Open Visual Thinkery
For the last few months, our co-operative We Are Open has been helping a number of organisations with digital transformation in a time of crisis.
You can read more about the work we’ve done with Action West London as they respond to their charity’s new circumstances.
I know, I know – a million Zoom meetings draining the marrow out of life, right?
Anyway, here’s a free & open email course crafted by the We Are Open Co-op to teach you things you already know (or do you?) about successful online video meetings:
7 Habits of Highly Successful Virtual Meetings
It is quite possible that the next ten illustrations posted on this visual blog could hold the title the new normal. Yet not even I (!) can tell you what the new normal looks like. Video meeting participants talking enthusiastically whilst on mute is definitely nothing new, there’s just a whole bunch more people at it.
So if you find yourself in a pointless meeting this week, I fully encourage you to put yourself on mute, and then talk in an animated fashion for as long as you possibly can. Then when finally you’re forced by others to unmute, simply say – “Oh – I was just saying that I agree…”
Created for issue #2 of The Visual Thinker.
I’ve had a few low-energy days over the last few weeks, that’s for sure. It feels like I’m making progress though, and actually finding bread flour for sale in a shop will absolutely make everything ok again, won’t it?
<denial>
Nothing has changed, yet everything has changed.
Work is quiet. I’m spending time with my family. We had a BBQ last night. I have a list of things to do. Some of them are even getting done.
Nothing has changed, yet everything has changed.
( * ) Coronavirus that is…
I don’t know about you, but I’m in the middle of my most productive unproductive spells ever. Whilst my Visual Thinkery work has all but dried up as the world tries to get back on an even keel, I’m knee-deep in the list of those other things I’ve put off for years, due to the freelancer’s motto: paid work comes first. If you find yourself in the same boat (and I get the feeling it is a VERY BIG boat) then let’s sail together ‘cross the sea of uncertainty knowing that at least we are not alone…
When I’m watchin’ my TV
And a man comes on to tell me
How clean my hands could be…
Hey, hey hey…
…because it’s pretty hard to retrospectively change who you came into contact with five days ago.
So let’s look out for each other.