Dear Chris -- I would be v-e-r-y interested in following your travels here. And to anyone who is thinking about ways to package and present the use of Open Space. Please do keep us informed on how this idea of yours develops.
Let me see. I might think of what a "small issue" is similarly to how I might think of a community building discussion or activity. What is the thing that all participants would have in common, even if experienced differently through their professional, personal and cultural filters? What do they always get together and chat about at professional social gatherings? Disappearing sources of funding? How to retain people? What are the aspects of a true leader? How to merge productively with companies or agencies previously seen as competitors? How to form collaborations in a competitive marketplace? There is something (or several 'threads') which everyone talks about over the dinner table when a few friends from similar businesses get together. Nobody has to share trade secrets to have very animated and community building conversations, even if it is just to complain together :-(( (in Arturtalk symbols). All is safe, all works. Rich conversation ensues. Of course, you still have the problem of how to *market* it so that people will think it is worth their while to attend in this instant-this-instant-that world. What are some of your thoughts on this marketing part? Lisa Berkeley, California, USA * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html =========================================================== osl...@egroups.com To subscribe, 1. Visit: http://www.egroups.com/group/oslist 2. Sign up -- provide an email address, and choose a login ID and password 3. Click on "Subscribe" and follow the instructions To unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@egroups.com: 1. Visit: http://www.egroups.com/group/oslist 2. Sign in and Proceed