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Story Telling, Dance and Product Development (3M-DS106 Repost)

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3MCenter_2Originally posted 9/30/13 on an internal 3M blog by “HC” a 3M-DS106 Salon member

Sorry that I haven’t taken the time to write a blog post recently, it isn’t from the lack of interest but the lack of time due to various project related pressures all coming together at the same time.

As we have given away our TV about 6 months ago (we gave it away because we noticed we haven’t plugged our TV into the power socket for over a year), we haven’t been following what is the latest in TV apart from what one might read on blogs, newspaper articles or hearing this or that.  Manly what has gone viral (or back in my day, ‘hot’).

Talent shows usually get a lot of press and in themselves, there are stories about their background.  This time I am looking further than that in the case of Kenichi Ebina, the winner of 2013 America’s Got Talent (AGT).  Having found out that he won, I went back through his previous performances and agree that they are all amazing.  Unfortunately my curiosity told me to look into his back catalogue of performances online, all the way back to 2001 when he won with the group “BiTriP”, including a presentation at TED in 2007.

Back then, he was a good dancer but compared to what he can do now, he would be considered moderately good.  What captured my attention is his toolbox of ‘tricks’.  He has been building his toolbox since the beginning and not only replacing tools that doesn’t fit in the set but polishing those he use so it is shiny and fancy when it is pulled out.  The moving light tricks as well as the pulling of the clothing forwards/backwards was shown in the TED presentation, the sliding head and interacting with people behind each other was seen in 2001 with BiTriP just to name a few.  The use of video in the background is new in 2013 and that fits in quite well with the DS106 course.

One of his ‘wow’ performance in AGT was his ‘flying’ during his performance, using a strobe light to assist in the viewer’s experience.  There was a lot of gasps and clapping when he executed this move:

KE_FlyingIntoHeaven

In 2011 at a break dancing convention in London, Kenichi was in this performance and the finale was the strobe effect of this Ninja being ‘born’ and in action.  The segment was longer than I am showing but this literally is the last thing the audience sees (he starts to fly around in a circle before this final leap and then all goes dark for the end).

KE_FlyingNinja

The audience (different ones) also gave the same gasps and clapping from amazement.

So what does all of this have to do with product development?  I personally think this is what some good product developers probably have been doing and they may or may not know it:

  • 1) Build your toolkit (e.g. dance moves).  In 3M, the technical employees have access huge toolkit to work with (our Technology Platforms – Click on the technologies menu title to view.) as well as ones being developed at the bench.
  • 2) Test out the technologies in prototypes (e.g. various performances).  Take them out for a spin to see and understand how it works and is it something you can easily work with.  Polish it as you work on it.
  • 3) Build a story on how your product will work for the end-use, using the technologies you incorporate into it (e.g. choreography to tell a story).

I remember my mentor (now retired Carlton winner and Corporate Scientist, Wayne Dunshee) telling me once that I should be building and working with different technologies as well as understand how they can interact with each other then put it on the shelf.  Wait until there is a need for it and you can go back to your shelf, polish it up and there is your product.  Of course there are other steps involved to bring it through commercialisation.

Any product developers (seasoned and new) out there like to comment on these thoughts?  I am still a ‘fresh’ product developer in the 3M community so any comments are welcome.

For those interested, here is the background notes on how I made the two animations without the annoying “flashes” (the flashes is actually what you want).

1) I went to youtube.com and downloaded the mp4 videos containing the clips I am interested in.  There is probably a better way to do it without getting the whole video (which themselves are large in size) but I don’t know yet.

2) Using Windows Movie Maker, I opened up the large files, clipped out the few seconds of interest and saved those clips.

3) Found this program called Super (C).  It supposed to be able to do multiple video format conversions but be very very careful in how you install the program.  The program itself is free, but they have this installer that asks lots of questions if you want to install stuff – but it isn’t for the actual program itself!  I kept saying no (or having to find out how to say now) before it ran out of junk software to install, then the installer disappears and then the proper installer for Super (C) opens up and installed quickly without issues.

4) Ran Super (C), dragged-dropped the .wmv  (saved when I used Movie Maker) clips and selected the output as gif and let it do what it advertised it can do – and it does.

5) Opened GIMP and loaded the animated GIF file and then scrolled through to copy the frames where Kenichi is lit instead of the black background.  I pasted those frames into a new GIF file with a black background.  Set the frame rate appropriately and then saved the animation.  Feel free to download these files and rip them open in GIMP to see the individual frames I took.

Communicating With My Abstract Brain (3M-DS106 Repost)

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Five Card Story: Communicating with My Scattered Abstract Brain

This is a repost from “MA” an internal 3M-DS106 Salon member 

a Five Card Flickr story created by MA

Not too long ago, I learned about Insights communication color energies:

– cool BLUE: energy for observing & thinking,

– fiery RED: for taking action & directing,

– sunshine YELLOW: for motivating & inspiring, 

– earth GREEN: for helping & sharing.

I wanted to interpret the concept of communication and these color energies in this Five Card Story challenge. 

sunshine YELLOW


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earth GREEN


flickr photo by Danny Nicholson

fiery RED


flickr photo by Serenae

cool BLUE


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COMMUNICATION


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Storytelling is Remembering, Or is it? (3M-DS106 Repost)

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What comes to mind when I think of storytelling?

Originally posted 9/10/13 on an internal 3M blog by “AH” a 3M-DS106 Salon member

Over the past year, I’ve reinvented virtually every aspect of my life. It has been incredibly rewarding and invigorating. Storytelling has been a feature of virtually all of the changes. This post seems like a good starting point for future blog entries. I’ll capture the essence of the ideas now, and with the hope expanding on them using the tools I learn in future weeks.

Transformation

Personal change – My biggest personal change has been difficult for family, friends, and colleagues to come to terms with. How I tell my story to each person has been important – consider the audience. Equally important has been listening to the stories of others. When you share the deepest parts of yourself, many people then trust you with their deeply personal stories.

New friends and acquaintances – My “friendscape” and my circle of 3M colleagues looks entirely different than it did a year ago. First meetings and new friendships are all about stories.

Career change – I’m actively seeking a fresh challenge within 3M. I’ve been revising my resumé and mock interviewing. This is the work of defining myself for prospective employers through careful storytelling.

Storytelling is remembering, or is it?

One additional thought I’d like to explore in the future is remembering through storytelling.  I recently listened to this show on public radio: TED Radio Hour – Memory Games

I’ve heard the assertion that we don’t remember actual events, we remember the last time we told the story. Over time, the stories we tell change as we make sense of them and fit them into our lives as they exist now. As more of our stories are recorded in “permanent” and non-changable digital form, what will this do to the shifting of our stories? Also, how permanent will our digitial stories actually be? Will we really be able to access them? What if we do and they conflict with the stories we tell from our human memories?

Look for expanded thoughts on these themes in the coming weeks. Feel free to share your experiences as well!

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COMMENTS:

“AH”: How can I enhance my storytelling about each of these changes using digital tools?

“HC”: Now that you reinvented the various aspect of your life, you can project yourself the way you want to be with your online presence. There is not a single tool that will do everything you need, so you have to know what is it about the story you are telling and then use the appropriate tool to highlight it.

I could give a suggestion about using digital tools for your career progression (career change is too negative) – although I don’t know how well it would work. Tell the stories about what your interests are and tell the stories about what your skills are. Create a graphical CV? I don’t know how hiring managers or talent management would see a reference to your blog where they can see who you are and then have a deeper understanding than just a few pages in your CV/resume.

Me In Week 3 – Telling Stories

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Weekly Summary Checklist

Here’s a run-down of what I accomplished in DS106 Headless 13 Week 3 – Digital Storytelling.

First Things First:

Rockylou_HeadlessWhat is a story? What is storytelling? What is digital storytelling? Wanting to understand and become a better digital storyteller is what attracted me to DS106 in the first place, so I’ve been doing some serious pondering all week.

In my professional life as a strategic business/technology analyst at 3M I am often presented with a great deal of data and information that needs to be communicated to a variety of audiences with different levels of interest and familiarity with the subject matter.  Sharing the raw data, as it were, would almost certainly be a waste of time for everyone.  It’s my job to “COMMUNICATE” that information, not just gather it and spit it back out again.

I am paid to be a curator of information AND a storyteller. It is the story I create and tell that is based upon that data and information that is the key. Even the media I use to tell the story has an impact on the effectiveness of communicating the information. With a global asynchronous audience I can’t rely on personally sharing the story in real-time with a live person in attendance who is engaged in the moment, that can ask questions, get clarification, etc. Mastering the art of DIGITAL storytelling is a must for me. Read my complete blog entry Whatsa’ Story! for more. And here’s a cute tappable digital story from Nathalie using the Tapestry app I learned about in our DS106 Google+ Community. (If you see a great big blank space below, refresh your screen and try again. Embedding the Tapestry stories is buggy.)

And from one of my 3M-DS106 Salon Members: “Storytelling Used in Poaching Talent (3M-DS106 Repost)” shares how storytelling can be used in a number of ways, from sharing experiences, showing a vision, an escape from the real world or even poach top talent from another company.

Kurt Vonnegut’s Shape of Stories:

StoryShape_WormsCrawlIn_EditI chose a favorite childhood song that my mother taught us to sing as part of her master plan to keep us kids from fighting, “The Worms Crawl In, The Worms Crawl Out”.

“Did you ever think when a hearse went by, that you might be the next to die. They wrap you up in a big white sheet. They bury you down about six feet deep.  The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out. The ants play pinochle on your snout. Your liver turns to a slimy green. And puss comes out like whipping cream. Your eyes pop out your teeth decay. And this is the end of a perfect day.”

 

Vonnegut’s video was entertaining as well as informative, and I could easily understand how to apply his theory of common graph-able shapes to stories. But mine didn’t quite fit until I had looked at the infographic created by Maya Eilam and discovered the “From Bad to Worse” story shape.

Here’s the video I made for a past daily create TDC577 singing through this sorrowful story shape.

Daily Creates:

tdc611 An Interesting high contrast B&W image of an easily overlooked object:

Lamp

tdc613 Photo representing TDC idea of regular exercises of creativity.  The write-up for this photo included a blog post on the The Chemistry of Creativity: Riding The Dopamine Wave

Riding the DS106 Dopamine Wave

tdc614 an Alien Inspirational Greeting Card

Alien Inspirational Greeting Card

I love the surprises and inspirations I find by following other DS106 blogs and accounts. For the alien greeting card daily create, Bill Smith’s image inspired me to rif-a-GIF.

DS106 Hijacking. View Oiginal Image Here

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tdc615 Idea of Clarity

Clarity

As a bonus daily create from week two, tdc607 –  the movie trailer for my website, was finally completed with A Trailer for Two.

Telling a Story in Photos:

Creating my Five Card Flickr Story ,”Five Card Poetry – My Story” wasn’t as easy as I thought it was going to be. I was way too literal at first. I started by reading the directions and figured this was going to be a piece of cake- just pick out 5 photos and tell a story ‘about’ them. (ALERT: “about”) I tried a few hands, picked some images that seemed to follow a theme, but none of them told a story…..

Oh… that was different than what I was thinking. They were continuing to flesh out their stories in a poetic rather than a prose format. The photos were telling the story, not me telling a story ABOUT the photos.  Back to the drawing board. This time I got out of my literal mind and engaged my heart and soul to sense what was here. Then the story revealed itself.

I crave community. Do I need to be flashy and bright to be seen? Do I need my words set in stone to be valid? Is it okay to have fun and learn along the way? With heart, body, and soul my story can be shared.

Participating in DS106- It’s not just ME!

Participating in DS106 continues to be a rich learning experience.  As I am facilitating a concurrent version, the 3M-DS106 Salon at my professional workplace, it permeates all areas of my life.  I have found my direct interactions through blogging, commenting, reading, and sharing with other DS106 participants to be more valuable than the lectures or texts shared with us.  This was unexpected. I had wanted to learn about digital storytelling and thought I just needed to get access to the “professionals” out there who could define it for me.  I was mistaken.  Don’t get me wrong. The videos, graphics, texts, etc are helpful, but I learned the most simply reading other DS106ers explain and illustrate their definitions for what a digital story is. Here’s a list of those I could link back to.

3M-DS106 Salon

And sometimes I am totally surprised and delighted with what I find when I pop in to leave a silly comment like when I witnessed a touching father-son interaction in Bill Smith’s post,  Art Making

Website Always Under Construction

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I’m always working to improve the experience of visiting my blog – for my guests and me personally.  This week I…

 

  • Added the Flag Counter and Revolver Maps widgets after seeing it on Ary Aranguiz’s blog, All The World Is A MOOC.
  • Continue to debug my comments interface.  I’ve really appreciated people letting me know they are having problems when trying to leave a comment.  I need to know about stuff like that so I can fix it.  Thanks!

Storytelling Used in Poaching Talent (3M-DS106 Repost)

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“HC” Headless Self-portraits

This blog post was submitted internally at 3M by “HC”, one of the 3M-DS106 Salon members on 9/10/13. I’ve been given permission to re-post it to my personal blog in order to share it with the outside DS106 community.  Last week “HC” created his headless self-portrait that I riffed into this GIF. [Read about it here.] Now this week he’s created his own GIF to go along with the post below.

STORYTELLING USED IN POACHING TALENT

By “HC” a 3M-DS106 Salon member

Storytelling can be used in a number of ways, from sharing experiences, showing a vision, an escape from the real world or even poach top talent from another company.  When I heard one of my friends from high school left Google (Australia) in November 2012 to join a small start-up (Canva), it raised some eyebrows – was it that Google was treating him poorly (doubtful based on the perks and benefits they get and constantly on the top employers to work for list), or did they offer him more money than what Google was giving him (doubtful based on the fact it is a small start-up that hasn’t raised their first round of capital yet).  So what was it that pushed him to switch?

Recently Business Insider (Australia) published the pitch-deck that was enough to sway Dr. Hearnden over (here is the link to the article).  It was lucky for Canva to have Lars Rasmussen as their advisor because David was in Lars’ team in Google Wave before Lars left to go to Facebook.  Apparently Facebook also did a pitch-deck story for Lars to leave Google and join Facebook – which might have influenced his advice for this approach.

I thought this would be a good opportunity for me to play around with animated GIF and have the pitch-deck in one image.  Interesting enough the pitch-deck itself didn’t have the images of the same size so I had to fill it in as black to block off the image below.  To make it readable, I set the frame speed at 3 seconds, so for 16 frames this means 48 seconds to view their story for Dave.

HC_Canva_PitchDeck

Would a pitch-deck like this sway you from your current position (assuming you are somewhat happy with your job at the moment)?

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Comments:

“HC” this is a great example of the power of digital storytelling and the use of the GIF format in this context is something I haven’t seen yet. BRAVO! Thank you for creating and sharing with the rest of the salon. And speaking of sharing…. do you mind if I share this with the outside DS106? Or even better yet, do you have an outside personal blog where you are creating your own non-proprietary digital presence?

Reply…

Thank you Rochelle, I think it is powerful what they did to Lars and Dave (and creative). It would be cool to see Facebook’s deck to Lars. You are free to share this with the outside DS106 as it is public information – although I did take the photos without asking permission from Canva or the Business Insider but at least attribute it back to them. I have pondered creating my own non-proprietary blog but find it hard to find time to do so. Started to do Twitter so I do have somewhat a small digital presence (in addition to some of my activities on LinkedIn within some groups).

Whatsa’ Story?

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What is a story? What is storytelling? What is digital storytelling? Week 3 of DS106 Headless 13 has us asking these questions and exploring this for ourselves.

What do you associate with the word storytelling? Before you do anything this week, use this as an opportunity to put down in words what your current concept is. There is no right or wrong answer here- this is to set up your current concept of what story means.

Do not go look anything up online — We are looking for your ideas. Just write a blog post to represent a starting point to outline what storytelling means to you.

Wanting to understand and become a better digital storyteller is what attracted me to DS106 in the first place, so I’ve been doing some serious pondering all week.  And being challenged to NOT read anything about it before writing up my reflections has definitely been a challenge. I want to “get it right”, quote my sources, rely on the words and thoughts of others to form “my” thoughts and opinions. It’s hard for me to wing it like this.  But my DS106 participation (now winding its way through my private AND professional lives in a big way) continues to reinforce it is through taking risks and allowing myself to be appropriately vulnerable that I stretch my boundaries thereby allowing real learning to take place. I am not just learning new tools and techniques, but learning who I am and what I’m capable of.

So what is a story? And I’m supposed to do this with words only? But images are integral to a story, right?! Yes, images are integral. But they don’t have to be something seen with the physical eye.  Images formed in your minds eye are just as important if not more so. And visual images themselves won’t necessarily a story make.

In my professional life as a strategic business/technology analyst at 3M I am often presented with a great deal of data and information that needs to be communicated to a variety of audiences with different levels of interest and familiarity with the subject matter. Sharing the raw data, as it were, would almost certainly be a waste of time for everyone. It’s my job to “COMMUNICATE” that information, not just gather it and spit it back out again. I am paid to be a curator of information AND a storyteller. It is the story I create and tell that is based upon that data and information that is the key. Even the media I use to tell the story has an impact on the effectiveness of communicating the information. With a global asynchronous audience I can’t rely on personally sharing the story in real-time with a live person in attendance who is engaged in the moment, that can ask questions, get clarification, etc. Mastering the art of DIGITAL storytelling is a must for me.

Storytelling is usually associated with entertainment.  But you are still communicating. It’s not just a bunch of random words, images, or sounds strung together. They are brought together in a way that creates meaning for the creator and the audience- whether it be to entertain, relay information, or my preference, both.  A good story take us on a journey. We are engaged.  We are impacted by its telling.  A story has meaning to our lives.

What did I do in Week 2?

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FdeTroyLectureMoliere_DS106-3MWhat did I do in DS106 Headless 13 Week 2? Tried to keep up with essentially two courses of ds106 at the same time, and it’s stretching me to the limits.  I’m learning tons setting up the 3M-DS106 Salon’s cyber-infrastructure behind the 3M firewall.  And continuing to experience a lot of frustration as I come up against technical obstacles with the 3M systems that I know I can do here on my WordPress blog, in Twitter, in Tumblr, on Flickr and YouTube.  But the small group of brave souls who are taking this journey with me are jumping in, starting internal blogs, commenting on one another’s posts, sharing their skills and workarounds, creating headless self-portraits, and GIFs –  even had an unexpected GIF riff today with a Koala bear that wanted to blink.  🙂

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The 3M-DS106 Salon going headless.

I just have to share the headless self-portrait created by one of the 3M-DS106 Salon members, HC. He had followed the advice to take two photos- one with him in the picture and one just of the wall.  He hadn’t counted on the lighting casting a shadow against the back wall. With GIMP he created two versions which I’ve ‘riffed into a GIF’ to illustrate the differences. When asked which we preferred I was torn. I’m certainly familiar with the flat no-head-at-all version, but his shadowed headless self invokes in me the realities of the work that goes on behind the scenes in any collaborative effort.  There are always leaders in some shape, way, or form, but they may not be visible.

BLOGGING

“Each blog post must be able to stand on its own as something that makes sense if that is the only thing a visitor reads on your site.”

I’m getting a lot of practice blogging these days, and I found the blogging tips very helpful:

DAILY CREATES

Some of us who have been through a round or two of ds106 know the realities of balancing a full-time job, family, friends, and the addictiveness of being an open-online participant in this digital story telling community.  We were joking about the three R’s could be “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle”.  You can read all about how I’m using these to try and keep my balance and sanity as I manage all of my responsibilities. State of The Daily Create – wk2

“IT’S SHOWTIME” WITH A DIGITAL STORYTELLING GIF

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One of my favorite movies of all time and characters is Michael Keaton as Beetlejuice.  The ghostest with the mostest.  This 1988 comedy horror film directed by Tim Burton is a scream and I’ve always thought quite romantic too.  [Wikipedia Post] There are indeed headless ghosts running around from time to time.  But none of those scenes seemed as appropriate to sum up the movie and capture the essence of a key scene as when Beetlejuice, a self-proclaimed “bio-exorcist”, is being released from his exile in a small model town in the young couples attic. Indeed… It’s Showtime! Including a post on how I made the GIF.

Removing GIFFight for 3M 

Headless Over Heels In Love 

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Picking up the GIFFight challenge this week turned out to be a double edged sword.  I had no problem creating and posting my “Headless Over Heels In Love” GIF. But a serious issue arose when another GIFFighter, not in DS106, posted a GIF that I feared could be labeled as sexual harassment by someone viewing it from 3M. This prompted the e-mail exchange below with one of our ds106 headless mentors.

I’ve been struggling with this decision since the 80’s toys poster GIFs. The drug & sexual references in a couple of the GIFs are not appropriate in the corporate world. The latest naughty GIF could even get me in trouble for sexual harassment. I know the guys are just having fun, but I take my professional responsibilities seriously. I’m going to remove the GIF Fight assignment references from my 3M version of the weekly assignments.
I don’t feel I have any right to ask the GIF Fight guys to not post those kinds of GIFs since this is their game &  I am just a visitor.  These are some of the consequences we run into with the open nature of the course. How have you guys handled stuff like this in past DS106 courses?
Sincerely,
Rochelle
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Rochelle,
Perfectly understandable. First of all, not everything listed in each week’s laundry list is necessary; it is more of a buffet than a required consumption list. GIFFight was an add-on; the real challenge in this week is asking people to figure out how to create an animated GIF w/o us providing explicit directions.
It could be a lot worse. A lot. But this is the flip side of a class on the open internet. We had a case in 2012 where some male students did a radio show played in class that had some offensive content to women. It led to some hard but good discussion on grounds of decency.
But for the most part we have avoided as much of this that could easily happen.

Gardner Campbell Golden Treasures

Brain_AliensFiguring out how I wanted to share my reflections on Campbell’s article and videos took some time.  My first attempt had me making a little GIF from a discussion point about the work of John Medina on the human brain.

After seeing Mariana Funes use the Tapestry app, I wanted to give it a try.  It seemed like an interesting new platform to capture my notes from the Gardner Campbell 2012 discussion with a group of UMW DS106 students. And I tried to incorporate my little alien presenter. It turned out “okay” – nothing to write home about though. Next time I make one, I’d like to add more images to the mix and figure out the best animation speed when adding a GIF.

UPDATE: 9/11/13… Imbedding the tapestry story so that it work across multiple operating systems, browsers, desktops, and mobile devices is proving to be an issue. I’m trying to figure it out and will keep an updated list of ways to help you see the story.

  • You may need to refresh the page to have the story show up.
  • Try a different browser.  I know Goggle Chrome works for me.
  • By refreshing the webpage on a desktop computer you can return to the beginning of the story when finished.
  • Here is a direct link to the story in Tapestry:
  • Link to the story posted in Tumblr:


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3M-DS106 Week 1 In Their Own Words

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FdeTroyLectureMoliere_DS106-3MWhat better way to share an update on Week 1 of the 3M-DS106 Salon than in their own words. This digital story was created simply using verbatim snippets from salon members’ 3M blogs and comments written to one another.

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I am curious. I am cautious. I am anxious. I am getting started with 3M DS-106!

What is DS106???  I’m not sure I have a good answer for that…yet.  My understanding is that we are learning how to leverage the multiple different types of social media at 3M to connect and network with our colleagues.  That rang a bell for me in CRAL, as we work to further collaboration with our international colleagues.

It’s a peer collaborative course on digital storytelling as far as I can tell at this point, and I think it’s going to be great. The group just met (online and over the phone for me) for the first time this week and writing this blog is part of the course exercise to get things started. I am already liking the approach.

Hello! And welcome to my blog – 1st post!

A special welcome to anyone who is participating in the 3M-ds106 Salon. This is part of my Week 1 assignment– creating a blog. For those of you who are not participating, 3M-ds106 is a collection of people who want to learn more about the technology offerings at 3M by working with that technology and applying it to our current jobs. Stay tuned for updates on my progress!

I’ll use this blog to show what I’ve learned, and ask questions for ideas how apply what I’m learning to the greater 3M.  Wish me luck!

Initially people might not care (and they may continue not to care), but if we can start a culture of internal storytelling, we can be better story tellers to the outside world.  The outside world has heard the same stories about 3M ad nauseum so they would be happy to hear new stories.  If we don’t know the stories ourselves, how can we share it?

But then I see that I can’t do it all by myself and need to seek collaboration – not only within my own immediate team but also across different functions or different groups. OK, DUH, again!!! But do we really do it? I think we do, at least to a certain extent. Otherwise, 3M wouldn’t be 3M. At the same time, I know I could do better. I want to do better. Hence this course. Hence this blog.

Thanks for the info, H… I am always going back to re-scan my stuff because inevitably it becomes skewed on the scanner. I didn’t even think to try changing it on the computer because I figured we didn’t have the tools. Already 3M ds106 has been helpful!

I am happy that I was able to manage animated gif addition to my blog, and spice up the name. If you check it out, please give me some feedback. Thanks to the ‘leaderless class’ for encouraging and modeling. I am sure I would not have stuck my neck out this far without such a supportive environment, which did not happen by accident.

It’s going to take me some time at the beginning but I’ll get there. I just read the article by Gardner Campbell posted in the Week 2 blog and have already gotten much inspirations for how I want to apply it.  I am loving this!

DS106 Invitation to 3M

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This invitation was posted on my internal 3M blog inviting my colleagues to join a DS106 experiment I wanted to run from behind the firewall of a corporation. 

Your Invitation

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Coming soon! DS106@3M

Want to have some fun improving your 3M digital communication & collaboration skills? This is your invitation to join me in creating our first 3M DS106 Salon*. Where we’ll develop our digital presence and learn the power and responsibilities that come with good digital citizenship – more important than ever as our digital lives blur between private, public, professional, and proprietary. The goal isn’t just to learn the technology.  It is to do something much larger by using these tools as resources to improve our positive impact and effectiveness inside and outside of 3M.  You can participate as much or as little as you like, drop-in, drop-out, drop back in again, as we create and collaborate alongside the 15-week open-online course in digital storytelling, DS106 headquartered out of Mary Washington University, which begins August 26, 2013. 

* A salon is a gathering of people under the roof of an inspiring host, held partly to amuse one another and partly to refine the taste and increase the knowledge of the participants through conversation.  [Source: Wikipedia  Salon Image Source ]

Intrigued and want to learn more?

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Still interested in joining the fun?

 Contact Rochelle Lockridge ASAP to let me know you’re interested.  Feel free to use your favored communication mode: e-mail, spark, text, phone, blog comments, etc..

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