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Visualizing Change Webinar

I'm fascinated with the role visualization plays in our view of organization and what is possible during change. I received an e-mail to update my VizThink data on VizThink.com and rediscovered a webinar I gave prior to a big VizThink conference held in San Francisco in 2008 that deals directly with this subject. It's an hour long dialogue with Tom Crawford that includes a very thorough exploration of how The Grove uses Storymapping for visioning and alignment, and what kinds of explorations I was making in Second Life at the time. Now with Visual Meetings being so well received, it seems more relevant than ever, and addresses interesting questions of methodology. So, if you are interested, here is the link.  VizThink.com/Visualizing-change-webinar. The references to the conference and other programs are not current, of course.

OD Network Notes—Taken on the iPad

I went to the Organizational Development Network annual conference in New Orleans this week and overlooked the fact I was on the very last page of my journal, a constant companion. This forced me onto the iPad for notetaking and I really had FUN! I used Sketchbook Pro app for the iPad, saving them to iTunes and then to a folder I could upload here. I of course attended only a few of the dozens of superb workshops and talks. If you are interested in either OD or iPad noteaking you might check these out. You can click on the images and they will pop up large scale on your screen. This one is choreographer Garth Fagan's keynote. Since I experience facilitation as a dance it was one of my favorite. The rest of these will be posted column width.

Visual Meetings Presentations at the 2010 OD Network Conference in New Orleans

I experimented with a new presentation platform called Prezi to give a talk recently at the Organization Development Network Annual Conference in New Orleans. The presentation was about how graphic facilitation is evolving at the intersection with new technology. I give illustrations of how visual meetings support imagining, engaging, thinking and enacting —the full cycle of action— and then provided examples of how combination with new tech is pushing the envelope even further. This image is the entire Prezi presentation.

When you click on The Future of Visual Meetings Prezi Show., it will connect you to the Prezi presentation I gave, stored on my account in the Prezi cloud. It will take a good 5-10 minutes to load all the images so be patient. 

Future Talk TV Show Features David Sibbet & Mei Lin Fung Talking about Visual Facilitation Applied to Complex Social Problems

Recently I met Mei Lin Fung, producer of Future Talk, a monthly TV show produced in Silicon Valley. She works visually herself and when she hear about Visual Meetings she invited me to be on her show. We produced a half hour session on visual facilitation and its application to complex problems in government. It was a three camera, eight person, all volunteer crew—producing live and unedited from Palo Alto's Community Media center. It is now available permanently on FutureTalk.blip.tv. I talked about my work with visual meeting, showing some examples, and then demonstrated by taking notes on my IBM Thinkpad tablet when Mei Lin was talking. Enjoy!