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Hi Jon,<br>
<br>
There's been a lot of great responses so far. I'll just add a couple
experience points. I've attended several of the Agile Open software
conferences held in beautiful Open Space where there are numerous
"Talking Head" experts who get paid to present and talk in front of
crowds that propose sessions, along with those who just had a good
question or hot topic. At these open space tech conferences, often
times the presenters will be trying out new ideas, and other times
they'll be doing the same song and dance they normally do.<br>
<br>
One advantage of the "experts" in the Agile software development
field - they've all had it drilled in them pretty darn hard that
unless a talk is interactive it's unlikely to be successful. But I'd
still call them "talking head" sessions when the "expert" is clearly
in charge of the session room and is talking at least 90% of the
time. I still tend to prefer the smaller more interactive sessions
that go around in a circle - but there was one expert at one of the
Agile Open conferences in San Francisco that definitely held myself
and the rest of the audience spell bound at their feet - kind of
like Harrison mentioned in one of his replies. I was very glad I
showed up for that talk!<br>
<br>
The other data point that is inspired by Peggy Holman's Journalism
That Matters conferences - and by the Leadership in a
Self-Organizing World conference in 2009. At Missoula BarCamp (an
OST facilitated event) we actually flew in a professional artists
coach from New Jersey. We let the artists coach talk (along with two
others - including the Mayor) for 5 minutes before the OST formally
started. After the OST opening, this artists coach posted a couple
sessions onto the wall like all the other proposed sessions, and she
held a couple a very successful sessions held in parallel with other
sessions. It definitely works.<br>
<br>
One thing I will say - it takes a very confident and comfortable
"expert" to jump into the fray like this. The expert could find
themselves rather humbled if some novice offered more spaciousness
and opportunity for learning than they did, and no one came to their
expert session - or people came and then quickly exited! But I think
such "experts" capable of succeeding in an OST conference are
probably the only ones worth their salt.<br>
<br>
Harold<br>
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On 1/10/11 5:09 AM, Jon Harvey wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31,
73, 125);">I think I have managed to persuade a public
conference producer to run (and charge for) one of their
conferences using Open Space. I debated with her that the
‘talking heads’ type of conference with a smattering of
workshops (which are usually mini plenary sessions too)
could be so much more valuable and productive if OS was
used. I said I would enquire if anyone else had done this –
how did it go – what lessons did you draw?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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"Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31,
73, 125);">This is something of a gamble I recognise, as
this will not be quite the kind of issue that has to be
solved yesterday kind of context. (Although given the
current austerity measures which are sweeping across the UK
public services right now – a lot of things have to be
solved yesterday!) Also the people gathered will be a
community of interest (ie they will all have signed up to
come to the topic in questions) but not a community / group
in any other way...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31,
73, 125);">So what do people think – can this work – has
this worked?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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"Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31,
73, 125);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31,
73, 125);">Many thanks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31,
73, 125);">Very best wishes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
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73, 125);">Jon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Harold Shinsato<br>
<a href="mailto:harold@shinsato.com">harold@shinsato.com</a><br>
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