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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='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Like Lisa I’ll leave the techie stuff to the techies. Regarding OST... If you have a Real Business Issue that people really care about, lots of complexity, diversity of opinion, plenty of passion and conflict, along with a real sense of urgency that something happen... OST is primed and Ready to go with groups of 1 to ??? The facilitator really is inconsequential. Actually with a small group (which you have) I have simply invited everybody to choose a part in the Opening and it all worked perfect.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Harrison<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Harrison Owen<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>7808 River Falls Dr.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Potomac, MD 20854<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>189 Beaucaire Ave. (summer)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Camden, Maine 04843<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Phone 301-365-2093<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>(summer) 207-763-3261<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="www.openspaceworld.com%20">www.openspaceworld.com</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="www.ho-image.com%20">www.ho-image.com</a> (Personal Website)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D'>To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST Go to:<a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><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"'> oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org [mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Magdalena Valderrama Hurwitz<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 11, 2013 12:51 PM<br><b>To:</b> oslist@lists.openspacetech.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [OSList] technology mix no-no?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#006600'>For the past year, I've been chairing a group of 13 people all living far from each other (Missouri, California, Toronto, East Coast, Hawaii etc) who have been meeting nearly weekly over the past 4 years over the phone and with the intermittent help of private online chats and video calling when these resources were available. One of our tasks is to mobilize a community of interest--about 1200 people scattered all over the world--to engage in various cooperative actions. Now it's time for the annual working retreat (last weekend in Sept) which the group has expanded from 2 into 2-1/2 days (3 nights) so we can have more working time together. It's normal for our working retreats that people who can't attend in person call in and we work to make sure "calling in" is an unavoidable option. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#006600'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#006600'>The group has voted to use OST. A couple of years ago a member of the group introduced OST and later left, and I became empathetic to the point of taking a training, joining this listserve, and trying out one of the Blackboard Collaborate gatherings (clunky but interesting) etc. Two of our members are very eager to use OST for this retreat, and the rest are very interested, with one abstention. I recused myself from the vote but after the group voted yes, I contacted the former member and she is willing to facilitate.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#006600'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#006600'>We figured out we could use a projector and Google Docs to post the OST agenda wall, and we are also using Google Docs for the breakout session reports. We plan to have the callers use Skype for the main sessions as well as the breakout sessions so that we all have visual contact with each other. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#006600'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#006600'>We had a majority coming in person, but the two strongest proponents have said they won't be able to come, one participant is personally uncomfortable with the facilitator, etc, and now we are down to 6 people in the room and 5 sure callers. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#006600'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#006600'>We're a pretty determined bunch of people--not energetic necessarily--and OST is best done in person, so should we just give up on using OST now or is there still hope to be had? <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"'>Magdalena Valderrama Hurwitz</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>