There's a method I developed for using a projected computer (or very
large monitors, or series of monitors, or any screen-broadcasting
technology) to facilitate collaborative work in a face-to-face work
meeting. I call it "technography."
For the facilitator or process manager or knowledge engineer, the live
computer screen is to the whiteboard what the whiteboard is to stone
tablets. As technographer every personal productivity tool becomes a tool
for group productivity.
Imagine a face-to-face (and/or place-to-place) meeting where everyone can
see this one computer screen. Now, imagine a brainstorm using a medium
where you NEVER RUN OUT OF ROOM FOR NEW IDEAS, where you can reorganize,
categorize, print and publish.
What you see on the technographed screen is the group output, a
remarkably uniform looking group output, typed in light. There's
something actually kinda ANONYMOUS feeling about this output. You can't
even tell whose typewriting it is.
I think that's what makes it so easy for it to become a group-owned,
consensus-driven process, that you can't really tell who said what. And
that it doesn't really matter.
-- Bernie DeKoven MEETINGS@california.com