Sunni Brown

Do it for the Kids: Our Partnership with TED-ED

Tuesday, March 20th, 2012 - Filed under Explanatory Videos

For those of you who are TED-obsessed, their latest endeavor should be making you swoon. Chris Anderson, ever the evangelist for ideas worth spreading, master-minded the TED-ED initiative described in the video here. In short: it’s a call to educators and a call to animators, to come together and offer children around the world access [...]

What We Learn from Doodles

Monday, September 5th, 2011 - Filed under Appearances & Interviews, Explanatory Videos, Gamestorming: A Playbook, Graphic Facilitation, Graphic Recording, Infographics, Lights in the People Tunnel, Listening, PowerPoints, Product Explanations, Spokesperson Sunni, The Doodle Revolution, Visual Notetaking, Visual Templates, Visual Thinking, VizThink Austin

This article is from CNN.com Editor’s note: Editor’s note: Sunni Brown owns an information design firm and is a speaker and co-author of “GameStorming: A Playbook for Rule-breakers, Innovators and Changemakers.” She was recently named on Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business List and on the 10 Most Creative People on Twitter list. She spoke at [...]

NYSERDA Video

Monday, August 15th, 2011 - Filed under Explanatory Videos

An informational video created for the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA). Created in collaboration with Square Bear Studio.

Interstate Renewable Energy Council

Saturday, August 13th, 2011 - Filed under Explanatory Videos

100 Most Creative People in Business 2011?! Thanks, Fast Company.

Thursday, May 19th, 2011 - Filed under Appearances & Interviews, Comics and Sketches, Explanatory Videos, Spokesperson Sunni, The Doodle Revolution, Visual Notetaking, Visual Thinking

To my pleasant (and slightly confused) surprise, Fast Company chose me as one of the folks on their 100 Most Creative People in Business List for 2011. (I came in at #56, so take that, Ryan Seacrest!) In seriousness, I was pleased to be acknowledged as a “Creative,” since it’s a title I haven’t embraced [...]

Zenoss IT Operations

Friday, April 15th, 2011 - Filed under Explanatory Videos, Product Explanations

Millbrook, Inc.: Solving the CIO Dilemma

Wednesday, April 13th, 2011 - Filed under Explanatory Videos, Product Explanations

The Millbrook guys have an excellent solution to a common and painful problem in the insurance industry – migrating massive amounts of data from one system to another without disrupting business. However, their elegant software and combined experience of over 40 years couldn’t help them solve a challenge of their own: explaining their solution to [...]

Zenoss: Monitoring for the Modern Data Center

Saturday, April 2nd, 2011 - Filed under Explanatory Videos, Product Explanations

CTQ isn’t Waiting for Superman: An Illustrated Video about Teaching in 2030

Thursday, February 10th, 2011 - Filed under Explanatory Videos, Product Explanations

We all saw (or at least heard of) the film Waiting for Superman. And yes, it was a powerful story, no doubt. But one major stakeholder voice was absent from the film – that of teachers, the dedicated, front-line men and women who work with our children everyday. My client, the Center for Teaching Quality, [...]

Gamestorming: A Videographic Explanation

Monday, January 17th, 2011 - Filed under Explanatory Videos, Gamestorming: A Playbook, Graphic Facilitation, Product Explanations

Gamestorming from XPLANE on Vimeo. XPLANE is and will always be among my favorite companies, and my co-author Dave Gray is and will always be among my favorite people. The above video is one more reason why I joined forces with his genius. It explains the essence of our work described in the book Gamestorming. [...]