1. The document discusses building visual thinking communities and facilitating events for such communities. 2. It provides tips on goals for visual thinking communities, facilitating events, resources, and finding more information on visual thinking communities. 3. Examples of tips include ensuring speaker sessions are focused and engaging, promoting events on blogs and Twitter, and having a registration mechanism for events.

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

2. Goals

3. Goals

4. VizThink Toronto Ideas on Community Facilitating Events Resources Topics

5. Ryan Coleman Me

6. Sadly it has nothing to do with Visual Thinking entrepreneur

7. Review Translation Complete File First Reject? Approve? Fix or Mediate Fix or Mediate Fix Translation Approve Reject Enter Reason Return for Review Yes No Fix Enter Response Tier 1 Mediator Review Resolve or Escalate ? Affect Resolution Notify LSP Tier 2 Mediator Review Suggest Resolution Mediate Notify User Accept? Accept? Tier 3 Mediator Review (Offline) Resolve Close Issue (if user accepted) Affect Resolution Enter Reason Enter Reason Enter Response visual thinker

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10. so… … how did I end up here at ?

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

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

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

14. 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

15. 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

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

17. Anatomy of a Community Drivers Drifters Passionate Participants

18. Community Conscious Community Building

19. 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

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

21. You Transparency is Key

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

23. Facilitating Facilitating is… Fun. Easy. Rewarding.

24. Facilitating Speaker Venue People Supplies

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

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

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

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

29. Facilitating Venue Consider limiting capacity at first Speaker People Supplies

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

31. Resources Promotion

32. Resources Promotion

33. Facilitating People Blog It. Twitter It. Speaker Venue Supplies

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

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

36. Facilitating People Have a Registration Mechanism. Speaker Venue Supplies

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

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

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

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

41. Facilitating Supplies Speaker Venue People

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

43. Facilitating Speaker Venue People Supplies

44. Facilitating Drink! Be Social.

45. 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

46. 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

47. 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