The traditional way to announce a contribution is to raise your hand and wait until the current speaker or a moderator elects you. You may have heard of this method. Sarcasm aside this does work. Having a moderator (a role that may take turns) can also help to keep focus. Precodition on such a role being accepted. Also your hand is always available even if you do not have chips.
That feels a lot more demanding, to me. If someone raises their hand, I’d expect them to get the floor within a few minutes, and if they then started to speak about something totally unrelated, I’d be surprised and perhaps a little annoyed—that could have completely cut off an interesting and productive thread. For my purpose, I’d be happy to wait an hour for a point where we wouldn’t be leaving the old topic in the lurch.
A modification of this, which I was introduced to at the DC meetup, is for each person to display a number of fingers—the first person to want to speak ‘takes’ number 1, and then the second person takes number 2, and so on. This gives you a queue to follow afterwards, without needing a moderator (but also doesn’t get the benefit of intelligent moderation).
The traditional way to announce a contribution is to raise your hand and wait until the current speaker or a moderator elects you. You may have heard of this method. Sarcasm aside this does work. Having a moderator (a role that may take turns) can also help to keep focus. Precodition on such a role being accepted. Also your hand is always available even if you do not have chips.
That feels a lot more demanding, to me. If someone raises their hand, I’d expect them to get the floor within a few minutes, and if they then started to speak about something totally unrelated, I’d be surprised and perhaps a little annoyed—that could have completely cut off an interesting and productive thread. For my purpose, I’d be happy to wait an hour for a point where we wouldn’t be leaving the old topic in the lurch.
A modification of this, which I was introduced to at the DC meetup, is for each person to display a number of fingers—the first person to want to speak ‘takes’ number 1, and then the second person takes number 2, and so on. This gives you a queue to follow afterwards, without needing a moderator (but also doesn’t get the benefit of intelligent moderation).