Yeah, I'll totally come check out your conscious capitalism OS ... already registered and looking forward to it.
But ... 8am? On a day off from work? Ugh :-( On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Richard Schultz <rich...@wisdomways.net>wrote: > Hi James, Harold, Béatrice, and others interested,**** > > ** ** > > I and a colleague, Eiwor Backelund, have developed an online OST process > using Blackboard Collaborate. This is the process that Harold participated > in through my website www.wisdomways.net and mentions in his email below. > However, we have now moved our process to a new website > www.collaborativeways.com. Eiwor and I are both co-owners of the Genuine > Contact™ Program, but as Harold says, the online OST process we have > developed is separate from Genuine Contact. **** > > ** ** > > Our OST process stays very true to the in-person OST process. People > gather visually in an online circle at the beginning. A live facilitator > holds space and opens the space with the theme, principles and law. > There is a blank agenda board where participants are invited to propose > topics for discussion and select the time and breakout space when they > would like to have the meeting. Participants can move themselves to the > breakouts, use the law of two feet to "bumblebee" from room to room and > there is a butterfly room where they can sit and reflect. There is a > closing circle at the end and if it is a multiple-day meeting, there is > morning and evening news. **** > > ** ** > > The Blackboard environment has whiteboards for notes and drawing, chat, > voice, emocons, desktop application sharing and video capability, so it is > a very rich environment to dialogue and create reports. We provide a Book > of Proceedings after the meeting. We have also done multi-day meetings > including convergence of ideas and action planning at the end of the > meeting. Our total capacity is about 100 participants with as many breakout > rooms as we like. Overall it is just like OST, except the rooms are online. > Because it is online, we also have the added capability of moving the > topics to online forums for further discussion between sessions or after > the OST meeting. **** > > ** ** > > To get everyone comfortable with the technology prior to the online OST, > we have also added a short online self-study course which allows them to > test their connections and get familiar with the online tools in > Blackboard. We did this because one of the biggest barriers that I have > found to online meetings is the unfamiliarity with the online interface or > connection issues. If something is not done prior to the online meeting, > invariably the meeting may get delayed trying to get people connected or > productive in the space. **** > > ** ** > > If anyone would like to experience this, we have an free OST this coming > Thursday April 25 at 9am MST, (15:00 UTC/GMT) on the theme: Exploring > Conscious Capitalism. The meeting will not be recorded(except the written > reports) so please sign up only if you are intending to actually > participate. The link for more information and to register is: > http://www.collaborativeways.com/April25ConsciousCapitalism **** > > ** ** > > Hope you can join in and play with us in a future OST meeting!**** > > ** ** > > Blessings,**** > > Richard Schultz**** > > 402-247-8042**** > > CollaborativeWays**** > > www.collaborativeways.com**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *From:* oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org [mailto: > oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org] *On Behalf Of *Harold Shinsato > *Sent:* April-19-13 5:24 PM > *To:* World wide Open Space Technology email list > *Subject:* Re: [OSList] Entirely-online OSs?**** > > ** ** > > James, > > Online Open Space has been done a number of times. > > The text based system that uses a very thorough Open Space Technology > grounding and is quite mature is Gabriele Ender's > http://www.openspace-online.com/. > > Open Space Technology online with voice has been done with simple > teleconferencing lines - usually more than one. MaestroConference is > planning to add support for "Law of Two Feet" self-organizing - so people > can move themselves between breakout sessions. I don't think they've > completed it yet - but they have been actively working with our community > to make something to support online voice open space technology events. > http://maestroconference.com/ > > I think you could create an Open Space with multiple teleconference lines > and have people meet in one of them for the plenary - and then hang up and > move to other phone lines for the breakouts. > http://www.freeconferencing.com/ offers free telephone numbers for > teleconferences. They make their money because of a legal setup in the U.S. > that they get a portion of the local telephone company revenues of those > who call into their phone numbers. Christine Whitney Sanchez has done some > of the largest Open Space meetings with the Girl Scouts - and she told me > she used this multiple telephone conference line approach successfully. > > There is also Skype and Google Hangout - I'm not sure how easily these > would scale and I'd rather not be involved in the logistics of setting > something like that up. I've personally found it touch and go just to hold > a voice conference with these free offerings - but with some luck and some > savvy - it could be done. > > An attempt was made a few years ago to design an Open Space Technology > online using http://secondlife.com - the 3D world where people meet using > avatars with both text and voice. It has worked for World Cafe', but the > experiment never completed for OST. It felt like the technology overhead > and learning curve was too steep - though it could work. > > I participated a few months ago with a very successful online Open Space > for just a few hours. It is a platform using voice, text, and shared > graphics through a website. There have been a few invitations to try this > system. I did it November 2012. The online event was hosted by the Genuine > Contact community that Birgitt Williams started - though I don't think it's > officially a part of Genuine Contact - they do bring some of that mature > understanding of Open Space. http://wisdomways.net. > > Just to be complete - Harrison Owen has said the Internet is one big Open > Space. People are self-organizing meetups constantly all over the net. > > Harold > > > On 4/19/13 3:55 PM, B.MELIN ALIDADE wrote:**** > > **** > > @james sounds interesting, I would very much like to know more, and even, > to participate on line..**** > > I have never done this before, could be nice to think about it, (my Skype > bea0102)**** > > Thanks, Béatrice Melin**** > > Marseilles, South of France**** > > **** > > *De :* oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org [ > mailto:oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org<oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org>] > *De la part de* James Sheldon > *Envoyé :* vendredi 19 avril 2013 22:09 > *À :* OSList@lists.openspacetech.org > *Objet :* [OSList] Entirely-online OSs?**** > > **** > > Has anyone ever done an open space entirely online, like if participants > are not able to travel and be in person together? I'm having trouble > envisioning what these might look like...**** > > I've got a small organization of maybe a half dozen people but was > thinking we could issue an invite more broadly to people in our field.**** > > ~James**** > > > > ** > ****** > > _______________________________________________**** > > OSList mailing list**** > > To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org**** > > To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org**** > > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below:**** > > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org**** > > ** ** > > -- > Harold Shinsato > har...@shinsato.com > http://shinsato.com > twitter: @hajush <http://twitter.com/hajush>**** > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org > To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > > -- @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @ james sheldon @ http://www.jamessheldon.com @ queerpedago...@gmail.com @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
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