The Center for Graphic Facilitation

MAFN Facilitation University course in Graphic Facilitation

This Fall 2008 Deidre Crowley will offer two courses in Graphic Facilitation with focuses on using visual language in recording facilitated events.

TED2008 The BigViz Animation

Watch a three-minute movie of the TED2008 BIGVIZ sketches, created by Autodesk animator and compositor Keith Chamberlain, with music scored by TEDster Michael Montes.

The images created by Kevin Richards and David Sibbet during the TED2008 are set to music and animated using gorgeous complexity modeling. The hundreds of individual sketches are transformed into rivers of data, DNA strands, and galaxies of ideas.

Watch a behind-the-scenes view with Sibbet that illuminates the integration of hand-rendered art, Wacom tablets, and the multi-touch wall. Unbelievable, really.

You can download the TED2008-BigViz Book and see more here.

Comics + Google = Chrome

What?! A technology company that hires thousands of engineers used a comic book to explain their new web browser? (No one told me that software engineers liked comic books!) Google Chrome is Google's browser project; this comic book by Google, drawn by comic guru Scott McCloud, is scanned here and shown under its Creative Commons license. I have been test-driving Chrome since it's launch and love it--with the exception that all my Firefox plug-ins haven't yet made the leap, but give'em time.

Collaborative Leadership: The All-Terrain Skill

 PHOTO by Matt Andrews

We live in two worlds – the world we have lived in and the emerging world.

Adapting to the differences between these worlds enables us to accommodate to the rapid level of change that is occurring in business. It will also allow us to play an active part in that change. Emerging, is an increasingly interdependent and collaborative world. In fact collaboration plays a central role in the management of change.

Greater levels of collaboration require Collaborative Leadership.

The alternative is not pretty – we are dinosaurs waiting for the meteor. Collaborative leadership is the application of a few basic principles. By embracing these principles we can harness the energy and attention of the people around us.

The core principles of Collaborative Leadership are: Presence, Purpose and Path.