One of the best books written on the subject of communication with comics is called Understanding Comics: The invisible Art by Scott McCloud. If your job involves presenting information to others then this book will not disappoint. By the way … this is a serious book and not just for comic lovers! (Hat Tip to Garr Reynolds for the recommendation) Thanks to Viv, I stumbled across Plasq. Plasq have software called Comic Life and allows a 30 day trial period. I am Day 1 of the trial and discovered that it links with my webcam. Here is a not so serious example …

The team at Slideshare have developed the Slidecast. Huh?! What’s that you ask? Quite simply, a Slidecast is an online Slideshow with voice-over. Here’s a picture … How can Slidecasts be useful? First, I intend to use Slidecasts in my work as a facilitator. Slidecasts will help to make the magical ‘transition‘ from workshop-land to the real-world. In other words, Slidecasts created in workshops will assist my clients to more clearly communicate (and remember) the ‘essence’ of workshop decisions.  Second, we know that Spoken Words (like a story) supported by Visual Images help us to learn better. Our brain is …

Viv and I have just recorded our first conversation about Winkipod … our joint podcasting blog. Click here to listen and read. Some great surf photos taken by Viv at Bells Bowl accompany the podcast … listen to find out why surfing has anything to do with our podcasts! Geoff

Here’s a collection of stuff from other bloggers that I want to share: 1. Peter @ The Centre for Graphic Facilitation – A great review of The Adventures of Johnny Bunko. I have just finished Dan Pink’s other book ‘A Whole New Mind’ and highly recommend it (see the link on my bookshelf at the bottom of the right column).  2. TEDTalks is one of my favorite learning spaces and they have just passed “50 million” hits … to celebrate they have released a best of the best video featuring Al Gore, Sir Ken Robinson and others. I have written about …

Thanks to my sister (Janette Derrick), I discovered the remarkable artistic work of Chris Jordon. I regularly use Chris’ provacative images when facilitating behaviour change workshops. I use these visual images to tap into participant’s emotions and to shine a light on the ludicrous excesses of our modern lifestyle.  Note: It is also important to shift the conversation away from the problem once the images have been presented. I use an approach called Solutions Focus and switch from problems to the benefits (as if the problems were solved) … then future perfect (the ideal future scenario) … then small steps/actions …