... I think you've hit the nail on the head. In Horn's maps, visual cues and physical layout are just as important as semantic links ("is disputed by", "is...
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Jeff Conklin
jeffjoanneco...
Aug 2, 2002 8:57 pm
Hello! It's been a very busy summer, I'm happy to say. Here are a few items of general interest to the Dialog Mapping and QuestMap community ... 1. UK...
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Matt Minahan
minahangroup
Aug 5, 2002 3:16 pm
Jeff, good to hear from you, and of your success! I just finished delivering a 4 evening course in Consulting Skills for GDSS this week. They're are growing so...
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Jack Park
jackpark@...
Aug 5, 2002 3:16 pm
I will be giving a talk publicized with the title: "Douglas Engelbart, Open Hyperdocument Systems, XML, and Everything" in Montreal this week (7 August). My...
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Simon Buckingham Shum
S.Buckingham.Shum@...
Aug 5, 2002 3:17 pm
At 16:52 02/08/2002 -0400, Jeff wrote: [...] ... Hi, Just to say that http://www.aktors/org/coakting is a better URL to bookmark for the future, as the...
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Joe Houck
joe@...
Oct 16, 2002 3:29 am
I'd be interested to hear if mapping has been used to good a effect with open dialogue, dialogue that has no predetermined destination or specific task. The...
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Kara M Danner
Kdanner@...
Oct 17, 2002 12:50 pm
Joe, I am a very very new user so my skills will definitely improved over time. That being said, I've had difficulty mapping free flowing conversation....
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Jack Park
jackpark@...
Oct 17, 2002 12:51 pm
http://journals.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~lac/ht97/pdfs/kolb.pdf A paper by David Kolb. I confess: I didn't do the due diligence required to see if this group already...
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Shirley Gross
sgross1@...
Oct 17, 2002 12:51 pm
Joe, I think it¹s reasonable, if you¹re talking about the process known as Dialogue Mapping. I attended a workshop a few weeks ago to learn the process and...
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Joe Houck
joe@...
Oct 19, 2002 1:12 am
Re: [vims] utilityShirley, Thanks for your rapid reply. Yes, I am talking about Jeff Conklin's Dialogue Mapping. Is this the training you did? Was this in the...
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albert.m.selvin@...
alselvin
Oct 19, 2002 1:12 am
Mapping is a terrific tool for open-ended exploratory discussion; in fact we have found it the most effective approach for working with groups wrestling with...
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Joe Houck
joe@...
Oct 19, 2002 1:12 am
Jack, Thank you for the rapid reply. I was unable to reach the .pdf file at: http://journals.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~lac/ht97/pdfs/kolb.pdf but found David Kolb,...
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Joe Houck
joe@...
Oct 19, 2002 1:12 am
Kara, I'm considering the training offered by Jeff Conklin the next time he offers it locally. It sounds like we agree that capturing "evaporative thought",...
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Janet Whittick
janetw@...
Oct 19, 2002 1:12 am
Dear Joe, I have seen mapping used quite effectively for open dialogue, but it can also be distracting should the map become too convoluted (as Kara ...
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Jeff Conklin
jeffjoanneco...
Oct 22, 2002 5:27 pm
Dialog Mapping Newsletter Contents: 1) Lots to tell, too busy to write 2) Upcoming West Coast workshop 3) Observations from a recent engagement ... 1) Lots to...
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Stephen Mack by way ...
jeffjoanneco...
Oct 29, 2002 10:38 pm
Jeff, I am revisiting cognitive mapping as tool for discovery and framing. I took the VIMS course that you taught a couple of years ago at GDSS....
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albert.m.selvin@...
alselvin
Oct 30, 2002 1:35 pm
One strategy that addresses Stephen's question is to couple map-building with other well-structured tasks. In other words, cognitive maps do not have to be...
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jeff.conklin@...
jeffjoanneco...
Oct 30, 2002 3:56 pm
I can relate directly to the "visual spaghetti" phrase Steve uses. The most extreme example in my experience was at a one month university executive...
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Jeff Conklin
jeff@...
Oct 30, 2002 4:41 pm
Steve, You've asked a great question. Actually, I think there are two or three questions. Al and Mike have already addressed these questions well. I would...
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Simon Buckingham Shum
S.Buckingham.Shum@...
Oct 31, 2002 3:47 pm
Hi, Although not exactly what I Steve was asking, his question triggers thoughts in terms of the lifecycle of maps - a key issue to confront if you want them...
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Jeff Conklin
jeffjoanneco...
Oct 31, 2002 4:18 pm
... I really like this! Just as with people, there are more fine distinctions that could be made (baby maps, senior maps, dead maps, sick maps ...), but I...
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Jeff Conklin
jeffjoanneco...
Nov 4, 2002 5:15 pm
Someone who is doing the Dialogue Mapping workshop in Redwood City next week sent a great question, and so I'm forwarding his question and my response to the...
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Simon Buckingham Shum
S.Buckingham.Shum@...
Nov 5, 2002 2:33 pm
... Hi, With the Compendium tool, we can import images. So in PPT, if you Save As... JPEGs, then these can be brought in as Reference nodes, and then used as...
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Mark Westcombe
m_westcombe
Nov 10, 2002 5:16 pm
Stephen I've been using Decision Explorer for Cognitive Mapping for about 4 years now, mostly with groups making strategic decisions. I agree that it can be ...
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sbmack7
Nov 15, 2002 1:53 am
Mark, Thanks for the reply. I have some ideas about interpretation and synthesis that I'll post shortly. Based on Value Focused Thinking but different... As...
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Jeff Conklin
jeff@...
Nov 20, 2002 12:40 am
Hi Steve, Inspiration is a terrific little tool for building box-and-arrow diagrams, and I'm very glad that they found a sustainable niche to keep them going....
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Simon Buckingham Shum
S.Buckingham.Shum@...
Nov 20, 2002 3:20 pm
... On the keystrokes front, in Compendium we've started adding 'accelerators' that add speed to common 'moves' in Dialog Mapping. For example, often a ...
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Jack Park
jackpark@...
Nov 22, 2002 4:23 pm
In the spirit of the Open Source mantra (release early, release often), I put the WebQuestMapper up at http://www.nexist.org/WebQuestMapper.html There is a...
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Jack Park
jackpark@...
Nov 24, 2002 3:01 am
Thanks to Peter Jones, a few bugs have been found and repaired. Also, some improvements to the display, dragging, and so forth have been made, and the ...
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Rosa Zubizarreta
rosalegria@...
Dec 2, 2002 7:16 am
dear list members, After taking Jeff's Dialog Mapping workshop, I was inspired to write an article for my friend Tom's e-mail newsletter, that he sends out to...
