/hhowen/index.htm [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html -----Original Message----- From: OSLIST [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lisa Heft Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 10:48 AM To: [email protected] Subject: wireless and wiki - things to know? Hello, dear colleagues - To those of you who have used high-technology methods of collecting discussion notes during the real-time of an OS event that look like - People on their laptops writing notes directly to wiki or other website - Wireless - folks sending their notes to somewhere without physically having to walk over to a Newsroom table to coordinate input/transcription - Other things that look like that What are some advantages, disadvantages, things you wished you had known / done before you did this in a next OS event, and so on? I often work with clients / communities that have *zero* technology of the electronic kind (so I am very good at when you *don't* have computers, or xerox machines and so on). Or with 'basic' electronic technology like a bunch of computers in the Newsroom with a Newsroom Coordinator present, discs or drives or network to share / send files, and so on. But I have an upcoming situation where a majority of the participants are *very* into electronic technology. So I just want to learn from you-all what to plan for, look for, invite, beware of, and so on. I know that several of you have had these interesting and sometimes wild experiences. Thank you for your thoughts and recommendations, Lisa ___________________________ L i s a H e f t Consultant, Facilitator, Educator O p e n i n g S p a c e 2325 Oregon Berkeley, California 94705-1106 USA +01 510 548-8449 <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] <http://www.openingspace.net> www.openingspace.net * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
