Totally Doable applies an eclectic mix of skills and experience to a wide variety of projects for many different kinds of organizations.
The common themes are strong partnership, deep listening, and critical analysis. We will sit down with you to ask questions and hear your answers, until we really understand your needs and the needs of your constituents. Once we have developed that understanding, we can begin to develop a strategy together.
Urban exploration by bike
In collaboration with Walk Oakland Bike Oakland, I lead tours of Oakland neighborhoods by bike, seeing areas of the city participants may not have previously known, while providing commentary and analysis about the history of the place...
Transforming learning spaces at Berkeley’s School of Journalism
We worked with UC Berkeley's School of Journalism to transform their old computer rooms into modern, modular learning spaces...
Team-building for Berkeley’s One IT
Berkeley's One IT initiative sought to unify the many distributed IT groups on campus. We developed an exercise which encouraged participants to break away from their cynicism, and work together in an appreciative and observational mode...
Supporting a successful student team capstone project
The Berkeley Arts+Design Initiative wanted to support student engagement with the arts. We worked with their student team to help deploy project management tools, and navigate the technical and bureaucratic hurdles to a successful launch...
Strategic pivot for the Alameda County Training and Education Center
The TEC wanted to change their image, de-emphasizing their facility rentals. We helped them develop a strategic communications plan, anchored by a new web site highlighting their consulting services...
Researching cycling cultures and advocacy
Researching cycling cultures and advocacy, we investigated the social importance of cycling in disadvantaged communities in four U.S. cities. The resulting thesis examines how cycling infrastructure has become associated with gentrification...
Legacy system abatement planning for Berkeley School of Education
The Berkeley School of Education had several legacy workflow database systems which included sensitive data dating back 20+ years. Support for those systems was no longer available, and security of the data became a critical concern. We worked with BSE to understand how the systems were being used, interviewed similar units to see how they were managing similar business functions, and talked to central campus IT about the capabilities of enterprise systems to meet the need. We worked with the campus Information Security Office to mitigate the immediate security risks, completed the data mapping and migration to modern systems for much of the historical data, built a screenscraper for the legacy system to extract additional data, and presented BSE with an outline of how to fully migrate its workflows to new systems...
Encouraging sustainability in Alameda County
The Alameda County Sustainability Office had an intranet site with great content but poor findability. We worked with Sustainability on communications strategy, community engagement. site development, and content production...
Creating a social learning staff community at UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley wanted to find ways to use technology to enhance peer-to-peer learning among Berkeley staff. We worked with them to develop the Wisdom Café, an innovative social learning platform...
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