Suzanne, I can't make the discussion. Please give my space to someone on waiting list.
Jane E Lewis 柳芝蓮 On 2011/11/18, at 下午9:14, Suzanne Daigle <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Annette, > ( a very long post giving background and detail -- my apologies) > I was one of the individuals who posted a reply to Julie Smith's question. > On Sunday, Elaine Hansen and I with a team of 15 to 20 people will be hosting > a Virtual Conversation that is in the "spirit" of Open Space. The > Conversation is around the theme of Brené Brown's Tedx talk The Power of > Vulnerability and her book The Gifts of Imperfection. A total of 500 people > registered from the US, and Canada with about 60 to 75 others from 27-28 > countries. This is all we think we can handle. We had to shut down > registrations about 10 days ago. We have a wait list. It is a free event. We > are not calling it Open Space nor do I even want to intimate it is Open Space > Technology to you or others in this community. In my heart of heart though, > we are "opening space" and it is out of my love and passion for Open Space > that I wanted to do this event. To our guests from all over the world, we > have been saying that it is a "virtual experiment" that we are "co-creating > together" for me, it is an experiment in the direction of Open Space in > cyber space. I have been longing for a way where people could have live > conversations, hear each others' voices, post topics, create a marketplace, > choose where they want to go, be bumble bees and butterflies, document what > get's said and connect deeply as we do in Open Space. This is only a > beginning. > > The main technology we are using at the event is Maestro Conference. Their > conference call service (with a visual computer participant dashboard - not > quite enough yet for what we need) allows us to breakout into small groups > and also be in large groups. It happens primarily over the phone or using a > computer "paid" phone service like Skype where individuals call an assigned > US based telephone numbers with an access code unique to each participant. I > have a very affordable paid subscription with Maestro which allows me to > invite others (my account was for a max of 200 people). > > On November 2nd, I wrote the OS list inviting people to our event. To my > surprise, Brian Curt, Founder and CEO of Maestro wrote to me that same day > and said: "I'm on this list - we def have a goal to eventually have full > inherently-OS-capable platform (where people can declare breakout topics, and > move by topic to other "rooms"), but in the meantime there are some creative > ways to use our platform to keep things "open". I was ecstatic and responded > immediately saying that I knew a large community would love this to happen > and that many OS folks would be glad to help. This morning, without being > presumptuous towards Gabriela as I have not had the opportunity to experience > what she and others have created, I am wondering if perhaps all of this could > lead to an investor/shared vision/shared knowledge type of conversation with > Maestro and/or others in this fast evolving collaborative technology world. > > In my case, I wanted to offer something free to participants and where my > financial investment would not be too much. > > Until November 8th, I thought we would be good with my 200 level > subscription. That's until Brené Brown blogged about us and accepted our > invitation to join. Within 24 hours or so, we went from 175 to 500. I have no > doubt we could have hit 1000, 2000 or more. I can admit to you here that as > the emails started flying in, Elaine and I almost panicked. I was even brash > enough to call the Maestro founder on his cell phone and he generously > offered to support us at the 500-person level as well as offering one of > their experienced people to help. (they have been amazing!). > > With my limited experience and the help of some wonderful people on our team > who know this technology, it felt like 500 is as much as we can manage for > now. > > Now for some of the nuts and bolts: > We used multiple technologies working as a team preparing this event: Skype, > Tungle, Doodle, Youtube, freescreensharing, googledoc, etc. We are from > Canada, US, and Juliane Neumann from Berlin. > We used Eventbrite to invite people because we could show who was coming from > which country plus connect with them later with emails and gather their > comments. Click here to see Invitation > It is a 2-hour event; we have sent notes to participants asking them to > arrive 15 minutes early-- enough time for people to greet each other as they > would at any OS event or sit down in a circle by themselves waiting for > things to start. Our guests will be offered the opportunity as they arrive > to be in small groups to say hi, share their name, why they came (as they > would over a cup of coffee or getting their name tag). Cyber space on the > phone can feel a bit dark and lonely cause you don't see each other. We are > trying to create an invitational feel. > Two minutes before start time, we will bring everyone in a large main virtual > space. Again because people do not have the physical feel, I will be > welcoming everyone (3 minutes) and creating somehow the feel of sitting in a > giant circle mentioning a few of our OS principles without referring directly > to Open Space. > Elaine, who will be acting as the official host in the same way of an Open > Space event, will briefly set the context of the meeting reaffirming to all > why we are here. People came because of the topics and passion they have for > Brené Brown's work. We know from their comments which they submitted to us > that they are excited and inspired to have these conversations. Main > ingredients of passion and responsibility are there! > I will then invite questions from the virtual floor (so to speak). By > pressing 1 on their telephone key pad, people will signal that they have a > topic/question. Individual by individual, we will give them the virtual mike > and they will state topic/name/where they are from. Participants will have > been advised to have a paper handy to write the topics they feel they have a > passion to join. We will take 10 topics in the first round. And then people > will be sent into small groups of 4, 5 and 6. Not perfect I know but this is > as much as we can do with time and current technology. We will invite people > to submit their questions/topics not spoken on our website (more on that > later) > We will have two rounds of conversation of 25 minutes each. We will be > asking for the second round of 10 topics after the first session is complete. > We will ask everyone to record notes and highlights and post them as soon as > possible (can be typed notes, doodles, video comments, etc). Not the same as > having an initiator and asking that someone in the group do this. Here we are > asking everyone. We have set up a website for this. Lots of stuff on this > site already. Have a look! Global Conversation > Three graphic recorders will be listening, silently going from group to > group, creating in images and words illustrated gifts of what is being > shared. > We will have a closing circle though on line, it will not be possible to hear > the 500 voices in the time we have, but we will try to hear as many as we can. > We will leave the lines open afterwards (15-30 minutes after) for people to > continue talking and sharing as we do in physical space when we hang out > after an event. > Initially we were planning on a World Cafe type event. I had not had the > courage until I saw Harrison in Chile to go beyond that. He challenged me, > nudged me and inspired me to go farther. I did and Elaine agreed as did the > rest of our team. > > Navigating the technology world to introduce something like this with the > essence and spirit of self-organizing is a journey itself. I have loved every > magical minute of this work with the most wonderful team of people. > Generosity, joy, support, fun, persistence are words that come to mind. > > Then I add love because as I read emails from our future guests, the excerpts > of one which I share with you in closing, I know that Whatever happens on > Sunday is the only thing that could have. Yes we will be a bit nervous as > will our guests similar to what it feels like sitting in a circle for the > first time. It's what creates the magic, the relationship, the bonding and > the opening of space. In the end, that's all that matters. > > Excerpts from a participant note received this morning > "So excited (and a bit nervous!) about this Sunday's event. I have never > done anything like this before, but, in an effort to really put Brené's > authentic living into practice, I felt I had to stretch my comfort zone!" > When I signed up for this event, I didn't realize that "Conversation" in the > title meant LITERALLY conversation! I thought it would be like a webinar - > which I have never done either, but my husband has and they seemed to be > pretty much a one-sided event. This sounds like it is going to be very > different - in a good way! > And then at the end of her note > Thank you so much for all the effort and time and courage to do this. I read > something this week from someone I follow on Twitter that said there is one > word that can change the world - TRY. You and Elaine did just that - you > TRIED something new. I can't wait to be a part of it and see how far it > takes all of us! > > Somehow this note made everything we've done so far worthwhile. > > Thank you everyone for your patience reading with reviewing or editing. We > still have a few more busy days ahead of us including setting up time for > those participant guests who said they wanted to test their phone connections > and get a feel for our event before the actual day. > > Suzanne (with much appreciation to Elaine Hansen and a most wonderful team) > > > > > > > > On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 5:24 AM, Michael M Pannwitz <[email protected]> > wrote: > Dear Annette, > check out the "deja vu" string that was started by Julie Smith with the same > question, she lives right around the corner from you in Alaska... a number of > responses pointed to various possibilities. > Greetings from Berlin > mmp > > > On 18.11.2011 08:01, Annette Zera wrote: > I've been asked if it is possible to run an *online *Open Space event > > for 500 people. > > I haven't a clue. Can anyone help? > > Thanks a lot. > Annette > > -- > Annette Zera > 19 Highbury Terrace Mews > London N5 1UT > > 0207 690 1495 > 07951771466 > > www.gettingonbrilliantly.co.uk <http://www.gettingonbrilliantly.co.uk> > > > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > > -- > Michael M Pannwitz, boscop eg > Draisweg 1, 12209 Berlin, Germany > ++49-30-772 8000 > [email protected] www.boscop.org > > > Check out the Open Space World Map presently showing 440 resident Open Space > Workers in 71 countries working in a total of 142 countries worldwide: > www.openspaceworldmap.org > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > > > > -- > Suzanne Daigle > NuFocus Strategic Group > 7159 Victoria Circle > University Park, FL 34201 > FL 941-359-8877; > CT 203-722-2009 > www.nufocusgroup.com > [email protected] > twitter @suzannedaigle > > > > > -- > Suzanne Daigle > NuFocus Strategic Group > 7159 Victoria Circle > University Park, FL 34201 > FL 941-359-8877; > CT 203-722-2009 > www.nufocusgroup.com > [email protected] > twitter @suzannedaigle > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org
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