Working in an OpenSpace-Online® real-time conference
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In order to participate in an OpenSpace-Online® real-time conference you need no special knowledge about the method prior to the event. A virtual facilitator and the structure of the software itself guides all participants through the simple process of the text-based conference (no video, no audio). The participants themselves are the experts. They bring their shared interest in the theme of the meeting and work together to develop new ideas and solutions with their questions and their suggestions. Conveners of workshops need only to welcome their workshop guests, and then let the discussion happen. It is NOT necessary for people to take notes during the conference. At the end of every OpenSpace-Online® conference each participant receives extensive documentation about the meeting in convenient HTML-format at the press of a button. The report provides the ideal foundation for further work, as it contains all of the contents (except the "foyer-chat" and the "one-to-one-talks" of the café rooms), results, and arrangements made during the meeting. If you are using the SPECIAL variant, the software will guide the group through a final phase of summarizing results, prioritizing, and planning next steps. If you have questions any part of the conference, please click on the question mark "?", which you can find during each phase in the lower blue bar.