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In November 2003 I facilitated a face-to-face open space meeting with approx. one third of the 300 person workforce. They all met at a place in the middle of Germany. In May 2004 we had the follow-up meeting, using the OpenSpace-Online® software. All participants while sitting in their own offices in front of their PC screens experienced this meeting. Two days before the follow-up meeting all participants received a written report about the results of nine projects. We wanted to make sure that they did not need to read long texts during the virtual meeting itself. And as you may expect, once the virtual meeting started, the discussion began immediately. The participants and the executive board were very satisfied with the virtual moderated meeting. At the end of the meeting, every participant was able to download a complete documentation of the meeting. The documentation now supports the ongoing implementation of the projects. And the next face-to-face meeting has already been announced.

Dr. Matthias zur Bonsen, June 2004