Dear Harrison and Open Space friends around the globe, Today I would love to virtually clink glasses and toast with you on my 10th anniversary of constant pioneer work in enabling a complete Do-it-yourself Open Space Real-Time Collaboration Internet Technology. The day of birth of the OpenSpace-Online® Concept, my deep flash of inspiration, was on July-17, 1999.
** Cheers ** Prosit ** Salute ** to all of you, who share this joy with me :-) A few years ago I created a little "birthplace memory picture" just for fun, please see here: <http://www.OpenSpace-Online.com/vision_1999.jpg>. Last year, when I was selected as a Ashoka Fellow 2008, the Ashoka team wrote and published the following text about my work. Maybe some of you are interested to read how Ashoka described the OpenSpace-Online story last year, here it is: <http://www.ashoka.org/gender> I am extremely grateful for those of you who have helped me in so many wonderful ways to shape my visionary, often financially extreme hard, sometimes very lonely, but always important and exciting future work. My vision of a completely new technical dimension of Self-managed Open Space Real-time Collaboration and Do-it-yourself Change Empowerment for both, organizers and participants, was huge. In order to realize this dream I had to step aside from my income as a change consultant and change facilitator, but frankly even worse was to let go facilitating face-to-face Open Space conferences and Open Space trainings - stepping aside from seeing all the shining eyes and hearts of the participants was the biggest "abdication". But the big momentum of July-17, 1999 was so powerful, that I never had any doubts to do the right thing. An extra big Thank You to you, dear Harrison. I will never forget your encouraging words and supporting energy when we sit together for a long conversation in spring 2000! It had filled my "battery" for years :-). And also a big Thank You to many of you in both wonderful communities, the Open Space and the Genuine Contact TM community. Thanks a lot for all your support and recommendations in the past years. My team and I have several more wonderful reasons to celebrate this summer. For example the launch of version 3.0 of the OpenSpace-Online® Real-Time Collaboration Technology and the start of our new Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program for educational institutions and non-profit organizations for the worldwide support of "positive change". The delights over all this accomplishments are crowned by two new, internationally very high-ranking prize nominations: the TECH AWARDS 2009, awarded by "The Tech Museum of Innovation, USA" and the selection as the TECHNICAL PIONEER 2010 CANDITATE by the World Economic Forum, Davos. The nomination alone for these very special prizes represents extraordinary recognition and confirmation of our 10 years of pioneer work in enabling a completely new dimension of Global Real-Time Collaboration. If you are interested in further information and links about all this news, I warmly invite you to read and spread our "newsletter" of today as a PDF-file (download: <www.OpenSpace-Online.com/news_en_07-2009.pdf>) and/or you can also have a look into the news section at our website: <www.OpenSpace-Online.com/en/news.php> Thank you again and cheers ... Warmly from Berlin, Gabriela * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * OpenSpace-Online GmbH - The Power of People! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Winner of the "Top 10 World Changer 2006" Award * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Resselsteig 30, 12209 Berlin, Germany eMail: cont...@openspace-online.com website: http://www.OpenSpace-Online.com phone: +49-(0)30-772 31 69 fax: +49-(0)30-77 39 20 21 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Amtsgericht Berlin-Charlottenburg HRB 75583 Founder & Managing Director: Gabriela Ender * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Please consider the environment before you print this email. * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
