Yes I think wordclouds are probably about the best you can get without
the input of human minds and fingers... I'd be very eager to know of
anything automated that could do a better job!
One option to ease the burden is a shared online editable document
(Google Docs or hackpad) and find a few contributors to at least share
the effort, with the added benefit of multiple perspectives (and methods
of recording).
This could be built in as part of the structure of conversation, much as
we might have a closing circle at an Open Space gathering... with
everybody invited to draw out the lessons or points that they thing most
worth sharing.
Ideally this practice could form part of the culture of conversation—
people will contribute more readily if they know it is coming, and have
personal experience of seeing the value of it.
This 'summing up' is one element of face-to-face that seems almost
completely absent online...
Another thing to keep in mind is referring back to source... are OS List
discussions available at a public URL somewhere? Linking back increases
the versatility of a harvest, and decreases the pressure to capture it
all, giving people flexibility to paraphrase (synthesise).
A few cents there for the circle...
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On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 8:15 AM, Harrison Owen <[email protected]
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Chris -- Definitely still there! And very current I think. So folks
have a read... Harvests of days gone by and still useful...____
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Lucas – Don’t know where this fits, but several years ago Michael
Herman and Chris Corrigan put together what they called a Non-User’s
Guide which is essentially an annotated collection of a particularly
rich set of discussions here on OSLIST. I haven’t checked, but I
think it is still available onwww.openspaceworld.org
<http://www.openspaceworld.org/>May turn out that human
minds/fingers are still an essential part of the process no matter
the technology. My thought would be Graduate Students. Good labor at
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Hi All,____
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Someone reached out and suggested I try a word cloud of the
conversation. I took a few minutes to copy the 50 emails from the
conversation entitled "Management and Organization" which has been
running for the past month. I pasted it below, and if the word cloud
doesn't come through as an attachment, you can also see it online
here.____
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Word clouds are helpful, but I'm still left wanting more. I can't
put my finger on it.____
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I'm thinking that there must be some very creative harvesting
methods used by facilitators in this group, using graphic
facilitation and other methods.* Are your approaches to in-person
harvesting applicable to harvesting one of our 50-email
discussions?*____
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I'm listening to see if I can create a software for harvesting &
summarizing email threads to unlock some of the knowledge buried in
the OSList archives and breath new life into some of our dormant yet
valuable discussion threads from the past.____
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On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Lucas Cioffi <[email protected]
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Hi All,____
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So this week many of us are watching a lively discussion thread grow
and grow and grow. It's awesome that it has received nearly 50
email replies already from people all over the world, however 95% of
the people on the list aren't active in it yet, and of course that's
OK.____
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For me and probably others, digging into such a large conversation
becomes a bit intimidating when the conversation is so large. ____
*Question: So, what would a harvest from such a long OSList email
discussion look like if it was to be useful to you personally?*____
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I'm asking the question above for two reasons:____
* For me: Aside from being a longtime OS enthusiast, I'm building
a tool for large online conversations and looking for ideas
about how to create meaningful harvests from them.____
* For all of us: Unrelated to my tool, maybe if there was an easy
way to harvest/summarize these long and lively conversations on
OSList, then it could give access to the conversation to those
who do not have the time or courage to dive in directly.____
* New voices: The younger generations spend less time on email, so
they largely miss out on the great knowledge that's shared on a
list like this. So harvests might be one way to bring new
voices to our conversations on OSList.____
To get the most value out of a conversation, someone certainly has
to ride along and read most of it. But the problem is that when
someone chooses to read one conversation in-depth, they are choosing
to not read another great conversation in-depth. So I'm hoping that
a harvest can help people when they decide which conversations they
want to invest their time in.____
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I look forward to hearing any suggestions!____
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