http://www.unconference.net/unconference-methods-open-space-technology/ Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:16:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.unconference.net/unconference-methods-open-space-technology/comment-page-1/#comment-424 unconference » Face 2 Face Tutorial Reviews from OSCON Mon, 14 Aug 2006 20:02:16 +0000 http://kaliyasblogs.net/unconference/?p=32#comment-424 [...] OPEN SPACE Next, at the start of the conference get participants to suggest sessions on a sheet of paper and create a chart of the available rooms and time slots. Let everyone post his or her sessions to the chart. Once all have seen the suggestions ask people to negotiate a better arrange and/or come up with better sessions. We did this pretending to attend a conference on ways to “improve online collaboration”. I suggested a session entitled “ways to reduce office email using a community blog”. About three others had similar session ideas and we quickly rearranged and merged our sessions into a topic track we all like. I was somewhat surprising how smoothly this went, I expected some chaos to ensue but none did. [...] [...] OPEN SPACE Next, at the start of the conference get participants to suggest sessions on a sheet of paper and create a chart of the available rooms and time slots. Let everyone post his or her sessions to the chart. Once all have seen the suggestions ask people to negotiate a better arrange and/or come up with better sessions. We did this pretending to attend a conference on ways to “improve online collaboration”. I suggested a session entitled “ways to reduce office email using a community blog”. About three others had similar session ideas and we quickly rearranged and merged our sessions into a topic track we all like. I was somewhat surprising how smoothly this went, I expected some chaos to ensue but none did. [...]

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