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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Gabriella,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This is so beautiful!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>all my blessings</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Tova Averbuch</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="mailto:averbuch@post.tau.ac.il">averbuch@post.tau.ac.il</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Israel</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A href="mailto:info@INSYKO.DE" title=info@INSYKO.DE>Institut für systemische
Kommunikation (insyko)</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU"
title=OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, May 15, 2002 4:31
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> My Vision became Reality:
OpenSpace-Online is born!</DIV>
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<P><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Dear colleagues and dear friends,</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Verdana size=2>this a very, very special day for me and my team:
Exactly at 15:15 (German time), 2002-05-15 we started the launch of our new
open space internet conference system. For all who have not much time to read
this long email ... you are warmly invited to go on our new website
</FONT></FONT><A
href="http://www.OpenSpace-Online.com">www.OpenSpace-Online.com</A><FONT
color=#000080>.</P>
<P>In the following I would like to share with you one of my greatest
experiences I had in my life. <BR><BR>In the middle of a wonderful period of
co-facilitating and facilitating OST conferences and of develop and offer a
OST Training together with Michael M Pannwitz I began to dream about the
question "Could it give additional ways to spread OST?" "What" and "how"?"
Over month this questions came again and again into my mind. I did not know
really why, because I saw how wonderful OST spread. In the same way I was
additional so much impressed about the new possibilities which brought us the
world wide web. At this time I thought that this two threads in my mind were
total independent from each other. </P>
<P>But on a weekend in July 1999, relaxing in the sun, it happens in my yard.
There I had an indescribably intense flash of inspiration. In my mind's eye, I
saw, quite clearly and precisely, the process and structure of an
Internet-based real-time conference. This conference software had a virtual
facilitator, helped decentralized work groups and interest groups to achieve a
large degree of independence. Moreover, it brought into harmony with one
another results-orientation, participation, and mutually respectful
communication. At the same time, this software transferred as good as possible
the principles of OST to the Internet. I saw how this software could ideally
support processes of learning and of change in society, in the economy, in
education, and in politics with its practically universal span of application
and due to its simple and quick handling. </P>
<P>I jumped out of my canvas chair, I was total confused, I went into the
house, toke paper and a pen and began to write down all what I saw. I felt
myself like in trance ... I wrote and wrote and wrote. A full concept of the
software structure, the procedure, the benefits, the applications, the logo
draft, the slogan and first steps of realization. When I "woke up" more than
one hour was gone, 10 pages were full and I was so tired and so confused. That
MOMENT was the begin of a big adventure.</P>
<P>The vision was so clear and so powerful! It was like a precious gift and
was also like a very precise and clear commission. What followed was a journey
of discovery into an area (IT) that was at that time foreign to me. But I had
the deep belief that this vision could become reality. The whole time I was
guided by a friendly star, which always showed me the way or stopped me if I
was in danger of getting off course. It is a good thing that I did not know at
the beginning how deep I would have to penetrate into this area and that an
almost unending desert of countless details, privations, risks, and unforeseen
challenges awaited me. But there was never any question of stopping, turning
around, or giving up. It must also be said that I never would have been able
to complete this big project alone. I was fortunate in always finding the
right people at the right time. A big Thank You to all my angels and
supporters on earth and after this time I am sure also in heaven!</P>
<P>And a very big THANK YOU to you, Harrison. Without your open philosophy,
without your trust in open change I would never had this powerful inspiration
and the courage to go into such chancy and expensive adventure without any
doubt. THANK YOU for your "wonderful open space garden". You disseminated a
brilliant seed and since over 17 years it grows and grows in this beautiful
garden. The internet and the IT sector makes it possible that over the years
more and more communication and new plants and bloomers appear. Each plant has
its own personality, its own tasks and benefits. But all plants have the same
roots and all are full of heart energy, of passion and all are growing for
similar higher goals.<BR><BR>To realize my vision I went into a cooperation
with a very experienced software company. During the time more and more staff
were needed and on average between 5 and 7 people were working day by day in
this project. One of a few "musts" from our business partner was it to keep
our IT-project top secret. But now the development of the first software
version and the long period of tests (12 month), in which 30 to 50 people
helped us in optimizing the system, are over. Now we are able to speak about
our new innovation. I am so happy about this milestone and it is so
exciting!</P>
<P><U>If you are interested in ... here some brief information regarding our
new "bloomer":<BR></U>Our main product is now an Internet conference software,
which takes place in successive phases, in which between 5 and 75 persons can
simultaneously work on a major subject that is current and important to them.
The complete conference system and the appropriate conference software is
available in German and in English. The participants work together in a goal
and solution-oriented manner for 1.5 to about 8 hours. No external online
moderator is needed. A virtual facilitator guides all participants simply
through the process of the conference. That was in the beginning one of my
biggest aims: no online moderator and in real-time! I wanted to create a
system with a good structure, phase by phase, step by step with a good
orientation for each single participant at each place in the "conference
center" and at every second. I was sure, that the passion for a higher joint
subject will find the way through this virtual leaded process. The wonderful
result is: it works every time! And at the end of every online conference each
participant receives extensive documentation about the conference in the
convenient HTML-format at the press of a button. The documentation provides an
ideal basis for further work, as it contains all contents, results, and
arrangements made during the conference and can be immediately used in either
digital or printed form. </P>
<P>With the complete conference system licensees can plan and manage
individual conferences quickly and independently and carry these through via
Internet, Extranet, or Intranet. With our conference system, we are especially
oriented towards companies, organizations, universities and schools which are
engaged in a process of constant learning and which understand, therefore, the
value of participation for the proactive initiation and establishment of
sustainable processes of change and want to make synergies possible between
the offline and the online world.</P>
<P>Another field of application which is equally important to us is that of
cities and communities engaged in a constant learning process. We are happy
therefore that an extensive cooperation has begun between our new company and
the German Association of Towns and Municipalities. The goals of this
cooperation are to work together to support cities and communities in opening
ever more interactive spaces for lively online citizen participation to make
city and regional development possible in a new form and to set new
international benchmarks for the areas E-Government, E-Participation and
E-Democracy. </P>
<P>Like OST, our software system is also not a "sell-product". It is just a
tool, easy and fast to handle and to use. We have no distribution system and
we will have no agencies, no sales commission is planed, no sales people are
needed and no consultants are required. Our deep believe is that (with the
principles of OST) our software system will find the right customers, license
clients and the right participants self-organized and the right people which
want to support such applications ... when the time is right. Our main tasks
in the future will be to make our innovation known, to "hold the space" for
all people and organizations which are interested in our services around
self-organized participation and self-organized e-participation. Another task
is to continue the development on our software system and to develop other
networking tools. That’s our mission. We invite you all warmly to have a look
into our new website www.OpenSpace-Online.com. There you will find more
information. </P>
<P>Thank you for taking time and reading this long message!<BR>With warm
greetings from Berlin</P>
<P>Gabriela Ender</FONT></FONT></P></DIV>
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* * * * * * * * <BR>OpenSpace-Online GmbH - The Power of People
<BR>Resselsteig 30, 12209 Berlin, Germany <BR>eMail: <A
href="mailto:contact@OpenSpace-Online.com">contact@OpenSpace-Online.com</A> <BR>website:
<A
href="http://www.OpenSpace-Online.com">http://www.OpenSpace-Online.com</A> <BR>phone:
++ 49 (30) 772 31 69 <BR>List of Change
Facilitators Worldwide <BR>website: <A
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