<div dir="ltr"><div>Hiya Marissa.</div>
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<div>Good question.</div>
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<div>A friend of mine (<a href="http://www.edmitchell.co.uk/">www.edmitchell.co.uk</a>) specialises in blending face-to-face gatherings with web tools.</div>
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<div>One of the things he's discovered is that you need to make the "user name and password" bit part of the event registration process. In other words, every participant in the OS meeting is automatically joined up with whatever online tool you've decided to use. If this doesn't happen, at the end of the event people say they'll sign up for the wiki, blog, forum or whatever, but interia sets in and the post-event efforts run out of steam. That's not going to happen every time, and may not happen in your case, but it's worth remembering for the future.</div>
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<div>In terms of technology, a wiki is probably the easiest to organise. There are several free wiki providers, including pbwiki (<a href="https://secure.pbwiki.com/signup.wiki">https://secure.pbwiki.com/signup.wiki</a>) and Wikispaces (<font color="#008000"><a href="http://www.wikispaces.com/">www.<b>wikis</b>paces.com</a>).</font></div>
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<div>I have a policy of making it the responsibility of the participants to post reports online or email them to all concerned (including those who didn't take part). The reports belong to the participants. I make it clear that it's not my job to type-up handwritten reports and circulate them, even when I'm being paid a pile of money for my services!</div>
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<div>I'm a bit out of touch with email lists. Does anyone out there have state of the art info on this?</div>
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<div>You can find some info about <strong>how to keep up post-event momentum</strong> here: <a href="http://www.jackmartinleith.com/?page_id=156">www.jackmartinleith.com/?page_id=156</a>. I've discovered that there's often a need for a <strong>project co-ordination team</strong>, composed of all project managers/co-ordinators. Most importantly, the team needs to include a member of the senior management group. This ensures ongoing management attention and connects the projects with the resource allocation process.</div>
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<div>In case you're interested, the theory behind this way of working is Stafford Beer's <strong>viable system model</strong> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viable_System_Model">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viable_System_Model</a>). The project co-ordination team acts as "system 2" and knits together the various project teams (so the left hand knows what the right hand is doing) and creates a bridge between all the project teams and the top management group.</div>
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<div>I've also discovered that the project teams are also learning groups. If the OS was for an organisation rather than a community, the project teams are where new ways of working are tried out. They are learning labs for the wider organisation. Any breakdowns need to be celebrated and embraced as opportunities for learning and breakthrough. And there needs to be a mechanism for spreading the learnings throughout the wider organisation.</div>
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<div>Two powerful (when used well) approaches to explore, if you don't already know about them:</div>
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<div><strong>Action learning</strong>: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_learning">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_learning</a></div>
<div><strong>After action reviews</strong>: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Action_Review">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Action_Review</a></div>
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<div>That's a very quick reponse. I hope it helps.</div>
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<div>Jack</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">2008/9/15 marissa zamudio <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marissazamudio@hotmail.com">marissazamudio@hotmail.com</a>></span><br>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span>Dear fellow OSers,</span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span>I am doing a one day Open Space event in two weeks and have pretty much all the arrangements in place. We will have time for depth discussions and no time for plan of actions or next steps. </span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span>I am anticipating that this group will want to continue some of the work (continue conversations, action plans, etc) online and I am not sure I know how to proceed or support the group </span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span>after the OS event.</span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span>I would appreciate suggestions on what ohters have done along this line that has worked for OS groups. This will be a relatively small group. I look </span></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span>forward to your ideas. </span></font></div><br>
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