I am thrilled that the International Forum of Visual Practitioners 2012 conference will be happening in my current hometown, Pittsburgh, the City of Bridges. Pittsburgh holds the world record for number of bridges, edging out Venice by four bridges. I think this is very appropriate to the IFVP conference, as we help our clients connect [...]

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(Benefits of using pictures to plan projects)
Complete photoset from last night here)
It was my pleasure to give a mini-workshop for the Pittsburgh Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication last night. We focused on using pencil on paper drawing and diagraming techniques to plan projects. Each participant picked a project they were working on. [...]

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This is a sped up video of me creating large scale visual notes of a keynote at a recent conference. The speaker, Chris Lehmann talked about “School 2.0,” which, it turns out, draws heavily on what education pioneers have preached for over 100 years: let the students do things that matter. The event was the [...]

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Here are three videos of me doing graphic recording of high school principal Chris Lehmann’s keynote address at the 2011 Maryland Society for Educational Technology conference. The first video is sped up, the other two videos are the first and second halves of Chris Lehmann’s keynote audio with the visual of me creating the [...]

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It was my pleasure to create large scale visual notes at the 2011 Making Sparks event for the Sprout Fund. The event is designed to stimulate thinking and discussion to prepare people to apply for grants to develop projects “That engage children ages birth to 8 through the creative use of technology and media.” The [...]

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Visual notes from the panel “I’ve found my free agent, now what?” from the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference.
For large size click here.
This panel was geared toward nonprofits who are learning how to work with individuals who support their cause but do not work for them. These free agents are different from volunteers in that [...]

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If you are going to be at South By Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin be sure to get within high-five distance and slap me some skin.
I love SXSWi because so many people from so many networks converge on the mega event and it offers unparalleled opportunity to catch up with old friends and make [...]

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