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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The following announcement has (I gather) been
posted on many internet lists. I copied this from the OnLine Facilitation
Group at eGroups.com, where it was posted by Nancy White, whose coordinates
appear at the end of the announcement.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I know from reaction I have received before about
technology support for Open Space, that others in this OS Forum are interested
in this subject area. I would encourage all to think about using internet
technology at least as a channel to publish the results of Open Space meetings
and also to extend and continue the discussion and action planning
aspects. You may find it revealing just to read the bios of the expert
participants in the announcement below -- gives you an idea of just how far
facilitation in an online envroinment has been taken, and how behaviours and
communication differ in this environment than in live or traditional
media.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Cheers,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Patrick McAuley</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Guelph, Canada</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>> From MANY lists! <BR>> <BR>> From: Suler
<A href="mailto:sule-@voicenet.com">sule-@voicenet.com</A><BR>> <BR>>
BEHAVIOR ONLINE (<A href="http://www.behavior.net">http://www.behavior.net</A>)
would like to invite you to<BR>> attend a panel discussion entitled:<BR>>
<BR>> "DEVELOPING ONLINE COMMUNITIES"<BR>> Saturday, March 25, 4:00-5:00
pm Eastern US time (Universal/Greenwich<BR>Time: 21)<BR>> Behavior Online
(chat login)<BR>> <A
href="http://www.behavior.net/chat">http://www.behavior.net/chat</A><BR>>
<BR>> In this meeting a panel of internet experts will discuss a series
of<BR>> questions about developing online communities that will be posed
to<BR>> them by a moderator. After the panel discussion, the meeting will
be<BR>> opened up to questions and comments from the audience. Some of
the<BR>> issues to be explored will include:<BR>> <BR>> - Why create an
online community?<BR>> - The do's and dont's of developing one<BR>> -
Establishing the ideology and purpose of the community<BR>> - Structuring the
population and communication infrastructure<BR>> - Dealing with the struggles
and recognizing the triumphs<BR>> - Understanding the life cycle of the
community<BR>> <BR>> The program for the meeting is located at<BR>> <A
href="http://www.rider.edu/users/suler/psycyber/bolchatcom.html">http://www.rider.edu/users/suler/psycyber/bolchatcom.html</A><BR>>
<BR>> The panel discussion will begin at 4:00pm (Eastern US time). You
are<BR>> welcome to come early - and stay after the hour - to talk
with<BR>> colleagues. During the panel discussion, please refrain from
sending<BR>> public messages. You are welcome to "whisper" (send private
messages)<BR>> to other attenders, but keep in mind that if you whisper to
someone,<BR>> the chat program places a series of dots next to your name. You
will<BR>> not see the dots, but other users will. After the panel
discussion,<BR>> when the meeting is opened up to questions and comments from
the<BR>> audience, indicate that you want to speak by typing the
message<BR>> "hand." Questions will be taken in the order of hands raised.
"(p)"<BR>> will appear after the name of the panelists. Please do not
send<BR>> private messages to them during the panel discussion.<BR>>
<BR>> We strongly recommend that you visit Behavior Online ahead of
time<BR>> and test out the chat software (<A
href="http://www.behavior.net/chat">http://www.behavior.net/chat</A>).
For<BR>> this meeting, we will be using the chat software "FreeChat." Read
the<BR>> help page. It's easy to understand. There are some disadvantages
to<BR>> FreeChat as compared to other chat programs, but it requires
no<BR>> downloads, is easy to use, and is stable across many
platforms.<BR>> During the meeting, if you wish to see new messages as
quickly as<BR>> possible, set refresh to 5 and click on the refresh button
often. If<BR>> this frequent refresh is hard on your eyes, set refresh to a
longer<BR>> period (20, 40) and use the refresh button sparingly. Note that
new<BR>> messages since the last refresh appear in a different color at
the<BR>> top of the screen.<BR>> <BR>> THE PANELISTS:<BR>> <BR>>
ROBIN HAMMAN, an American now living in the UK, Robin Hamman has been<BR>>
building online communities since 1985 when he started a private<BR>>
Bulletin Board Service (BBS) on his Apple IIe so that his friends<BR>> could
download games and have online discussions. In 1995 he began to<BR>> formally
study online communities while working on his Master's<BR>> degree in
Sociology at the University of Essex. Since then, he has<BR>> completed his
MPhil in Communication Studies (Liverpool, 1999) and<BR>> has begun working
on his PhD project at the Hypermedia Research<BR>> Centre, University of
Westminster. His project, an online community<BR>> for people working in the
London digital media industry, has received<BR>> sponsorship from a large
trade union, an EU funded think tank, and<BR>> several corporations with
commercial interests. Over the past five<BR>> years, Robin has published
articles in a number of periodicals,<BR>> journals, and edited collections.
He has been interviewed about his<BR>> work by journalists in nearly a dozen
countries. He has also been a<BR>> freelance internet consultant and, since
August '99, has worked as a<BR>> communities producer at BBC Online (<A
href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/gettalking">www.bbc.co.uk/gettalking</A>). In
his<BR>> spare time, Robin edits a webzine called Cybersociology<BR>> (<A
href="http://www.cybersociology.com">www.cybersociology.com</A>) and has
moderated it's 750 member email list.<BR>> <BR>> HOWARD RHEINGOLD is a
leading expert on internet history, culture,<BR>> and community. His books
include<BR>> The Virtual Community (HarperCollins 1994, MIT Press
2000),Virtual<BR>> Reality (Touchstone 1993), and Tools for Thought (Simon
& Schuster,<BR>> 1985, MIT Press 2000). He is Founder of Electric Minds
(named by Time<BR>> magazine one of the ten best web sites of 1996); one of
the creators<BR>> and former founding Executive Editor of HotWired (the
online World<BR>> Wide Web multimedia publication of Wired Ventures); Editor
in Chief<BR>> of The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog (HarperCollins 1994);
former<BR>> "Tomorrow" columnist for the San Francisco Examiner; and founder
and<BR>> host of the Brainstorms online community. His other books
include<BR>> Excursions to the Far Side of the Mind, They Have a Word For
It,<BR>> Higher Creativity (with Willis Harman), The Cognitive
Connection<BR>> (with Howard Levine), and Exploring the World of Lucid
Dreaming (with<BR>> Stephen LaBerge). Rheingold's books are translated
into French,<BR>> German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Swedish. His web site
is located<BR>> at <A
href="http://www.rheingold.com">http://www.rheingold.com</A><BR>> <BR>>
ALAN SONDHEIM is a writer, teacher, videomaker, and cyberspace<BR>> theorist
who comoderates four email lists, Cybermind,<BR>> Fiction-of-Philoso- phy,
Cyberculture, and E-conf (electronic<BR>> conferencing), on the Internet. For
the past several years, Sondheim<BR>> has been working on dynamic webpages
and a long Internet Text, a<BR>> continuous meditation on the philosophy and
psycho- logy of<BR>> cyberspace. Parts of this have been published in online
and offline<BR>> venues, including Nettime's Readme (Autonomedia). Sondheim
was the<BR>> second Virtual Writer-in-Residence for the trAce Online
Writing<BR>> Community, originating from Nottingham Trent University,
England. In<BR>> 1996, Sondheim edited Being On Line, Net Subjectivity, for
Lusitania<BR>> Press, guest-edited an issue of Art Papers on Future Culture,
and<BR>> edited issue #120 of New Observations on Cultures of Cyberspace.
His<BR>> other books include Individuals: Post-Movement Art in
America<BR>> (Dutton, 1977) and Disorders of the Real (Station Hill, 1988).
His<BR>> current project, the Internet Text, is available on the World
Wide<BR>> Web.<BR>> <BR>> JOHN SULER, Ph.D., (moderator for the panel)
is Professor of<BR>> Psychology at Rider University and a practicing
clinical<BR>> psychologist. His online hypertext book The Psychology of
Cyberspace<BR>> describes the results of his ongoing research on how
individuals and<BR>> groups behave in cyberspace. His work has been
translated into<BR>> several languages and has been reported by The New York
Times, The<BR>> Wall Street Journal, the BBC, the Chicago Sun Times, CNN,
MSNBC, the<BR>> APA Monitor, NBC Nightly News, US News and World Report, and
The<BR>> Chronicle of Higher Education. He is consulting editor for
Behavior<BR>> Online, the Journal of Virtual Environments, the
journal<BR>> CyberPsychology and Behavior, and the Contemporary Media Forum
for<BR>> The Journal of Applied Psychoanalysis. He is a founding member and
on<BR>> the executive board of the International Society for Mental
Health<BR>> Online, where he also created and moderates an online clinical
group<BR>> devoted to case studies of psychotherapy that involve the
internet.<BR>> He also created and facilitates the BOL forum The Psychology
of<BR>> Cyberspace and an e-mail group devoted to the study of how
cyberspace<BR>> and in-person lifestyles affect each other. John's other web
projects<BR>> include the Teaching Clinical Psychology and the award winning
Zen<BR>> Stories to Tell Your Neighbors web sites..<BR>> <BR>>
Transcripts of previous Behavior Online chat meetings are available at<BR>>
<A
href="http://www.behavior.net/chatevents/index.html">http://www.behavior.net/chatevents/index.html</A><BR>>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Nancy White ~ Full Circle
Associates ~ 206-517-4754 <BR><A
href="http://www.fullcirc.com">http://www.fullcirc.com</A> and <A
href="http://www.onlinefacilitation.com">http://www.onlinefacilitation.com</A></FONT></DIV>
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