Did a similar thing over here last May. About 500 people smsd and those w/o phone got assistance from those with phones. Within 10 mts we had a graph on a widescreen showing the top 10 votes ( everyone got 3 votes to use in any way). Found an IT company that solved our needs. My sponsor probably paid a bit. Did have a plan B this time. Everyone got a paper with the 67 topics. Marked there...but it all worked out. Thomas
Skickat från min iPhone > 28 aug 2014 kl. 20:08 skrev Michael Herman <[email protected]>: > > wow. and this might be the answer to my technical question, chris. i'll > check out this new tool and include it in the site updating. specific words, > specific tools. this is exactly what i was looking for. > > as i go off to try to understand the new tool. can you say more here about > how it works. you've got 200 or 300 or 50 or whatever folks in the circle, > day three, or two weeks after a one-day event, or sometime. you've got a set > of proceedings from the first time. maybe you've re-opened the space. or > are going to. there is some interest in polling the crowd. now what? > > in the old days, we numbered the issues and everyone ranked their top ten. > how does this new tool make work? what do you ask them to text into the > center? what do they send? how is that processed and turned back to the > group? does the form of this make it necessary to ask about individual > issues? what possibilities are opened by the new form? how does it not > devolve into a simple yes/no polling or how does it support ongoing or > in-the-moment conversation? > > i guess i'm really wondering if this is a tool for converging or diverging, > or both. and how that works. can you put it in that old familiar context? > or is that the wrong way to think about it? > > thanks, m > > > -- > > Michael Herman > Michael Herman Associates > 312-280-7838 (mobile) > > http://MichaelHerman.com > http://OpenSpaceWorld.org > > > >> On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Chris Corrigan <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> Yup…Opening space for action is still the best way to get things moving. It >> has several advantages, the best of which is that it allows people to digest >> themes and ideas that cross through many many sessions. Often you can have >> a project come out on the action day that takes care of issues raised in >> several different sessions. >> >> It allows for convergence to happen within the heart, and for those with the >> passion who are willing to make time to initiate something to call it in. >> It has always resulted in much better sustained result, in my experience. >> >> Sometimes though, there is a need to vote on things, and what I have done >> recently is to hire a developer called Luke Closs to build a little a tool >> called SMSHarvest and you can find that at www.smsharvest.com. Basically it >> allows people to use their phones to send a text to a number. That text can >> contain any kind of information including preferences, and text….we >> deliberately designed the tool to be useable without any sign up and to be >> totally familiar, as almost everyone knows how to text and if you don’t >> someone can show you or do it for you. Easy. >> >> You can use the tool for free, or throw some money Luke’s way as a mark of >> appreciation. And if you want him to build a tweak for you, he does that >> well, quickly and directly to what you need. >> >> Chris >> >> >> >>> On Aug 28, 2014, at 8:40 AM, Harrison Owen <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Actually I still have the old software, but I agree with Michael. There are >>> much better ways. The problem for me with that software, as with all >>> efforts (including Sticky-dots) to prioritize the issues that were raised >>> on the first day or so of the OS is that it is measurement of “yesterday’s >>> passions.” Very much like the most recent Quarterly Financial Report... all >>> it tells you about is old news. On a standard 2 ½ day OS, when the 3rd day >>> dawns, everybody had had a night to sleep on everything. Almost inevitably >>> a lot will have changed. Hot issues will merge with other hot issues, hot >>> issues will cool, new issues will have been thrown up thanks to the >>> interaction of the preceding two days. There is also the question of >>> Actionable Issues (which is the focal point of the 3rd day) which don’t >>> necessarily include all the issues previously discussed. I believe Chris >>> Corrigan started it all when he talked about “opening the space for >>> action.” Anyhow that is what he did, and I do as well. Very simple >>> procedure which I think I covered in the 3rd Edition of The User’s Guide. >>> Nowhere near as elegant as Michael’s “Praxis” – but it will do in a pinch, >>> and is not in German. J >>> >>> Harrison >>> >>> Winter Address >>> 7808 River Falls Drive >>> Potomac, MD 20854 >>> 301-365-2093 >>> >>> Summer Address >>> 189 Beaucaire Ave. >>> Camden, ME 04843 >>> 207-763-3261 >>> >>> Websites >>> www.openspaceworld.com >>> www.ho-image.com >>> OSLIST To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of >>> OSLIST Go >>> to:http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org >>> >>> From: OSList [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >>> Michael Herman >>> Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2014 5:41 AM >>> To: OSLIST >>> Subject: [OSList] is our voting software dead? >>> >>> hi all, especially those of you who've used the old multi-voting software. >>> >>> i'm wondering when was the last time you used the multi-voting software to >>> do prioritization at the end of an OS meeting? i'm trying to figure out if >>> it's still useful on the latest PCs. i'm a mac guy, so can't test it >>> locally here. >>> >>> and if not using the old software, what are you using on day 3 of os events >>> that are too big for dots? is there a new state-of-the-art when it comes >>> to converging into action with larger groups? >>> >>> many thanks, m >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> Michael Herman >>> Michael Herman Associates >>> 312-280-7838 (mobile) >>> >>> http://MichaelHerman.com >>> http://OpenSpaceWorld.org >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> >>> OSList mailing list >>> To post send emails to [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >>> To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: >>> http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OSList mailing list >> To post send emails to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: >> http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org
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