Using Google Site

Working on a project with a team who are not familiar with google site, I was asked to outline the Basic steps to get start.

Google site is a collaborative website, much like a wiki page. Invited members can make entries and read up on the latest info. For a special project, the site seres a central depository of info and facts, so that we don't have to hunt for the info.

1. Sign In
If you already have a gmail account, click here to sign in your own gmail account
If not, click here to create a new free 7G account. You will thank me later.

2. The team leader will send you an email, inviting you to view or collaborate on the site. Click that invitation link to go to the site directly.

3. Once you are on the site, choose the navigation bar on the left hand side to view various page

4. If you have the editing privileged, you can click the Edit button on upper right hand corner to make your own entries

5. Hit Save at the upper right hand corner when done. The info you enter will be published and shared by your team.

6. When post questions or notes, please identify yourself at the end of the note.
e.g. This is a very efficient way to track project with a team - Amy


Click here for more help on Google Site.

Happy Collaboration.

Bravo CPSI 2010

Based on the unofficial unscientific poll, many agreed that CPSI 2010 was one of the best conferences that they have attended. It takes a village to put an outstanding conference.

First, the CEO, Victoria Cliche and the board had a great vision to do something different this year. They also put together a dream team to work with. The meeting planner, Lisa Karlin, was grounded, cool and solid as a boulder, even her physical size is as petite as a pebble. The staff members at CPSI were all angles for the speakers. They were full of energy and operated with positive attitude. Things got done in lightening speed. Jessica, Shane, Jonathan, Dave, Valarie, Mermaid and Emily, thank you, thank you all. The staffs at Adam's Mark for the convention were remarkable as well.

Many of the consultants are bringing the CPSI-way back to their organizations.

As Bill Olsen, retired Navy Commender, taught me to say: Bravo Zulu. Well done, CPSI team.

On the down side, my SD card in my Canon mysteriously lost half of the photo from the convention. Spent 3 days on data recovery. Still hope that some magic will take place to recover some of the historic moment.

If any reader of this blog has any photo from the CPSI event, I would be very grateful to receive copies, Amy@PaintingOnWater.com. Thanks.

Post CPSI 2010

Back from Buffalo, New York after attending the 56th CPSI, also known as the world's oldest creativity conference, as in the longest running annual event.

Folks at CPSI pride themselves on the "How To" of the innovation. If you missed it, it was a very different kind of conference. Below is my brief recap of the opening session in which I was one of the speakers.

The General Opening Session started with different twist. The Master of Creative Ceremony, Bill Olsen, CPF, did not say a word for the first 5 minutes. Yet it took him 2 seconds to engage everyone in the audience. A master of interactive facilitator, he paced and led the audience from zero to a 100% participation. His Z2P workshop teaches you how to do that.

Tony Baxter, the Imagineer from Disney, who designed many of the famous rides, took us down the memory lane and inspired the future imagineers with great slides and stories. Here is a giant who spent a few days with the CPSI-lians and the youth program. Amazing. When chatting with him, I felt the spirits of my heroes talking: Walt Disney and Joseph Campbell.

Then, yours truly facilitated 350+ CPSI-lians to paint on water. People from 13 countries, all sorts of background, age group, knowledge banks and skill sets were able to come together on the same water level. The room was buzzing.

The participants became the artists who created. The participants became the innovators who collaborated as a team: strategized the action plan, brainstormed for the painting title, and journaled what they learned.

They actively engaged, played and learned. Many seasoned leaders commented positively on this proven learning model which I designed and developed. For more details, go the the blog on Painting On Water™.

Afterwards, the largest CPSI Suminagashi Exhibition was installed in the Hub. Truly a historical moment.

Reading this blog is free. Making plan to attend CPSI 2011 is smart. Learning the CPSI way and learning from the fellow CPSI-lians are priceless.
See you at CPSI 2011.

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P.S.
On the down side, the SD card of my Canon mysteriously lost half of the photo from the conference. Spent 3 days on data recovery. Still hoping that some magic will take place to recover some of the historic moment.

If any reader of this blog has any photo from CPSI, I would be very grateful to receive the copies, Amy@PaintingOnWater.com. Thanks.