Mike Rohde, generalissimo of the Sketchnote Army and author of The Sketchnote Handbook, interviews sketchnoter Sacha Chua.
Sacha offers up tips and tricks for digital sketchnoting. She demonstrates some of the tools she uses such as her tablet PC, her Lenovo stylus, and Autodesk Sketchbook Pro.
You can see how Sacha uses Evernote to archive and share all of her sketchnotes with the world in her public Evernote notebook.
See more of Sacha's work at LivingAnAwesomeLife.com
(via Rose King)
At first glance, improv might seem like the direct opposite of the business world. It's silly, raucous, and spontaneous.
But improv actors are sharp professionals who have an incredible ability to pull from past dialogue, anticipate future scenes and relationships, and engage audiences in just moments.
If you're trying to make it in the business world, you can learn a lot from improv actors.
Here are 25 tricks that work just as well in business as they do on stage.
My favorite is Trick #21:
Remember the "karaoke rule": The "karaoke rule" states that as long as you can sell your performance, you don't have to be the best singer/dancer/actor, etc. If you're able to communicate — or just fake — confidence and charisma, you have a better chance of convincing others of your idea.
The next time you're brainstorming, take notes on the wall. IdeaPaint transforms virtually anything that you can paint into a high-performance dry-erase board. The possibilities are endless. You can apply it to hallways, conference tables, desks or doors.
IdeaPaint is simple to use. Start with a coat of primer, then apply a layer of IdeaPaint. A $200 kit contains enough paint to cover 50 square feet.
The traditional form of drawing and sketching is a highly sought after skill.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Jan Adkins is an illustrator, museum designer, educator and expert in the profession as an artist.
For nine years he was the associate art director at National Geographic Magazine, explaining the space shuttle, lasers, submarines, Soviet rockets, satellites, nuclear physics, marine archaeology, forest fires, volcanoes and the voyages of Christopher Columbus. Directing a team of researchers and doing original field research himself, he unraveled some of the most interesting topics ever addressed by Geographic during its golden age. Jan's job, according to his editor-in-chief Bill Garrett, "was like getting a doctorate every third month."
He has written scripts and treatments for the Discovery Channel, NOVA, and the BBC, and narrative voiceover for interactive corporate training programs. He taught editorial illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design for several years, and taught illustration and graphic design at Maryland Institute, College of Art, in Baltimore. He’s associated with several exhibit design firms and frequently consults on exhibits for zoos, art museums, science and natural history museums.
For a company that has roughly doubled its workforce each year since 2002 (current headcount: 5,800), Google doesn't much act like the big company it has become. One of the ways it has preserved its tech-startup ethos is decidedly low-tech: dozens of whiteboards placed in common areas and corridors throughout its Mountain View, Calif., campus. Some are businesslike, used by product teams to swap ideas. But the two largest ones, about 30 feet long, are devoted to the equivalent of corporate graffiti. One is packed with cartoons and jokes that workers have scrawled under the slogan "Google's Plan for World Domination." "It's collaborative art," says David Krane, Google's director of communications and one of its earliest whiteboard posters. "We're in a growth period, and when new hires see the boards they get a quick, comprehensive snapshot of our personality." -- P.K.
So, next time a potential client asks what the value of doodling on the walls could possibly add to their bottom line... tell'em to Google it!
[thanks to Bo Maupin]
This comes to us from coach, mapmaker, master hypnotist, and graphic facilitator, Christina Merkley, based in British Columbia, Canada. See www.makemark.com for information, articles and the informative SHIFT-IT E-zine about Graphic Coaching.
Did you know that researchers estimate that upwards of 72% of the North American population are visual learners and thinkers? This means that the vast majority of our coaching clients think and learn better when visuals are used. However the standard mode of coaching - over the phone - is an auditory medium that naturally benefits only 12-18% of the population!
For the last six years, I’ve been experimenting with using visuals or graphics with my coaching clients. I work both face-to-face (using large sheets of poster paper to graphically ‘record’ my client’s thoughts, ideas and experiences) and also over the phone (using pre-prepared visual templates either assigned as homework between calls or filled out live while on the call).
The crowd shuffles to their seats, the lights dim, a brief echo of feedback, and the speaker begins. The death ray projector beams, fluffy motes drift in the shaft of light, a cascade of bullets tumble, a throat clears, another PowerPoint presentation has begun.
These moments are when humans gather together in dark sancutuaries to listen to a story in hopes of transformation. Hope is the last thing to die!
OK. We trash them, we suffer through them, but how do we begin to create a good presentation?
Thanks to Visual Being, I've learned of a whole community of people who are wrestling with the physical gear and psychological prowess involved in making presentations engaging and relevant.
Thanks to a recent post by Lee Potts, I learned of sage advice from "back in the day" before the Tech Bubble went bust. Part software history lesson, part self-help manual for the presentationally-challenged, it's from Doc Serls and it's great:
IT'S THE STORY, STUPID: DON'T LET PRESENTATION SOFTWARE KEEP YOU FROM GETTING YOUR STORY ACROSS
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