In the Creativity Playground at #ISTE2014, Gigi Johnson shares a half-hour discussion on how we can build personal support to Create Everywhere. With a focus on tools from Howard Rheingold's Net Smarts, Peeragogy.org, and Todd Henry's Accidental Creative, Gigi discusses how we are creating fish ponds of new ideas. She shares five steps on how to lay out your creative environment to spur new raw materials for future projects and great ideas.

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Gigi L. Johnson, EdD
Maremel Institute
@maremel
#ISTE2014
#CREATEEVERYWHERE
CREATE EVERYWHERE:
Connecting and Sharing
Great Ideas

2. Dissertation Story – trapped in word and at
my hard drive – lost my work and videos
etc.
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Source: Flickr/Jarid a
Are we building a
MOUNTAIN of
FILES?

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Source: Flickr/MM Sand
How do we work with
CONTENT
EVERYWHERE?

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“Just in Time”
vs. Queues
Todd Henry
“The Accidental
Creative”
Setting up queues for
future decisions
Filter
Discovery

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My Path: Tools + Models of
Working Together
Net Smart Now in Paperback:
http://www.amazon.com/Net-Smart-How-Thrive-Online/dp/0262526131
Peeragogy.org 2.0 Handbook: PDF at http://peeragogy.net/peeragogy-2.0-print.pdf
Peeragogy.org
Collaborative Handbook

6. INSTEAD, CREATING CAN BE
EVERYWHERE.
BY DESIGN.
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Source: Flickr/Jim Pennucci
What should we start with?

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Source: Flickr/Mihai Bojin cc2.0
How do we
CATCHthe best
raw materials?
TOGETHER?

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Source: Flickr/Peter Alfred Hess
Are we on
AUTOPILOT?

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Source: Flickr/US Fish & Wildlift cc2.0
What is our
BAIT?

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Source: Flickr/Kelly Sikkem
What HOOKS?

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Should we build
HOLDING QUEUES?
Fish Ponds of ideas?

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How do we create
RIPPLES?
Source: Flickr/Amanda Slater

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How do they
INTERSECT?
Source: Flickr/wonderlane

15. FUNNEL
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Source: Flickr/24oranges.nl
Let's build
FUNNELS
of ideas

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17. 5 steps to both grow and simplify
filling the right fishbowl(s)
1. Strategize
2. Create Simple Systems
3. Listen
4. Visualize
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18. … as I’ve said many times
the future is already here
William Gibson, 1999, NPR
— it’s just not very evenly
distributed.
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19. 1. STRATEGIZE
How we can use this abundant data to
make better creative input decisions?
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20. W’s: Who, What, Where, When,
Why, and How?
What do I need to know?
What types of projects are coming up?
What is happening I would like to follow?
Who are major creators in my genre? How
do I create a path or two for new ideas?
What resources are available out there
already?
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21. What is available for free or
cheap?
Will that cloud-based tool go away because it
doesn’t have a robust business model? Will I be
stuck?
Is it free or cheap because they share rights to
my information?
Can you move OUT?
Can I go back and forth?
Can I use different metaphors?
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22. Consideration Sets –
Order and Alternatives
Affect CHOICE
Anchors — first ideas or data lock in the process
and create bias
Art of the Possible — how broad of a range of
options?
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23. Tools Impact Choice
Google + email +
folders with
mixed labels +
maybe Google
Drive or Dropbox
= ?
Abundant
options!
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24. “Just In Time” Search — Not
Neutral
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25. Keywords/Taxonomies/ Domain
Phrases:
Words we use
Affected by location, mode (e.g., mobile),
past searches
Nature of Google (67% of US Searches):
Inbound links, not public popularity, and
Google’s PageRank index
Search & Social drives Ads: re-targeting
and augmentation
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26. The Words We Use and
Plan Around Matter
“Keywords"
Google Keyword Planner -- challenge of Google
Analytics and keywords
Alexa -- keywords
Our own “taxonomy”
How do we search, gather, and re-find
information for our work domain/field?
What words are important to other people, esp.
in our genre or who be seeking our work?
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27. https://adwords.google.com
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29. https://www.alexa.com
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31. Other Starting Tools
Google Analytics
Web Traffic
Alexa
Compete
Quantcast
Moz
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32. 2. CREATE SIMPLE SYSTEMS
How can we use tools and design systems
to use data for decision-making and
business growth?
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34. Twitter “Scraping” – Following
Competitors and Experts
SocialBro, Tweetdeck, Hootsuite, +
MANY More
http://www.socialbro.com
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35. http://tweetdeck.twitter. com
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36. Storage and Replay:
Social Bookmarking &
Dashboards
What to DO with the darned information
once we have it — for ourselves and for our
working teams
Examples:
Diigo in Social Bookmarking
NetVibes in Dashboards for teams
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37. http://www.diigo.com
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39. http://www.netvibes.com
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40. Easy to Track Website Changes
and Blog Updates
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41. Storage and Rediscovery
Hard Drive — cost in time and
resources, rediscovery, privacy
Tendency: Folders on hard
drives, with uncertain names
Sharing Ideas
• Evernote (Your 100 year
memory)
• Dropbox (consumer), Box.net
(end products with clients,
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42. Opportunity in New
Combinations
Reorganization — going through old
folders
Forced Adjacency — putting ideas
together that normally don’t mix
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43. 3. LISTEN
How can we use data from inside and out
that is already around us?
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44. Business Intelligence
Through Social Media
Skimming from social
discourse
Skimming through
social sentiment
Real-time analysis
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45. Challenges with Aggregated Data
Who are you? Multiple devices or browsers
Who are you? 5 users on Netflix, etc.
Source: By Jeremy Keith (Flickr: Cuddling with multiple devices)
[CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
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46. Data – Presence and Connecting
as Content and Data
Social Networking as content
Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, FourSquare, Reddit– what
are you doing and what do you like?…with data
Ecosystems around ecosystems: Twitter and FB
application developers
Diigo, StumbleUpon, Pinterist, Tumblr, Instagram, Vine,
SnapChat – what are you looking at?
Spotify, YouTube, and Pandora –what are you listening
to?
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47. Listening
Basic and Easy: Job
Postings by
Competitors
Scraping Twitter
feeds of competitors
and industry
pundits/reporters
Google Alerts – any
keywords that you
choose
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48. 4. VISUALIZE
How can we use visuals to make and
persuade around decision and data?
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49. Visualization: Decision Framing
with Complex Data
Two goals:
1. Use visuals to made decisions with
data
2. Use visuals to convince others in
organizations to make similar or better
decisions
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50. One Example: Gapminder
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http://www.gapminder.org

51. Concept Mapping – data visualization
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mind_mapping_software
http://maremel.com/2011/12/infographic-
tools-galore/ -- Detailed resources

52. Data
Visualization
Visual.ly – Platform to create new infographics
Piktochart – Transforms your information into
memorable presentations.
Infogr.am - Create interactive charts and infographics.
Gephi – Like Photoshop for data. Graph visualization
and manipulation software.
Tableau Public - Free data visualization software.
Free Vector Infographic Kit – Vector infographic
elements from MediaLoot.
Weave – Web-based analysis and visualization
environment.
iCharts – Charts made easy.
ChartsBin – A web-based data visualization tool.
GeoCommons – See your data on a map.
VIDI – A suite of powerful Drupal visualization modules.
Prefuse – Information visualization software.
StatSilk – Desktop and online software for mapping and
visualization.
Gliffy – Online diagram and flowchart software.
Hohli – Online charts builder.
Many Eyes – Lets you upload data and create
visualizations.
Google Chart Tools – Display live data on your site.
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Infographics for
Decisions

53. 5. SHARE (SMART)
How can we work with teams and partners
to best use collaborative data and tools?
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54. Current Knowledge Patterns
Common: email, print to share, cloud
or hard drive folders
Weak choice to filter, find, and discover
Demographic differences
“Zero” cost – high social costs for others,
social obligations
How do you discover, filter, and store
creative projects with collaborative groups?
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55. Knowledge Management for
Collaborative Work
Assumptions and unspoken routines
Difference by audience and type of
work
E.g., creative tools at
http://www.creativebloq.com/design/onlin
e-collaboration-tools-912855
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56. Obvious Tools:
Sync and Share
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57. https://www.loomio.org
Loomio
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58. https://podio.com
Podio
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59. Questions? Opportunities?
Gigi Johnson, EdD
Maremel Institute
gigi@maremel.com
@maremel
About.me/gigijohnson
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