Conference Sessions – Telling Stories With Pictures
Last week I was invited to speak at the Urban Land Institute’s event here in Los Angeles. My topic was on “big ideas” from the world of Social Media that developers of Master Planned Communities could take back into their worlds.
It ended up being a quite successful talk – but really that’s not important. If you’re a frequent reader of this blog – or just know me you know exactly what I said. The thing that reallystruck me was an extraordinarily innovative idea put together by the conference organizers. Instead of just recording video of the conference session, or photographing it (which they also did); they also employed the use of a “visual note taker”.
Just before our session was to begin, Michelle got a start on recording it.
This was just amazing – and I took the opportunity to introduce myself to the “reporter” who recorded our session.
Her name is Michelle Boos-Stone and she works through an organization called Sunni Brown. The amazing thing that she told me is that she “thinks in pictures”. She has an MBA – and so understands many of the concepts of the conferences she helps to record. She volunteered quickly that she isn’t an artist – and this just isn’t true. She’s quite an artist – and an extraordinarily talented storyteller.
Telling Stories In Pictures
If you’re like me you often struggle with that last minute PowerPoint design. You try and find just the right image to convey and illustrate the points you’re trying to make. And, of course, using pictures to tell the stories in our marketing is critically important.
If you’re planning an offsite, or a conference – or heck any kind of presentation – you might consider engaging these folks to tell your stories in a picture. If I could – I’d employ Michelle every single time I go to a conference. Wouldn’t it be amazing to just film her instead of the PowerPoint – and use her finished work as the session notes.
Here's Michelle's take on my session. Click on it to see the larger version.
Full disclosure – there is none. I have nothing to do with Michelle’s business or Sunni Brown. This is just something I thought was really filled with all kinds of awesome – and that you should know about.
And so now you do….
