Using CompendiumNG for Collaboration
Compendium was originally developed as a means for facilitating collaboration and collective sensemaking. Potential uses for CompenpdiumNG for collaboratin include the following:
Dialog mapping
The focus of dialog mapping is on discussion group facilitation. In contrast to issue mapping, the focus is on the discursive process of engaging in a dialog on an issue. The purpose is to converge in shared understanding among the members of a group in terms of what is the case and what should be done. For this different ideas and solutions are collected and potentially judged against each other collecting pro and contra arguments. In this context the issue based information system (IBIS) methodology supported by Compendium is of particular interest. Also the ability of Compendium to generate word outlines of maps and web exports can facilitate the exchange of the results of dialog mapping.
Meeting minutes
Compendium can also be use to capture the content of meetings while they are conducted. The flexible interface of compendium thus provides an alternative to more traditional means of creating minutes of a meeting. In particular the ability to link different statements in Compendium enables the creation of a visual depiction of the content of a meeting on the fly. Thus it is clearly visible what issues were raised and what responses were made to it. Compendiums ability to generate word outlines then enables effective circulation of these minutes.
External links and examples
- Dialog mappig with Compendium using IBIS
- A video introduction into using the IBIS metodology for Argument mappig with Compendium
- Another video introducing dialog mapping as a method for facilitatig workshops
- Boundary Infrastructures for IBIS Federation (research report on IBIS in the context of climate change)
- Compendium for deliberation of public policy (research article) (archived website)
- You can look here at an example of meeting minutes. (If you look at the screencast there you can even see how KCBY is taking the minutes while the meeting progresses.)
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