💥 Online Tools for Workshops and Interactivity
This document is a growing, living list of online platforms and tools we can use in workshops and meeting spaces to aid our facilitation by introducing interactive elements, spark conversation or simply present ideas in more visual or novel ways.
Tool/Platform |
License |
Description |
FOSS (Self Hosted - Already up on APC servers) |
Trello-like kanban board for cards. Supports markdown and is very customizable. |
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FOSS (not up on APC servers yet) |
Asynchronous participatory decision making and conversation tool |
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Freemium Proprietary |
Very powerful and flexible online whiteboard and pinboard and more. |
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Paid Proprietary |
Useful for collecting ideas. Think mro with only stickies. |
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FOSS (Paid Hosted) |
Very pretty whiteboard, but no uploading of content. It’s under active development. |
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FOSS (Free hosted) |
Whiteboard with lots of fantastic features, allows annotation of entire websites and uploads. Dated interface with modern powers. |
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Freemium Proprietary |
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Freemium Proprietary |
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Free Online Hosted (FOSS) |
Another mind mapping tool |
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Free Proprietary |
Super simple livepolling with animations. |
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Paid |
Very pretty live polls with charts and animations. Everything from wordclouds to graphs. |
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Free Selfhosted (Coming to APC soon) |
Start live polls in your browser, like mentimeter. More powerful, less pretty. |
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