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title: "Better Backchannels: What’s Missing?"
date: 2013-01-28
url: https://learningischange.com/2013/01/28/better-backchannels-whats-missing/
author: Ben Wilkoff
categories: ["Blog", "Learning Is Change List"]
tags: []
---

# Better Backchannels: What’s Missing?

I believe that better backchannels are possible, so long as we don’t keep doing them in a chat that is reacted upon every few seconds. In the video, I identify three things our #etmooc backchannels need:

1. @mentions (replies that show to whom you are speaking)
2. Threading (much better nesting of conversations for tracking)
3. Up/down voting so that you can agree with an idea without adding noise the backchannel.

Original video from Joe Dillon: [http://youtu.be/v8FKEDi6-mc](http://youtu.be/v8FKEDi6-mc)

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