SV: OST and training in "Facilitating Virtual Communities"

[Thomas Herrmann]

Dear Artur
Thanks for bringing this up. I also thank everybody else for the marvellous
ongoing dialogues, I am a bit sad because I just can´t find the time to read
and contribute. I would really like to do that more!

I use virtual forums in some of my Open Space projects although I have not
facilitated any trainings for online facilitators. I agree with Larry,
Gabrielas solution is great.
I have arranged three Online conferences using OpenSpace-Online and it
worked very well. If you haven´t yet, have a look at
www.openspace-online.com

I am also working with combining physical OST and virtual forums which in
fact works just like OST - the principals and the law are there. I have
identified a number of important things to make it work but still the
project I am involved in right now has yet not gone "hot". I assume people
use their feet:-) The lunch-lunch OST was very exciting but so far there has
not been much activity on the forum, but we´ll see further down the road.
The next physical OST with convergence is scheduled for May. The project is
about finding areas for cooperation between 6 public organizations
(national, regional and municipal).

The virtual forum I use in these projects is a very simple but nicely
working program developed by a businesscontact who is a researchmanager in
the local University. He has developed a lot aroung collaborative learning
communities. I could get you into contact with him, if you like.

Well, I´m off for a OST conference the coming two days. Politicians and
youth working out the new "highschoolsystem" in Sweden.
Regards
Thomas Herrmann

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> Från: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU]För Artur Ferreira
> da Silva
> Skickat: den 20 februari 2003 11:56
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> Ämne: OST and training in "Facilitating Virtual Communities"
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>
> Dear friends and colleagues:
>
> 1. I am coordinating an action research Project on the "Renewal of the
> Portuguese Public Administration, namely through the use of
> Information
> Systems/Information Technology". The Project is based at INA
> - the body
> responsible for training the Portuguese Public
> Administration. Those of you
> that can read Portuguese (and all the people that can read
> Spanish can also
> understand written Portuguese - even if they don't know that
> yet) can see
> the Web page of the Project at www.ina.pt/IRAP
>
> The Project includes many activities, from global logical information
> architectures (non agency based), similar to Canadian and USA "Federal
> Enterprise Architectures", grass roots actions
> interconnecting people from
> different agencies (and so allowing - or so I hope - for
> self-organization
> out of the boundaries and constraints of each agency) and
> training that
> combines classes with "real work" and with on-going
> discussions through
> lists, forums, and other e-learning technologies.
>
> 2. One of the offers will be training in OST, scheduled to April and
> October (but I doubt that we will have enough participants in
> April), for
> which the logic is as follows. As prerequisites people should
> have already
> read my small booklet (edited by INA) and the Guide (English version -
> sorry Harrison, I have not yet been able to interest a
> Portuguese editor in
> the translation - maybe these actions will help). In a
> two-day presential
> session, people will work only in Open Space (no formal
> presentations).
> After that and during a period of 2 months (1) each person or two must
> "open some space", and (2) those experiences will be
> discussed in a mailing
> list. I will ask for some help and report the results latter. All the
> previous explanation is an introduction to the following point.
>
> 3. I have also prepared and will soon run a course on "Creation and
> Facilitation of on-line forums". Again there are classes (2 days) to
> discuss concepts (like organizational learning, communities
> of practice,
> Open Space and such), and for each group of 2 to create a forum. After
> that, and again during 2 months, those groups will facilitate
> the forum
> they have created, with global discussions in a(nother) class
> mailing list.
> Indeed the class mailing list is open one month before the presencial
> sessions to allow participants to feel the difficulties of "beginning
> on-line".
>
> Now I would like my course to be as OST-like as possible and
> the philosophy
> that is presented (taught?) to be also close to OST. But I
> assume I will
> have some difficulties due to the fact that most people here
> are unused to
> forums and the Portuguese culture is very "passive" (I am not
> a typical
> example, btw).
>
> Have you any comments or piece of advice? Has any of you experience of
> e-learning or training on-line facilitators with OST
> principles? I will
> return back to you with any conclusions and report of the experience.
>
> Thank you
>
> Artur
>
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