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Neologos Host Guide

Introduction

Hosting a Neologos session is an art of guiding meaningful conversations at scale. This guide will help you master the tools and techniques needed to create engaging discussions.

Terminology

It's important that we're clear on terms so let's start there! * Neologos Session This a live online event.

For a usual session, a host has considered some topic, and created a series of Neologos questions for the participants ahead of time. We'll get into some examples. It's easy!

Sessions begins when participants are provided a link to gather in an online _waiting room. Eventually, we'd like to provide some kind of group-activity people can do during this time. Group drawing?! lol.

** Host Tip ** Occasionally invite anyone viewing your session to join as a participant!

Getting Started

As the host on Neologos, you're the conductor of the orchestra.

And in the role of host, you're setting the tone, direction, and depth of the conversation. Unlike publishing an article or video, this is a live interaction with actual people. And they aren't the ones posing the questions.

It is the intent of this project that the hosts using it, all attempt authentic dialoges aimed at the common aid of humankind and of Earth and of however you conceive of that which is beyond. Someone made you a host on Neologos because they felt you were the right kind of person to conduct Neologos dialogs.

Fun

While the vision of this project is aimed at the highest possible purpose -- it's important that not all sessions are conducted with serious topics in mind. We want more dialogs, so making sessions enteraining and thoughtful will help encourage future mindful engagements.

People should find value in their participation

So, some features are coming that will make it possible to play some games during Neologos sessions. For example a way to divide the participants randomly into two teams, shown as colored dots in aggregate -- and give opportunities for people to switch teams. And see who moves from team A to team B as more questions are presented by the host. Also a way to keep a score for teams will be added.

The game is defined by the host. Neologos only provides the scoreboard. We encourage you to think of unusual and engaging ways to use these tools to engage your participants in exploring topics with your participants.

The primary goal is the authentic conversation with the shared aim of understanding one another. Making ways for groups to have fun in Neologos helps lighten the mood, while also attracting others to see what all this fuss about Neologos is... :-)

Topics

As a host, you're setting the agenda for the discussion, and steering the conversation. We recommend a variety of topics that the host feels are important. Please be cautious in your topic choices and framing.

Scenarios

To illustrate some of the ways we anticipate Neolgos being used, let's say there are 1000 participants, and 10,000 viewers. A host and a co-host are leading a discussion. with the 1000 people who chose to participate for that session.

Example Scenario 1

Let's aim at fun, but deep. The participants know what they're signing up for. :-p

Q1: How intelligent do you think you are? [Slider -10 to +10]

The host may then go on to explore the aggregate response. Wondering how much everyone's intelligence is correct compared to what they think.

Q2: How content are you about your present life situation? [Slider -10 to +10]

The host might then show a graph of the demographics "in the room" (of the participants). Are older people or younger pople more content? The host can trigger the display of data from tags, ages, answers to prior questions... So that everyone can better see who is responding in what way. This group exploration of the response is encouraged! Look at the unadorned aggregate response first. Then reveal how it breaks down by male and female tags or different age ranges, geographies, etc.

Q3: Which world do you live in? On the low end, you begin every day wondering where you can find food. On the high end a plate is placed before you at most meals. 0 is lowest, 10 is most well off. This is in your honest consideration compared to everyone else.

Q4: A person can be born into the wrong body. Agree or Disagree? [-10 to +10]

This question may be too controversial for some audiences. But, people choose to be participants and choose hosts that they trust to lead on even difficult conversational topics for people living in 2025.

Q5: How angry are you that I asked that last question? [-10 Angry, +10 Happy you asked]

Whatever the aggregate response, the host might choose to discuss (perhaps with a co-host) whether they are surprised or not surprised. And togehter they might agree on an unexpected twist in the conversation.

"Wow, we did not expect all the anger there! Now I really want to talk to those really angry folks. If you responded with -10,-9,-8 or -7, you're the most angry - so I want to ask you and just you, the following:"

Q6: [limit to Q5<=-7 participants] I feel that it is harmful to the trans community. Disagree -10, Agree +10

Hosts are encouraged to explain this to their participants, so that they'll more properly understand when they see an aggregate response chart (ARC) it may be a response from a question only put to SOME of a group. In this case, the angry people. So the ARC should not always be assumed to be what everyone present would have answered. The ARC will be clearly labeled as to who received the question, etc.

Host: "Okay, I've always want to do this! Now I'm going to ask a question to the people who were glad I asked. This is for the +7, to +10 respondants to the question about being born in the wrong body."

Q7: [limit to Q5>=7 participants] Do you want to help trans kids? [-10 Don't care, +10 Of course!]

This response may show a variety of responses. :-) Be careful out there.

In this case, the session was aimed at questions meant to be thought provoking. Participants might be given some explicit statement that controversial topics may be broached.

** Reminder: Every participant, on every question, can choose not to answer. So if a question is put to you that you'd rather not answer, or that you think is framed poorly, or misconstrued ... we encourage you to choose NA for 'No Answer'.

Host: Finally, let's put that same question to everyone. Q8: Do you want to help trans kids?

Hopefully this is a resounding affirmative in aggregate. The host might point to this as a good start for further conversations, if things are running long.

Pro Tip: Don't use this text exactly, but we advise hosts to bring their sessions to a close roughly as the advertised session stated. Hosts can extend all sessions, but know that many of your participants may have only arranged to be able to pay attention during a narrow window.

"I want to thank you all for participating in this Neologos dialog. I hope you found my questions and our time together worthy of your attention. Until next we meet, good bye."

This is a sign off message. It's important because it provides the closing to the session. It let's people know that the session is complete and it's great opportunity to express your gratitude, something of your aims, and whatever sort of salutation suits. :-p

How public is Neologos?

Neologos dialogs are meant to be entirely transparent. Everyone uses it with an account, so privacy is up to them. If space permits, we're going to try to store all the Neologos conversations. All the questions, all the responses, along with a recording of the corresponding live-stream. That's the aim anyhow.

It is an aim of the Neologos project to allow the public of 2025 to express itself in a way that might be given to posterity so that they might understand who we are right now.

The answer to "What did people think in 2025" will be recorded in aggregate by Neologos, and we think that's something worth preserving. In vague anticipation of what comes next and how we might best shape it to the common good. :-)

Think of it as the first of it's kind multi-scale public conversation.

How do I make money with Neologos

Man is that the wrong direction to think. Anyhow, use it to grow more connected to an authentic audience who knows you.

How big can Neologos conversations be?

Large. Very large. :-p If we can do it, we want to implement the first question put to the entire planet Earth - with meaningful levels of participation in real time from all over the globe. Hello world!

Realistically, it's going to start as a small percentage of your audience. They don't know what Neologos is. It's one-more-thing in a world of already too many things.

As a host, you need to encourage your audience to join in. That's the thinking behind being able to invite folks as viewers at first, before becoming participants themselves.

Participation is Key

It's one of the mantras for this project that participation is key. It doesn't seem like it should matter, but it sure to seems to matter.

So if there's a session with 500 people in it, does the response of just 1 matter? Well, it's recorded as part of the session. No one may care, but there it is, in the record.

And it is our contention that that matters. That we record the conversations to the extent we can manage (may be easy).

And to the other participants, they may have needed to see those outliers to better understand some complexity.

  1. Planning Your Session

A good general layout for a session is given below. We encourage hosts to be creative though!

Consider a topic and questions that probe it. Create the outline using the Neolgos web page for hosts. From there, get the link to share for an upcoming Neologos dialog, introducing your topic. A template will be given and you can edit it as you wish. Share that with your audience ahead of time, so they can plan to have a quiet place and time set aside to participate with full attention.

This is quiet different from just listening to other people have a conversation. This is being IN a conversation, so it requires more attention.

Anyhow, it's nice to let people know what to expect.

As the host, it's up to up to open the waiting room, usually at least 5 minutes in advance. Think of yourself at this point as being backstage. You can see how many people are logged into Neologos and ready to particpate.

This is a good time to encourage your other listeners to get engaged by following the link, or just follow along by being a viewer this time around.

When you open the session, you might consider starting with a few warm-up questions. These can be light and maybe fun. Hint. The idea is to get the participants used to hearing a question and responding, then seeing the aggregate response. Neologos is new, so doing this is a great way to get people used to the interface and welcoming everyone into the same space.

Example: Q1: How is everyone doing right now? [-10 bad, +10 great] Q2: What time is it where you are? [0 = midnight, 23 = eleven p.m.] Q3: Pick a number 1 to 100 [1,100] Q4: Are you left or right handed, use 0 if you're perfectly ambidextrous. [-10 = Full Left Handed, 0 ambidextrous, +10 Right only]

The host might share some of the demographics of the room. Not required, but a good way for participants to understand who is in this session with them. Age will be a particularly interesting graph, we expect. The counts of tags might be interesting as well.

So if you're holding a space on a heavier topic, hosts are still encouraged to begin light. To generate a common sense of 'we' the participants. It's good to see our diversity.

We recommend coming up with a short list of questions and thinking of those as "what you might ask". A kind of scaffold. Having prepared the questions ahead of time gives hosts a chance to carefully consider how to frame and ask the very best questions. But as things come up in Neologos, if for example, an unexpected response occurs, that's a great opportunity to ask some question you think might explore it. It's easy to construct questions on the fly with the Neologos host interface. However, hosts may consider handing the reins over to an assistant during a livestream. In this way, the host can ask for a question to be put to an audience, and their helper can enter that into the interface.

That's a great way for folks who don't want to be the host themselves to help out.

It's important to examine the aggregate response visible to everyone.

It's important to view this as a converastion between yourself, the host, and all of the participants.

Pop-up conversations might be much more casual in nature, with people joining and leaving throughout. A host should aim to make questions more 'stand-alone' rather than rely on people being familiar with the fully context of earlier questions which is the norm for Neologos sessions.

  1. Creating Effective Questions Neologos provides for four question types:
  2. Single word
  3. Multiple choice
  4. Slider
  5. Double-slider

Single word will render as a word-chart with more popular responses shown larger. This can sometimes be a good way to ask a more open-ended question.

Multiple choice, suppose: Agree, Disagree, Don't Care, No Answer

These can be useful, but try to always provide an Other option if people think you missed something.

Slider: Sliders are preferred as they provide an easy way to represent a more nuanced response. For example, a host could ask a multiple choice question: Do you like bannanas? Yes/No or a host could ask "How much do you like banannas? Slider [-10 bleck, +10 food of the Gods]"

The aggregate response will show a lot more detail than the simple yes/no choice.

Double-slider: This is asking two slider questions at once. Sometimes things are complicated and this is a way to show linkage between two questions. And the results can be shown as 3D graphs which may reveal interesting patterns in the responses.

Example: Slider1: How likely is peanut butter toast to land butter side down? [-10 unlikely,10 likely] Slider2: How confident are you? [-10 to 10]

We think that certain combinations of sliders will yield interresting inquiries.

We encourage hosts to try them all and use the form that best fits the questions they'd like to ask. Don't be afraid to experiment.

Question Durations

This is important and is going to vary with your participant group. It will be easy to respond to most questions for even large rooms in a matter of seconds. But some delays in livestream broadcast is possible, and people get distracted... and hopefully, you ask interesting questions and people appreciate a moment to ponder.

Our recommendation is to set your question lengths to the longer side to start. If you find that 99% of your participants are responding very early, you might shorten them up a bit. The ARC display shows percentage reporting as they come in.

But the flow of conversation is best if people don't have to wait too long "for everyone to answer". We expect that some dialogs will be fast and some slow. As an aside, that might be fun to try some really fast questions for fun.

Q1: What's your favorite adjective? [10 seconds, open word]

Think fast!

The host should be mindful of seeing too many timeouts on questions. This could be network issues, or it could be that your participants are running out of time before answering.

If you see a lot of NA, that means your participants are refusing to answer your question as asked.

Session Duration

This is up to the host and the context. We would suggest that 90 minutes sessions allow enough time to get a group comfortable in the same space, explore a topic lightly with some time to explore. But it's up to the hosts and those participating. The Neologos platform is open to experimentation on this point.

  1. Managing Participant Engagement

Advanced Techniques

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