Dear Artur ~ In your ponderings about online Open Space, take a look at sococo.com. Watch the video. Sococo provides a very interesting way of getting a visual feel for what is happening even if the interactions are limited to audio communication. I assume that eventually they will also provide video, and then it will be even better.
I tried to work with the Sococo team to host an Open Space meeting, but they were too new and I guess what I was asking was too overwhelming in that moment. But that was at least 6 months ago, so maybe things have moved along. Anyway, take a look. With a little tweaking might be a really good option for online OST. Love, Julie On May 12, 2012, at 5:53 AM, Artur Silva wrote: > Hi all: > > Now on a completely different matter - or not… > > There are a lot of changes happening in the last 20 years in the world - like > peak oil and the need for the transition for a more sustainable and resilient > community-centered way of life - changes in the way people worldwide think > about politics and economy - the occupy movement and today’s demonstrations > all over the world (http://map.squaresdatabase.org/) are cases that > illustrate that.. > OST or OST-like ways of convening are being used almost everywhere or are > part of the patterns in use (for instance in the transition movement). > > But this change is also active in the corporate world where new paradigms and > ways of thinking about leadership, innovation and even strategy are in good > currency. > > Al this came from reading the McKinsey Quarterly, of May 2012 (summary and a > link for the complete PDF here: > https://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Strategy/Strategy_in_Practice/The_social_side_of_strategy_2965) > on “The social side of Strategy”, with a lot of examples of companies that > used “participatory methods of strategy development” or “social strategy > setting” using tools like wikis, forums, e-mail distribution lists or > internal collaborative platforms or tools. > > Reading the full article one can find a lot of clues and expressions that are > similar to threads that have been discussed in this list over the years. As > always, there are good news and bad news. > > The good news is that being McKinsey respected in the corporate world and > being OST a king of gathering where a lot of the values preached on the > report naturally happen, this report can be used as one way to approach > corporate clients with OST as a value proposition, when the venues can be > located in one place (or eventually two). > > (A special note to the coincidence with the launching of the French e-book: > in the full PDF version there is a sidebar signed by Olivier Sibony, director > of McKinsey’s Paris office… - to the attention of Christine Koehler ;-) > > The bad news is that, in the majority of the cases, we are talking about > transnational organizations, which, in part because of the need to cut travel > expenses, but also to enlarge the participation in time and space, use online > platforms. Even if we have the experience of this list (and in the past of > the wiki at http://www.openspaceworld.org/cgi/netwiki.cgi) I don’t think that > the online OS platforms I have experienced are good enough for the job, and > collectively we have not enough experience on facilitating web based OST-like > events. Maybe we should think about that... > > Have a nice week end > > Artur > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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