Online World Café – Dialogue and Leadership: The New Face of Community?

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Permalink Reply by Amy Lenzo on August 26, 2009 at 8:58am

Yes! Thank you Ulrich!

I'm wondering if we can invite people specifically to this group who might not be able to come to be in the space with us physically, but will participate virtually. I don't think we should do that until one week or less before the event, but we should let everyone know about it...

Amy

Permalink Reply by Ulrich Soeder on September 10, 2009 at 11:47am

This is the same information that is posted in the event calendar!


WHAT IS AN ONLINE CAFÉ?

Basically it is a normal World Café conversation. The tables consist of conference calls between four to five persons. We are gathering in groups of 4 or 5 and all of us are discussing the same questions. The rounds will be longer than in a live café because the communication is a little slower when we can’t see each other. Each round should be at least 30 min.

The design and the preparation of the café are very similar to a live café. We will share the purpose and the desired outcomes before the café will start.

We will change the virtual tables after each round, so you are going to meet different people.

There is another important difference to a live café: You will be assigned to tables, you can’t chose the people you are talking to. We haven’t found a way yet to get this aspect more natural. That is why we have to now in advance who will be going to participate.

We are going to have a few rounds. There might be a plenum at the end, but it could be a plenum via chat as well, depending on the number of participants. In the chat function, up to 100 people can participate, in the Audio function, only ten/25 people can take part in a conference call. So our possibilities for the plenum are limited.

After the café, we are going to make a summary to document our conversation and to harvest the results of the conversation.

We'll have a few graphic recorders who are going to join this conversation (as an additional guest at each table to record the conversation and make it available asap to all.


TABLE HOSTS
The table hosts have more important roles in an online café than in a live café. The table hosts have the role of co-hosts. They are setting up the conference calls at their »tables«, are checking that the connections are stable and will provide the timing. For this café, I would like to ask skype experienced people to take the roles of table hosts. Let me know if you are going to support the hosting.


Here are some technical informations to get started for our Online Café:

PARTICIPATION
We need to know your skype name so that we can set up the conference calls.

Please let us know if you are participating or not and send an email to amy@dialogueandleadership.eu with your skype name until Sept 12th (saturday)!

SKYPE ACCOUNT
We are using SKYPE to get connected. If you have no Skype account yet: It is free for download and easy to set up. You will find the links on www.skype.com.

HEADSET
You should use a headset and NOT the microphone that is built into your computer. This increases the sound quality of the connection very much. If you don’t have a headset yet: It cost’s about 10 to 20 €.

PRACTICING SKYPE
If you are new to skype, it might be a good idea to have some test calls before the Online Café will start to get familiar with the different functions of skype and your headset. My skype name is usoeder.

DURING THE ONLINE CAFE
Provide yourself food and something to drink for the time of the Online Café.

In Skype we will use the Audio and the Chat function. The Chat function is similar to the table cloths in a live café: we can leave our thoughts and notes and everyone can read them during the conversation.


QUESTIONS

If you have questions, don’t hesitate to a mail to amy@dialogueandleadership.eu or ulrich@dialogueandleadership.eu. I'll be back only on sunday afternoon, so the questions to me will be answered starting from sunday evening.

Cheers, Ulrich

Permalink Reply by Ulrich Soeder on September 10, 2009 at 1:24pm

Hi all, here is the preliminary design of the Online Café on Monday, Sept 14th, 20-22 o'clock CEST

Intent
• Starting to get connected
• Gain experience with Online World Cafés as a community
• Initiate the inquiry on dialogue, leadership and community

Design
• 20.00 Welcome (chat function, conference call)
• 20.15 - 20.45 Round 1: What relations do you see between dialogue, leadership and community?
• 20.50 - 21.20 Round 2: What would you like to see emerge in relation to the European Salon?
• 21.25 - 22.00 Harvesting: What have you been talking about?

Permalink Reply by Ulrich Soeder on September 14, 2009 at 3:18am

Hi all,

I have opened a new conversation for sharing the results of the Online Café with the larger Online Community. Please follow this link for the story of the Online Café.

Permalink Reply by Hanno Langfelder on September 14, 2009 at 1:49am

Thanks for the invitation! I will gladly take part this evening!

Cheers!

Hanno

Permalink Reply by Ulrich Soeder on September 14, 2009 at 1:56am

Great! Talk to you this evening.

Permalink Reply by Lisa Abby on September 14, 2009 at 1:35pm

I very much enjoyed our Virtual Salon today. Here are some of my drawings from the conversation. I did this in a journal format, so you see pieces of pages creating their own, I suppose, interrelated dance. Thank you for the opportunity to join in today. I will send a few more pictures soon.

Attachments:

• P1020386.JPG, 2.6 MB
• P1020387.JPG, 2.7 MB
• P1020388.JPG, 2.7 MB

Permalink Reply by Lisa Abby on September 14, 2009 at 1:42pm

With gratitude for a deep and rich global conversation...

Attachments:

• P1020389.JPG, 2.8 MB
• P1020390.JPG, 2.5 MB
• P1020392.JPG, 2.6 MB

Permalink Reply by Amy Lenzo on September 14, 2009 at 2:32pm

Fantastic, Lisa! These are wonderful!

I very much enjoyed your contributions to the conversation in the European Salon Skype Cafe today, and didn't even know you were recording - what a beautiful surprise!!!

I hope you will add them to the story Ulrich has opened up with the larger community (see the link in his post, above) and also in the "photos" section of this community space. Be sure to tag them with the term "graphic recording" so we can find them as part of that grouping as well as the "European Salon", "First Skype Cafe" or whatever other tags you want to use.

Hugs!

Amy

Permalink Reply by Lisa Abby on September 14, 2009 at 7:48pm

Thanks, Amy. It was great to be connected with you again. I wasn't sure where to post these. I will get them posted elsewhere and tag them, as you suggest. Thanks. Hugs to you too. Lisa

Permalink Reply by Ulrich Soeder on September 14, 2009 at 10:28pm

Dear Lisa, thank you for sharing your visual notes.

Having two threads on the Online Café is not what you would call reducing complexity ...

Please post your drawings again at http://www.theworldcafecommunity.org/forum/topics/1st-online-cafe-o... so that the results are available for everyone in the online community.

Looking forward to build on this,

Ulrich

Permalink Reply by Ulrich Soeder on September 15, 2009 at 12:46am

Hi all, the conversations are evolving quickly!

For the technical side of organizing an Online Café, please have a look at http://www.theworldcafecommunity.org/group/worldcafesonline/forum/t....

For the discussion of content, please go to http://www.theworldcafecommunity.org/forum/topics/1st-online-cafe-o....

For deepening the conversation face-to-face, come join us in Reichenau.

Cheers, Ulrich

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