Lights In The People Tunnel

Interview with Adobe CS Extraordinaire Deke McClelland and my Lovable, Slave-Driving Editor

Friday, July 23rd, 2010 - Filed under Appearances & Interviews, Gamestorming: A Playbook, Lights in the People Tunnel, Visual Thinking

I like to make the most of my work trips around the country, and evidently my editor at O’Reilly, Colleen Wheeler, likes me to do that as well. So while I was returning from a presentation on The Doodle Revolution, she asked me to interview on Martini Hour with she and her co-host, Deke McClelland, [...]

Foo Camp 2010 – The Doodle Revolution, Ignite-Style

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010 - Filed under Appearances & Interviews, Lights in the People Tunnel, PowerPoints, Visual Thinking

I was planning to write up a description of Foo Camp 2010 myself, but I decided to be more time-savvy and just use the content from Wikipedia, below. Suffice it to say that it was an honor to be invited and a pleasure to present The Doodle Revolution to such a stellar audience. Some highlights [...]

Zappos Insights Bootcamp – Las Vegas, NV 2010

Monday, May 3rd, 2010 - Filed under Graphic Recording, Lights in the People Tunnel

I was absolutely impressed with the Zappos Insights Bootcamp. It’s a 2-day workshop designed to expose people to their famous culture – the values that drive it and the people and policies that keep it growing. I was so impressed, in fact, that I’ll write another blog post soon showing the video with interviews from [...]

Dan Roam’s Back of the Napkin Workshop, San Francisco, CA

Sunday, March 7th, 2010 - Filed under Lights in the People Tunnel, Visual Notetaking, Visual Thinking

One page of my visual notes from Dan Roam’s excellent workshop in SF – the pilot for The Back of the Napkin. I appreciate that Dan’s putting visual thinking front and center in the business world. It helps me keep MY day job, too. See the rest of the visual notes here.

Producing TEDx Austin at KLRU Austin City Limits

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 - Filed under Appearances & Interviews, Graphic Facilitation, Graphic Recording, Lights in the People Tunnel, Visual Templates, Visual Thinking

Producing TEDx Austin felt like birthing some kind of gigantic baby. I think I can speak for the entire team – Nancy Giordano, Jen Spencer, Kelley Burrus, Shannon Mehner, Chris Justice, Mary Baird-Wilcox and Stacy Weitzner – when I say that it would be impossible to capture the experience in one word. There were triumphs, [...]

VizThink Austin with Boy Genius Austin Kleon

Thursday, February 11th, 2010 - Filed under Lights in the People Tunnel, Visual Thinking, VizThink Austin

On Feb. 3rd, I held another VizThink Austin community meeting for our ever-growing group of visual thinkers and visual learners. The rare and brilliant bird Austin Kleon hosted, taking the group on a comedic and informative journey about visual thinking for writers. A powerful topic considering that few people are aware of the symbiotic relationship [...]

SXSW 2009 – Interview with Dave Gray and Sunni Brown

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 - Filed under Appearances & Interviews, Lights in the People Tunnel

Jessica Mullen and Kelly Cree of The Popular Podcast – among other exploits – make it a point to interview panelists and performers coming through Austin for SXSW. Since Dave Gray (Founder and Chairman of XPlane) and I were on a panel together, they invited us to join them for a brief and…um..deliberately informal interview. [...]

TED Conference 2009

Friday, August 21st, 2009 - Filed under Appearances & Interviews, Graphic Facilitation, Lights in the People Tunnel

The TED Conference in Long Beach happened a few months ago but I’m just now getting around to posting pictures from the event. (I never promised I would blog in any coherent chronological order.) For those of you familiar with the TED Conference, you can imagine how thrilled I was to be asked to form [...]

Tony Hsieh and the Pursuit of Happiness

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009 - Filed under Lights in the People Tunnel

As the world largely knows by now, there are many great things about Zappos. But what most people don’t realize is the extent to which that quest for greatness permeates their DNA. Some C-level folks talk a good game about customer and employee happiness, but Tony Hsieh (CEO) can credibly say that he’s obsessed with [...]

The Overlap Conference – Monterey, CA

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 - Filed under Lights in the People Tunnel, Visual Thinking

There were many great photographs that came out of the Overlap Conference in Monterey, CA, but none as delightful as this. A subtle but hilarious accident, this is the back of Christian Crumlish‘s balding (and brilliant) head right next to the question, “Can we replace this?” The display was about solving the world’s coffee-cup litter problem [...]

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