Chris Corrigan on the art of giving instructions
Just a quick post to point to a great piece of advice from the ever-wonderful Chriss Corrigan, The art of giving instructions: 7 practices for facilitators. Scan the snippet then, if you are a...
View ArticleTwitter Thanks and Social Media and Public Health
Months ago I got an email from Trish at PKids, an organization devoted to childhood immunization and disease prevention, asking if I’d do a webinar in the way off future of February. Well, today was...
View ArticleMonday Video: Art, Creative Messages and Attention
Via a Tweet from John Hagel comes the Enormous forest xylophone plays Bach’s Cantata 147 (Wired UK). A phone handset advert? Yup. But in it beauty, art and music. In our communities and networks, can...
View ArticleMonday Video – Gotta Share!
OK, there IS a Monday Video after all. Hat tip to Stephen Downes and Mashable. There have been many conversations across my networks about how much time we do/don’t spend “sharing” online. This little...
View ArticleMonday Video – Doodling
The fabulous Sunni Brown celebrates us doodlers (and I do a Monday video on Tuesday… heh!) via YouTube – Exclusive video of Sunni Brown doodling her creative process.
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Updates from Communities and Networks Connection
I’m continuing cleaning up and adapting my technology configuration this week. Here is part 2! I confess, I don’t pay nearly enough attention to all the good things flying past me, including things on...
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Questions That Frame Responsibility
I subscribe to the Strachan-Tomlinson Question of the Week email which sends out a provocative question (or form of question). They get me thinking and help me with one of THE most important...
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Why Visuals Matter in Two Lines
Via a G+ post I stumbled upon Tim Kitchin’s comment which totally captures why visuals matter to me in group process. I have been taking two paragraphs to day it. Tim boils it down and makes me smile....
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Infographics of Social Commerce Psychology
I just had to share these – they are so cool from TabJuice. They were some of the inspiration for my KM Singapore talk last week! Transpose them out of a commerce setting to other group settings… lots...
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A great example of facilitation…
…at a restaurant! From: Foodtography: Seattle Is Not Jumping on the NYC Train of Banning Cameras at the Table. The context is Brian Canlis, co-owner of Seattle’s iconic Canlis restaurant, talking about...
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My Harvest from a Half Day at Seattle #Kaizencamp
Thanks to a serendipitous conversation with friends im Benson (@ourfounder), Tonianne DeMaria Barry (@sprezzatura), I was able to pop in for 1/4 of the Seattle #KaizenCamp. If I were pitching a...
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You Can Observe a Lot By Watching – Yogi Berra
This is the second post in a series about how we learn from our work. The first one can be found here.The great American baseball player/philosopher Yogi Berra, said “You can observe a lot just by...
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Ask Me Anything: Knowledge Sharing Through Peer Interviews
This is the third post in a series about how we learn from our work. The first one is here and the second here.The popular Internet discussion site, Reddit.com has a practice called “Ask Me...
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Beyond the Webinar
Let me confess right up front: I really don’t like webinars. Too often they feel “done unto me.” I am powerless, at the mercy of the organizers. I may have access to a chat room (Thank Goodness!) But...
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The Fence of Fear
Fear has played an interesting role in my life. Or better said, confronting my fears has given me the opportunity to do things I would have never done before. For example I was afraid to go to Brazil...
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Graphic Facilitation and Sense Making > The Sum of its Arts
What follows is a mish-mashed report on an online event from December 2014. I know better than to procrastinate this long…Last month Laurie Webster invited me to do a web gathering with her as part of...
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Conversations With a Wonderful Client
Sometimes you just get lucky. I get lucky quite a bit with my wonderful clients. As a wrap up to some work last year, Simone Staiger of CIAT and I decided to do a little text based conversational...
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But I can’t draw… Cancel that thought!
Did Crazy Horse draw this image? MS Am 2337, Houghton Library, Harvard UniversityAs they say, if I had a piece of dark chocolate for every time that someone has said to me “but I can’t draw” when I ask...
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Hospital checklists and Inviting Participation
Johnnie Moore pointed to an interesting article on why checklists don’t always produce the kind of positive results expected in hospital operating rooms.I remember a few years back when I had major...
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Unleashing Joy Through Visual Facilitation – Part 4 of ISS Fellowship
This is the fourth in a series of posts about my ISS/Chisholm Fellowship in Victoria State, Australia. You can find the previous posts here: Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3. While I intended to write these...
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