[OSList] Ang.: Online OST in written form - is it possible?

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Forgot to mention that the solution we have can be used for up to 100 people in the circle. 
Eiwor

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Rubrik: [OSList] Online OST in written form - is it possible?
Datum: tis, maj 14, 2013 07:58
Hi all, can OST be transferred into a virtual 
environment without loosing some of its characteristics? It depends of course on 
what you believe are the key components of OST. I think the realtime discussions 
when they happen in the climate created by the four principles and the one law 
is an essential part of OST. I also know from many of the research reports I 
have read about online communication, that the written communication in a forum 
will work for some people but not for others.
One example, this morning when I read these mails I 
had to discuss them with my husband at the breakfast table to get a grip of what 
I thought about them. Many people are auditive learners and they get their ideas 
while they listen and talk. Others will do fine with written words. 


I know that OST works fine in the online 
environment. My colleague Richard Schultz and I have used Blackboard Elluminate 
to create a system for online OST real time meetings and most people find that 
it is almost as meeting in person, which they actually do. The lack of body 
language which is most important in any conversation, makes it more difficult to 
collaborate but if you at least can hear the voice of the other person, it helps 
because the voice shows so much of how your words are interpreted.That is a 
problem when writing, especially when you, like I do now, write in a foreign 
language. 

When we created the OST system for online 
collaboration, we divided the meetings into smaller sessions, no more than 3 
hours maximum. People come to the first meeting and create the agenda together 
and they can then use the law of two feet and move in and out of sessions as 
they need to. We think the short sessions will make it possible for most people 
to attend and still have time to do the other work they need to at that day. We 
have also created a forum and storage place where reports are stored and 
discussions can continue in written form in between the meetings. Prioritizing 
can easily be made after all the reports are there and then I always, in both 
in-person and online OST meetings, invite people to create a new agenda for the 
action planning instead of converging etc. They converge the reports in their 
heads while reading and reflecting. And we have an introduction course for 
people not familiar with discussions in online environment and they are not so 
few as one might think. 

You can take a look at what we have done at www.collaborativeways.com. I think 
that the OST version in written format you mention could be OST-Online which 
Gaby Ender created some years ago. It is still a real time meeting version and 
from my experience the combination of real time meetings and writing in forums 
in between could be what works best. 

Blessings
Eiwor



----- Original Message ----- 
From: 
Anna 
Christine Christensen 
To: oslist at lists.openspacetech.org 

Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 3:27 PM
Subject: [OSList] Online OST in written 
form - is it possible?


Someone has asked 
me whether it is possible to do OST solely on the web over a prolonged period 
of time (say 3 months) with people coming in and adding their thoughts now and 
again as their time permits? His challenge is a wide variety of stakeholders 
who will not be able to meet – not even hold a “normal” web-OST, because they 
won’t be able to be present at the same time. It is not a huge group and 
therefore unlikely that someone would happen to be online all the time, so it 
would have to be a written OST. 

Has anyone tried 
that? – A written, online OST running over a couple of 
months?

I remember hearing 
about a programme designed to do OST on the web – what is that called and 
would it work for a “written” OST? 

Or does anyone have 
other ideas and experiences as to how to get a conversation / change process 
going OST-style under the mentioned circumstances?

All the very 
best,
Anna Christine 
Christensen






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