Mapping Movement!

Here's a new game: it's called 'Find the Mapper!" It's kind of like 'Where's Waldo' but instead of looking for cartoon guy with a striped shirt, you're looking for someone mapping.

Here's a clue:

"That was kind of fun" you might say but then ask, "But, why were you mapping while a room of people stretched?" Excellent question!

Besides proving the point that you can take mapping ANYWHERE, I was mapping a class called, "The Joy and Flow of Kicking Ass" taught by Alex Iglecia in order to help participants remember what they learned and share their new practices with others. Alex guided a packed house through a mix of yoga, Uzuazu, and other techniques for taking exercise to the level of self-empowerment. Once everyone saw my mapping techniques, they were blown away and looked like this:

Here's one of the maps I created during the class:

The Strongheart Fellowship Program and Grace's story

This map was created after I heard a beautiful and compelling talk given by Grace, a Strongheart Fellow and the founder of Strongheart, Zoe Adams. Grace shared her amazing life story with a group of leaders, focusing on how we all have to develop courage and wisdom to attain our goals. Zoe explained the mission of Strongheart and how their work with young people is changing the world. Please visit the Strongheart site here.

Live mapping: A leadership journey

This map was created while a small leadership team responded to the question, "What if the last three days could unleash the potential of 50,000 people and their families?".  Each executive in the room responded to the question while I captured their words and added related images. The acorn in the center of the map was a metaphor used through out the three days to help participants imagine what their work could become in the future.

Samuel Merritt University: World Cafe mapping

These maps were created during a World Cafe dialog among staff and faculty members of Samuel Merritt University. I helped to develop the questions used in the Cafe, and was happy to listen to the lively discussions and capture the output from the three rounds of conversation. Click on the image to see a larger version.

Driving Towards Solutions: Louisiana Department of Education

Here's a map I created in partnership with the Louisiana Department of Education and their Non-Tested Grades and Subjects (NTGS) group. The image portrays the NTGS journey towards developing ways to track student and teacher success in subjects that don't use traditional metrics such as Career and Technical Education. Members of the various NTGS Workgroups signed the road map to show their support of this vision of student achievement.

SINGLE CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO SEE A LARGER VIEW.

Style Testing

One part of the process of creating a whiteboard animation is called style testing. The artist shares initial sketches based on the content of the animation as a way to explore how the client envisions the work they'll create together. This process can take place even before a script is written; you already have a concept of what you want to explore or explain through animation - in other words, you have WORDS and ideas.

The next step is to bring in PICTURES.

With style testing you find out if the way I visualize hunger is similar to how you 'see' hunger. We'll learn pretty quickly if we're on the same page...or not! Bottom line is, style testing helps us co-create a look for the animation long before we get in the studio to shoot the video - and that saves time, money and a lot of creative energy!

Here's a sample of my style testing images for an upcoming whiteboard animation. Thanks to Mitch Butler who is a teacher and collaborator on this project.

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Sustainably Harvesting Questions

Here's a way to visually record the questions that emerge after a World Cafe dialog.

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Hartnell College Advanced Technology Center

Check out this Whiteboard Animation I co-created for The Advanced Technology Center at Harntell College.

Episode 1: How to Build a Business Case for Social Customer Service

I'm very proud to share this series of videos I co-created with Salesforce.com!These three videos are aimed at helping businesses and organizations utilize Social Media as a tool for their Customer Service departments; customers are communicating using Social Media everyday - so companies need to be using those tools as well!

After a series of meetings, I created small storyboard images based on each script. Then we shot for two full days at Pixel Corp studios in San Francisco; I created 55 large scale drawings on camera...all in ink...no pencil outlines for me! Once we shot the videos, the amazing Jennifer Stern took over and worked on editing.

I hear from a little Twitter bird that the videos are getting a good reception; I hope they will serve to help people communicate more effectively.

Episode 2: How to Calculate the ROI of Social Customer Service