<div dir="ltr"><div>Hello Cleo.</div>
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<div>(You must get that a lot ... as I do with "Hi Jack"!)</div>
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<div>An interesting and challenging project.</div>
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<div><Does anyone have any ideas on how to engage people on the progress, milestones and benefits of the system in an open space/ knowledge café kind of style?></div>
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<div>Well, this may sound overly philosophical, but everyone involved in the planning, design and organisation of this gathering needs to recognise that you cannot engage people. You can no more engage someone than you can dance them. Engaging (verb) a "with" activity, not a "to" one. As you're posting to this list you almost certainly see things this way, but it's very likely that some of your colleagues will be coming from the "to" perspective.</div>
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<div>If you need a conceptual tool to explain this to your colleagues, you'll find one here: <a href="http://www.jackmartinleith.com/?page_id=139">www.jackmartinleith.com/?page_id=139</a>. Conventional conferences are about telling and selling (telling + benefits). Open Space is about co-creation. It's a shift from buy-in to join-in. No messages, no doing things to people, or for people! </div>
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<div>More about engaging "with" here: <a href="http://www.jackmartinleith.com/?p=1041">www.jackmartinleith.com/?p=1041</a>. I can send you the slides if you're interested in seeing them.</div>
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<div>If the organising group is ready to engage "with", then Open Space could well be the best tool for the job.</div>
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<div>There's absolutely no need to "keep people energised" - that's "to" thinking. In Open Space, people will keep themselves energised. This I can promise. There's absolutely no question about it.</div>
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<div>As for the large number of participants - 1,000 - Open Space works just fine with this number. Michael Pannwitz, keeper of the Open Space World Map and a regular contributor to this list, has opened space for more than 2,000 participants. There are a few things you'll need to have in place, like a lot of wallspace for the marketplace (or sign-up session) - probably twice as much as you think you'll need. And the places to meet (you'll need a lot of them) need to be flexible. I've been involved in an Open Space for 1,000 people and I can give you more tips should you decide to go down this path. Michael too, most likely.</div>
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<div>Something else for you and your colleagues to think about is what happens after the Open Space or World Cafe gathering. Have mechanisms in place for keeping things moving forwards towards completion. And think about getting people to register for the gathering online, so that they already have a user name and password for whatever online tool(s) you're using post-gathering. Registering online means that people are already engaging with the topic. They can create a brief profile, add their thoughts to a discussion forum, see who else is going to be participating, and thinking about who they want to meet there.</div>
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<div>I hope this is useful. Happy to say more if this would be helpful. And I'm sure you'll be getting more comments and suggestions from other quarters!</div>
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<div>Very best wishes,</div>
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<div>Jack</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">2008/10/11 Cleo Mseka <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cleomseka@gmail.com">cleomseka@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hi there, im looking to organise a foyer forum extended to a<br>1000people. It will be centred on an enterprise content managmnt<br>
system implementation in the public sector. Does anyone have any ideas<br>on how to engage people on the progress, milestones and benefits of<br>the system in an open space/ knowledge café kind of style? Some ways<br>to keep people energised. Thanks<br>
<br>On 10/10/08, Raffi Aftandelian <<a href="mailto:raffi@bk.ru">raffi@bk.ru</a>> wrote:<br>> dear fellow oslistniks,<br>><br>> continuing the conversation on Open Speis and so-called Free (might they<br>> have dropped the "k" in the last word?) Markets and OS and Survival Skills,<br>
> i think one of the answers to the question is Goggle's Project 10 to the<br>> 100th (<a href="http://www.project10tothe100.com/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.project10tothe100.com/index.html</a>)<br>><br>
> I might not like how they phrased things, but if you have an Idea that<br>> Matters, this might be worth participating in.<br>><br>> I'm submitting something and welcome all support.<br>><br>> wormly,<br>
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