Here is another example of using Slideshare to communicate. This slideshow is designed to bring specific aspects of a proposal to life with images and pictures. Each figure supports text in the proposal. I used Comic Life to create the images & captions and then inserted them into Powerpoint and then uploaded to slideshare. Tip = View in Full Screen mode. View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: open space) I’ll update you on how this was received by my client. Cheers Geoff

The crew at slideshare have just announced the winners of the World Best Presentation Competition. The judges include Garr Reynolds and Nancy Durate, 2 of the best. So if you do not even read Garr and Nancy’s books … at least take the time to click through these presentations and figure out for yourself why they are so good. I have added some points at the bottom of this post. Remember, that if these were to be delivered to an audience, the presenter may even remove more words from the few that exist now. THIRST View SlideShare presentation or Upload …

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” …

Like most people you ask, “I’m busy”. Busy running my business, being a husband and a dad. Growing my own fruit and veges and playing music again 🙂 I don’t feel busy though and I make the time to play in this space. Some of my clients ask me … “how do you find the time blog?” My answer is that blogging is a big part of my work now. It gives me the chance to notice what is going on around me and to notice more about myself. It allows me to connect and learn from people all over …

After reading Dan Pink’s A Whole New Mind, I am inspired to develop my right brain … my creative potential … explore the possibilities … do things differently.  As a facilitator, I am encouraging workshop folk to do the same. As Dan suggests, a 5 line Self Portrait can reveal much about how you are feeling in the moment. Participants in my workshops have been subjected to the 5 line self portrait as a way of introducing themselves to others. Here my 5 line self-portrait that represents how I was feeling about an hour ago.   A participant yesterday drew …