I’ve had wiki’s on the mind recently, having installed more than one PurpleWiki based on the UseModWiki. They are still all work in progress. However the happening I’ve just been in is just like a “OneHourWiki on steroids
In the last few weeks Charles Savage has again kicked off some Mini-Dialogues / How-to’s on the Entovation net. They use the Metalayer platform which I’ve covered in earlier posts. Sessions are confined to an hour. Imagine the silent whiteboard with some starting points and a collective free-for-all.
The topic today was
RSS 2.0 
It seems to me that Wikis are an interesting online “mirror-image” of a consensus-building, future-focused action planning process known as Open Space (which I’ll guess you know about).
In Open Space, participants create the agenda, working from a central question, and then self-organize into dialogue groups. It’s of course up to these groups, and the “whole” group,, to answer the question, and then take whatever action they believe to be necessary.
In meatspace it has never been easy to convince conventional organizations to use the Open Space concept and process, because the powers that be - the hierarchs - must let go of predetermined outcomes. They must trust the wisdom of the consensus (ses) that will emerge.
Wonderful processes for our times. It’s a wonder they (wikis and OS) haven’t been enthusiastically taken up, because they work. I guess the conventional game is more about power and control than effectiveness.
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Conversational Blogging
Stuart Henshall writes about Conversational Blogging here and
Conversational Blogging, or Lack Thereof
Stuart Henshall adds to the discussion of blogs as facilitators of dialogue. He is the first I’ve seen who takes the design of the blog as a possible cause of little interaction through comment-boxes etc. Personally I still feel that…