Dear Claudia, Big T H A N K Y O U for your vote and for your very kind words! Yes, it is an indescribable honour to be selected and listed among all the other 19 positive and future-oriented (and million-users) Internet projects.
You wrote "I've case my vote for you and your team and with it my wish that Open Space will grow faster and beyond borders." ... Yes, yes :) I am sure, all this is already happen -- here some memories and experiences: About three months before I exprienced the strong vision of OpenSpace-Online in 1999 a question arised in my mind. I begun to ask myself, what can I do to help to spread OST much more than in the present. At this time this question came again and again into my mind and I found it very, very strange. Especially because I was at this time already very active with and for OST. I co-facilitated a few Open Space Conferences and I was very busy with "planning & conducting" OST trainings together with Michael M Pannwitz. "How can I spread even more Open Space?" I found this "inner besetting question" very curious. But over months this question appears again and again. When I experienced the deep flash of inspiration ... it was very C L E A R ... this was the answere ... and OK, I understand, this is my job :). And now since a few years, wonderful things happens. Most of the people or organizations, who get in contact with us have no knowledge about OST / OpenSpace. They simply look for fast and easy to use group meetings tools -- mostly via search engines. ´They have an urgent topic and a group and the problem of not being physically together ... they "jump into" a first try to use OpenSpace-Online without being interested in the "deeper" online method. But then, when they feel ... wow ... something here is special, some of the participants and sponsors begin to be corious about the methodology and also often about its face-to-face roots. Then they often read our eBook. This kind of "own aha-discovery's" have led a lot of OpenSpace-Online users to read Harrisons User Guide (its always my first suggestion) and to other wonderful personal and business changes, which we all know very good :). I have had so many of these aha-talks in the past and this is simply "heart-filling". I am sure, the jury's Global Top 20 selection and/or the Top 10 award is a good help for both watersides of the wonderful "passion-and-responsibility-river" Open Space. Thank you, dear Claudia and all who are crossing their fingers for us! Now, only 2 Voting Days Left ... its very exciting. Here again the link to the PoliticsOnline voting page: http://tinyurl.com/etkgo Warmly, Gabriela ----- Original Message ----- From: Claudia Haack To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 3:11 PM Subject: Open Space Online Nomination Gabriela, Congratulations! What a feat to be nominated. I was impressed by the kind of things that are on the list. So many wonderful, innovative, positive approaches to garner the involvement of "those who care". I've case my vote for you and your team and with it my wish that Open Space will grow faster and beyond borders. Toi, toi, toi, Claudia Claudia Haack KAIROS Alliance, Inc. 608.288.8315 www.kairosalliance.com . . . the great and incalculable grace of love, which says, with Augustine, "I want you to be," without being able to give any particular reason for such supreme and unsurpassable affirmation. -- Hannah Arendt * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
