It's easy for everyone to autonomously start, join or leave a conversation. Just approach another participant and start talking.
The facilitator asks participants to form small groups and work on a given topic, participants follow the request and work on the task at hand.
With a signal from the facilitator, the last idea can be shared in the small group and the group dissolves by the will of the group members, before they merge to the whole group again.
It's easy for everyone to autonomously start, join or leave a conversation. Just approach another participant and start talking.
It's natural to take a sheet of paper, some pens and start to scribble in order to shape ideas together.
The facilitator hands out some working material and shares it with the small groups just formed.
Participants work together on group tables, playing ideas and perspectives back and forth, co-creating something emergent.
After a given timebox the results can be easily shared with the rest of the group.
It's natural to take a sheet of paper, some pens and start to scribble in order to shape ideas together.
From social networking over having a Fish Bowl conversation to giving a presentation to a bigger audience: thing.online makes shaping conversational settings as natural as in real life. Can I quickly listen into a small work group as a facilitator? Sure. Can I whisper to my neighbor while someone is giving a speech? If she's ok with it...
Get together with your team and collaborate on whiteboards, documents and planning boards. Continue using the tools you already love, focus on the task at hand - all within a single browser tab. Add quizzes, polls and other activities to engage with the team. And yes, you can still share your screen and post a short chat message, as usual 😃.
Make sure your meetings generate valuable outcomes by adding structural elements: Customize the space to make it yours and guide conversations, design a meeting agenda to keep things in context, add activities, so participants can collaborate easily. Let thing.online act as your co-facilitator.
