Sending out a little bit of enjoyment as I take time off to celebrate the US Thanksgiving Holiday. My thanks to all of you who are my known and unknown colleagues, friends and network connections. (I’m a Muppets fan, so this is apt – and going around the net these days!)
Category: Monday videos
Video: Shelly on Leveraging Community/Free Frayed Wire Ticket
I know, it is not Monday. I had scheduled this post for next Monday, but realized I wanted to give away my Frayed Wire ticket and that is THIS SATURDAY. So here we go.
Via Ignite Seattle comes a great 5 minute rap by Shelly Farnham on Community Genius: Leveraging Community to Increase your Creative Powers. Shelly is not talking about online community specifically, but community generally. And bounded community where people know each other, not this pseudo community label co opted by marketers. (Sorry, harsh but that’s reality!) My favorite part is her love analogies. Take a peek – I don’t want to steal her thunder!
This brings to mind the free ticket thing because Shelly is one of the organizers of Frayed Wire on July 11th – I’ll be on the road. I have a paid ticket if someone in Seattle would like to use it! First person to eave a comment ASAP get’s it. I’ll need your name and email (which is part of the comment form) and I’ll transfer my ticket to you!
Monday Video: The Seed and Online Ecosystems
Via GOOD comes today’s Monday Video called “Seed.” I picked this one for two reasons. First, it is a great visual explanation with creative use of stop animation and 3D paper-animation. Visual thinking in action.
Second, it is a reminder of a principle of online interaction: reciprocity. Our success with each other online depends not only upon our individual choices, but other bits and pieces, the “soil, rain, birds, humans, etc” that help the seed along might be the willingness of others to amplify (i.e. retweet) what we do or say, to connect us with others, the ability of software to facilitate the transactions. Each act influences another – but we have a lot of choice about how we reciprocate. While the passing of a seed through a human gut may not have a lot of intent, our willingness to share information, for example, does.
In other words, our online interactions are by necessity part of an ecosystem. While the individual may appear to have supremacy, this is a process that requires many players. How we choose to play is up to us. And that matters.
Take a look
Monday Video – DEADLINE and Sticky Notes
Via Dvice comes today’s Monday video – YouTube – DEADLINE post-it stop motion
Talk about visual thinking – take a look at what Savannah College of Art and Design student Bang-yao Liu created. For a how to video, check here.
Seriously, as a facilitator, sticky notes are my FRIEND. Instant social network mapping tools, ways to augment any large visual or flip chart, and of course, the place to write that number or address to stick on a monitor, phone or steering wheel.
What tools unleash your visual thinking?
Monday Video: FireKites “Autumn Story”
Thanks to a link from my friends at Common Craft comes this creative, beautiful and haunting musical video, Firekites – AUTUMN STORY – chalk animation from Lucinda Schreiber.
Firekites – AUTUMN STORY – chalk animation from Lucinda Schreiber on Vimeo.
There are so many things that this video evoked for me. The traces of chalk brought to mind the traces that communities leave behind them and reification. It reminded me of conversations about digital identity – both its permenance and empheral nature. And of course, about the power of images. WOW!
P.S. Congrats to Lee and Sachi at Commoncraft for their story in Seattle Magazine.