[OSList] Your advice please!

[Lisa Heft]

Hi, Suzanne, Elaine, and the gentleman from MaestroConference -  
congratulations on your exploration for your meeting processes, design  
and technology! Wishing you great success, and know that it will be.

Annette - back to your particular question - though I know you are  
also learning much from Suzanne's sharing of her own event.

For something specifically Open Space - OpenSpace-Online has a virtual  
facilitator (a lovely character that welcomes and invites you,  
explains the principles and law), beautiful simple graphics that give  
the body-sense of sitting in a circle together, a virtual wall upon  
which to post topics, the ability to bumblebee from group to group,  
butterfly over to a 'cafe' and also have side butterfly conversations,  
and the output of a full Book of Proceedings printed out at your own  
desk. And you don't have to know anything technologically to do it -  
there is great support during the real-time of the online conference  
but most of it is completely intuitive to the participants.

Gabriela is an Open Space facilitator and she field-tested her design  
over several years with many of us Open Space folks.
Though text-based - as we know, there is nothing exactly like a group  
being together in person - it is amazingly close to the in-person  
feeling, because of its thoughtful design, visuals and options for any  
participant to self-organize into wherever they want to go, to write  
('speak') or simply to wander amongst the conversations and witness.

I suggest you check it out.

And this gives me an opportunity to say, Annette - thank you for that  
lovely visit outside in the sun over snacks and conversation...
And a warm hello, Gabriela from a gray morning in California...

Lisa


Lisa Heft
Consultant, Facilitator, Educator
President, Open Space Institute US
Fellow, Columbia University Center for International Conflict Resolution
Opening Space
lisaheft at openingspace.net

Ask me about these workshops for facilitators and others who convene  
people:
  - The Open Space Learning Workshop / el Taller de Aprendizaje de  
Espacio Abierto
        - December 14-16, 2011 - San Francisco, USA (en inglés)


On Nov 18, 2011, at 2:59 AM, Gabriela Ender wrote:

> Hi Annette,
>
> Currently in one single OpenSpace-Online conference 10-125  
> participants can work completely selforganized in a solution- 
> oriented and high data-protected 4hour step-by-step open space  
> workshop process. If a larger group wants to invite more than 125  
> participants, we can easily arrange a set of X simultaneous  
> OpenSpace-Online conferences for hundrets or thousands of people -  
> e.g. with exact the same main-theme/-question. In all cases our  
> system produces an extensive just-in-time conference documentation  
> (digital) at the end of the conference for immediate selforganized  
> further work. If you wish to have more information, just write me  
> separately (gabriela.ender[@]OpenSpace-Online.com).
>
> "OpenSpace-Online briefly": between 1999 and 2002 we developed the  
> OpenSpace-Online Real-Time Methodoloy (and are enhancing the IT  
> technology permanently - so far without investors). It has been used  
> in more than 70 countries till today. The OpenSpace-Online process  
> supports very much selforganization, because my vision was at that  
> time (and still is), to enable open space empowerment around the  
> globe without the must of having Open Space facilitators or  
> consultants in the room. Our real-time online methodology includes a  
> multi-dimensional virtual open space facilitation. Preparation and  
> follow-up need the same quality as we know from well done OST  
> processes. The realization of my vision and this technology was  
> possible based on the deep trust in selforganization - in particular  
> in the power of people and passion. In this way the OpenSpace-Online  
> Real-Time Methodology works since 9 years. Harrison was my  
> inspiration for that and is my role modell for true selforganization.
>
> Best regards to London!
> Gabriela
>
> P.S. Thank you dear Holger, for mention OpenSpace-Online.
>

> On 18.11.2011 08:01, Annette Zera wrote:
>> I've been asked if it is possible to run an *online *Open Space event
>> for 500 people.
>>
>> I haven't a clue.  Can anyone help?
>>
>> Thanks a lot.
>> Annette

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