Sunni Brown

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 [...]

Visual Thinking: The Conversation on 5by5.tv

Saturday, June 19th, 2010 - Filed under Appearances & Interviews, Visual Thinking

TEDx UT: The Doodle Revolution

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 [...]

SXSW Interactive 2010: Done and done.

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 [...]

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 [...]

Why Knowledge Games Work

Monday, December 7th, 2009 - Filed under Gamestorming: A Playbook, Visual Thinking

The way humans gain the lion’s share of what we know is through a slow process of gathering informational knowledge – accumulated layers of additive information based on years of exposure and experience. For example, my knowledge of Spanish is informational knowledge. I learned it through years of listening to Spanish speakers and eventually formalized it [...]

Temporary Cover for Knowledge Games!

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 - Filed under Gamestorming: A Playbook, Graphic Facilitation, Graphic Recording, Visual Thinking

Nothing like seeing a prospective cover for your book makes you feel inclined to start churning chapters out! (I hope it’s having the same effect on my co-authors.) Ladies and gentleman, I’m thrilled to show you for the first time the cover for the magnum opus that Dave Gray, James Macanufo and I have been [...]