The Center for Graphic Facilitation

Discussion with Heidi Forbes Oste on the Value of Visual Practice

As part of her wider research into the tools and methodologies used by the next generation of global leaders, Heidi Forbes Oste has started down the path of researching the value of “visual practice” (visual facilitation, graphic recording, mindmapping, sketch-noting, etc.)

As a piece of her dissertation, Heidi’s research on the visual practice, although still in the early stages, focuses on how it supports leadership and global teams using social technologies.

In this one-hour webinar with Alphachimp's Peter Durand, Heidi answered questions and gave insight into the broader trends at the intersection of social systems, collaborative technology, visual learning, innovation and global leadership.

Video & Digital Sketchnotes at http://alphachimpu.com/rock-the-monkey-visual-practice-with-heidi-forbes-oste/

Digital Sketchnoting with Mike Rodhe and Sacha Chua

Mike Rohde, generalissimo of the Sketchnote Army and author of The Sketchnote Handbook, interviews sketchnoter Sacha Chua.

Sacha offers up tips and tricks for digital sketchnoting. She demonstrates some of the tools she uses such as her tablet PC, her Lenovo stylus, and Autodesk Sketchbook Pro.

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You can see how Sacha uses Evernote to archive and share all of her sketchnotes with the world in her public Evernote notebook.

See more of Sacha's work at LivingAnAwesomeLife.com

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The Exquisite Corpse of Science

 

How do different people and groups of people view science? What do they know about it? What do they think is important? In this educational project, Tim Jones, communicatescience.com and two colleagues from Imperial College asked three groups of people what they thought was important about science today......and draw it ! Here is the result expressed as four drawings joined using the Surrealists' technique of 'Exquisite Corpse'.

(via Perrin Ireland)

25 Improv Tricks That Will Make You a Better Business Person

 (via Rose King)

At first glance, improv might seem like the direct opposite of the business world. It's silly, raucous, and spontaneous.

But improv actors are sharp professionals who have an incredible ability to pull from past dialogue, anticipate future scenes and relationships, and engage audiences in just moments.

If you're trying to make it in the business world, you can learn a lot from improv actors.

Here are 25 tricks that work just as well in business as they do on stage.

My favorite is Trick #21:

Remember the "karaoke rule": The "karaoke rule" states that as long as you can sell your performance, you don't have to be the best singer/dancer/actor, etc. If you're able to communicate — or just fake — confidence and charisma, you have a better chance of convincing others of your idea.

Read original article at bschool.com>>

Introduction to Brandy Agerbeck & Her Graphic Facilitation Video Tutorials

VectorTuts: 40 Free Tutorials on Advanced Drawing Techniques

The traditional form of drawing and sketching is a highly sought after skill. 

Develop your personal drawing abilities by following this collection of 40 great tutorials on advanced drawing techniques, including general theory, useful tips, comic inspired art and some methods for transforming your creations into digital format.

Learn how to draw, cars, hair, skulls, Manga characters, ninjas, hands, human eyes, figures, dragons, clothing, ears, old people and more, in both sketch and vector formats.

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Evernote Makes Scribing Searchable

OK. This changes the game.

Using Evernote, the new software to integrate collections of images and text across platforms, graphic facilitators now have a tool that allows for their work to be searchable.

It works, too! Once you upload, drag-n-drop or email a photo of a drawing, the software adds it to a "notebook" that is either public or private. Then, the user can do a normal word search and Evernote finds the word--even in handwritten form!

Meeting on the Right Side of the Brain

We've been preaching it for years, but I guess it is now news:

Creative work environments improve creative thinking!

Congrats to Leslie Marquard and Catalyst Ranch on leading the piece. Thanks for bringing "right-brained thinking" to a "left-brained" world. (Actually, working in creative environments and using multiple learning modalities inspires whole-brain thinking.)

clipped from www.nytimes.com Steve Kagan for The New York Times By ELAINE GLUSAC | Published: April 30, 2008 WHEN Leslie Marquard, an executive coach, holds strategy sessions for consulting firms or university administrators, she ushers her buttoned-up clientele into rooms full of Pogo sticks, ethnic art, hammocks, vintage furniture and a pillow “harem.” “They are surprised and also endeared by it,” said Ms. Marquard, a co-founder of Marble Leadership Partners in Chicago. The “it” she referred to is Catalyst Ranch, an independent alternative meeting space in a former sausage factory near the Loop  in Chicago. “They’ll say, ‘That table looks just like one I grew up with.’ It subconsciously releases the mind.”

 

Why Wikis Rock

If you have been confused about the exact utility and function of wikis, take a look at this very fun and accessible video clip by CommonCraft.

I have be a what you might call a "power-user" of the project management sofeware Basecamp for several years now. And, of Blogger. Oh, and TypePad (which powers this site).

Plus I've sunk oodles of time and ca$h into designing the Web2.0 app for graphic facilitators, MissingLink. All of the aforementioned tools are essentially mutant forms of a wiki--as is the ever popular source of all knowledge, Wikipedia. Each one of these browser-based tools allows multiple users (aka. people) to create, edit and participate in on-line communities.