Hello, Diane - If I am not mistaken you are asking how one recruits someone to be the Newsroom Coordinator?
As others have mentioned - for me, there is always a core team - me and the sponsor/host/client team. And on that team there is usually - if we decide to have an electronic newsroom - someone who will be the Newsroom Coordinator. I am in the room to help as well, but I find that having a Newsroom Coordinator really helps as one person focuses on gathering, tracking, printing (if a printer is available) and compiling transcribed notes for the Book of Proceedings. And I find that this is a role of pride, as it is a very important role, and the folks I have worked with as Newsroom Coordinators always have great ideas for how to create user-friendly instructions and wonderful supportive energy for the participants. In addition, it is a role that someone on the client/sponsor/host side can take if they want to observe and support the Open Space but not participate (because the issue is not their own but they believe in the process and the people, for example). It is not to me a matter of being technically inclined (because a Newsroom can be created with super-high-tech or simply be a place for hand-written papers to be placed in a basket, and everything in between). It is, however, a matter for someone who is incredibly detail-oriented while at the same time welcoming of folks who find the technology new to them. Sometimes someone I know who has not done a lot of Open Space events wishes to observe and support an OS - and I just ask the client if they can come along. It is always welcome. In an Open Space that some colleagues are doing this month in San Antonio, Texas, they have put out the word for any folks who want to be volunteer scribes, and those scribes will be using flip charts at each discussion area to document the conversations. I myself have volunteered at another facilitator's event just to learn from them. In one particularly important community event, participants were quite moved to find that the folks charting the conversations at the different discussion areas were volunteering their time in support of the people and their work together... Lisa ___________________________ L i s a H e f t Consultant, Facilitator, Educator O p e n i n g S p a c e Berkeley, California, USA [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
