Defrag 3: ‘Open Space’ Discussion Groups

Before lunch on Monday, Jerry Michalski kicked off a session based on the "unconference" model, dividing the audience up into discussion groups. He also said it was similar to the BarCamp conference concept. Anyone could come up to the whiteboards and define a discussion topic.  Once all slots were taken, audience members were invited to choose the topic in which they were interested, and move to the area where that group was assigned. Here are a photos of two of the sessions, along with the two whiteboards listing the topics.  They ranged from "Vendor Relationship Management" to "Corporate Expert Knowledge Management" to "Closed Private" (the opposite of Open Social!) to "Who Owns Implicit Data"…and more.