Building Visual Thinking Communities Ryan Coleman VizThink Conference January 2008 *Modified for Online Distribution

Goals

Goals

VizThink Toronto Ideas on Community Facilitating Events Resources Topics

VizThink Toronto

Ideas on Community

Facilitating Events

Resources

Ryan Coleman Me

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BarCampEarth (Toronto) EnterpriseCamp BarCamp TTW AmazonCamp VT1: Intro to Visual Thinking VT2: Mind Mapping VT3: Dave Gray VT4: Concept Mapping VT5: Vizionary!

VizThink Toronto The Goal Create an environment to help extend a communities’ capability to think and expressing themselves creatively…

VizThink Toronto So Far… 5 Events in 2007 20-45 people/event Variety of Topics

Pair Up “ Interview” the other Where are they From? Family? Work? Hobbies? How they use Visual Thinking Make a “mind map” of your partner as you go Exercise 1 10

Pair Up

“ Interview” the other

Where are they From?

Family?

Work?

Hobbies?

How they use Visual Thinking

Make a “mind map” of your partner as you go

Pair Up “ Interview” the other Where are they From? Family? Work? Hobbies? How they use Visual Thinking Make a “mind map” of your partner as you go Exercise 1 10

Pair Up

“ Interview” the other

Where are they From?

Family?

Work?

Hobbies?

How they use Visual Thinking

Make a “mind map” of your partner as you go

Community A social group of organisms sharing an environment , with shared interests . Source: Wikipedia.org

Anatomy of a Community Drivers Drifters Passionate Participants

Community Conscious Community Building

Community “ a process of building a shared story, and consensual decision making, built upon respect for all individuals and inclusivity of difference.” Source: Wikipedia.org

Community See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community for more info 1 Psuedo-Community 2 Chaos 3 Emptiness 4 True Community

You Transparency is Key

Using your concept map, Introduce your Partner to the group Exercise 2 2

Using your concept map, Introduce your Partner to the group

Facilitating Facilitating is… Fun. Easy. Rewarding.

Facilitating Speaker Venue People Supplies

Facilitating Speaker Ensure sessions are … … focused … engaging … interactive Venue People Supplies

Facilitating Speaker Speak at your first event! Speaker Venue People Supplies Venue People Supplies

Facilitating Venue Tables and/or chairs? Whiteboards? Wallspace? Capacity? Speaker People Supplies

Facilitating Venue How accessible is it? Internet/Wi-fi? Other facilities? Speaker People Supplies

Facilitating Venue Consider limiting capacity at first Speaker People Supplies

Facilitating People “ Field of Dreams” was a MOVIE. (Just building it isn’t good enough…) Speaker Venue Supplies

Resources Promotion

Resources Promotion

Facilitating People Blog It. Twitter It. Speaker Venue Supplies

Facilitating People Let Me Know. Let VizThink know. Speaker Venue Supplies

Facilitating People Look to parallel communities in your area. Speaker Venue Supplies

Facilitating People Have a Registration Mechanism. Speaker Venue Supplies

Facilitating Supplies Requirements will vary by speaker/topic… Speaker Venue People

Facilitating Supplies $20-30 will outfit your community nicely. Speaker Venue People

Facilitating Supplies Sharpies, Pens, Post-its & Index Cards Speaker Venue People

Facilitating Supplies Encourage Attendees to bring their own. Speaker Venue People

Facilitating Supplies Speaker Venue People

Facilitating People Resources Venue # of People Location(s) Ability to Travel Time Supplies Equipment Budget Time Size Location Equipment Cost Time

Facilitating Speaker Venue People Supplies

Facilitating Drink! Be Social.

Using an Index Card: Name City/Country What skill could you teach as a VizThink session? 10 Min to think – then we’ll share… Exercise 3 10

Using an Index Card:

Name

City/Country

What skill could you teach as a VizThink session?

10 Min to think – then we’ll share…

Find VizThink Events: Toronto St. Louis (XPLANE) Portland, OR (XPLANE) Madrid, Spain (XPLANE) VizThink Conferences Expressed Interest: Atlanta Some Europe interest Online: Facebook: Search “VizThink” Google Groups: Search “visualthinkingschool” FLICKR: Search “VizThink” & “VTS” Events: http://barcamp.org/VizThink Twitter: http://twitter.com/VizThink

Events:

Toronto

St. Louis (XPLANE)

Portland, OR (XPLANE)

Madrid, Spain (XPLANE)

VizThink Conferences

Expressed Interest:

Atlanta

Some Europe interest

Online:

Facebook:

Search “VizThink”

Google Groups:

Search “visualthinkingschool”

FLICKR:

Search “VizThink” & “VTS”

Events:

http://barcamp.org/VizThink

Twitter:

http://twitter.com/VizThink

Find Me Where to find me: [email_address] Blogs: http://blog.ryancoleman.ca http://photography.ryancoleman.ca http://visualthinkingschool.blogspot.com Social Networks: LinkedIn, Facebook, Plaxo, My BlogLog Twitter: http://twitter.com/ryancoleman

Where to find me:

[email_address]

Blogs:

http://blog.ryancoleman.ca

http://photography.ryancoleman.ca

http://visualthinkingschool.blogspot.com

Social Networks:

LinkedIn, Facebook, Plaxo, My BlogLog

Twitter: http://twitter.com/ryancoleman