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

[Harrison Owen]

Running the News room can be anybody's job -- but it has to be SOMEBODY'S.
And I find that setting all of this up can be a marvelous way of giving the
client something to do. My major problem with clients is that they are sure
that they have to do a LOT of things, and left to their own devices they
will do a lot of things -- like planning etc. So I just make sure to give
them something to do to keep them out of trouble. Setting up the News room
is perfect. Just give them a copy of the book, and tell them to go for it.
Always worked for me.

Harrison

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Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 11:10 PM
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Subject: Re: USB-sticks and computer station during OST + some more..

Hi Diane,

Lisa has eloquently answered your question with a similar answer to what 
I would provide. The most important thing is to designate a newsroom 
coordinator whether it is someone on the client side, or the facilitator 
side.

I do all of my work with my wife Maureen McCarthy so we generally switch 
off who will be doing what, opening space, holding space, coordinating 
the newsroom, picking up cups.

In the past, and some of our colleagues presently, sometimes bring a 
support/admin person who coordinates the newsroom if they are the only 
facilitator and the client is not able to provide a support person. 
(When the client is not in position to provide someone, this is usually 
because everyone wants to participate directly in the Open Space 
discussions).

Whatever the situation we feel it is important that there is always 
someone to "hold space" during the event. There is something that 
happens when there is someone simply holding space vs. being lost in the 
details. That is not to say that some people are able to do both, or 
find that the details provide them with the presence to hold space.

In any case, we are always mindful that holding the space is the most 
important part of facilitating OS.

with grace and love,

Zelle

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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
>
>___________________________
>L i s a   H e f t
>Consultant, Facilitator, Educator
>O p e n i n g  S p a c e
>Berkeley, California, USA
>lisaheft at openingspace.net
>www.openingspace.net 
> 
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