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Please indicate your World Café experience (ONLY IF YOU HAVE ACTUAL WORLD CAFE EXPERIENCE) in one or more of the following roles:

Visual Recorder, Participant

What field is the primary focus of your World Café work (ONLY CHECK AREAS WHERE YOU ARE ALREADY ACTIVELY USING WORLD CAFE PLEASE)?

Corporate

What knowledge, skills or resources would you like to contribute to the World Café community to help it grow and flourish?

Dr.Ron LaCoste at BASF has done some interesting homegrown versions of worldcafe that I've been involved with. Perhaps he could be a contributor as well. i don't have his email address and he may have retired from BASF. It's been 7 years since I last spoke with him.

I also would like to recommend that someone contact Vital Smarts, which uses a process they call Crucial Conversations but don't think from what i can tell they use a process like World Cafe and they might benefit. Also, Healthyi has a product called Conversation Maps, and they might find the world cafe approach beneficial in some instances. If they are contacted I'd like to be part of it if possible.

What would you most like to receive from this community?

Information regarding innovative uses of the process

Would you like to share a Web or Blog address?

http://learningvisuals.com

What haven't we asked that you'd like to share?

How I might be able to participate in some world cafe encounters as a recorder, but do it in near real time rather than real time---I've done this on two occassions with really good, but different results from the usual. it could be a valuable approach in some instances. it's signal benefit is being able to better synthesize outputs from the conversation, making them differently valuable, such as a legacy document that can be takken away and used for other follow on purposes that a a usual visual recording may not be as useful for. I can explain this better, more thoroughly if anyone is interested.