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Open Space and Unconferences

March 7, 2007 in Main Page | 2 comments

This brief excerpt from Doc Searls’ blog is an example of what has always driven me crazy about the notion of "unconferences" that Dave Winer worked at popularizing a year or so ago.

Eur and My Open Space
I’ll be going to Identity Open Space (IOS) in Brussels on April 26-27. The more I go to open space workshops the more impressed I am with how much better they are for Getting Things Done than traditional speaker & panel conferences. It’ll be good to witness and take part in some of the European mojo behind user-centric identity development. Look forward to seeing some of ya’ll there.

Opening Space as a process for identifying, surfacing and addressing thorny issues has been around for a long time … long, long before Winer offered up the term "unconference" … and is more robust and better thought through than what has been suggested as "unconferencing".