Hi Frank, You asked: Does anyone have any thoughts on the pros and cons of wiki vs. floppy/usb?
The nice thing about the wiki is that it becomes like an OS on line, a chat room on each report topic. Participants on site or other members of the organization not present physically can continue interacting electronically after the group discussion and even after the OS. I had participants from Los Angeles and India connected to an Ottawa OS. One draw back I found with wiki was in the naming of reports especially with people used to working with wickies. They just went and did what they normally do without paying any attention to the verbal and written instructions about naming the report. This made it much harder to track which reports where completed so they could be printed for the News wall and the Book. Also, other participants are able to change the report before the News Room prints a copy of the initiator's report that will go in the Book of reports. On the printed version, there is no way to see that someone has changed the original report. This can cause a bit of frustration on the part of the initiator who took responsibility to communicate the group's discussion and can see his or her name attached - without their knowing - to a document that is not reflective of their work. On the screen, one can verify what changes have been made but when reading the reports for convergence, participants read from a hard copy - there isn't a computer screen for each participant. At another OS, reports were entered into the wiki at the end of day only which eliminated the above problem. An alternative technology: In another OS, people from across Canada were connected, not via a wiki but via a web site on which reports were posted as is and comments from anywhere about any of the reports or about the OS theme could be given on a separate page that was posted on the News wall. People were also invited to have their own OS in regions and to send in their reports for the News wall. I am looking forward to hearing more about the experience with wikis Diane Diane Gibeault & Associé.es-Associates www.dianegibeault.com [email protected] Ottawa Canada (613) 744-2638 Facilitation and Training in Support of Transformation Facilitation et formation en appui à la transformation -----Original Message----- From: OSLIST [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Frank Deitle Sent: February 13, 2006 10:45 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: USB-sticks and computer station during OST + some more.. Hi everyone, I recently attended the RecentChangesCamp Open Space in Portland. It was facilitated by Michael Herman and we used an online wiki to compile the book of procedings (there were a lot of wiki folks at the conference). This was the first Open Space I've been to where we've even used the banks of computers so I have nothing to contrast the experience to. Does anyone have any thoughts on the pros and cons of wiki vs. floppy/usb? Peace, Frank Deitle * * ========================================================== [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
