OD Network Notes, Taken on an iPad

Oct 21, 2010

OD Network Notes, Taken on an iPad

Oct 21, 2010h in Graphic Facilitation, Organization Development by David Sibbet 7 Comments

2010-10-19 14_41_07 -0500 - OD Network Notes, Taken on an iPad I went to the Organizational Development Network annual conference in New Orleans this week and overlooked the fact I was on the very last page of my journal, a constant companion. This forced me onto the iPad for notetaking and I really had FUN!

I used Sketchbook Pro app for the iPad, saving them to iTunes and then to a folder I could upload here. If you are interested in either OD or iPad noteaking you might check these out. You can click on the images and they will pop up large scale on your screen.

This one is choreographer Garth Fagan’s keynote. Since I experience facilitation as a dance, it was one of my favorite.

The rest of these are posted below, column-width.

Oct 18, 2010

Future Talk TV Show Features David Sibbet & Mei Lin Fung Talking about Visual Facilitation Applied to Complex Social Problems

Oct 18, 2010h in Collaboration Strategies, Innovation, Sustainability, Systems Theory by David Sibbet 0 Comments

FutureTalkGraphics Recently I met Mei Lin Fung, producer of Future Talk, a monthly TV show produced in Silicon Valley. She works visually herself and when she heard about Visual Meetings she invited me to be on her show.

We produced a half-hour session on visual facilitation and its application to complex problems in government. This was a three-camera, eight-person, all-volunteer crew, producing live and unedited from Palo Alto’s Community Media center. I talked about my work with visual meetings, showing some examples; then I demonstrated by taking notes on my IBM Thinkpad tablet when Mei Lin was talking.

Watch here – enjoy!

Aug 04, 2010

Visual Meetings Arrives at The Grove

Aug 04, 2010h in Collaboration Strategies, Graphic Facilitation, Organization Development, Visual Leadership books, Visualizing by David Sibbet 10 Comments

Imagine holding the book you see here in your hands, and knowing that you wrote, illustrated and designed all 262 pages! I got that chance last Friday when Visual Meetings arrived from Wiley & Sons. The process began in December of last year when VisualMeetingsBookImageS - Visual Meetings Arrives at The Grove Richard Narramore called and wondered if I would like to write a book about visualization for groups, following the success of Dan Roam’s book Back of the Napkin. Little did I realize then how fun it would be to deliver this sweeping review of 35 years of leading visual meetings all over the world.

I’m writing here to share some of the process I went through for those who might be interested in how books like this come to be. If you want to skip this post and go right to getting the book, then click on this link to a special page on The Grove’s website. If you want to hear my personal story of this journey, read on.

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Jul 23, 2010

French Company’s Virtual Victory—Six Cities Without a Hitch!

Jul 23, 2010h in Collaboration Strategies, Graphic Facilitation, Online Tools, Organization Development, Visualizing by David Sibbet 2 Comments

Imagine a three channel, six city, tele-computer-graphics meeting with over 40 people involved and lasting four hours. I can and actually helped facilitate one recently when a consumer goods company from France decided to review its plans for talent management in Asia with its teams in Tokyo, Shanghai, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Singapore and San Francisco in a virtual rather than face to face setting. Here’s a picture of our video link (I was represented only by my graphics).

French Company's Virtual Victory—Six Cities Without a Hitch!