Comments on: Engage Event Participants to Generate Bottom-line Results http://facilitate.com/blog/index.php/2009/09/engag-event-participants-to-generate-bottom-line-results/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:17:00 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Do You Allocate Enough Time For Interaction? « Interactive Meeting Technology http://facilitate.com/blog/index.php/2009/09/engag-event-participants-to-generate-bottom-line-results/comment-page-1/#comment-1104 Do You Allocate Enough Time For Interaction? « Interactive Meeting Technology Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:07:19 +0000 http://facilitate.com/blog/?p=854#comment-1104 [...] [...] [...] [...]

]]> By: Julia Young http://facilitate.com/blog/index.php/2009/09/engag-event-participants-to-generate-bottom-line-results/comment-page-1/#comment-999 Julia Young Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:45:48 +0000 http://facilitate.com/blog/?p=854#comment-999 Doug - Interesting question. The FacilitatePro software that Ron mentions was chosen for a particular focused purpose - to allow multiple people/tables to contribute to a shared repository of ideas simultaneously, in a way that was immediately available for the panelists or facilitators to see or to share across the whole room/virtual meeting space, so that it could be organized, consolidated and then prioritized by the whole group leading to the selection of two go forward ideas. This mirrored a paper process that The Disney Institute typically uses with the added benefit that there was nothing to type up at the end – all the ideas, categories and prioritize were fully documented as we went. A tool like Twitter obviously has some collaboration capabilities and is a useful way of messaging between individuals and from one person to a following of many people. It would be fun in a separate post to share ideas for how a messaging tool such as Twitter has been successfully used to support a group conference. In Ron's example, however, the facilitators were designing in much more than quick messaging - this was a large group decision making process that went well beyond simple brainstorming. We have posted some descriptions of other group processes (with and without technology) in our Facilitator ToolKit at http://www.facilitate.com/support/facilitator-toolkit. Doug – Interesting question. The FacilitatePro software that Ron mentions was chosen for a particular focused purpose – to allow multiple people/tables to contribute to a shared repository of ideas simultaneously, in a way that was immediately available for the panelists or facilitators to see or to share across the whole room/virtual meeting space, so that it could be organized, consolidated and then prioritized by the whole group leading to the selection of two go forward ideas. This mirrored a paper process that The Disney Institute typically uses with the added benefit that there was nothing to type up at the end – all the ideas, categories and prioritize were fully documented as we went.

A tool like Twitter obviously has some collaboration capabilities and is a useful way of messaging between individuals and from one person to a following of many people. It would be fun in a separate post to share ideas for how a messaging tool such as Twitter has been successfully used to support a group conference. In Ron’s example, however, the facilitators were designing in much more than quick messaging – this was a large group decision making process that went well beyond simple brainstorming.

We have posted some descriptions of other group processes (with and without technology) in our Facilitator ToolKit at http://www.facilitate.com/support/facilitator-toolkit.

]]> By: Doug Caldwell http://facilitate.com/blog/index.php/2009/09/engag-event-participants-to-generate-bottom-line-results/comment-page-1/#comment-994 Doug Caldwell Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:42:42 +0000 http://facilitate.com/blog/?p=854#comment-994 Thanks for sharing as it gave me some interesting ideas. In lieu of facilitate.com, could one creatively use Twitter and 3d party applications to achieve same results? Thanks for sharing as it gave me some interesting ideas. In lieu of facilitate.com, could one creatively use Twitter and 3d party applications to achieve same results?

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