Fw: [OSLIST] Question - using a wiki to post OS topics before Opening the Space

[Ted Ernst]

Chris,
It sounds as if you're suggesting that perhaps OST be not thought of
as an event without context, but to simply be another variation on how
people get things done.  The work shouldn't stop between the time the
invitation comes out and the day of the event, it seems. :-)
peace,
ted

On 1/16/07, Chris Corrigan <chris at chriscorrigan.com> wrote:
> My thought is that as long as you actually really Open Space, with a real
> marketplace and agenda setting session to invite what is alive and present
> to fall under the spell of the group's attention, then the preliminaries are
> all good.  Whether you set up a wiki, create questions and have people start
> investigative blogs to dop some "pre-learning", host some Skype
> conversations, play games with photo collections at flickr...all of these
> web 2.0 technologies help us to connect and we find that when we eventually
> come together in meatspace, the conversations are that much deeper.
>
> Surround Open Space with love, excitment, passion and responsibility and
> ithelps a group of people positively GLOW.
>
> Chris
>
>
> On 1/7/07, Loretta Donovan <loretta.donovan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am so pleased with the texture and variety of responses to this
> question.
> > With Web 2.0 and wikis being relatively new to many people who have been
> > engaged in community and facilitation practice, we're all explorers and
> our
> > annecdotes are starting to tell the story of "what happens".
> >
> > Peggy and Michael have hit on where my preference lies for the moment as I
> > integrate wikis into engagements. There are social information needs that
> > wikis can support, but before people are face to face the former is where
> > you will find the low hanging fruit. For years I had surveyed program
> > participants to find out what their needs, interest and background were.
> Now
> > I set up a wiki with the participants listed and invite them to introduce
> > themselves and post a photo. In groups that are composed of newcomers or a
> > hybrid of new and existing relationships, this can create a level of
> comfort
> > as each person says what they choose.
> >
> > At the same time, the democratic and participatory principles of OS are
> > supported by every member being able to post and edit within the wiki.
> > During the OS there is ample time to capture (I often use digital photos)
> > the information shared, and later on the wiki can promote ongoing
> > conversation. I would caution, however, that the culture and climate of
> the
> > group has far more influence over the motivation to collaborate online
> than
> > any particular tool that is offered.
> >
> > Loretta L. Donovan
> > President
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> > Strategic collaboration for business results
> >
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> >
> > The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
> > ~~ Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)
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