Proceedings in my experience have two major values. They are a powerful symbol of the group's accomplishment. Everybody starts in open space (nothing) and at the end of (whatever) time - there is a "book" which the group did itself. Sounds a little hokey, but in every situation I have been witness to - folks just love to get their books. Occasionally turns into a sort of "College Yearbook" affair with people signing each other's books. The second value is totally practical. This is a record of who talked about what - which is just great if you want to follow up on something later on. A networker's bonanza. And of course - if it is all (also) online - then the conversation can continue well beyond the original time, space, and people. Are Proceedings always useful? Maybe not in very small, short gatherings. But I always do them if possible. And besides it keeps our image clean. Which refers to a comment a colleague made once - "Harrison, you have developed the ultimate scam. The client does all the work, and even writes the report." True.
Harrison Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, Maryland 20845 Phone 301-365-2093 Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com <http://www.openspaceworld.com/> Open Space Institute www.openspaceworld.org Personal website http://mywebpages.comcast.net/hhowen/index.htm [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html -----Original Message----- From: OSLIST [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Karen Diosy Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 3:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Book of Proceedings Hi all, The exchanges today are stimulating my curiosity. Now I have questions about the value of the proceeding. Do you find that your clients really look at the book of proceeding afterwards? In the spirit of simplifying I am wondering why are the proceedings done, as a compilation. It sounds like a lot work. I am wondering if there is an easier way or if the book of proceeding is even needed? Karen ----- Original Message ----- From: Lisa <mailto:[email protected]> Heft To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 3:00 PM Subject: Re: A taster of OST meeting on 1,5 hour Hi, Karen - good question. Karen wrote: <Harrison, I'm curious to hear more about why you would say 120 is probably easier than 40. It leads me to wonder also is there a point (number) where it shifts away from easier?> I look forward to hearing your thoughts, Harrison - in my experience working with groups of from 1 (yep) to 1500, the only challenge (true for all sizes of groups) is about logistics. With the right team helping put on the event, there's not a shift to 'harder', just more things to think about and secure during the pre-work/prep/organizing time. And if there's documentation during the event, availability of technology or wallspace or whatever to co-create and distribute (during or soon after the event) the Book of Proceedings. Site size, site access, ability to hear everyone, enough paper, posting area, time, the whole thing. Given great logistical planning and prep work, the ability of people to post topics (I've not experience any sized group taking more than 1.25 hours for opening and agenda co-creation), the ease of discussion, the flow, the intimacy of discussion - all those things, delightfully, remain the same. Lisa ___________________________ L i s a H e f t Consultant, Facilitator, Educator O p e n i n g S p a c e 2325 Oregon Berkeley, California 94705-1106 USA +01 510 548-8449 [email protected] www.openingspace.net * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
