Dear Jason, I found Dotmocracy by accident!!!! while Googling for neat stuff to inspire a group of front-line staff working with people who have come to Canada from all over the world. I think they will find this process really appealing and different. It trascends language and cultural barriers. I will direct them to your website; will fully credit you as author and will not modify your material in any manner. I just want to spread the word. Many thanks for sharing it so freely. all of us work for non-profit agencies.
Hi,
We recently used your dotmocracy handbook to conduct an all-staff review of our strategy for public engagement. The tool was used to review isolated sections of a draft strategy and to gather, in principle, agreement from all staff on the sections in their draft form before continuing with the polishing and wordsmithing.
The feedback we received from staff was very positive; participants found the dotmocracy tool useful in building consensus while also giving them some room to provide feedback. Instead of using the conventional process of <create draft>-<circulate link>-<Track Changes in MS Word> we are circulating something much closer to final...people are encouraged to make additional feedback and feel that they were inculded in the strategy's development without having to have gone to every meeting, or made comments in the document itself.
