Jason Diceman's Dotmocracy Handbook Available In Print and Online

Jason Diceman, a valued member of the C2D2 community and former Board of Directors member, has released the Dotmocracy Handbook: A simple tool to help large groups find agreement.

The Dotmocracy Handbook provides a unique set of easy-to-follow instructions for finding useful agreements among many people. At its core is the deceptively simple Dotmocracy sheet, designed to provide participants with equal opportunity to contribute to a reliable and transparent large group decision-making process. Participants write down ideas on these specially designed paper forms and use pens to fill in one dot per sheet, recording their levels of agreement. The result is a graph-like visual representation of the group's collective opinion. From grade school students to technical professionals, grassroots organizations to government institutions and private corporations, Dotmocracy has universal appeal and application.

Dotmocracy is a transparent, equal opportunity, and participatory large group decision-making tool.

Dotmocracy can be used within large meetings, conferences, and forums, and also outside of meetings through the use of Dotmocracy walls. Along with the Dotmocracy sheets, there are also prescribed steps, and rules and requirements that help to ensure the results of a Dotmocracy process are reliable and constructive.

Dotmocracy has also been proven to:

• Recognize collective priorities and direction from all participants.
• Engage and empower diverse groups of people.
• Recognize agreement on unique and specific ideas, as well as general and thematic ideas.
• Give an equal voice to even the quietest of participants.
• Help avoid verbal debates and "soap box" style speech-making.
• Support friendly discussions while efficiently leading to practical conclusions.
• Provide fully documented results that can be easily turned into action plans.

The Dotmocracy process is fun and takes only minutes to learn and apply. 

To start using Dotmocracy download, print and copy blank Dotmocracy sheets and read the Dotmocracy Handbook.

Print copies of the Dotmocracy Handbook are also available through Amazon.com