Hi Michael,
Thanks for sharing this. It’s something I have wanted to try, but not yet found a sponsor ready for it. My only other experience was connected to the Community Commons project where we uploaded all the proceedings to a wiki and then circulated the URL to community stakeholders and media to make the proceedings widely available to the community in the hopes of continuing the conversation in the grocery store, by mailboxes, etc… I am currently working on how to interweave the proceedings (especially the action planning) with the Community Weaving website. This is particularly for community-based initiatives where the connections can be more difficult to sustain than in a company. The idea is basically, that sponsors can be trained as community weavers so they have access to all reports and the resource treasury. Participants register as good neighbours and can form action groups and post and record activities using the CW website. All of the ripples of the event can be tracked by the sponsor CW’s (and the community at large)—who are basically witnesses to the self-organizing of the participants. As all the activities are visible and available to the whole CW network, it provides opportunity for the ripples to spread as others in the community become aware of what’s going on and follow their two feet. Lots of other upsides and synergies with this one, and still some hurdles to navigate. Cheers, Wendy _____ From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of Michael Herman Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 2:28 PM To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: documenting for ripple effect Hi All, Just back from a "senior executive forum" for a company in South Africa, 1.5 days in OS, where we did something new and different with documentation. We tweaked the notes reporting template to help start a weblog with the proceedings, as soon as the corporate IT guys can get the tech side of things together. This Forum was top 60 people in the company. 600 others report to them. The 60 have been meeting semi-annually for several years, and know themselves to be a circle. The 600 are the beginning of the rest of the org (of 12,000 total) all of which currently knows itself as a set of silos rather than circles. So with the proceedings, we asked the usual... issue, convener, participants, summary. To satisfy the corporate yearning for action, we had a space for 'immediate next steps' in the template. Then we added to other fields: Summary for 600 direct reports (if not same as above) and Summary for Whole Organization (if not....). On most issues, scribes said share with all. On a few issues, qualified summaries were written. On all issues, this will provide the necessary info to establish a weblog that can be open to at least the next largest circle, with the thought that this new view of "strategy" might be offered to the 600 and ultimately "leaked" out to the rest of the organization. The hope is that we might use these proceedings and followup news in weblog form to help turn the 600 into a circle of conversations, that might eventually also be convened periodically, in whole or in parts, in open space. It helps, as well, that these 60 will continue to meet and generate news in semi-annual gatherings. I thought there might be other places where we are working where it would make sense to ask participants to craft directly and immediately their messages for some larger circle of colleagues or stakeholders, with or without a blog structure as the delivery/conversation vehicle. Anybody else documenting events in weblogs these days? On our way from "meetings" to "practice." 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