How to create a Forum to make decisions in group
Hi, I'm enthusiastic about tiki wiki and the possibility of collaboration of it. I'm trying to realize a forum to take decisions in a big group of people. I searched internet and I found two very interesting examples: NetConference and ActionForum
I would like to use this feature for a political action in my country in Italy, but I think that a similar decision making forum would be very useful also for the developers and users to build a better tiki wiki.
And I think that the changes in the tiki forum would be not very difficult, as it as already some features as rating and more voted topics etc...
I write here the possibilities of Action Forum (that is not open source), but you should visit their site ActionForum:
Action Forums are reader rated discussion forums. They are structured to promote a productive dialogue by the rise of ideas with broad support. They make clear where agreement and disagreement lie. Action Forums support threads of comments and replies to comments ordered by the preference of the participants rather than chronologically. Action Forums are fair and non-partisan because they operate according to a content neutral set of rules, which are applied automatically.
Action Forum is a web-based environment that:
Encourages Dialogue
Builds Communities
Enables Collaboration
Identifies Areas of Consensus
Generates Reporting that gives the information you need to take an Action
Action Forum versus Discussion Groups:
- Action Forum gives you both the highest reader-rated and the most recent comments
- Traditional forums give you only the most recent discussion
- Action Forum first encourages participants to rate whether they agree with others' comments
-It is difficult to facilitate agreement in chronological forums
- Action Forum participants are then able to rate comments by their importance
- Often important ideas in traditional forums get lost in the crowd
FEATURES
Reader Rated
Best ideas are rewarded as ideas with broad support "rise"
Facilitates large groups of diverse participants
Participants can change their ratings as they learn
Supports replies to comments
Participants become part of a community
Periodic Reporting Available
Rants filter to the bottom
Ciao...