Loomio Engagement, and Transitioning Off Email
Alanna Irving
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Loomio Community member Dean has asked a really good question I thought would be good to put to the whole community...
> I have tried several times to get Loomio going in the community around me (with different people) but I have found engaging and adoption very difficult. I would really like to discuss and learn about how people have rolled out Loomio in their communities.
> My strategy at the moment is to use it for the less-exciting administrative decisions that take a long till to mull over in person, they would be suited to Loomio and could show people how it is useful for discussion and then decision making.
> At the moment everyone uses emails to submit proposals for discussion at local meetings, so they are interacting online anyway! Are there any stories of transition to Loomio?
This is a common problem - people tend to get set in their ways, even if a new, more effective solution is available. How have people transitioned to using Loomio and introduced new processes?
Alanna Irving Wed 2 Apr 2014 1:23AM
OMg @strypey you have no idea! I actually don't think the issue is "tech vs non-tech" - plenty of highly technical people resist change, or don't work well with certain tools and processes. I think the work here is actually very non-technical and very much about communication and human relationships and group dynamics. Technology often just makes the issues clearer.
Danyl Strype · Tue 1 Apr 2014 11:08PM
I recently stumbled across this old conversation:
http://tinyurl.com/techno-utopian
Perhaps another way for the Loomio crew to understand the issues groups are having in transitioning to Loomio from legacy tools (email lists etc) is to think back to the process of transitioning themselves from their legacy tools (Yammer, email, GoogleDocs) to using Loomio, a process which I imagine is in many ways still ongoing.