Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.
Re: re-meet to get consensus
Author: Bill Seitz Posted: 3/8/1999; 3:09:03 PM Topic: Technography, Knowledge Management and Frontier Msg #: 3807 (In response to 3403) Prev/Next: 3806 / 3808
I think you hit the nail on the head by thinking that this has to be a synchronous process. Otherwise I think it requires a nazi-like facilitator to keep making assumptions explicit and challengeable.So I think you essentially have a review/consensus meeting where you re-summarize as a group everything that's been covered by posted forum discussions.
You start out by building the agenda which summarizes all the points that have been covered (I guess this should just be a tweaked verion of the plan outline that was the output of the previous meeting). Then, during the meeting, you start hanging detail off those nodes, getting buy-in at each step.
A couple tools/techniques that might be helpful:
Regardless of the tools, a lot of people will believe this process is a horrible waste of time, since you're "re-hashing" what's already been done. But I don't see (yet) an alternative, even with blue-sky maybe-they'll-invent-it-in-20-years technology.
- those systems that let one person "drive" the browser of other people. This way you could refer to a Discussion entry and take everyone there at the same time, rather than making a URL available via the outline and waiting for everone to click on it
- encouraging people to write new Subject lines for each entry, rather than just having a Re: of the previous. I might go so far as to (a) leave the add-response Subject field blank, and make it required.
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