Something I hold dear.
This is what I believe in.
My ‘why‘…
To create an intellectual and emotional response in people.
Making folks think and / or smile.
Sometimes I fail.
Sometimes I achieve.
What do you believe in?
Category: smile
Creativity Is Not A Talent | Cultivating Innovation
Habitat cultivates habit (UPDATE: video now blocked due to copyright infringement. Other versions are here)
The above video is a feast for the brain / heart and introduces the conditions for creativity:
- Space—obviously, both the physical and psychological
- Time—half of creating the oasis
- Time—to play with the problem and solving it with something original
- Confidence—to get things wrong
- Humour—getting us from the closed to the open mode/mindset in the quickest way possible
For me the most compelling idea in the whole presentation is that creativity is not an in-built-DNA-traceable-disposition.
It’s something which can be learned.
Cultivated.
Encouraged.
So, do the organisations / companies we create / work for foster the above conditions so creativity / innovation can blossom?
How To Write A Social Media Strategy | Use Cartoons
Seriously!
The above are the images recently used in the internal social media strategy I wrote for the executive team at CORE Education—all courtesy of the fab Hugh Macleod, Gapingvoid.
The focus of the strategy was on:
- inspiring staff—VISION
- offering opportunities to develop their social media education and sustainable pathways for future use—TRAINING
- create success points and reflective opportunities—MEASURE
The vision provides an horizon line. A goal. An outcome focussed narrative.
The training, which all staff will take (managers first of course), attempts to bring everyone up to the same educational mark of social media and digital literacies (even if it’s not what they do).
These two things I’ve been doing for the past six years.
The last point is where the fun and new stuff is. Utilising gamification we’re going to develop in in-house system for tracking and rewarding social (media) participation. We (meaning others with bigger brains than I) might even write a paper on it all.
How do you do yours?
Yoga | Bendable Steel
Via I Am Dave Mack
Otautahi Youth Council (OYC) | Social Media Training
The next generation of story-makers / tellers / influencers.
Honoured to have delivered some training for Otautahi Youth Council (OYC) (who are supported by the fab Christchurch based White Elephant Trust).
“DK’s training not only opened up a new world of social media to us but motivated and empowered the young people participating to take action in their community with their new found tools.”
Netta Egoz, Project Coordinator—Otautahi Youth Council/ WE Care White Elephant Trust
The focus of the day was on several social media platforms as well as the strategic side of implementing their use. The following were the fundamentals (Golden Rule, Storytell, Digital Takeaways, Process):
If you’ve ever had the privilege of working with young people you will know of their quick adoption of these online platforms—the button theory in action—was a fun day.
Pay me to do something similar.
Designing Processes / Experience / Brand | Closer To Launch
Shaping the online offering (above is the wireframe of the site design)
Getting the product right is half the story, the overall brand experience and even the process of checking out needs due care and consideration.
Taking notes and learning from inspiring folks such as generalassemb.ly and:
“If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.”
Jeff Bezos
Related to The Best Damn Public Speaking Course On The Internet (Even The Planet) and Why Develop An Online Speaker Training Programme | The Purpose, The Why, The What
The Most Astounding Fact About The Universe
A fan made video with words from Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson—remixed from this interview.
It’s Just A Ride
Fear / love: which are you going to choose…
Stone Beauty
“Even in stone there is beauty waiting to be realised and released”
Quote by me.
Lion of Lucerne (plus image credit)
The Illiteracy Of Play | Pecha Kucha Night Christchurch
Another 20 slides x 20 seconds per slide.
Here’s my PechaKucha Night Christchurch presentation on the illiteracy of play—how we as adults have forgotten to cultivate and use the best learning instrument on the planet…
It draws on experiences from my youth work days right through to developing and delivering social media training for folks like BBC, UNICEF and The Gates Foundation.
Exploring ideas and case studies of how playing is the root of all education and also innovation.
This was a remix of my never-delivered TEDxOverlake talk.
Big thanks to the exact and fabulous PechaKucha Night Christchurch organisers for the opportunity to participate, the other fab speakers and the Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna O Waiwhetu for hosting/sponsoring (plus camerapeeps Tim and Elaena).
So do you think adults have lost the ability to play? Become illiterate to it’s power in our own learning and day-to-day work?
Let loose in the comments… you’re not that reserved on Twitter!