[OSList] Your advice please!

[Annette Zera]

Dear Lisa, Elaine, Suzanne, Gabriela, Stanley, Michael and Holger

Thank you all so much for taking the time to respond with advice and ideas,
I'm really grateful.

Best wishes Annette

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Lisa Heft <lisaheft at openingspace.net>wrote:

> 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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