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I'm excited to be one of the keynote speakers at the Training Magazine Conference and Expo. The event is in Atlanta, Georgia on February 13-14th. The event is set up to have multiple, short keynotes over the course of the conference and my talk will focus on the "Art of Explanation". Here's the description:
While technology increases connectivity, connectivity increases complexity. The time between decisions is shrinking and the scale of information around each decision is exploding. How do we craft explanations when faced with this dual challenge? How do we make sense of complex issues in the shortest time possible? Learn a breakthrough approach for crafting explanations that people get, and act upon the first time out. See how an explanation can move someone from disinterest to motivation and even excitement. Lee LeFever, renowned for building short, creative video explanations, will share what he’s learned about the key elements of great explanations.
I hope to see you there!
It seems like Toronto is becoming a second home for us. I now have plans to be there for a conference called mesh marketing which happens on November 17th.
From the website:
Mesh brings together people who are passionate about the potential of the Web to change how we live, work and play. mesh is a gathering point for internet visionaries and communicators to Connect, Share and Inspire and to bring focus to emerging ideas and opportunities of the Web.
My session is called "A Story in Three Minutes - How to Explain Anything to Anyone" and is scheduled for 1pm. I'll have a short presentation and then sit down with mesh co-founder Mark Evans for a "fireside chat". I love the chat format and I'm excited to talk to Mark. Here's the complete schedule, filled with all kinds of smart people.
I'll be in Toronto for a couple of days, so if you'd like to hook up while I'm there, just let me know.
Sachi and I will be attending the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) later this month in Washington DC. This will be our first time attending the conference, so you may see us wandering around with lost looks on our faces.
Because it's such a huge conference, we're hosting a Tweetup [?] so that we can be sure to meet you. Come say hello!
Date: Monday June 29th, 2009
Time: 4:30-6pm
Location: Old Dominion Brew House - Convention Center (we've reserved a room in the back) Map
You can RSVP using Upcoming.org
We're @commoncraft, @leelefever, @sachilefever on Twitter.
Going to SXSW? Come to Our Panel "Shift Happens"
Posted by: leelefever on February 15, 2009- 4:00pm
Categories: conference, event, Speaking, SXSW, visualthinking
Sachi and will be heading down to South-by-Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) March 13th-17th and I hope we'll see you there. We'll have plenty of stickers - just ask!
I'll also be speaking, along with an excellent group of folks from the visual thinking world, at a panel discussion called "Shift Happens - Moving From Word to Pictures." The panel is on Monday (3/16) at 5pm 10am.
Other panelists include:
- Sunni Brown Owner, BrightSpot Info Design
- Tom Crawford CEO, VizThink
- Dave Gray Chairman, XPLANE
- Dan Roam Pres, Digital Roam Inc
It's going to be an awesome discussion. I hope we'll see you there!
Yaay! Common Craft Stickers
Posted by: leelefever on February 4, 2009- 4:00pm
Categories: art, conference, marketing, stickers, Swag
Thanks to John, Maureen and the folks at Sticker Giant for their help with these little guys. We're planning to carry them with us at conferences, etc. If you see us at SXSW or anywhere else, ask for one!
Would you like a sticker? Send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to:
Common Craft
P.O. Box 18322
Seattle, WA 98118-0322
After having been out of town for four Seattle MindCamps prior to this one, I'm excited to finally get to attend. MindCamp, as it's described on the home page, is:
"The self-organizing, digitally minded, entrepreneur-driven, overnight Seattle confab."
Essentially, geeks and entrepreneurs get together for 24 hours and learn from each other in a free-form format, like Bar Camp or Foo Camp. This year it's hosted at the downtown office of Synapse, starting this Saturday morning, November 22. I'm looking forward to seeing old friends and meeting new ones in my home city. Are you going?
Help Us Speak at SXSW
Posted by: leelefever on August 18, 2008- 5:00pm
Categories: conference, events, Speaking, SXSW, visualthinking
It seems like a long way off, but South-by-Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) is just around the corner (March 2009). At the moment, the public is voting on what speaking panels should be accepted for the event. When the voting finishes (August 29, 2008) the SXSW staff will consider the results of the voting when deciding what panels will be picked.
I say all this because I hope you'll vote for our panel. :) Here are the details:
Shift Happens: Moving from Words to Pictures
Description: People are hardwired for visualization yet we rely significantly on text. Most games, graphic novels, magazines, interfaces, IKEA instructions, and many other forms of communication take advantage of people’s natural visual thinking ability. Panelists will discuss how to leverage visual techniques to improve your games, websites, movies, communications, or presentations.
My fellow panelists include Dan Roam, author of The Back of the Napkin, Dave Grey, Founder and Chairman of Xplane and two Austin, Texas natives Sunni Brown and Marilyn Martin. I'm so honored to be a part of this group. Thanks to Tom Crawford as VizThink for getting the ball rolling.
We'd love to have your vote, pretty please?
I'm heading to a couple of tech conferences this Fall and I'd love to meet you there.
Gnomedex - Seattle, August 21-23
Nerds of all types converge on Seattle for Chris Pirillo's annual conference. This will be my 3rd one and it rarely disappoints. If you're headed to Seattle, or in Seattle and going to the conference, let me know.
Blog World Expo - Las Vegas, September 20-21
This appears to be a big event. I'm fortunate to be particpating in a panel discussion called "Avoiding Disaster: How Not to Use Social Media" on Sunday, 3-4 PM. My fellow panelists will be Patrick O'Keefe (our faithful organizer who runs the iFroggy Network and author of "Managing Online Forums "), Problogger Darren Rowse and Jason Falls from Social Media Explorer. Here's the conference schedule.
If you're headed to either of these events, I'd love to meet you there.
Updated: I've created a schedule of sessions and parties I plan to attend at SXSWi (maybe Sachi too!). You can see the schedule here.
I suppose it's the time of year for directionally-based conferences.
I'm heading up to Northern Voice in Vancouver this weekend and Sachi and I both will be heading south to Austin, Texas for SXSW Interactive starting March 7th. I hope we'll be able to meet you at one of these conferences.
VizThink in Review
Posted by: leelefever on January 30, 2008- 4:00pm
Categories: conference, event, newfriends, Speaking, visualthinking
Text and bullet points - they are dead, or at least used inappropriately. That was one of the overwhelming messages from VizThink, a two day conference on Visual Thinking. We agree.
This was the first (of hopefully many) conferences on visual thinking put on by VizThink, the brainchild of Dave Gray of Xplane. It brought together people from around the world who focus in communicating with pictures. More info on the wiki.
For example, on the first morning we sat down with three pediatric ER doctors from Loma Linda University. They often talk to parents in the ER about pediatric medical problems and a brochure doesn't work. They see visual thinking as a way to communicate complex problems in the emergency room situation. Indeed, there are near-infinite applications for visual thinking.
I wish I could mention everyone we met, but here are a few.
We had dinner with Ole Qvist- Sorensen of Bigger Picture who was there from Copenhagen, Denmark - I have a feeling we'll be hanging out with Ole before long - a great guy with lots of ideas.
Ryan Coleman of Clay Tablet Technologies turned out to be a friend of our good friend Will Pate. Ryan has started local Visual Thinking BarCamps around Toronto.
Cliff Atkinson of BBP (Beyond Bullet Points) came to our session and stuck around afterward for a chat. We really connected with Cliff - he loves being small and independent and we share a lot of the same ideas.
Speaking of our session, we had a great time and I hope the attendees did too. It was called "Solving Explanation Problems with Simple Online Videos" The session was mostly group activity where we asked teams to produce storyboards.
It warmed our hearts to hear the whole group yelling "yaay!" and
"boooo!" (appropriately) when the teams presented their storyboards. As Sachi said - it was like they were singing a song we wrote. :)
One thing I found interesting was that we didn't meet anyone else doing video. It was like the visual thinking world and the video world had not previously intersected. I hope that we inspired some of the attendees to take another look at video.
We owe a big thanks to Tom, Chris, Denise and the VizThink folks for inviting us to participate and pulling off a great conference. We'll be back!
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