I have been ranting about the use of visual images to support a story, key messages or to communicate your ‘thing’ to others. Here is a 4 minute presentation by Andy Hobsbawm that has a number of great features: Great use of visual images to support his story – notice his slides contain no words (they don’t need to!) His presentation has 1 core premise and everything hangs if it … the use of creative stuff is needed to inspire people to act in certain ways He also uses a short video to reinforce his idea (that he sells very …

Here’s something a bit different for Yes!AndSpace … Local musician, Tim Wood, has written a beautiful song … in every sense of the word. We have played around some photos of local people and produced this video. Feel free to share it with anyone … pass it onto people you love. Enjoy. You can download (and purchase) the single from CD Baby here. Beautiful by Tim Wood from Geoff Brown on Vimeo. Cheers Geoff

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! Chicago Improv Conference 2008 – Feedback …

I rarely write long blog posts, but something has happened in my home Shire in 2008 that I must share with you! It relates to sustainability … community capacity … government and NGO partnerships … and a project team willing to allow direction and activities to emerge over time. It’s an exciting story with even greater possibilities for the future. This story also relates to the lessons our team learned in staging the Castlemaine 500 project. Last weekend I had the privilege of co-facilitating a sustainable transport workshop with participants in the Surf Coast Shire’s Casuarina project. In 2008, an …

After a couple of weeks in the blogging wilderness … I’m back! And I have a whole treasure trove of stuff to write about and explore with you. I have just finished a project called Castlemaine 500. In a nutshell, it was a community behaviour change project that sought to assist 500 households to reduce their household energy consumption by 15 to 30%. Our approach was to work directly with people in workshops and in their homes, provide information and facilitate the develoment of energy action plans. We worked with partners such as builders and hardware stores and ran a …