[LINK] RFI: Suitable Tools for an Electronic Forum

[Tom Worthington]

On 24/6/21 11:05 am, Roger Clarke wrote:

> Has anyone seen any examples of effective use of electronic fora in
> membership-based organisations? ...

No.

What I have found impressive is some of the tools used for webinars, 
hackerthons and conferences. Tools such as Zoom and Slack. Several 
conference platforms allow participants to post a question, then the 
other participants can vote on which of the questions should be asked.

If you can wait a few months, you could have a team of ANU TechLauncher 
students research what is available and then tailor some free tools. 
Topics for projects are now open: 
https://cs.anu.edu.au/TechLauncher/get_involved/call_for_projects/

> Input and feedback are to be gathered through:
> -   Face-to-face meetings in major population-centres
> -   Video-conferences with particular membership segments ...

Perhaps you could make those hybrid: have some people in the room and 
some online, at the same time. Just about every university and 
conference provider is working on how to do that, right now.


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