[OSList] Software for text message voting

2014-03-06 Thread Viv McWaters
Hi Thomas I can highly recommend the text2cloud system by Poll Everywhere polleverywhere.com Cheers Viv Viv McWaters flavors.me/vivmcwaters +61 417 135 406 Bringing meetings to life. Doing work that matters. Connecting people and ideas. ___ OSList m

Re: [OSList] Software for text message voting?

2014-03-06 Thread Thomas Herrmann
thanks for suggestions and ideas. I agree with you mmp and I rarely use any voting but when it has a purpose it can add. In this case the information from the OST will be used to make nation wide priorities/plan/program for the coming years. It will also be used as input for the top leaders from

Re: [OSList] Software for text message voting?

2014-03-06 Thread Michael M Pannwitz
Wait a minute, Thomas, I confuse myself with your note. I dropped voting (or "weighing", just a euphemism for voting) a LONG time ago as it turned out that it does take all the passion and energy out of the work. Also, it was a lot of statistical trouble and the most voted issues never got touc

Re: [OSList] Open Space and Holacracy

2014-03-06 Thread Harrison Owen
Christine said – “Are we "working too hard" when we try to work differently ?Do you believe that Zappos would have end up anyway with same performance without the hard work of implementing Holacracy ? Anyway, we will never know...” I have no problem working differently, in fact at the moment

Re: [OSList] Software for text message voting?

2014-03-06 Thread Koos de Heer
Hi Thomas, I have good experiences with Socrative. There concept is classroom oriented but it is also great for voting on multiple items. Participants go to the mobile site on their smartphone, enter the correct room number and off you go. The only thing I don't know is if it can handle 1.000

Re: [OSList] Software for text message voting?

2014-03-06 Thread Skye Hirst
Also someone here referenced Turning Point Technologies as but one source. On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Lucas Cioffi wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > Here's a great list of keypad polling technologies from the National > Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation's resource center: > http://ncdd.org/rc

Re: [OSList] Software for text message voting?

2014-03-06 Thread Lucas Cioffi
Hi Thomas, Here's a great list of keypad polling technologies from the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation's resource center: http://ncdd.org/rc/item/3601 Lucas Cioffi Co-Founder, Bark!Best Inc Charlottesville, VA 917-528-1831 On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Thomas Herrmann < tho..

Re: [OSList] Holding space - holding a baby

2014-03-06 Thread Skye Hirst
Yes, indeed. THanks for this. On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 8:08 AM, Johannes Terwitte wrote: > Dear all, > > I have long wondered about the metaphor of "holding space", which I hear > being used pretty frequently in our circles. Then today I stumbled upon the > Wikipidia page on the psychoanalyst Dona

[OSList] Software for text message voting?

2014-03-06 Thread Thomas Herrmann
Anyone who used voting via text message(people using their phones)? Do you know any good software? In May I will facilitating a large one day OST I shared a bit about earlier. My sponsor counts on 1000 participants. The voting will be on the topics that came up on the agenda as we cannot give t

[OSList] Holding space - holding a baby

2014-03-06 Thread Johannes Terwitte
Dear all, I have long wondered about the metaphor of "holding space", which I hear being used pretty frequently in our circles. Then today I stumbled upon the Wikipidia page on the psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott and found the following, which I simply wanted to share with you all: Part of [the mo

Re: [OSList] Open Space and Holacracy

2014-03-06 Thread Suzanne Daigle
Wow Michael and Christine, Thank you for this discussion and your words. The self-organizing that I felt drawn to and struggled so much to better understand suddenly became clearer. Describing "OST as pretty helpful in that effort" also described the essence of it for me as a simple invitati

Re: [OSList] Open Space and Holacracy

2014-03-06 Thread Michael M Pannwitz
Dear Christine, you are on the safe side by focusing on expanding time and space for the forces of selforganisation to unfold and OST is pretty helpful in that effort. If you do that, a number of more or less puzzling things will regularly happen, such as high performance or laughter or heated