Evaluating OpenSpace

[Gabriela Ender]

Hi Eric,

one possible resource to enrich your Open Space evaluation process could be
to invite all participants to an OpenSpace-Online real-time meeting, for
example 4 or 8 weeks after your Open Space Technology Conference. At the end
of such text-based online open space you (and each participant) would
receive an extensive document about the meeting immediately at the press of
a button. The book of proceedings provides the ideal foundation for further
work and for evaluation, as it contains all comments, proceedings, and
arrangements made during the meeting. It can be immediately used in either
digital or printed form.

If you like this idea, you could organize the online follow-up for your
client or you could help him/her to organize it. (Any individual can become
a conference organizer by going to the openspace-online website and setting
up a conference.) The process is simple to follow and takes a very short
time. If you are interested in learning more about this online approach, you
are warmly invited to download the OpenSpace-Online eBook (PDF):
http://www.OpenSpace-Online.com/OpenSpace-Online_eBook_en.pdf

Best wishes,
Gabriela


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric Graig" <egraig at att.net>
To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 3:21 PM
Subject: Evaluating OpenSpace


> I have been asked to draft a proposal for evaluating an OpenSpace to be
held
> in the fall.  The purpose of the event is to bubble up ideas that will
> re-invigorate a cultural/identity/interest group community.  Michael
Herman
> was kind enough to point me towards some pages on his GlobalChicago site
> which were great at getting my creative juices flowing but I was hoping to
> find some actual evaluations to review.  I am an evaluation consultant by
> trade and it became clear to me that the standard kind of post-conference
or
> post-training evaluation wouldn't serve much purpose for an Open Space.
In
> addition, since this OS is planned as a one time event, there is not much
> point (from the organizers point of view), in asking too many process
> improvement questions.
>
> Our budget will not allow much in the way of follow-up interviews so we
are
> fairly limited to asking survey type questions although both closed and
> open-ended questions are possible.  Mostly I am interested in hearing
about
> what others have done and any thoughts or resources would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Eric
>
> Eric Graig, Ph.D.
> Managing Director
> PolyMath Research, LLC
> New York, NY
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