Post in Building consensus online/definitions?

Feb 08 00:29 UTC

Simon Smith wrote:
> The advantage of email lists - and I know Steven Clift believes strongly in
> this - is that they are a 'push' technology (someone else in the original
> thread used the term 'forcing' the discussion). They can contribute to the
> democratic process precisely because each member of the list is 'forced' to
> expose herself a broad range of ideas, opinions, issues, etc (as broad as
> the subject-matter of the list anyway).
>
I too am a big fan of email lists - for similar reasons.

One tool I  recently came across a tool that can sort and color code
threads of conversation as they evolve on an email list.

Take a look at
http://www.communitywiki.org/en/OnlineDeliberationConference and scroll
down the page until you get to "arguement mapping."

Sort of an interesting approach.