<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Dear Artur ~</font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">In your ponderings about online Open Space, take a look at <a href="http://sococo.com">sococo.com</a>. Watch the video. Sococo provides a very interesting way of getting a visual feel for what is happening even if the interactions are limited to audio communication. I assume that eventually they will also provide video, and then it will be even better.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">I tried to work with the Sococo team to host an Open Space meeting, but they were too new and I guess what I was asking was too overwhelming in that moment. But that was at least 6 months ago, so maybe things have moved along. Anyway, take a look. With a little tweaking might be a really good option for online OST.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Love,</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Julie</font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On May 12, 2012, at 5:53 AM, Artur Silva wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Hi all:</div><div><br></div><div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Now on a completely
different matter - or not…<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">There are a
lot of changes happening in the last 20 years in the world - like peak oil and
the need for the transition for a more sustainable and resilient community-centered
way of life - changes in the way people worldwide think about politics and economy
- the occupy movement and today’s demonstrations all over the world (</span><a href="http://map.squaresdatabase.org/"><span lang="EN-US">http://map.squaresdatabase.org/</span></a><span lang="EN-US">) are cases that illustrate that.. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">OST or
OST-like ways of convening are being used almost everywhere or are part of the patterns
in use (for instance in the transition movement). <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">But this
change is also active in the corporate world where new paradigms and ways of
thinking about leadership, innovation and even strategy are in good currency.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Al this came
from reading the McKinsey Quarterly, of May 2012 (summary and a link for the
complete PDF here: </span><a href="https://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Strategy/Strategy_in_Practice/The_social_side_of_strategy_2965"><span lang="EN-US">https://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Strategy/Strategy_in_Practice/The_social_side_of_strategy_2965</span></a><span lang="EN-US">) on “The social side of Strategy”,
with a lot of examples of companies that used “participatory methods of strategy development”
or “social strategy setting” using tools like wikis, forums, e-mail
distribution lists or internal collaborative platforms or tools.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Reading the
full article one can find a lot of clues and expressions that are similar to threads that have
been discussed in this list over the years. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">As always,
there are good news and bad news.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><br></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The good
news is that being McKinsey respected in the corporate world and being OST a
king of gathering where a lot of the values preached on the report naturally
happen, this report can be used as one way to approach corporate clients with OST
as a value proposition, when the venues can be located in one place (or
eventually two).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">(A special
note to the coincidence with the launching of the French e-book: in the full PDF
version there is a sidebar signed by Olivier Sibony, director of McKinsey’s
Paris office… - to the attention of Christine Koehler ;-)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The bad news
is that, in the majority of the cases, we are talking about transnational
organizations, which, in part because of the need to cut travel expenses, but also to
enlarge the participation in time and space, use online platforms. Even if we
have the experience of this list (and in the past of the wiki at </span><a href="http://www.openspaceworld.org/cgi/netwiki.cgi"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.openspaceworld.org/cgi/netwiki.cgi</span></a><span lang="EN-US">) I don’t think that the
online OS platforms I have experienced are good enough for the job, and collectively
we have not enough experience on facilitating web based OST-like events. Maybe we should think about that... <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Have a nice week end</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Artur</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>OSList mailing list<br>To post send emails to <a href="mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>To unsubscribe send an email to <a href="mailto:OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>To subscribe or manage your subscription click below:<br><a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a><br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>