August 3, 2010

From my ‘Read Later’ files in Instapaper

Recently I started using Instapaper to tag interesting articles when on my laptop or iPhone. The cool thing is you don’t need to be connected to read them later. Here’s some link that I just read that are well worth sharing …

The Best Goal is No Goal – by Leo over at Zen Habits

Stuff You Know, but Don’t Know You Know – by Neil Perkin over at Only Dead Fish

How Not to Write a Book - by Chris Brogan

And I posted these links using the new Safari 5 ‘Scribefire’ Extension – it’s great except the time it takes to embed links into text. Let’s see how the photo  uploader goes …

Nope – Fails to allow me to add an image from my computer … I’ll be heading back to my wordpress dashboard for future posts!

cheers

Geoff

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July 20, 2010

Great use of YouTube by Dave Snowden

I spent about 30 minutes putting together this post and if you have got a spare 20 minutes (and you are keen to challenge your own worldview), go grab a cup of tea and work your way through these videos. I have put them in an order that will make sense to someone exploring these concepts for the first time.

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Why do we still see policies in workplaces like, “You Tube banned on Government Servers to stop staff wasting time!”, when staff could be learning stuff as rich as these videos from Dave Snowden? Dave is the Founder & Chief Scientific Officer at Cognitive Edge. His blog is very heavy, often amusing and well worth following.

Dave is working with an Australian video producer to help communicate his models and frameworks with the world. The videos bring a subtle and effective use of visuals and graphics to illuminate the key points that Dave is making. Dave’s confidence and sense of humor shines through as well.

I have embedded a series of videos from Dave (and others) to help you understand the world of complexity. Another place to visit is Dave’s series of posts on the Origins of Cynefin.

The Set Up

Understanding the Cynefin framework is probably the first place to start. One from Shawn Callahan (Anecdote), the 2nd from Dave the third a Pecha Kucha presentation from Mark Schenk (also at Anecdote).

The most humorous story

If you have listened to Dave’s podcasts, you will have heard his ‘how to organise a children’s birthday party’. I often show clients this video when facilitating strategy and planning workshops. Apart from some laughs, the key message can challenge last century ways of working that still persist today.

The Close

This final run of videos, again from Dave explores some of the other concepts and ideas that relate to working in a complex world. They tell great stories and the final one shines a light on the Cognitive Edge Sensemaker Suite.

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May 24, 2010

Scan of other blogs

Here’s some very cool stuff that caught my eye in the past week …

Love this over at Nancy White’s blog on Acceptance in the Flow of Facilitation

Viv McWaters on Different Ways of Working

Garr Reynolds on We Are The Stories We Tell

Sound advice from Euan Semple on adoption of social media … 1 at a time please

Toxic conversations over at Andy Middleton’s blog … which also features Euan Semple

and 1 more over at Nancy’s blog … Cognitive Bias video in the form of a song (via another person I know … Irene Guijt)

… and will find some time to write something myself one day soon

Geoff

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February 15, 2010

Trying too hard!

I have been noticing some stuff written about working and trying too hard. Allow me to ramble and explore some emerging thoughts on this and other related (or maybe unrelated) things …

One example was in an email conversation and gave the example of a ‘process/model’ (for doing things differently) that appeared on the Open Space list. A comment made about it was something like, “yer working too hard …”.

So where are you/we/I working too hard? Where are we working hard at following processes and linear schemes to get things done better and more effectively? Are these processes a distraction from what is actually happening? Do approaches like Solution Focus, where descriptions of ‘Future Perfect’ are central, distract us from the the here&now?

Johnnie Moore comments here on Dave Snowden’s latest post ‘Avoiding reality in favour of a Vision‘. Dave suggests that a future focus provides a good excuse to avoid dealing with the drudgery of reality:

“Present possibilities are rarely as compelling as future visions… visionary journeys through the silvan forests to the land of milk and honey that lies beyond is much more fun that dealing with the harsh reality of the present.”

Johnnie’s response really has me thinking (and re thinking) about the processes I use like Solutions Focus …

“However, I think when we really get attuned to what is happening now, really see all that is going on, it can turn out to be a lot more interesting and thought-provoking than we imagine.”

Viv McWaters also buys in by asking …

“Ideas, and thoughts are rarely linear. Makes me wonder why we try and capture them that way, why we struggle to make order out of chaos. And why we focus on what might be, sometimes avoiding what’s happening right in front of us.”

Dave Snowden is right. As a consultant it is easier to take groups into “Future Perfect” and avoid the ‘harsh reality of the present’. I still believe that future-focused processes serve an important step as they help groups to imagine new ways of doing and being. Experientially, they can help groups to feel open to the possibilities of the present and generate enthusiasm and energy.

So, this blog post started out with the title “Trying too Hard” … it started with a direction in mind and as I read more and wrote, it evolved into something else. That something else is challenge to myself. A challenge to hold space for groups so they can focus on (and be present to) what is happening right in front of them. No linear roadmap will help here. Instead I’ll continue to explore and learn from these types of ongoing/iterative processes …

• Watching how my own kids grow, learn and adapt
• Notice more of myself in pursuits such as learning Karate – my biggest block here is in the ‘trying too hard’ which was the original inspiration for the post
• Playing more with Improvisation and watching groups struggle and learn about themselves – I feel inspired to jump in and take Improv to my son’s school community … or join an Improv group … or start one up myself!
• Re engage with playing music with others and notice what happens as we develop over time and finally …
• Use Open Space more in my work with groups – why don’t I use it more is the big question???

Geoff

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June 16, 2009

Twitter unpacked by Commoncraft

This post is for all those people who have heard me talk about the benefits of Twitter lately. Lee and Sachi at Commoncraft have created another great video that captures the potential ‘power’ of Twitter to bring people together around topics that they are passionate about. When you make it easier for people to connect and communicate … great things can happen. Enjoy!

And here’s a few interesting articles about Twitter … and yes, I picked these up directly from Twitter:

Tweet Dreams are made of this

How Twitter, CellPhones and Facebook can make history – TED Video of Clay Shirky

Geoff

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May 31, 2009

Scan of other great blogs

Here’s some blog posts that stood out for me …

1. The World Wide Web in Plain English – another simple and elegant video from Lee and Sachi at Commoncraft

2. 37 Days – A reminder to anyone looking for a simply great person to follow and read. Patti Digh’s work at 37  Days and in her consulting practice is inspirational

3. Dave Snowden’s latest post on Complex Adaptive Systems and where our current mindset and culture needs to shift!

4. And from the comments in Dave’s post above comes this great video at TED (which is a call for practical wisdom in the face of a society in the thrall of rules and incentives.) …

5. Dan Roam finds this great visual explanation of the current World Financial crisis.

6. Dave Pollard presents A Practical Guide to Implementing Web 2.0 in your Organisation – thanks Dave as this may just help out many of my clients who are interested in getting Web 2.0-Smart and not sure where to start!

7. Read this if you want to see what email would look like if it were invented today … enter Google Wave

8. Euan Semple writes a post called Forget Social Media – I am not sure ‘exactly’ what Euan does in his job, but what he gets paid to do sounds very familiar to what I do … although Euan describes it better than I ever could …

“I reckon what I get paid for is to enthuse people. Not about any particular direction to move in, nor even about any particular philosophy to adopt. What I enthuse them about is an enhanced ability to work out what they think and then communicate what they think to, and with, others. I don’t care about business, and I don’t care about business effectiveness. I care about people and their ability to be the best they can be both individually and collectively. If this makes businesses better and more effective then so be it.”

9. Ignite Ideas and share what’s happening in your community – I really like this concept and would love to get involved in running these in the Surf Coast region … who want to join me?

10. My friend Johnnie Moore has 2 great posts that capture many of the things I have been thinking about when facilitating lately.

#1 The pitfalls of buy-in and action planning

“Trying to get them to agree a list of joint actions feels like an avoidance of a more interesting truth: the actions that will emerge from such a group will almost certainly NOT be agreeable, acceptable or even remotely interesting to all. Let´s not force people to sit through a pantomine at the end of an otherwise engaging meeting so that some can maintain an illusion that this diverse group can be ordered and controlled.”

#2 We complete each other

“Conventional wisdom says that to be successful, an idea must be concrete, complete, and certain. But what if that’s wrong? What if the most elegant, most imaginative, most engaging ideas are none of those things?” Matthew May

Enjoy

Geoff

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April 17, 2009

What goes around comes around

My last blog post *Seth’s Hierarchy of Presentations* has created heaps of ‘movement’ across many of my social spaces including Twitter, Facebook, Slideshare and this Blog.

One comment from The Best of Fundraising Blog lead me to their previous post titled ‘Why I’m Smiling & Moving’. As fate has it, this post is all about giving and receiving … if you put stuff out there for people to use, they build on it and you get something back. There’s a lot of love out there in the online, social world (despite what we hear about the negative web-based predatory stuff from our Institutions … who just don’t get Web2.0 yet!).

Using a similar approach to The Girl Effect video, I really enjoyed this one from the team at Smile and Move – an online movement that’s all about …

“Smile & Move is a call to positive action… to be happy and do something… a reminder of how we should approach our work (whether that work is done in the office, on the field, in the classroom or at home). It’s about mattering to the world, all with a smile.” from their website

So watch and listen to this video …

When you check out the Smile & Move website (and the Give More Media site that sits behind it), it’s all about creating a movement … or as they put it, “A movement with a Smile becomes and Smovement” …

Geoff

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April 6, 2009

What I’ve Noticed on other Blogs

Here’s some stuff that caught me eye and kept me reading on other blogs …

we20 on the SurfCoast

Viv McWaters reports and reflects on a we20 gathering on Victoria’s surfcoast

“With the news of the G20 meeting in London ringing in our ears, 15 of us met on Friday 3 April to have our own we20 meeting. We firstly explored our challenges and decided upon utilising this crisis to stimulate change in the world for better – particularly in relation to consumerism and new models of economy as our focus.”

Heather Davis writes about the same we20 event here – with some commentary on ‘Smart Consumerism’ and ‘Worldly Leadership’

“The connections between we20 and Worldly Leadership are evident in that both attest to a way of seeing the world and living in the world and sharing responsibility for our part in it.”

Facilitation Related

Chris Corrigan updates his fantastic online Facilitation Resources here

“The first section provides links to participatory group process that are inclusive and self-organizing to varying degrees … The nest two sections cover more specific tools useful for particular purposes, and finally the fourth section contains links to sources of ongoing inspiration.”

Johnnie Moore denounces the workshop “Commitment Ceremony”

“The trouble is, in the real world, these action planning sessions (Commitment Ceremonies) often feel pretty deadly and inauthentic. They tend to assume the following:

- That action is what is needed now, as opposed to say further reflection
- That the people in the room are uniquely empowered to act, when frequently they aren’t
- That everyone’s nicely aligned and all are agreed on what should happen

… and Johnnie’s recommended option is …

“Here’s what I tend to find more satisfying in a lot of contexts. Instead of focusing on actions, I try to get groups to be clear what point they have reached, in a way that means everyone speaks and gets heard. So we might have a round where everyone gets a chance to check in, perhaps responding to a very open question that let’s them choose to report what they’ve learnt, what they’re concerned about, what they see happening next… without a sense that only “action” is to be the focus.”

Viv McWaters writes about ‘Open Space Technology as an Operating System for Complexity’

“On the surface, Open Space is a simple process: seat people in a circle, introduce the theme, open the space, allow self-organisation, write some reports, develop some actions, close the circle. Yet it sits on a foundation of deep awareness of how people relate to each other, their passions and their responsibilities. It approaches who is present, and why, when and where they work based on complexity and self-organising systems. It is, indeed, an ‘operating system’ for these tricky, sometimes chaotic, times.”

Other Stuff

Robert Poynton writes about Noticing More

Semi-retired mechanical engineer John Howe writes about saving the world in a ‘one page’ acronym

LEARN = Localise – Educate – Adapt – Ration – Negative (population growth)

Garr Reynolds unpacks Evan Willimas at TED on Twitter and the Unexpected

“In this short presentation below, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams talks about a similar idea: growth coming from unexpected uses invented by users themselves. The presentation itself is simple and short (you can see some snaps I took below), but mainly I thought the topic itself was interesting and timely. I don’t know if there is really a “right way” to Twitter (see this David Pogue article), but it’s certainly a segment of social media that is misunderstood in spite of its simplicity. My favorite part of Twitter? Being limited to only 140 characters.”

Clay Shirky writes about the changing times for newspapers/print media and internet implications

“The problem newspapers face isn’t that they didn’t see the internet coming. They not only saw it miles off, they figured out early on that they needed a plan to deal with it,”

Mark Earls points to a great example of a ‘sustainability-pitch’ about “Using More” rather than “Using Less”

What have you noticed lately that’s worth sharing?

Cheers

Geoff

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March 2, 2009

The Art of Invitation

Thanks to Chris Corrigan for highlighting this 2 minute video by David Gershon talking about what it takes to take change to scale.

Chris comments on this video and leaves us all with an important question to consider …

“As an artful act of invitation, this is briliant.  How many of us outside the movie industry consider making trailers to gatherings?  Putting audio and video to work in this way is a fantastic way to get the message out, introduce people to ideas that will be bandied around at your gathering, and it becomes a great way to have people with blogs – like me! – link to your invitation.

How else are you pushing the boundaries of invitation?”

In response to Chris’ question, “Yes! I have been pushing the boundaries of the invitation”.

I have been using video to capture project lessons (instead of writing lengthy reports) … using cartoons/pictures to communicate complex ideas … using slideshows to market a training package that Viv McWaters and I have created.

So what? Well, since taking a ‘whole minded approach’ to communication, I have been more effectively communicating my ideas with others. Here is one example that had a great impact in Castlemaine last year. I couldn’t attend a community celebration where I project I was running was being handed over to the community. So, in adapting the ‘Paperworks’ technique by Lee and Sachi at Commoncraft, I threw together this little video which was palyed at the Theatre Royal to over 200 people. By some people’s accounts, this video was way more effective than me actually being there to talk.

Another great example of inviting others to be involved in a project is by Matt Moore at Engineers without Fears. Matt is inviting people to write their own story and submit it to a competition – here’s the blog post. Matt sends his invitation to a wide range of followers via Twitter and his blog. He makes the task of story writing incredibly interesting (almost Phoric-like Matt!) by inviting contributors to use a series of 5 randomly chosen images from Flickr. to be tNot only that, he involves 5 really interesting and well connected people to be a part of this photo process.

So now I’ll ask you the same question … How else are you pushing the boundaries of invitation?

cheers

Geoff

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January 31, 2009

Scan of other Blogs

thanks to Wordle for the Blog Scan design

Here’s some links that I found useful over the past week …

Russ Schoen Says YesAnd! leads to a new product idea – try saying ‘yes’ for a day and resist that urge of blocking offers that other make … amazing results as a parent when you ‘let-go’ of your own plans and ‘go with’ the offers that our kids make

After a Sype call with Dave Pollard (about letting-go and complexity), he sent me this video link that demonstrates the art of Impro … in a musical sense

Jeff Howe (Wired) on “user generated” content and crowdsourcing – really interesting stuff … the rise of Wikipedia-like tools is the new thing and I like this quote:

“A large group of diverse individuals will come up with better and more robust forecasts and make more intelligent decisions than even the most skilled decision maker” James Sourowiecki. The Wisdom of Crowds.

Jeff’s technical definition of “Crowdsourcing” is this …

“When a company takes a job that was once performed by employees and outsources it to a large, UNDEFINED (crucial word) group of people through the form of an OPEN CALL. Or more simply … when you need something done you turn to the potential 1.3 billion people globally with an internet connection and say ‘Can you do this?’. and that in a nutshell is Crowdsourcing.”

Here’s 4 more online, visual communication tools I am playing with at the moment …

1. Prezi

This tool really excites me as a presentation medium!

2. Sliderocket

A little slick for me at the minute but looks a great way to create online presentations.

3. Slideshare meets YouTube

Embedding video with slideshows is a capability I have been longing for for ages!

4. Wordle

This little tool is just awesome .. the applications of this are limitless! Here’s another example I used as a slide before a video for a sustainability project evaluation:

And finally, a great post from friend and fellow surfer/music lover/Aireys resident *Marty Maher*. This links nicely back to my ‘letting-go’ post. Marty writes …

“The ride itself is amazing as Parsons actually gets tubed on this 64ft monster, you think the wave has claimed him and he comes out of the whitewater. On the same day he had taken a massive wipeout on an earlier wave and came back to take this wave.”

YouTube link.

Cheers

Geoff

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January 12, 2009

Amateur vs Professional

I love this post by Chris Anderson over at The Long Tail.

Who would you choose to read … a passionate amateur or a professional doing his/her thing? Chris says that in a world where we all have equal access to tools of production …

“Amateurs self-select for the job. Professionals are selected. For most jobs, volunteers beat draftees.”

Chris goes on to say …

“To me that’s the difference between amateur and professional content: the first may not be polished, but it’s driven by the sort of intense interest that cannot be faked. The second may be better written, spelled more correctly and otherwise competently produced, but all too often it has the arms-length perspective of a drive-by.”

I wonder how the same applies to other walks of life and professions? Viv McWaters has described herself as an ‘all rounder’ in the past … someone who can do many things well (facilitate, evaluate, train). But I think it goes deeper than simply being a proficient all-rounder and Chris has nailed it with 1 word … “passion”.

Recently, I was employed to do a Graphic Facilitation job. As I leapt at the job with all the enthusiasm and excitement of a 6 year old on his birthday, I paused for a moment and these words entered my head …

“BUT Geoff, you are not a professional artist. Are you sure you can do this?”

No. I am not a professional artist or a widely experienced graphic facilitator AND my response to that little voice inside my head was …

“Yes! Let’s do this. It’s new and it will extend me. You know you can draw complex concepts and bring them alive!”

So, I had the ‘P’ word going … but passion alone is not enough to do a great job. The ‘R’ word is missing. Like in Open Space Technology the equation goes something like this …

OS = P x R : where P = passion & R = Responsibility

Passion without responsibility is just … well it’s just all hot air. Responsibility without passion is, in part, what Chris is on about.

Open Space Drawing by me

In sum … we need both (all 3 in fact)

1. Passion – “I’ll take a passionate amateur over a bored professional any day” Chris Anderson
2. Responsibility – “Passion gets you out of your chair, responsibility moves you to action. Things only get done by individuals, and nothing gets done unless people want to do. Passion is great, but goes nowhere until the feet take it somewhere” OS World website
3. The Tools of Production – from Chris’ post I’d interpret these as the ‘ways & wares’ of getting things done

Geoff

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December 28, 2008

Changing the World … 1 picture at a time

With Christmas over and New Year fast approaching, it’s time to take some time to go ‘off’-line for a while.

First, some reflections on 2008 and Blogging … When I scan through my posts, I am noticing 1 prevailing theme … Visual Thinking. Not just thinking on my part, but ‘creation’ of visual content on the web. Much of it relates to the the work I do as a facilitator and some of it to my hobbies. The lines between my ‘work’ and ‘hobbies’ are blurring as each year passes and that is a GREAT thing. I love what I do!

PICTURES DO SAY A 1000 WORDS – The world of Web 2.0 and blogging has taught me the importance of using ‘visuals’ to do any of the following:

Make a point

Make someone laugh

Support the reader’s learning

Create ‘Ah-ha’ moments

Go deeper

Tell a story

Neurocognitive research also shows that the visual pathway is key to switching ‘on’ the human emotional response.

No Emotion = No Learning

Some of my pictures (like the ones above), have been spotted by readers and used in their own publications, conference cover pages and blogs. You can view my other pictures over here at Flikr.

PICTURES & SLIDESHOWS – In 2008, Viv McWaters continues to be my closest collaborator, sounding board and coffee-buddy! We have taken Garr Reynolds’ Presentation Zen lessons and turned them into a 1 day training program called “Insanely Great Slideshow Presentations“. In 2009, we will spread the word about the use of visual images to as many people as we can. The big, hairy & audacious goal is to rid Victoria of lousy, boring and ineffective presentations!

To view all of my slideshows you can visit here. Here is the slideshow to promote our ‘Insanely Great’ training …

PICTURES & VIDEO – Broadband and the plethora of new, web based video applications has made online video an incredibly effective medium to communicate. Lee and Sachi over at Commoncraft have taken the use of online video to a whole new level. I have learned so much from their videos and from Lee’s writing in his blog. I love his concept of being ‘lightweight‘ and I finally understand how an American President is elected. Watch and enjoy …

My favourite slideshow/video of the year is Shift Happens over at Teacher Tube. I like this version best …

My favourite video of 2008 is one that I was part of producing with Tim Wood and Marty Maher. Just Beautiful …

Beautiful by Tim Wood from Geoff Brown on Vimeo.

A big thankyou to Nancy White for providing me with the ‘kick up the pants’ to explore graphic facilitation in my work.

This is my 99th post on Yes!AndSpace and my final post for 2008.

Have a peaceful New Year everyone! Looking forward to another year of blogging in 2009!

Cheers

Geoff

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November 20, 2008

Highlights from my feed

I had a quick scan of other blog that I read and here are the highlights:

1. This short post from Chirs Corrigan (via Clark Williams-Derry)

Some useful observaions about the current financial crises:

1. Unlikely events are common

2. Markets don’t know much

3. Unsustainable things stop

I especially like the last one.  It doesn’t really matter if people believe things are unsustainable or not.  If something is unsustainable it will stop, and that’s that.

2. This great slideshow on Slideshare from Viv McWaters – what a great way to present evaluation findings!

3. From Garr Reynolds a great post on why play is good for you &

A video of Seth Godin talking about his new book Tribes … much in this for anyone interested in Leadership and building stronger communities

4. Johnnie Moore makes some insightful comments about Mark Earls’ latest writings on How Stuff Spreads. Here’s a snapshot …

“Pull not push: stop thinking about marketing as something you do to people and start thinking about what you can do to help the natural pull mechanism work better. Tactics include visibility, participation, and so on.

Understand the tides and landscape through which pull is operating before you decide on what you’re going to do.

Light lots of fires: cascades built on copying introduce an element of unpredictability. So best to reduce risk by lighting lots of fires and seeing which one(s) take(s).”

5. Thanks to Lee and Sachi at Commoncraft I think I’ll give Windows Live a try. Watch and learn …

6. Nancy White on Twitter and being Cool and this great video!

7. I like this cartoon from Hugh

Cheers

Geoff

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September 29, 2008

Solution 1 – Stay Hungry and Foolish

Ok, here’s one thing we can all do to live a better life. If we all took Steve Jobs’ advice, our collective capacity to adapt and improvise would see us through any crisis. Hat Tip to Jack Martin Leith for reminding me about this talk.

Here’s a clip:

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Here’s the video

What would change for you if you applied Steve’s advice?
Geoff

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September 3, 2008

Don’t underestimate the power of COMICS

So what do Google, Scott McLeod and comics have in common? They have just collaborated to launch Google’s Chrome Web Browser.

Why comics? They are visual … they tell a story (which are hardwired to understand) … they turn the ‘complex’ into the ‘simple’ AND they are FUN!

When Clay Shirky talks about the fall of tradition organizational structures (Institutions) in the “collaboration” space that is Web 2.0, he also points out that traditional institutions resist the new (often creative right brained) approaches to business and marketing. Here is a classic quote from CNN’s article “Google unveils free browser Chrome” that shows they just don’t get it! They key word here is “Although”.

• “Although Google is using a cartoonish approach to promote Chrome, the new browser underscores the gravity of Google’s rivalry with Microsoft, whose Internet Explorer is used by about 75 percent of Web surfers.” CNN

I have plugged Scott McLeod’s book Understanding Comics before … it is a terrific read and a must for any would be communicator. Scott has inspired me to incorporate pictures and comics into a project Evaluation Report that I am working on at the moment. Who reads heavy, dense text anymore? I don’t and I am determined to practice that I preach.

So what do we learn from Google’s bold venture? Some would say that using comics to launch a multi billion dollar product is a big risk. Of course, word of mouth on the web will do most of their marketing for them AND if Chrome has real ‘value’ to users it will ‘go viral’ and start to erode Microsoft’s domination in the browser-sphere.

In sum … here’s what I take from this use of Comics by 1 of the World’s biggest companies:

1. Find a way to turn your message into a story … comics do this well and we are all familiar with the method
2. Create emotion because without it we do not learn and have those ‘Ah ha’ moments
3. Use pictures to support your key messages … Why? Just visit Dan Roam’s ‘On the Back of a Napkin’
4. Turn your messages into a ‘product’ that others can easily share with friends … most CHANGE happens because we are simply INVITED to act by others who are like us … we are HERD animals after all (Hat tip to Mark Earls)
5. When presenting using powerpoint (or keynote) make use of points 1 to 4 above … use Slideshare to allows others to download and spread your messages with others

Cheers

Geoff

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