documenting for ripple effect

[Wendy Farmer-O'Neil]

Hi Michael,

 

Thanks for sharing this.  It’s something I have wanted to try, but not yet
found a sponsor ready for it.  My only other experience was connected to the
Community Commons project where we uploaded all the proceedings to a wiki
and then circulated the URL to community stakeholders and media to make the
proceedings widely available to the community in the hopes of continuing the
conversation in the grocery store, by mailboxes, etc…

 

I am currently working on how to interweave the proceedings (especially the
action planning) with the Community Weaving website.  This is particularly
for community-based initiatives where the connections can be more difficult
to sustain than in a company.   The idea is basically, that sponsors can be
trained as community weavers so they have access to all reports and the
resource treasury.  Participants register as good neighbours and can form
action groups and post and record activities using the CW website.  All of
the ripples of the event can be tracked by the sponsor CW’s (and the
community at large)—who are basically witnesses to the self-organizing of
the participants.  As all the activities are visible and available to the
whole CW network, it provides opportunity for the ripples to spread as
others in the community become aware of what’s going on and follow their two
feet. Lots of other upsides and synergies with this one, and still some
hurdles to navigate.

 

Cheers,

Wendy

 

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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Michael
Herman
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 2:28 PM
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Subject: documenting for ripple effect

 

Hi All, 

Just back from a "senior executive forum" for a company in South Africa, 1.5
days in OS, where we did something new and different with documentation.  We
tweaked the notes reporting template to help start a weblog with the
proceedings, as soon as the corporate IT guys can get the tech side of
things together.  

This Forum was top 60 people in the company.  600 others report to them.
The 60 have been meeting semi-annually for several years, and know
themselves to be a circle.  The 600 are the beginning of the rest of the org
(of 12,000 total) all of which currently knows itself as a set of silos
rather than circles.  

So with the proceedings, we asked the usual... issue, convener,
participants, summary.  To satisfy the corporate yearning for action, we had
a space for 'immediate next steps' in the template.  Then we added to other
fields:  Summary for 600 direct reports (if not same as above) and Summary
for Whole Organization (if not....).  

On most issues, scribes said share with all.  On a few issues, qualified
summaries were written.  On all issues, this will provide the necessary info
to establish a weblog that can be open to at least the next largest circle,
with the thought that this new view of "strategy" might be offered to the
600 and ultimately "leaked" out to the rest of the organization. 

The hope is that we might use these proceedings and followup news in weblog
form to help turn the 600 into a circle of conversations, that might
eventually also be convened periodically, in whole or in parts, in open
space.  It helps, as well, that these 60 will continue to meet and generate
news in semi-annual gatherings. 

I thought there might be other places where we are working where it would
make sense to ask participants to craft directly and immediately their
messages for some larger circle of colleagues or stakeholders, with or
without a blog structure as the delivery/conversation vehicle.  

Anybody else documenting events in weblogs these days?

On our way from "meetings" to "practice."

Cheers, MichaelH



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