[OSList] Entirely-online OSs?

Wed Apr 24 23:15:55 PDT 2013

Yeah, I'll totally come check out your conscious capitalism OS ... already
registered and looking forward to it.

But ... 8am?  On a day off from work?   Ugh :-(

On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Richard Schultz <richard at wisdomways.net>wrote:

> Hi James, Harold, Béatrice, and others interested,****
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> I and a colleague, Eiwor Backelund, have developed an online OST process
> using Blackboard Collaborate. This is the process that Harold participated
> in through my website www.wisdomways.net and mentions in his email below.
> However, we have now moved our process to a new website
> www.collaborativeways.com. Eiwor and I are both co-owners of the Genuine
> Contact™ Program, but as Harold says, the online OST process we have
> developed is separate from Genuine Contact. ****
>
> ** **
>
> Our OST process stays very true to the in-person OST process. People
> gather visually in an online circle at the beginning. A live facilitator
> holds space and opens the space with the theme,  principles and law.
> There is a blank agenda board where participants are invited to propose
> topics for discussion and select the time and breakout space when they
> would like to have the meeting. Participants can move themselves to the
> breakouts, use the law of two feet to "bumblebee" from room to room and
> there is a butterfly room where they can sit and reflect. There is a
> closing circle at the end and if it is a multiple-day meeting, there is
> morning and evening news.  ****
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> The Blackboard environment has whiteboards for notes and drawing, chat,
> voice, emocons, desktop application sharing and video capability, so it is
> a very rich environment to dialogue and create reports. We provide a Book
> of Proceedings after the meeting. We have also done multi-day meetings
> including convergence of ideas and action planning at the end of the
> meeting. Our total capacity is about 100 participants with as many breakout
> rooms as we like. Overall it is just like OST, except the rooms are online.
> Because it is online, we also have the added capability of moving the
> topics to online forums for further discussion between sessions or after
> the OST meeting. ****
>
> ** **
>
> To get everyone comfortable with the technology prior to the online OST,
> we have also added  a short online self-study course which allows them to
> test their connections and get familiar with the online tools in
> Blackboard. We did this because one of the biggest barriers that I have
> found to online meetings is the unfamiliarity with the online interface or
> connection issues. If something is not done prior to the online meeting,
> invariably the meeting may get delayed trying to get people connected or
> productive in the space. ****
>
> ** **
>
> If anyone would like to experience this, we have an free OST this coming
> Thursday April 25 at 9am MST, (15:00 UTC/GMT) on the theme: Exploring
> Conscious Capitalism. The meeting will not be recorded(except the written
> reports) so please sign up only if you are intending to actually
> participate. The link for more information and to register is:
> http://www.collaborativeways.com/April25ConsciousCapitalism ****
>
> ** **
>
> Hope you can join in and play with us in a future OST meeting!****
>
> ** **
>
> Blessings,****
>
> Richard Schultz****
>
> 402-247-8042****
>
> CollaborativeWays****
>
> www.collaborativeways.com****
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> *From:* oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org [mailto:
> oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org] *On Behalf Of *Harold Shinsato
> *Sent:* April-19-13 5:24 PM
> *To:* World wide Open Space Technology email list
> *Subject:* Re: [OSList] Entirely-online OSs?****
>
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>
> James,
>
> Online Open Space has been done a number of times.
>
> The text based system that uses a very thorough Open Space Technology
> grounding and is quite mature is Gabriele Ender's
> http://www.openspace-online.com/.
>
> Open Space Technology online with voice has been done with simple
> teleconferencing lines - usually more than one. MaestroConference is
> planning to add support for "Law of Two Feet" self-organizing - so people
> can move themselves between breakout sessions. I don't think they've
> completed it yet - but they have been actively working with our community
> to make something to support online voice open space technology events.
> http://maestroconference.com/
>
> I think you could create an Open Space with multiple teleconference lines
> and have people meet in one of them for the plenary - and then hang up and
> move to other phone lines for the breakouts.
> http://www.freeconferencing.com/ offers free telephone numbers for
> teleconferences. They make their money because of a legal setup in the U.S.
> that they get a portion of the local telephone company revenues of those
> who call into their phone numbers. Christine Whitney Sanchez has done some
> of the largest Open Space meetings with the Girl Scouts - and she told me
> she used this multiple telephone conference line approach successfully.
>
> There is also Skype and Google Hangout - I'm not sure how easily these
> would scale and I'd rather not be involved in the logistics of setting
> something like that up. I've personally found it touch and go just to hold
> a voice conference with these free offerings - but with some luck and some
> savvy - it could be done.
>
> An attempt was made a few years ago to design an Open Space Technology
> online using http://secondlife.com - the 3D world where people meet using
> avatars with both text and voice. It has worked for World Cafe', but the
> experiment never completed for OST. It felt like the technology overhead
> and learning curve was too steep - though it could work.
>
> I participated a few months ago with a very successful online Open Space
> for just a few hours. It is a platform using voice, text, and shared
> graphics through a website. There have been a few invitations to try this
> system. I did it November 2012. The online event was hosted by the Genuine
> Contact community that Birgitt Williams started - though I don't think it's
> officially a part of Genuine Contact - they do bring some of that mature
> understanding of Open Space. http://wisdomways.net.
>
> Just to be complete - Harrison Owen has said the Internet is one big Open
> Space. People are self-organizing meetups constantly all over the net.
>
>     Harold
>
>
> On 4/19/13 3:55 PM, B.MELIN ALIDADE wrote:****
>
>  ****
>
> @james sounds interesting, I would very much like to know more, and even,
> to participate on line..****
>
> I have never done this before, could be nice to think about it, (my Skype
> bea0102)****
>
> Thanks, Béatrice Melin****
>
> Marseilles, South of France****
>
>  ****
>
> *De :* oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org [
> mailto:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org<oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org>]
> *De la part de* James Sheldon
> *Envoyé :* vendredi 19 avril 2013 22:09
> *À :* OSList at lists.openspacetech.org
> *Objet :* [OSList] Entirely-online OSs?****
>
>  ****
>
> Has anyone ever done an open space entirely online, like if participants
> are not able to travel and be in person together?   I'm having trouble
> envisioning what these might look like...****
>
> I've got a small organization of maybe a half dozen people but was
> thinking we could issue an invite more broadly to people in our field.****
>
> ~James****
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