<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">Daniel</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">I must have missed the memo where it was decided that 'Technology' was dumb : )<br><br>I personally use 'social technology', but the language we use to define objects in the social/cultural/information world is very nebulous... I guess because our conceptualisation is unclear.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">Interesting article</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#444444">Cheers</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><br><div><div style="font-family:arial;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:small"><font color="#663300" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><b><i>John Baxter</i></b></font></div><div style="text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:small;font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><i>Cocreation Consultant & CoCreate Adelaide Facilitator</i></div><div style="text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:small;font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><a href="http://www.jsbaxter.com.au/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">jsbaxter.com.au</a> | <a href="http://CoCreateADL.com" target="_blank">CoCreateADL.com</a></div><div style="font-family:arial;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:small"><font color="#444444" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">0405 447 829</font><div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68);display:inline"><font color="#444444" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> | </font></div><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">@</span><a href="http://twitter.com/jsbaxter_" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif" target="_blank">jsbaxter_</a></div><div style="font-family:arial;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:small"><i>Thank you to everyone who came, helped or spread the good word about <b>City Grill</b>!</i></div><div style="font-family:arial;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:small"><i>Summary and links: <a href="http://cocreateadl.com/localgov/grill-summary/" target="_blank">cocreateadl.com/localgov/grill-summary/</a></i></div></div><div style="font-family:arial;text-align:-webkit-auto;font-size:small"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 11:08 PM, Daniel Mezick via OSList <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Greetings All, <br>
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We say "Open Space Technology". <br>
<br>
<br>
So: Is Open Space "culture technology?" If so, maybe that "T" for
technology is not so misplaced, after all...<br>
<br>
...maybe not so much of a joke, after all ?<br>
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Culture Tech<br>
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If we look at the so-called "liberating structures" such as World
Cafe, Fishbowl, OST, we can see these are generally grouped together
under this "liberating structures" banner.<br>
<br>
Many of them are designs for <i>gatherings</i> (aka "meetings" in
some locales...)<br>
<br>
I think the "liberating structures" such as World Cafe, Fishbowl,
OST are actually, and in fact: "culture technology."<br>
<br>
To this culture-tech list, we may safely add: Scrum. Sociocracy.
Core Protocols.<br>
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And culture technology wants to be <i>free</i>.<br>
<br>
And so I've written a little essay on that, you can see it here:<br>
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Culture Technology Wants To Be Free<br>
<a href="https://medium.com/@DanielMezick/culture-technology-wants-to-be-free-c2e180a844a5" target="_blank">https://medium.com/@DanielMezick/culture-technology-wants-to-be-free-c2e180a844a5</a><br>
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So maybe the T in OST is not so dumb, after all?<br>
<br>
Daniel <br>
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Related Links:<br>
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Scrum Guide<br>
<a href="http://www.scrumguides.org/scrum-guide.html" target="_blank">http://www.scrumguides.org/scrum-guide.html</a><br>
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Sociocratic Norms<br>
<a href="http://wayofthecircle.org/pattern-language/" target="_blank">http://wayofthecircle.org/pattern-language/</a><br>
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Core Protocols<br>
<a href="http://liveingreatness.com/" target="_blank">http://liveingreatness.com/</a><br>
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PS. The Core Protocols folks, Michele & Jim McCarthy, call their
stuff "software for your head." My current belief is that all
culture-technologies (like OST for example?) are in fact 'software
for your head."<br>
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PSS. (Sidebar question: My understanding is that a Japanese
journalist coined this "OST" term and it stuck. What is the origin
story of this term? Where can it be found on the web?)<br>
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<div>-- <br>
<p>Daniel Mezick, President</p>
<p>New Technology Solutions Inc.</p>
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