Taking notes

Crawl	Walk	Run	Fly
Capture decisions made and next steps	Capture key takeaways	Capture and synthesize useful context	Facilitate via note-taking

Principles

• Capture clarity, not confusion

Outline

• Shared responsibility for better collaboration breaks down into two things: greater literacy around how to convene and mastering the shared artifact. Maybe show the Group Process model I've been toying with
• Tic-Tac-Toe
• Simply having a shared display buys you a lot. The nuances are about:
  • Design principle: Leverage work you're already doing. Michael Idinopulos's notion of "In-The-Flow" vs "Above-The-Flow"
  • Where that display goes
    • Picture of Lynn
    • Pair Programming
  • Size of display
    • MG Taylor: Work Big
    • Research about display size and productivity
• All of this is about shared literacy around space and collaboration
• Assume you have this literacy, next step is about what goes on the display. And when that display is shared, things get more complicated
  • Consider individual note-taking
    • Bob Horn story
    • Track down that picture of Bryan Coffman's notes
    • Have people show their notebooks
    • Individual goals around notes:
      • Record (transcriptive vs interpretive)
      • Synthesis (recording helps understanding)
  • What about shared note-taking?
    • Co-creative / collaborative does not necessarily mean that everyone has an equal say / role
• Tension between shared vs individual. The tool can only do so much
  • World Cafe pictures -- shared or not?
  • But the tool can do something
    • Post-its for brainstorming
    • Passing templates around
• Tension between transcriptive vs interpretive vs evocative (extreme of interpretive)
  • Model-building
  • Christopher Alexander
  • LiveScribe
  • Hypertext
  • Proust and Nigeria
• Digital?
  • "Social objects" in social media parlance are the same as shared artifacts

References

• Brown bags in San Francisco on November 10, 2011 and in Portland at XPLANE / Dachis Group on November 15, 2011.