Inside smartMeme's strategy model - presentation by Patrick Reinsborough & Doyle Canning of smartMeme - given at the national gathering of the Progressive Communicators Network - May 30th 2009 in Chicago, IL -- download RE:Imagining Change strategy manual at http://www.smartmeme.org/change
A power point that accompanies SmartMeme's presentation of the new Re:Imagining Change story-based strategy manual. Presentation for the Business Ethics Network January 2009
MVPOC - Minimum Viable Proof of ConceptRay DeLaPena
How can we introduce lean, iterative, customer-centric design methodologies (also known simply as "good design") at large established organizations? One method that has proven effective and low-risk is to focus on the Proof of Concept stage. This talk outlines the methodology we've used to create proofs of concept that will give products the best chance of success when they're introduced to customers.
This real customer case POC demonstrate how Exadata X5-2 with OVM can be the best consolidation solution and how it can replace existing AIX P7 infrastructure.
A power point that accompanies SmartMeme's presentation of the new Re:Imagining Change story-based strategy manual. Presentation for the Business Ethics Network January 2009
MVPOC - Minimum Viable Proof of ConceptRay DeLaPena
How can we introduce lean, iterative, customer-centric design methodologies (also known simply as "good design") at large established organizations? One method that has proven effective and low-risk is to focus on the Proof of Concept stage. This talk outlines the methodology we've used to create proofs of concept that will give products the best chance of success when they're introduced to customers.
This real customer case POC demonstrate how Exadata X5-2 with OVM can be the best consolidation solution and how it can replace existing AIX P7 infrastructure.
Twiliocon Europe 2013: From PoC to Production, Lessons Learnt, by Erol Ziya &...eazynow
Here are the slides for the talk that myself (Erol Ziya - @eazynow) and Rob Baines (@telecoda) gave at the first Twiliocon Europe, providing tips for when moving from PoC to production based on our experiences in hibu labs. #twiliocon
PoC: Using a Group Communication System to improve MySQL Replication HAUlf Wendel
High Availability solutions for MySQL Replication are either simple to use but introduce a single point of failure or free of pitfalls but complex and hard to use. The Proof-of-Concept sketches a way in the middle. For monitoring a group communication system is embedded into MySQL usng a MySQL plugin which eliminates the monitoring SPOF and is easy to use. Much emphasis is put of the often neglected client side. The PoC shows an architecture in which clients reconfigure themselves dynamically. No client deployment is required.
This presentation was given during the Ham Radio Convention 2011 in Friedrichshafen. PowerSDR-UI is a fork of FlexRadios PowerSDR, enhanced with an interface, bringing knobs and buttons to the users. It's using a low cost, commercially available DJ Console where all functions of PowerSDR can be mapped onto.
Twiliocon Europe 2013: From PoC to Production, Lessons Learnt, by Erol Ziya &...eazynow
Here are the slides for the talk that myself (Erol Ziya - @eazynow) and Rob Baines (@telecoda) gave at the first Twiliocon Europe, providing tips for when moving from PoC to production based on our experiences in hibu labs. #twiliocon
PoC: Using a Group Communication System to improve MySQL Replication HAUlf Wendel
High Availability solutions for MySQL Replication are either simple to use but introduce a single point of failure or free of pitfalls but complex and hard to use. The Proof-of-Concept sketches a way in the middle. For monitoring a group communication system is embedded into MySQL usng a MySQL plugin which eliminates the monitoring SPOF and is easy to use. Much emphasis is put of the often neglected client side. The PoC shows an architecture in which clients reconfigure themselves dynamically. No client deployment is required.
This presentation was given during the Ham Radio Convention 2011 in Friedrichshafen. PowerSDR-UI is a fork of FlexRadios PowerSDR, enhanced with an interface, bringing knobs and buttons to the users. It's using a low cost, commercially available DJ Console where all functions of PowerSDR can be mapped onto.
This paper draws from an ongoing oral history project with Black, Indigenous and Person of Color (BIPOC) entrepreneurs in Metro Detroit navigating the personal and professional traumas of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Pixel Lab 2015 | Designing the new narratives - Adam Sigel power to the pixel
In the rapidly changing landscape between technology, art and entertainment, storytellers must begin to apply new strategies to integrate their narratives across an increasingly complex system. This lecture will better define key areas in narrative design such as story engine, user engagement, socialisation and immersion. It will lay out basic principles and challenges in creating these new narrative experiences.
7 ways storytelling improves communication - slidesharejointeambuilding
Everyone loves a good story. Stories ignite our imagination. Stories or narratives have been shared in every culture as a means of entertainment, education, cultural preservation and instilling moral values. In the same way, in the business world today, storytelling is widely used by managers and leaders to communicate with their audience.
Why Tell a Story? Storytelling is an essential skill for leaders who want to capture the imagination of their employees and spur change. A key element in involving their imagination is by using a story to create mystery and engage their curiosity. Life today is overwhelming. When you offer a story that engages people at an emotional level, entertains them and ignites their passion, they will listen. When they are listening, you have influence. In fact, people will always listen to those who tell the best stories. The best stories are the ones that have the most meaning for the greatest number people. Learn how to ignite action, enable listeners to visualize the transformation needed to instill organizational values and install organizational values. Stories provide you with a venue to be genuine and positive, nurture innovation and establish identity and trust. It is important that you do not tell a single story, rather the characters and themes should be rich and diverse. As a leader you can foster collaboration in which group members develop a shared perspective and create a link between now and a positive result tomorrow. Once people make your story their story, you have tapped into the powerful force of faith. Storytelling creates a natural, collaborative connection between leaders and members of the organization.
Learning Objectives:
1. How can I use the power of story to move my organization/team forward?
2. What and how great leaders tell great stories?
3. What style of story is used and when as a leader?
What is the Role of English Studies in the Information Economy?
Story-based Strategy Model: Grassroots Organizing Meets Narrative Power
1. Presentation of Model:
Story-Based Strategy
Grassroots Organizing Meets Narrative Power
Progressive Communicators Network Gathering
Chicago, IL
May 29, 2009
3. Power Over
EXTERNAL INTERNAL
Physical/Economic Narrative/Ideological
4. Narrative Power Analysis
Changing the Stories: not what people
don’t know, but what they do know =FILTERS
Examining Dominant Stories/Origin Myths in US Culture
Power shapes Point of View of the story
Stories can Normalize Power/Universalize
Experience
5. Meme
“A unit of self replicating cultural information”
Contagious ideas, stories, images, and rituals that spread from
imagination to imagination, generation to generation, shaping and
shifting human cultures…
a capsule for a story to spread…
6.
7.
8. Elements of a Story-Based Strategy
Frame the Conflict
Draws our attention to particular details of the
story and avoids others outside the frame
Amplifies the Voices of Impacted Characters
Stories speak to us through relevant spokespeople
Show Don’t Tell -- Use Images to Engage Values
A good story emphasizes imagery and values over data
Foreshadowing --Shows the Future/Offer Vision
People will only go someplace that they have first
been to in their minds
Targets and shifts underlying assumptions
10. The Points of Intervention
How do we reframe and challenge dominant stories?
11. The Points of Intervention
How do we reframe and challenge dominant stories?
Points of intervention are places in the
system where we can intervene to change
the story. They are “vulnerabilities” or “fissures”
that we can exploit where the dominant stories
are already weak.
12. The Points of Intervention
How do we reframe and challenge dominant stories?
Points of intervention are places in the
system where we can intervene to change
the story. They are “vulnerabilities” or “fissures”
that we can exploit where the dominant stories
are already weak.
Actions at a point of intervention can interrupt
the control narrative of power and change the
story.
31. Action at the Point of Assumption
War
vs.
Occupation
Making the Invisible Visible
32. Story-based Strategy
In order to achieve deep
institutional change, we must shift
meaning in the dominant culture
33. Story-based Strategy
In order to achieve deep
institutional change, we must shift
meaning in the dominant culture
Culture is made of stories & memes
34. Story-based Strategy
In order to achieve deep
institutional change, we must shift
meaning in the dominant culture
Culture is made of stories & memes
Stories are founded on assumptions
35. Story-based Strategy
In order to achieve deep
institutional change, we must shift
meaning in the dominant culture
Culture is made of stories & memes
Stories are founded on assumptions
Intervention in stories can shift
assumptions -- and contest dominant
culture -- to help achieve fundamental
change.
36. A call to innovation…
o Facing the Slow Motion
Apocalypse
o Harnessing psychic breaks
o Post-issue activism
o Towards Ecological Justice…