I have enjoyed collaborating with designers and a web guru to create a new design for my blog, consulting space and website. More on the design process and people who helped me later. The Home Page At it’s core this page is designed to be playful and convey a sense of ‘connectedness’ and integration. Linking people together through ideas is what I do best. This blog post over at NESTA influenced my early thoughts on this page too. This design is also about ‘keeping our eye on the ball’. The faces are interested in where you are looking. Meet the …

Garr Reynold over at Presentation Zen spotted this video called ‘Built to Last‘. “This 3-minute video presentation called Built to Last won first prize in The Congress for the New Urbanism video contest a few weeks ago. The rules for the contest were simple: “Create a 3-minute maximum video that illustrates how the principles of New Urbanism – density, design and walkability – can effectively respond to current environmental challenges that we face.” Watch the video.” Garr Reynolds. Here is another great example of creative communication. Built to Last combines a great mix of music, large/bold text, images and story …

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 …

Kaki King has that ‘wow’ factor. For guitar fans like me … notice any similarities to Michael Hedges? Anyway, enough said and grab a tea … take 15 minutes to watch this performance!

In keeping with name of my blog, I used a quick Impro activity with a group before Opening Space on the weekend. After re listening to this podcast at the 2008 OSonOS confernece, Chris Corrigan and Viv McWaters (and others) took my own understanding of the OS priniciple “Whatever Happens is the Only Thing that Could Have” to a new level. I have always struggled to articulate the essence of this principle. In the podcast, Viv McWaters explains the importance of using Action Methods to help participants ‘experience’ the principles and not just ‘intellectualize’ them. Viv introduces us to the …