From: Jack Vinson
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 20:57:31 -0600

Michael Herman is an internationally recognized practitioner and
teacher of Open Space Technology, a simple, powerful approach for
bringing people together and getting important work done faster than
you'd expect.

Michael is the founding webmaster for
OpenSpaceWorld.ORG, which now offers an
introduction to Open Space in 18 languages, in addition to offering
his own resources archive at
GlobalChicago.NET/ost. He has
taught Open Space on four continents and is known for his practical
views on the process of invitation, the movement of self-organizing
markets, and the personal passion bounded by responsibility. He
leads meetings and conference events and helps organizations
integrate the simple power of OST into everyday business activity.

He will be Opening a Space at MeshForum, MeshAction, on May 4th as
grand and active finale to the MeshForum conference. In the course
of the conference, participants from all over will meet a wide
diversity of people and explore all dimensions of network life. In
the Space that Michael Opens on the 4th, participants will take
stock of all the learning and connecting that's gone on, identify
key people to work with, begin or continue important projects, and
anything else that is needed to fully integrate conference learning
into post-conference activity. The day will include a mini-workshop
time for learning about how to facilitate Open Space.

More about Open Space

    * manages, facilitates, teaches and coaches as [MichaelHermanAssociates], recognized internationally for his practice of open space technology.

    * offers [InvitingOrganization], [OpenSpaceTech] and [WorldwideOpenSpace].

    * explores and invites a new kind of active, direct and personal philanthropy at [SmallChangeNewsNetwork].

    * hosts community workgroups and projects at [GlobalChicago.NET].

    * writes [PeaSoupBlog] and [PeaSoupNotebook] because he can't stop.