OST + wiki = ProjectWiki

[Lisa Heft]

Hello, Danilo -

I find that - for Open Space or any situation that is designed around  
an event - the wikis work only if there is a) someone hosting and able  
to make it more interactive for those participants who do not operate  
usually on-line or go to on-line sites and b) if the group has a need  
to continue working together / interacting after the event.

(Christine and her team demonstrated some really active hosting at the  
wiki they created for their planning and event - hosting done by four  
or five people in different roles - inviting, cleaning, highlighting,  
connecting threads...)

I find that some clients are sad that nobody goes there after the  
event to use the wiki they set up - and that, when questioned, the  
participants say 'we got all we needed at the face-to-face event' and  
went back into their busy lives. Or the participants were not all of  
the culture to use on-line communities or conversations, so the wiki  
activity consisted of just a few participants who already operate in  
that world. Or because wiki is so highly text-based, some people have  
trouble taking in text-based data.

I have also been taught well that the use of tech tools can be  
selected / built into the design of an event only after an analysis of  
what the people naturally do and what tech tools naturally reflect  
what the people do and are like.

And that it is hard for some folks to 'feel' that a wiki is out there  
during an event or afterwards, so in the OS event some of my  
colleagues who use wikis also have a physical space in the large OS  
meeting room that is a 'Newsroom' (documentation station) to both help  
those who do not use wikis (they can transcribe their session notes at  
a laptop or give them to a Newsroom Coordinator via a usb / flash  
drive during the meeting) and to give others a reminder / body sense  
that documentation is an element of the meeting.

I have observed that some people not already familiar with wikis may  
be shocked that someone is able to edit and change their words - so  
perhaps a full explanation is useful if you are introducing this to a  
culture (or some within a culture) who are not fully acquainted with  
wikis.

And I have observed that including people who cannot attend by doing a  
wiki at the same time as a live event can require one or more  
dedicated 'journalist' types to keep the information flowing out to  
the virtual attendees, because so many of the face-to-face  
participants are most interested in attending to the face-to-face  
rather than also interacting on-line at that time.

And of course it depends on the culture of the group you are working  
with - if it's all bloggers and Twitterers they are already sending  
out information so you'd want to use their existing pathways and  
engage them in any additional pathways (or tags etc.) that help off- 
site participants access everything rather than people posting in  
places that only some of them know.

Perhaps some of these reflections will help add some thought as you  
design your own use of wiki in combination with OST.
And there are others in our community who will I am sure add  
additional experiences and lessons learned about using wikis.

Warm regards to Slovenia from a gray but lovely morning in California,
Lisa


Lisa Heft
Consultant, Facilitator, Educator
Opening Space
lisaheft at openingspace.net
www.openingspace.net



On Jun 1, 2010, at 12:02 AM, Danilo Kozoderc wrote:

> Hello Everybody
>
> Do you have any experiences using wiki in combination with OST?
>
> My friend Aleš and me were using wiki as kind of making notes from  
> groups during Open Spase event. Wiki could be active also after the  
> event and is good oportunity to continue space opened.
>
> Also OST and wiki could share same principles and are very  
> compatibile.
>
> Best regards from Slovenia.
>
> Danilo


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