USB-sticks and computer station during OST + some more..

[Diane Brandon]

Lisa, that's really well said, thank you! I'm getting the feeling for 
it now. My FS & AI & WC experiences did not have a "newsroom" 
component, so I'm in learning mode about this part. In the other 
processes, the notes were on newsprints or table covers or worksheets, 
which got typed up after the event was over, and then sent out or 
posted online. Leaving with the record is something I've never 
experienced.
Diane

On Feb 13, 2006, at 10:45 PM, Lisa Heft wrote:

> Hello, Diane -
>
> If I am not mistaken you are asking how one recruits someone to be the
> Newsroom Coordinator?
>
> As others have mentioned - for me, there is always a core team - me 
> and the
> sponsor/host/client team.  And on that team there is usually - if we 
> decide
> to have an electronic newsroom - someone who will be the Newsroom
> Coordinator.
>
> I am in the room to help as well, but I find that having a Newsroom
> Coordinator really helps as one person focuses on gathering, tracking,
> printing (if a printer is available) and compiling transcribed notes 
> for the
> Book of Proceedings.
>
> And I find that this is a role of pride, as it is a very important 
> role, and
> the folks I have worked with as Newsroom Coordinators always have great
> ideas for how to create user-friendly instructions and wonderful 
> supportive
> energy for the participants.
>
> In addition, it is a role that someone on the client/sponsor/host side 
> can
> take if they want to observe and support the Open Space but not 
> participate
> (because the issue is not their own but they believe in the process 
> and the
> people, for example).
>
> It is not to me a matter of being technically inclined (because a 
> Newsroom
> can be created with super-high-tech or simply be a place for 
> hand-written
> papers to be placed in a basket, and everything in between).  It is,
> however, a matter for someone who is incredibly detail-oriented while 
> at the
> same time welcoming of folks who find the technology new to them.
>
> Sometimes someone I know who has not done a lot of Open Space events 
> wishes
> to observe and support an OS - and I just ask the client if they can 
> come
> along.  It is always welcome.
>
> In an Open Space that some colleagues are doing this month in San 
> Antonio,
> Texas, they have put out the word for any folks who want to be 
> volunteer
> scribes, and those scribes will be using flip charts at each 
> discussion area
> to document the conversations.  I myself have volunteered at another
> facilitator's event just to learn from them.
>
> In one particularly important community event, participants were quite 
> moved
> to find that the folks charting the conversations at the different
> discussion areas were volunteering their time in support of the people 
> and
> their work together...
>
> Lisa
>
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