Live 'Discussion Forum' event

Hi Dan and team - thanks for letting us have a play. It is an interesting feature - I do agree with some of the comments around the refresh, including some video content, but equally didn't miss a continual visual stream - I definitely felt like I was engaging live, which does make things more dynamic than just doing a survey or leaving comments.

Thanks for organising. Format worked fairly well I thought. Good conversations on relevant topics.

Took me a few minutes to realise the breakout forums were not a part of the facilitator instructions forum (given the range of topics raised in there early on, and that particular forum got very busy with people posting new threads instead of replying within existing ones) but once I found the other breakout forums I found this useful, with great participation and ideas.

Thanks for coordinating a good discussion and sumamrising some interesting insights.
The online chat room format discussion was a bit slower than I expected and I now miss seeing people talk on the screen- so I did need to adapt a little!
However, I was really impressed with the detailed responses for a 15-minute brain dump and has made me reflect on how easy it is for the video chat links to be dominated by only a few voices.
Chat room facilitators did a great job facilitating the sessions too. Thank you.
Thanks! Really enjoyed this! Jo

Thanks team for pulling this session together. It was great to see what is possible using EHQ and the tools specifically.
Like previously mentioned in the Forum this may be difficult for community, or less tech savvy people to navigate. Having to constantly re-fresh is not ideal - and then to try find the right thread. However, this is definitely something I will try in a smaller group setting and then build upon to reach a comfort level to go out to community more broadly.
Are the summaries or the conversation threads something that you could also email out to us. I imagine this page may not be accessible ongoing, so would be good to have these conversations to refer back to.
Thanks again guys! you are all awesome! Love your work as always.
Take care and stay well :)

Hi team, I really enjoyed this session and found the information provided prior and during the session clear and easy to follow. I think if you have not had much experience working in EHQ it could take a little bit longer to navigate where to find the polls, break out discussions etc.
I think this is a great work to connect whilst WFH and would like to do it more during this time.
Time seemed to fly (as it always does in CE!) when we were in the break out sessions, perhaps 3 forums might have been enough for the time allocated.

Excellent work and I look forward to your next event.

Thnaks for the opportunity to see how this could work.

Some suggestion the use of refresh is cumbersome, live feed of comments without refreshing the screen would be better UX, also it would be great to have the facilitator highly visible ie not look like all other participants but be differentiated visually.

Great fun and "safe space" to experiment/trial it out! Quite a novelty NOT to be on a phone hookup eg skype/zoom - so loved not having to wear headsets! Teleconferences are tiring - this wasn't. Thanks Dan and other facilitators and participants.

Thank you for running this session. It is interesting to see how the tools can be used. I found it a little difficult to follow all the threads and needed to make sure I regularly refreshed the page. I think this could be usually perhaps for professional development type engagement but would be too difficult for the general community. I also received an email every time I posted a comment which was a little annoying but I will look into trying to turn this off now.

I found it a really well run seminar and very informative. The topics of discussion were really insightful too and it was interesting to gauge where others are at in their thinking around issues in our industry. Thanks for putting it together guys.

I really enjoyed this forum and it provided a good insight into how it could work. I think it might need to be simplified if it was going to be used by non-communications/engagement specialists.

Could the moderator/facilitator prevent others from starting new threads in the settings? This could simplify it by only having a set number of discussions going on. Having to refresh browser frequently is also an issue, not sure whether there is a back-end technical solution to that?

Thanks for the opportunity to try it out in real situation.

I would like to know if any of your clients have used the 'Discussion' tool for contentious or wicked issues/concerns...and what was the outcome.

Hi Dan - thanks for putting this on. Great opportunity to use the forum tool real time with a group of trusted others. Feel like we could give it a go with some of our Reference Groups at Council that normally meet to discuss issues.