Using Hackpads as Part of Online Dialogue, Deliberation and Collaborative Process

for "DandDTrans," a "community of inquiry and action" regarding the role that Dialogue & Deiberation can play in addressing the mega-crises of our time

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This document was drafted as part of +OS Topic 7: Processing January Hackpads for Sharing and Discerning Next Steps

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Using Hackpads as Part of Online Dialogue, Deliberation and Collaborative Processes

Nancy Glock-Grueneich Jan. 13, 2015

Suggestions based on experience so far and assuming more prep time in advance:

1. In general, it seems so far, that trying to create or use Hackpads “mid-stream” of a synchronous, live conversation, by self-organizing “volunteers” —though better than nothing— is less than ideal, but suggests testable questions for future development. In particular, I’d like to see experimentation with:

a. Having people volunteer in advance for the role, having had some practice ahead with Hackpads

b. Using pre-structured Hackpads (with permission to depart from that as needed or desired.)

c. Structuring Hackpads to elicit or capture inherent structures as they occur, ones chosen to match intended outcomes, e.g.

· Stories, concerns, suggested sources, etc.

· Problem solving (as, for example, and in particular using Rough’s Dynamic Facilitation structures or a close approximation

· Argumentation (as, for example, to ISIS or Compendium)

d. Reviewing the GroupWork Pattern cards and/or other models (e.g. IAP2 or NCDD) to identify specific places where such “in process” text capture would be helpful

e. Shared creation of positions, proposition, explanations, definition, etc. (see 4d below)

2. Given that people have to adapt to the technology, as well as to the psychic adjustments of interacting with each other at a distance (and often without visual contact or context, depending on whether they are engaged only via audio or not), I think more time needs to be routinely included.

3. Specifically, asynchronous shared text development, using Hackpad (and perhaps including chat) has potential for leveraging real time plenary, seminar and small-group work on line in at least the following ways:

A. Planning an Event See 1 and 2, above

B. Pre-Event Activities See 1, above.

C. Simultaneously

a. Agendas outline content, process, events.

b. Links to short background materials, accessible as needed

c. Note taking during conversations

d. Quick mid-process review of notes taken or specific portions, as part of conversation

D. As built into the structure, using mature dialogue, deliberation & design methodologies, on line:

a. “Intermissions” (i.e. occurring during “breaks” on a given date or between dates for a process that has a series of events)

b. Harvests

i. Syntheses, including constructs, arguments, findings, plans, etc.

ii. Lists of emerging topics, themes, conclusions, criteria, options, questions, etc.

iii. Links, sources, texts, videos, etc. (with URL’s or references looked up later)

c. Next Round

Instructions, additional materials, new content etc. based at least in part on what has gone before and leading into what will come next

d. Feedback

i. Survey responses

ii. Observations, insights, additional content from participants, in response to specific queries or self-initiated

iii. Process evaluations, questions, and suggestions

E. Closings

e. “Check-Outs”

f. Next Steps Planning

g. Evaluations and Suggestions

h. Records: “Permanent” record of content etc. that can be revisited

i. Contact and related info, if agreed upon

F. Follow-on Actions

j. Built into the planning, i.e. intended next steps built partly on text

k. Spin-offs, i.e. spontaneous or emergent, initiatives for action or further inquiry

l. On-going maintenance or evolution of relationships established during process

4. Just to stimulate our thinking, as mine has been!, here’s a starting list of possibilities, based on

a. Open Space Technology (OST)

“Wall” and “Marketplace” for specifying and scheduling topics, recordation and possible follow through (as is being piloted this month in this space.)

b. World Cafés Conversation Cafés

Notes from each “table” that are “kept” by one person who has agreed in advance to do that and to remain at the table as the “host” while others “move”. Time is allocated for “host” to go over “notes” with 2^nd group as it arrives. (If feasible, a third group might be planned for, allocating more time for the review, and consolidating the now two sets of notes, or only the 2^nd one, if it encompasses enough carryovers from the 1^st. )

c. Dynamic Facilitation

Pre-defined Hackpads capturing the defining discourse components, as would otherwise be done on flip-charts, i.e. “Problem-Statement”, “Facts”, “Definitions”, “Assertions and Counter-assertions. ( I’m doing this from memory and am not quite sure of the last two; I would also add “Sources & Resources.)

d. National Issues Forums

Shared effort by participants to develop the position statements and related materials to be used in a given series.

e. Everyday Democracy

Shared effort by participants to develop the position statements and related materials to be used in parallel “living room” conversations leading up to community wide forums or other follow on activities

f. Public Conversations

Usage and content would be carefully worked out in advance of particular conversations by those from partisan groups leading the design process and attracting participants.

g. Participatory Budgeting

Use Hackpads to work out content and process ahead of time by collaborative authorship among subject matter, budgetary and government experts working with each other and with community leaders. They would design agreed upon text to accompany such established processes as budget simulations, with commentary and mutual modification. (They might preface this with some dialogical trust building work as well, between planners, or between small groups of participants chosen within and across affinity groupings, using Hackpad with e.g. Bohm Dialogue, etc.)

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This document was drafted as part of OS Topic 7: Processing January Hackpads for Sharing and Discerning Next Steps
Using Hackpads as Part of Online Dialogue, Deliberation and Collaborative Processes
Nancy Glock-Grueneich Jan. 13, 2015

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