Facilitation Technology

Modern facilitation can make the most of modern tools. Are you modern?

A Simple, One File Website

There are many challenges in facilitation. One challenge is keeping all core and extended team members up-to-date with the issues, schedules, and progress of the team. Creating a website is beyond the skill of many of us. It is easy to get bogged down in the details of web hosting, HTML, databases, and backups.

TiddlyWiki to the rescue!

TiddlyWiki

TiddlyWiki is a “personal” blog application, intended to be a web-based personal notebook. It is a self-contained application with built-in web formatting, styles, and website-type functions (to geeks: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code) — all as a SINGLE file.

TiddlyWiki was created for IT projects, as a simple, light-weight, portable (it can be loaded onto a thumb drive or emailed) “to do” list.

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What does your phone have to do with facilitating groups?

Your ‘smart phone,’ such as an iPhone®, is a new tool for group facilitation and meetings. Increasingly, our phones are flexible and useful business tools. The iPhone, for example, offers several capabilities to assist your facilitation.

Meeting Notes

PDAs and cameras provide a handy tool for capturing white board contents. When work is completed on a dry-erase board or an easel, a camera expedites note taking.

Phone camera image quality is typically adequate to capture board notes, presentation images, and Post-It® notes.

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