OST for public awareness

Tue Jun 7 09:26:37 PDT 2005

Hello Harrison!

Have my deepest thanks for your valuable comments. All this will help
me a lot for organizing the gathering as well as on how to conduct my
conversations with the stakeholders. Instead on having formal
presentations, Claudia suggested to invite some "resource" people as
participants (actually to leave that option for journalist
participating) and join the meeting as anybody else. That was done
when using OS with students who needed to know a little more about the
central theme.

If this gathering is to engage journalists in developing  campaigns to
raise public awareness about environmental issues, the need for
specific information would probably raise during the session and that
would be an excellent reason for holding the "space opened". Another
topic is that if OS works as I wish, they will put their energy
towards something they also know a lot about: how to put news "in the
air/on paper" and make them a marketable good.

Will keep everybody updated about this experience.

Warm regards from La Paz

Jaime

2005/6/7, Harrison Owen <hhowen at comcast.net>:
> I think it might be useful to remember that what good journalists do best is
> ask questions. The problem with formal presentations is that the answers are
> supplied before the questions are asked. Or even worse, the answers are
> provided for questions that nobody (certainly not the journalists) are
> interested in. And, of course, if the journalists "already know a lot" --
> there is really no reason for them to come. Just stay home and write their
> story. If I were doing this thing, I would have absolutely no formal
> presentations at all. Genuine Open Space. All questions, answers to follow.
> And not incidentally, that is what a really good press conference is all
> about. When all you get is formal statements, that is canned news and who
> cares about that?
>
> Harrison
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> Pedreros
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> Hi Claudia!
>
> Yor suggestion is motivating and estimulating!. I think this will
> satisfy both sides of the "initial space" i.e stakeholders used to
> have a lot of presentations and few minutes of discussion/productive
> work as well as journalists who know a little of this theme, despite
> its huge importance. Will keep you informed; this afternoon I received
> an acknowledgment from the organization that would act as stakeholder.
>
> Thanks and have my best regards
>
> 2005/6/6, claudiahb at juno.com <claudiahb at juno.com>:
> > Jaime,
> >
> > A while back we organized an OS for a group of students that also needed
> > to get information fast.  We did two things:  We included an "option" for
> > the participants to invite a "resource" to their sessions and we told the
> > "resources" i.e. people who had specific content knowledge,  that they
> > were participants in the OS just as anybody else. So, the "resources"
> > could choose to host a session (some did, some didn't), choose to wait
> > for an invite (some were some were not), or just do what everybody else
> > did anyways.  We made sure they didn't have the expectation that they
> > would lecture, that there was any kind of guaranteed attendance, or that
> > their hand-outs would be wanted/needed.  I'm thinking of them as slightly
> > modified bumblebees.
> > It all worked out great.
> >
> > Hope this is useful. Good luck with your event.
> >
> > Claudia
> >
> > On Sat, 4 Jun 2005 11:07:19 -0400 Jaime Pedreros <jpedrerosf at gmail.com>
> > writes:
> > > Hello List!
> > >
> > > Yesterday I participated in a forum that assessed the present
> > > situation and new challenges faced by the way environmental issues
> > > are
> > > presently managed in Bolivia (one of the 25 most nature-gifted
> > > countries in the world). One of the conclusions was that general
> > > public do not participate nor are conscious about these issues. I
> > > suggested that one of the possible ways of raising awareness is to
> > > get
> > > mass-media involved (press caimpaigns, tv shows, even soap-opera as
> > > Brazil does, campaingns/contests involving school teachers, students
> > > and parents etc.).
> > >
> > > One of the possible stakeholders for an OS gathering suggested "a
> > > training seminar" for journalists or a press conference. All of us
> > > (here in Bolivia as well as in the List) already know that this
> > > would
> > > not work. So we are to try OS. At this time I am wondering about the
> > > best way of promoting and organizing this meeting. Because
> > > journalists
> > > are busy people, the gathering should be arranged for a half-day
> > > meeting. What about presentations or "story telling" and printed
> > > hand-outs? Do you think they would help?
> > >
> > > Thanks and warm regards from La Paz (a city that is not in peace for
> > > the time being).
> > >
> > > Jaime
> > >
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