OST + wiki = ProjectWiki

[Danilo Kozoderc]

Dear Lisa,

Thanks for your feedback. I totally agree with you. Wiki is tool and 
wiki is culture. It's quite easy to implement tool and it's much more 
difficult to change the culture.. Good help could be done by wiki 
gardener, who help, arrange things and also make content more clearly 
visible.

Sunny regards to California.

Danilo

Lisa Heft pravi:
> 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
>
>
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> 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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