hallo everybody, a day in delay!!!!
i would like to share my ideas about  weekly chats in general and also
about the last one ( yesterday)...
i have started to bring some point of view about the discussion and
post it in fact a day later directly on the open skype chat.... did it
go online, or is it only on my computer? just to know;
since i do not know,
i write this mail, with wich i am more trustfull
and a bit  randomly i would like to add/say/share about mallory's tool
and the discussion around it:
generaly i would like to say that the chat tool is not for everybody
of us ( for me at least) the best tool to make people partecipate
because one is conditioned by the day and time of its schedule,;
and for me this is a big limitation
so i think it could be a goodidea to find also another way to allow
people to be involved even when is not available at a decided time .

i wish there would be a tool-way to allow everybody that wishes to get
involved giving his/hers specific time risource without the
frustration of having to give up due to chat schedule or for lack of
open tool

one other limitation i see about this skype chat model is the
confusion that can raise about the subject of discussion ecc ( i
beleive mallory explained my observation in a much better way; if i
understood right what she meant! Mallory?)
for this reason i think that her tool proposal is to be considered, it
may need some little develpoing but i think it may be of good use ( I
managed to test it bymyself and it seemd ok);

Pierre george: i think that whatever the tool is, it must be simple to
use if you want people to partecipate  ! give up something sometimes!
perfection is not always perfectly efficient!

mallory: can this tool be used as a chat also? i see it as a black
board with no spacelimits,  we write the things we want to say,  and
when i want to say something more i can add it or cancel the previous
and overwrite on my own statement,  and when it comes to the end we
cancel the "chat part" and leave the important concepts, decisions,
agenda schedule?

When one talks about partecipation, decision making, involvment, ecc,
I think sometimes we miss some steps in the process
It’ll have also to go through sharing  the objectives, the final
vision, the goals, the strategies ecc, not only accettability of some
statements! I have seen at times the lack of direct sharing of
projects acc wich does not mean to put pubblic one's opinion

Perhaps it must pass by the acceptance of the meaning of the words
partecipation involvment consensous, decision making model ecc i guess
it depends onthe item agenda to discuss; the contents

it is also about beeing transparent about the process.

and again, is there the possibility of changing time/day of some of
these group discussions? for me it is much better a couple of hours
later for example, almost any day of hte week. I wish to try the new
tool together, we should in fact speak about it directly by using it
and on it!!!! is it clear? :-(

its late now, and i may have explain very bad my concepts;

please give a feedback

lets try to build a common useful efficient way

to communicate and act together

kisses

bettina

ps: the "tool" can translate in other languages? or it is one one that
wants that translates?