Taking notes
From Faster Than 20
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
Decisions Made vs Next Steps
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
- Consider individual note-taking
- 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
Brown Bag: San Francisco, November 10, 2011
References
- Brown bags in San Francisco on November 10, 2011 and in Portland at XPLANE / Dachis Group on November 15, 2011.