Hello, On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 1:50 PM, Anne Gomez <[email protected]> wrote: > > Here's a tool that might be useful for remote collaboration for less-linear > things. One of the challenges I've run into repeatedly with remote > conversations is around free-form clustering, as opposed to working on lists > (etherpad), lists of lists (phab or trello), matrices (spreadsheets). > > I know an engineer who used to work on Padlet. Here's an example pad you can > play with (or make your own): > https://padlet.com/wall/3r94suqv8r4r
Thank you for sharing this. A few months ago, after seeing your email, the Values working group decided to try and use Padlet for the facilitated Values discussions. The rationale was that the post-it note format would be more flexible than a plain Google doc, and that it would make it easier to rearrange and cluster people's ideas. We used it for a few sessions, but eventually fell back to Google docs for a few reasons: * People were unfamiliar with Padlet and a bit confused at first. * Some participants experienced issues creating and editing their notes. For example, at least one person could create notes with a title, but couldn't add more content. * Some participants had trouble using Padlet without logging in. In the end, Padlet didn't work out well for our use case, but we're still glad we tried it. Today I also came across http://scrumblr.ca/ , a similar tool based on GPL licensed software: https://github.com/aliasaria/scrumblr ; It's used for example on https://framemo.org/ . I haven't used it much but I thought it was worth mentioning as a follow-up. -- Guillaume Paumier _______________________________________________ teampractices mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/teampractices
