[Dialogue] New Skills for Facilitators?

[steve har]

Wonder if this new gaming and playfulness paradigm generates higher
levels of engagement than facilitating brainstorming?

Maybe a role change for facilitators towards online designers &
navigators? Why not?

Healing & re-engaging Jane McGonigal's Super-Better
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ2SnQ-Glsg&noredirect=1


Online Town Meetings?
MindMixer works as a virtual town hall, giving citizens a forum to
launch ideas that others can comment on and vote up. But the feature
that's made it a success is that all of these actions award points to
the ideas and their creators. It’s a “wisdom of crowds” situation. The
ideas are listed randomly, so as not to bias people coming onto the
site. As high-scoring ideas filter out, they can then supplement and
refine those kicked around at the physical meeting, thereby convincing
more people to participate than might otherwise be inclined or able
to.  The sites can be set up to accept open submissions, challenges
set by the city to address specific areas, or some combination of
both. It's modular that way; there are lots of ways to "play."
Making a Game Out of Town Hall Meetings
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/technology/2012/04/making-game-out-town-hall-meetings/1772/

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Steve Harrington