The beauty of that way of voting is that it keeps passion and responsibility together...whatever wants to get out of the room does so with a champion carrying it forward.<br><br>My practice these days is to do that and then invite a future gathering of champions, say a month after the OST to reconvene and check in on the progress of things with each other. That is a good time too to see if people need help from one another, and it begins a little council of action to sustain whatever is emerging.
<br><br>Chris<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/26/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Thomas Herrmann</b> <<a href="mailto:thomas@openspaceconsulting.com">thomas@openspaceconsulting.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Dear Carla</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Thanks for your answer, I love that way of
converging as well, but this time I don´t think it will be ripe to do that. To
my judgement the theme is too wide and the time too little, so we will think
about other ways to go on afterwards – maybe more OST-meetings or online
as they are normally spread out all over Sweden. Or they may go for more
time for the actual OS-meeting – we´ll see that in our planning-meeting.
But as I see the circumstances now, this seems like a good way.</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Thanks also to Harrison
– of course I´ve looked it up in "the book"! Remembered it
was there.</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Best regards</span></font></p>
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Skickat:</span></b> den 25 mars 2007 23:46<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Till:</span></b> <a href="mailto:thomas@openspaceconsulting.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">thomas@openspaceconsulting.com</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ämne:</span></b> RE: voting - after coming
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<p><font color="blue" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue;">After a very busy time, I am back here on
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<p><font color="blue" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue;">I remeber I had a same question some years
ago. I learned from the list, I think it was Michael Pannewitz, a quite other
way to vote. I used it ever aftherwards. It is very simple; just open space
again and ask who wants to bring one of the subjects (early mentioned) one step
further. It is simple and I think more inline with the proces of Open space
than te stickie voting. </span></font></p>
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<p><font color="blue" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue;">wishing you succes with the Open Space
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<p><font color="blue" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue;">warm regards </span></font></p>
<p><font color="blue" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue;">Carla Vliex from the Netherlands </span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; font-weight: bold;">From:</span></font></b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">On Behalf Of </span></b>Thomas Herrmann<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> zondag 25 maart 2007 23:14<span class="q"><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> OSLIST@<a href="http://LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> voting - after coming
home from an OST-meeting</span></span></font></p><div><span class="e" id="q_1118e7bc7e050b25_3">
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Dear friends in Open
Space </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">I am having discussions with a friend of mine who runs a
company which does surveys for companies in a quite interesting and easy way
– by using Internet. In September I will facilitate an OST-meeting with
about 350 people – only 5-6 hours. I would like to try letting the
participants have the documentation sent and allowing time for reading before
voting on which are most important to them. </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">A couple of times I´ve let participants answer via email
– which of course is a lot of work. So in order to do one less thing I´d
like to try this software which we very easily can modify to meet our needs.</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">My question is: What recommendations/ideas do you have for
the voting. When I use stickies in physical voting (which I´ve done with quite
large groups) I usually give them something like 5 votes to use as they like
– all five on one issue or spread out. This could be one alternative for
this software too. I know some of you let people put 10 votes on the top one, 9
on the second most important and so on until 1. </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">So I would appreciate pros and cons that you see/have
experienced about these methods and any other suggestions.</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Warmest regards</span></font></p>
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