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Tuesday, April 6th, 2010 - Filed under Appearances & Interviews, PowerPoints, Visual Notetaking, Visual Thinking
On my way to Wimberley a couple of months ago, I got a call from Derek Woodgate. He was on the planning team for TEDx UT and I assumed he was going to ask me for speaker recommendations, since our team had just produced TEDx Austin and we had a long list of incredible possible [...]
Friday, March 19th, 2010 - Filed under Appearances & Interviews, Graphic Recording, Visual Notetaking, Visual Thinking
2010 was my most immersive year for SXSW and oddly enough, my most tranquil. I had more responsibilities than ever during the event but I also got more rest. I think that means I’m growing up. I was able to (1) host a VizThink SXSW party with Dave Gray, (2) curate a team of 6 [...]
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.
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 - Filed under Appearances & Interviews, Infographics, Visual Notetaking
The first bits of coolness around SXSW Interactive 2010: a baby graphic giving some insight into the contents of our Visual Notetaking Panel. The panel, Visual Notetaking 101, is on Monday, March 15 at 3:30 pm, so join us for a conversation on how to stop taking notes that look like punishment. I’m joined on the panel [...]
Sunday, January 24th, 2010 - Filed under Graphic Recording, Visual Notetaking
HMSA (Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Hawai’i) has risen to the top of my client list due to the nature of the projects we’re involved with and my deep respect for the efforts of the leadership and the Innovation Team. They are transforming the organization in service to their customers and I’ve been lucky enough to [...]
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 - Filed under Graphic Recording, Visual Notetaking
BrightSpot had its first international invitation this year, to attend the CLIC Conference at the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, India. The conference was hosted by the Centre for Leadership, Innovation and Change and it gave a forum to CEOs and other high-level execs to discuss business and spirituality – yes Americans, I did [...]
Thursday, November 12th, 2009 - Filed under Visual Notetaking, Visual Thinking
A most interesting project came through Somnio, an Austin-based sales and marketing company that was hired by HP to support a sales training. Somnio specializes in unique sales and marketing solutions, so their idea was that BrightSpot create twitpics – pictures that could be periodically tweeted to the participants of a sales training to (1) [...]
Sunni is best known for her large scale graphic recordings and is the leader of the Doodle Revolution, working to get words and pictures back together. Read more...
"When we hire Sunni for a project, she owns the project and adds strategic, creative and process value every step along the way. Her smart wit keeps everyone entertained and on track. We *heart* Sunni." - Nancy Duarte, Founder, Duarte Design and Author of Slide:ology
"Sunni Brown is just a natural - a natural visual thinker, a natural presenter, and a natural and endlessly curious learner and teacher. She's inspiring and smart, and my experiences with her have been a real pleasure." - Dave Gray, Founder and Chairman of XPLANE
