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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>One more note on finding the Google docs you want to read or add to now—Suzanne is planning to make an index of them all and post that to <a href="http://wosonos2013.crowdvine.com/">the WOSonOS 2013 “Crowdvine”</a> site sometime soon. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>That is, <i>unless someone else would like to volunteer! </i>It is simply a matter of going through all the docs in <a href="http://www.bit.ly/wos2013news">the News Room folders</a> and copying the session title, initiator, day held and the web address of that doc and then compiling all these in a list that can easily be shared, copied onto a web page, etc. <b><i>Anyone feel like giving Suzanne “one less thing to do?!”</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Ben<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Ben Roberts [mailto:ben.roberts@charter.net] <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 22, 2013 11:34 AM<br><b>To:</b> 'World wide Open Space Technology email list'<br><b>Cc:</b> Aaron Wasserman (Google Drive); ben@conversationcollaborative.com<br><b>Subject:</b> Read/update/comment on WOSonOS notes NOW!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>In an earlier message, our fabulous leader Suzanne noted that “you will hear more about our experience in our briefing book, which will take longer to prepare than typically happens after an Open Space because we have much to share. So please be patient with us!”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Yes, AND… Because we used Google docs to make our News Room virtual, anything that has been posted there has been accessible to the world from the moment it was first written. So you are invited to go there now and…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>Simply read what was posted<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>Update and expand upon the notes <b><i><u>for sessions you attended</u></i></b> to help us get a more complete record of each conversation for the briefing book. We expect to keep the docs editable for another week or so, after which we plan to freeze what is there as a permanent record. If you need more time to add key content, let us know and we can give you extended access.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>3.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>Continue the conversation by commenting on the notes using the “comment button” in the upper right for general thoughts and/or highlighting a particular section and using the Insert/Comment feature to start a thread about that piece of content in particular (see the notes from the “<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yCpzaJkw3cw-4VYEaDfwmfUhFfievWw_MwKk_VNpoY4/edit">OST in Written Form</a>” conversation for an example of both types of commenting)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Please note that it is important that we make a distinction between the types of additions to these documents described in 2 and 3 above. We want <i>the body of the doc</i> to reflect <b><i><u>what was actually said in the session</u></i></b>, while <i>the comments</i> are a good way to add additional thoughts. This is true both because there is value in keeping a clear record of the conversation itself and because the comments are time stamped and linked to notifications for those shared on a document, allowing people to easily notice that a new thought has been posted (whereas if you simply type it into the middle of a doc, people who have already read the notes will have no way of recognizing that as something new).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Here is the link to access the virtual News Room: <a href="http://www.bit.ly/wos2013news">www.bit.ly/wos2013news</a>. Note that there are four subfolders—one for each day and one for “multi-day virtual sessions.” Within each day, there are sub-folders by round.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hopefully all this isn’t too complicated! Feel free to email me and Aaor (cc’d here) for some help if you need it. It sounds trickier than it is. With a bit of experience, I believe we might all quickly become comfortable with this new approach and find that it offers some significant advantages over the use of a platform such as Word for the News Room.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ben<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:#4F6228'>Ben Roberts<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:#4F6228'>The Conversation Collaborative<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#4F6228'><a href="http://www.conversationcollaborative.com/">www. 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