[OSList] Sharing Great Recommendations with Each Other

Mon May 19 15:14:27 PDT 2014

Hi Michael,

Thanks very much for the suggestions!  I changed the wording so that the
site is now about offering "great recommendations to each other" rather
than "best practices".  You also offered some excellent new questions in
your email.  I posted a few of them on the site to share with everyone
(below).

*In case anyone is following email thread and looking for a place to jump
in, here is one way... *
Perhaps folks might like to suggest an answer to your questions based on
what has worked for them in the past (don't worry- answers on Bark!Best are
limited to short sentences, so adding a recommendation is quick-- but be
careful, you might find it a lot of fun!):

   - Great ways to enable self-organization by a group? Link:
   http://www.barkbest.com/s/njWDi
   - Great ways to prepare to be unattached to outcomes? Link:
   http://www.barkbest.com/s/NBEhZ
   - Great ways to get into the mode of being fully present and utterly
   invisible? Link: http://www.barkbest.com/s/iknKH

Michael, I like how you shared your experiences in the form of a story.
 For demonstration purposes (we can take it down later if you prefer) I
posted it in the "stories" section so people can see an example:
http://www.barkbest.com/openspace (look for "Stories")

*This is an experiment, and much more feedback is welcome!*  I have some
time and energy to help this tool evolve to meet the needs of our
community.  I'm hoping there are a few other folks who also feel called to
explore how we can better preserve our community's knowledge.  I have a
vision of an interactive user guide that is *written by many of us*, with
many diverse opinions so that a reader has a rich pool of insight to draw
from to improve their next OS event.  I don't have all the answers, but I
sense there are tremendous possibilities here!

Lucas Cioffi
Charlottesville, VA
917-528-1831

On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 4:15 AM, Michael M Pannwitz <mmpannwitz at gmail.com>wrote:

> ... attached a picture of the type of Tibetan Temple Bells that HO refers
> to (there is a drawing of them on page 115 of the 3rd Edition of the Users
> Guide). The ones pictured in your tool are very large...and you would not
> need two of them. They remind me very much of the kind of bells that are
> used at traditional formal meetings (in the West) and used to bring order
> into the meeting. And pretty expensive at 229.99 to 589,99 on the amazon
> link provided by your tool, weighing 3 to 5 pounds.
> Hempal Shrestha of Nepal
>
>> http://www.openspaceworldmap.org/moreinfo/businesscard.php?
>> p_id=711&country_name=Nepal&c_id=127
>>
>
> brought two of them as a present for me. They now sit on my workdesk, very
> impressive.
>
>
> The ones in the attached picture are flat, 8cm in diameter, about 400gm a
> pair and have a rather soft, dark sound that carries... you can hear them
> in every corner of the room with 2000+ people gathered (OS in Würzburg in
> 2003 with 2108 participants)... but they are good for smaller groups
> because you can control the volume nicely (takes a little practice). This
> type costs about 40 to 60 US$.
> The pair I use I purchased in a Buddhist Temple in San Diego early in this
> century... actually I got several, one of them I gave to Galina Tsarkova,
> she holds them in her hands in her World Map entry
>
>> http://www.openspaceworldmap.org/moreinfo/businesscard.php?
>> p_id=351&country_name=Russian%20Fed.&c_id=146
>>
>
> click on the picture to enlarge it to get a closer look.
>
>
> cheers
>
> mmp
>
> On 16.05.2014 23:14, Lucas Cioffi wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm quite excited to bring this topic up and I'm hoping there are a few
>> like-minded souls willing to explore this direction with me.
>>
>> *The Goal:* /complement rather than replace this discussion list with a
>> searchable knowledge repository, consisting of stories and
>> recommendations/
>> /
>> /
>> *What: *I'm building a tool which can help us share stories and
>>
>> recommendations with each other in an efficient way.  I would like to
>> put it to work in service of the OS community.  When I floated this idea
>> on this discussion list a few months ago, I got some great feedback.
>>   Some people see the potential for how we can better archive the
>> stories and insights that we are already sharing on this list.
>>
>> *Why: *Every one of us probably has at least a few quick & useful
>>
>> insights about OST and facilitation each month (that ends up being
>> thousands of insights per month!), yet we are collectively sharing only
>> a small fraction of all those insights.  On a practical level, if
>> someone is planning an open space event and faced with a particular
>> challenge, they could perform a quick search on the knowledge repository
>> to see who has dealt with this in the past.  After holding their event,
>> they can add their insights for what worked and didn't work for them.
>>
>> *How:* The tool is called Bark!Best and it can do some fun things.  At
>>
>> the simplest level, it is a way to share questions and answers and to
>> make those answers easy to find.  Most interactions happen like this--
>> people sharing short recommendations in text form.  At a more advanced
>> level, it is similar to a 24/7 online open space; it lets participants
>> take any question and post it as a video-chat session at any time of the
>> day.
>>
>> *Getting Started*
>>
>> I took a few first steps.  Harrison gave me permission to go through the
>> full text of the User Guide; I extracted 160+ recommendations and their
>> respective 270+ supporting reasons, organizing and posting them all here
>> in a Q&A format: http://www.barkbest.com/openspace
>>
>> Those quotes from the User Guide are just a starting point for all of us
>> to build upon. */Think of a living book that is written and updated by
>>
>> all of us, all the time-- what an amazing body of knowledge that could
>> be. /* For example, the User Guide describes two "ways to empower
>> participants <http://barkbest.com/s/DuQLY>"; as a group, we might be
>>
>> able to think of a dozen more based on all our experiences.
>>
>> *Next Steps*
>>
>>   * Some of you might have some exciting ideas for what might be
>>
>>     possible here.  Please, please, please reach out to me or to
>>     everyone on this list.
>>   * It would be absolutely amazing to work with a few folks who would
>>     donate a few hours of their time to go through some of the most
>>     fruitful parts of the archive, to harvest insights and copy them
>>     into the knowledge repository.
>>
>> *Respect & Caution*
>>
>> Having been on this list for five years, I respect and honor that this
>> discussion list has been going a very long time before I got here.  I
>> recognize that I cannot succeed without a few other people who are
>> willing to take the lead and guide this project so that it meets the
>> actual needs of this community.  I hope you'll join me!
>>
>> --
>> Lucas Cioffi
>> Co-Founder, Bark!Best
>> NCDD Board Member, 2011-2013
>> Charlottesville, VA
>> 917-528-1831
>>
>>
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