Hi Richard. I looked at your site. Is there a way to compile postings into a flat PDF as Harold mentioned? And, are postings public or private?
~Eric From: Richard Kasperowski via OSList <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2023 9:32 AM To: Tony Budak via OSList <[email protected]> Subject: [OSList] Re: Google Doc for In-Person OS I've tried to keep it as simple as possible: take a photo of your session notes, maybe add some text, and email it to an easy address like [email protected]. You could have human curators take it from there, or set up an automated email-to-blog like openspaceproceedings.com. And if anyone here wants to use openspaceproceedings.com for their event, let me know — it's intended to be a resource for the community. Be well! -- Richard Kasperowski | Certified Agile Team Building™ Join thousands of high performers—subscribe to my newsletter at <http://kasperowski.com> kasperowski.com On Apr 16, 2023 at 14:58 -0400, Birgitt Williams via OSList <[email protected]>, wrote: Hi Michael, Fortunately there is diversity among us, each following what has heart and meaning for us personally in how and what we do. I appreciate what you say as right for you, and understand it might be right for some others. Because most of my OST work (by choice) is within the context of organizational transformation, my primary focus in designing how the documenting will be done and used is based first and foremost on what the client needs and can get the greatest harvest from in the transformation journey. I adhere to the client having the experience of simplicity. That experience of simplicity for the client is not always achieved by the common OS mantra of thinking of one more thing not to do. in genuine contact, Birgitt Birgitt Williams Senior consultant-author-mentor to leaders and consultants Specialist in organizational and systemic transformation, leadership development, and the benefits of nourishing a culture of leadership. www.dalarinternational.com <http://www.dalarinternational.com> <http://www.dalarinternational.com/upcoming-workshops/> >> Learn More & Register for any of our upcoming workshops here. 16 Sunny Acres Dr., Etowah, North Carolina, USA 28729 Phone: 01-919-522-7750 <https://dalarinternational.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=35ed818c946a88 ba7344da05f&id=6677c35b38&e=e7zyhHfiqG> Like us on Facebook <https://dalarinternational.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=35ed818c946a88 ba7344da05f&id=c26173f86b&e=e7zyhHfiqG> Connect on LinkedIn On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 11:33 AM Michael Herman via OSList <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: I wonder, Birgitt, what mix of tool options people seemed to use most. And I’m always surprised by long report production times. Harrison’s tried and true method was Data Perfect, the database software by the people who made Word Perfect. It gave people 4 boxes to type in: issue, convener, ppts, summary. Zero formatting options. No bold italic bullets photos tables nothing. Perfect! This week I had 130+ in 2.5 days online. We did straight-up users guide schedule. Full days, no breaks, previously unthinkable for most in Zoom. But people said “first all day meetings in zoom that weren’t soul crushing.” Just like in person, I made a single template file available to download. Then email back to me. We delivered the full report the morning after the second day. Gave folks a day to read and rate issues, and finished the next morning. Different template on the last half day, also posted for download in mural, like the first notes template. All the notes mailed back to me, added to the doc, and mailed out to client that same day. Let’s keep on looking for one more thing to not do! M On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 08:52 Harold Shinsato via OSList <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Hi Eric, We did this many times for Opening Space for Peace and High Performance in NYC. It worked quite well. Although I did not do the work, I'm no longer a big fan of Google so I can't really recommend this method. But here's how we did it. For our 2019 event, using a Google Drive folder, we had a "#1_OpenFIRST_NewsroomInstructions" document first, and an "#2_OpenSecond_Record_your_Session" spreadsheet. Then three more items at top level: "#3" was a folder with blank entries for sessions. "#4" was a folder with videos. "#5" was a folder with prep materials. The compilation of all these resources into a final report was no trivial effort. It took about 8 months before the final version was published. Unfortunately, when I look at them on the Google Drive now, they don't show any of the pictures. I recommend you convert the document to a PDF and publish it as a flat file. Someone did that within a month of the event, and that document was published to DropBox as a flat PDF. It looks so beautiful. It's important to recognize that electronic stuff can decay if you're not careful! I'm not sure we can share those items publicly. The people who did the work for the proceedings are on the list if they want to volunteer more. For the World Open Space on Open Space in Maryland in 2019, we decided to go a bit old school. Rather than a computerized newsroom, we focused on flip charts and just taking pictures of them. Some sessions still emailed us typed up documents. I did that compilation, which did take some effort. It's not anywhere as beautiful as what was done for Opening Space for Peace and High Performance earlier the same year, but it does convey the spirit of the event: https://osius.org/sites/default/files/WOSonOS2019BookOfProceedings.pdf. My personal recommendation for in person OST events would not be to use Google Docs or any online platform to avoid all the potential network, internet and technical glitches that might be possible. And instead just encourage the use of physical paper, flip chart or post its. Just collect them and take pictures of them for the final proceedings. You might get some electronic submissions like we did for WOSonOS 2019, but that was manageable. I'm sure a Google Drive/Google Doc (or other online system) could be made in such a way that it's really easy to make a compilation though. If this was an online event via the QiqoChat platform, and each session had one page proceedings, there is a "one button" click way to make proceedings. Very fast! Harold On 4/15/23 10:30 PM, Eric M. Kapono via OSList wrote: Aloha all, Has anyone set up and used Google Docs for session notes in an in-person Open Space event? Any thoughts about it? The client likes the idea of a shared document vs. transcribing written notes into a Word document. They are mostly accustomed to working in Google docs. Its about 50 folks in the medical professions, so they’ll have laptops or tablets. We have their emails, so might send out the link that way. I was thinking of a single Google doc that folks will scroll through to find an empty template for their session discussion. Any thoughts on the endeavor? Mahalo! Eric M. 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