Tools for Dialogue and Deliberation on Wicked Problems

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A space to draw together group discussion about: (1) the appropriate technical platform for the development of Global Sensemaking project; (2) how we enable data to flow between existing tools; and (3) the shape of the tools to come.

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What's the best technical platform for the development of the group?

As an experiment to help give the discussion around this issue more structure, I have seeded the debate map below with some of the potential options open to us as a group.

Let's see if we can flesh out the pros and cons of the different platforms, and layer in any additional issues arising...

Note: To edit the map below you'll need to register / log-in first (via the Participate button). Once you are logged-in you can open the map either by returning to this page and clicking the View Live button or by searching for the map via the Find map tab on the Debategraph home page). We are in the process of simplifying the log-in loop at the moment, and I will provide an update on this soon.

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Features and functionality of a global-scalable, collaborative, deliberative, asysnchronous discourse system 19 Replies

Would it be possible to start a pre-specification list of all the features and functions we think would be necessary for a comprehensive sense-making tool? I have studied concepts in effective discou…

Started by George E. Mobus. Last reply by Mark Aakhus Jun. 17, 2008.

Enabling Sensemaking via Social Networking Sockets 7 Replies

Here's one part of a solution: enable each Sensemaking tool with Friend Connect (Friend Connect is here used somewhat generically - Facebook Connect, for example, might be a powerful tool to use as w…

Tagged: social, graph, distributed, connect, friend

Started by Mark Szpakowski. Last reply by Jack Park May. 24, 2008.

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Comment by David Price on May 22, 2008 at 6:38pm: Mark,

Thanks for letting me know. As part of the next update, we are about to eliminate the separate Transmit function; so that both functions are performed by the Finish button. It's one of those classic usability dilemmas in which separating the functions gives experienced mappers useful extra options but adds to the learning curve for first time users.

We're still working on, and iterating through, all of these kinds of choices where they occur in Debategraph to find the optimum balance; so suggestions for improvements to any of our other current choices will be very welcome.

In this instance, simplifying the process seems to be the sensible option—and, serendipitously, in deciding this, we have also found a better use for the code underlying the Transmit function (which we'll look implement soon).

David

Comment by Mark Szpakowski on May 22, 2008 at 4:30pm: Ok, went through using Debategraph again, and realized that last time I had not Transmited my local changes to the public map. I did note the Element Added: Operation Succeeded confirmation. Thnx, David.

Comment by David Price on May 21, 2008 at 11:39pm: Mark,

Many thanks for the Friend Connect suggestion—it looks very promising—and sorry to read that the nodes you added yesterday are not visible at the moment. Can you expand on what happened briefly in an email and I'll see if I can figure out what happened.

The application has been very stable in this respect across the last 18 months; however, it's possible that the current live update—which we are mid-stream in at the moment, and which is changing the edit button functionality—may be a factor here.

It would be helpful, for example, from a diagnostic perspective to know (if you can remember) if the regular confirmation message was displayed after you transmitted the new nodes)?

David

Comment by Mark Szpakowski on May 21, 2008 at 7:30pm: Jack, maybe it's time to start a Discussion, although scratching on the wall is fun...

Comment by Mark Szpakowski on May 21, 2008 at 7:30pm: Hmm, I entered some nodes into Debategraph yesterday, but they seem to have disappeared (not visible either here or on Debategraph itself)... :-(

Comment by Jack Park on May 20, 2008 at 9:04pm: Looks like it finally refreshed.
Mark, please run through a scenario using Friend Connect.
Thanks.

Comment by Mark Szpakowski on May 20, 2008 at 8:44pm: Looks like the image referenced by the iFrame here needs to be re-generated (?).

BTW, this is a very good example of how Friend Connect enabling Debategraph and using a Ning Gadget could allow any user of this group to use Debategraph without having to create a new userid, etc. (That's the theory, at least)

Comment by Jack Park on May 20, 2008 at 7:17pm: This just in: all my changes were transmitted to the map properly. In the DebateGraph window, my additions are displayed. When I refresh this page, my changes do not appear. Something's missing...

Comment by Jack Park on May 20, 2008 at 7:14pm: Finally figured out how to use DebateGraph. It's not hard at all so long as you ignore the control panel at the right and just read the prompts! Not happy with the character limit; just when I get on a roll explaining something, it starts flashing a warning at me.

Comment by Andy Streich on May 20, 2008 at 7:46am: Hi David,

Sent you an email with details on my DebateGraph experience. (Seemed like too much info to put here.)

Looks like a good concept. I'm eager to experiment some more after you've had a chance to bug fix. Also happy to help with testing as time allows.