The Performing Graphics Company presents a special all-day seminar and training. The seminar can be attended either face-to-face, or remotely via your Web browser and telephone.

Telefacilitation is like CPR --
you just hope someone in the group knows how to do it!

Telefacilitators create live visual summaries of meetings. The summaries are on Web pages generated in real-time by the telefacilitator, who attends the meeting by phone or other telemedia.

The telefacilitator carefully follows the course of the meeting, records it on the "Meeting Page," and writes it out at very short time intervals as a live Web page. Participants then simply hit "reload" to see an up-to-the-minute version in the Web browser on their desk. As an ongoing real-time record of the meeting, the Meeting Page provides a common frame of reference for all group members, both face-to-face and distributed, improving communication by enabling everyone to "be on the same page."

When the ideas meet the pixels,
working meetings become Web pages.

The topics below will be explained in the seminar as they are demonstrated live on the big screen, or live in your Web browser during a teleseminar.

In addition to the instructional material, there is also opportunity for hands-on practice. By the end of the training, participants will have experienced doing telefacilitation themselves, and be able to use and develop the skills they have learned in the context of their day-to-day work.

Theory of Telefacilitation

• History of facilitation, tele- and otherwise
• Meeting facilitation as an application for peformance graphics
• Performance text-graphics: how fast is quick enough?
• What is telefacilitation?
• The Telefacilitation Triad
  • parts of the triad:
    • fair witness.
    • fast text & graphics
    • improvisational poster design
  • how the triad supports the practice of telefacilitation

Lunch break

Practice of Telefacilitation

• Telefacilitation exercises
  • principles across media
  • practicing on whiteboards
  • practicing on graphics editors
  • hands-on experience for each seminar attendee
• Media for telefacilitation
  • Web page editors
    • what to look for in a telefacilitation editor
    • survey of off-the-shelf editors
    • special purpose telefacilitation editors
  • Shared writing & drawing tools
  • Grassroots tools: FAX
• Future directions for telefacilitation

For details on seminar organization and fees, contact PGC. Custom seminars are also available on a variety of topics. Seminar fees include course notes and copies of the paper "The Visual Telefacilitation Project at PGC". Also available are copies of the book Structure and Manipulation in Text-Graphic Images as well as the Webmacs telefacilitation software itself.

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