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speaking http://commoncraft.com/blog-categories/speaking The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en-us Speaking at Ignite Seattle August 3rd http://commoncraft.com/speaking-ignite-seattle-august-3rd <p>If you live near Seattle, you should come out to <a href="http://www.igniteseattle.com/">Ignite Seattle 7</a> on August 3rd at the King Cat Theater, 7-11pm. I'll be doing a talk that night called "<em>Where Goldfish Come From</em>."  Ignite Seattle (like other <a href="http://ignite.oreilly.com/">Ignite events</a>) is a night for speakers to present for 5 minutes using 20 slides that display for 15 seconds each.  It's similar to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecha_Kucha">Pecha Kucha</a> format. I'll be one of over 10 speakers that night.</p> <p>You might ask - goldfish?  Why goldfish?  Well, goldfish happen to be a very important part of my life. Here's a quick description from the Ignite website:</p> <p class="blockquote;">Everyone knows goldfish and koi, but very few have ever thought about where they come from – how they are bred, raised, transported, etc. I know these things like the back of my hand. Since 1968, my family in North Carolina has owned and operated one of the largest fish hatcheries in the US. <a href="http://blueridgekoi.com/">Blue Ridge Fish Hatchery</a> raises and sells goldfish and Koi – millions of fish a year.</p> <p>I hope we'll see you at Ignite!</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img class="reflect" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/39/79153324_0b1191cff8.jpg" alt="Underwater Blue Ridge Koi by you." width="375" height="500" /></p> http://commoncraft.com/speaking-ignite-seattle-august-3rd#comments event family goldfish speaking Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:07:16 +0000 leelefever 7141 at http://commoncraft.com Speaking at Ignite Seattle August 3rd http://commoncraft.com/speaking-ignite-seattle-august-3rd <p>If you live near Seattle, you should come out to <a href="http://www.igniteseattle.com/">Ignite Seattle 7</a> on August 3rd at the King Cat Theater, 7-11pm. I'll be doing a talk that night called "<em>Where Goldfish Come From</em>."  Ignite Seattle (like other <a href="http://ignite.oreilly.com/">Ignite events</a>) is a night for speakers to present for 5 minutes using 20 slides that display for 15 seconds each.  It's similar to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecha_Kucha">Pecha Kucha</a> format. I'll be one of over 10 speakers that night.</p> <p>You might ask - goldfish?  Why goldfish?  Well, goldfish happen to be a very important part of my life. Here's a quick description from the Ignite website:</p> <p class="blockquote;">Everyone knows goldfish and koi, but very few have ever thought about where they come from – how they are bred, raised, transported, etc. I know these things like the back of my hand. Since 1968, my family in North Carolina has owned and operated one of the largest fish hatcheries in the US. <a href="http://blueridgekoi.com/">Blue Ridge Fish Hatchery</a> raises and sells goldfish and Koi – millions of fish a year.</p> <p>I hope we'll see you at Ignite!</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img class="reflect" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/39/79153324_0b1191cff8.jpg" alt="Underwater Blue Ridge Koi by you." width="375" height="500" /></p> http://commoncraft.com/speaking-ignite-seattle-august-3rd#comments event family goldfish speaking Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:07:16 +0000 leelefever 7141 at http://commoncraft.com Going to SXSW? Come to Our Panel "Shift Happens" http://commoncraft.com/going-sxsw-come-our-panel-shift-happens <p> <a href="http://sxsw.com/interactive/talks/panels?action=show&id=IAP0900080"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3185/3284743689_fe3bb22f77.jpg?v=0" alt="sxsw-interactive-125 by you." title="sxsw-interactive-125 by you." onload="show_notes_initially();" class="reflect" align="right" height="125" width="125" /></a> Sachi and will be heading down to <a href="http://sxsw.com/interactive/">South-by-Southwest Interactive</a> (SXSWi) March 13th-17th and I hope we'll see you there. We'll have plenty of <a href="/yaay-common-craft-stickers">stickers</a> - just ask! </p> <p> I'll also be speaking, along with an excellent group of folks from the visual thinking world, at a panel discussion called "<a href="http://sxsw.com/interactive/talks/panels?action=show&id=IAP0900080">Shift Happens - Moving From Word to Pictures</a>." The panel is on <b>Monday (3/16) at <strike>5pm</strike> 10am.</b> </p> <p> Other panelists include: </p> <ul> <li> <a href="http://sxsw.com/interactive/talks/panels?action=bio&id=168550"><b>Sunni Brown</b></a> <i>Owner</i>, <b>BrightSpot Info Design</b><br /> </li> <li> <a href="http://sxsw.com/interactive/talks/panels?action=bio&id=188032"><b>Tom Crawford</b></a> CEO, <b>VizThink</b> </li> <li> <a href="http://sxsw.com/interactive/talks/panels?action=bio&id=189642"><b>Dave Gray</b></a> Chairman, <b>XPLANE</b><br /> </li> <li> <a href="http://sxsw.com/interactive/talks/panels?action=bio&id=163725"><b>Dan Roam</b></a> <i>Pres</i>, <b>Digital Roam Inc</b></li> </ul> <p> It's going to be an awesome discussion. I hope we'll see you there! </p> http://commoncraft.com/going-sxsw-come-our-panel-shift-happens#comments conference event speaking SXSW visualthinking Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:48:53 +0000 leelefever 7031 at http://commoncraft.com Going to SXSW? Come to Our Panel "Shift Happens" http://commoncraft.com/going-sxsw-come-our-panel-shift-happens <p> <a href="http://sxsw.com/interactive/talks/panels?action=show&id=IAP0900080"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3185/3284743689_fe3bb22f77.jpg?v=0" alt="sxsw-interactive-125 by you." title="sxsw-interactive-125 by you." onload="show_notes_initially();" class="reflect" align="right" height="125" width="125" /></a> Sachi and will be heading down to <a href="http://sxsw.com/interactive/">South-by-Southwest Interactive</a> (SXSWi) March 13th-17th and I hope we'll see you there. We'll have plenty of <a href="/yaay-common-craft-stickers">stickers</a> - just ask! </p> <p> I'll also be speaking, along with an excellent group of folks from the visual thinking world, at a panel discussion called "<a href="http://sxsw.com/interactive/talks/panels?action=show&id=IAP0900080">Shift Happens - Moving From Word to Pictures</a>." The panel is on <b>Monday (3/16) at <strike>5pm</strike> 10am.</b> </p> <p> Other panelists include: </p> <ul> <li> <a href="http://sxsw.com/interactive/talks/panels?action=bio&id=168550"><b>Sunni Brown</b></a> <i>Owner</i>, <b>BrightSpot Info Design</b><br /> </li> <li> <a href="http://sxsw.com/interactive/talks/panels?action=bio&id=188032"><b>Tom Crawford</b></a> CEO, <b>VizThink</b> </li> <li> <a href="http://sxsw.com/interactive/talks/panels?action=bio&id=189642"><b>Dave Gray</b></a> Chairman, <b>XPLANE</b><br /> </li> <li> <a href="http://sxsw.com/interactive/talks/panels?action=bio&id=163725"><b>Dan Roam</b></a> <i>Pres</i>, <b>Digital Roam Inc</b></li> </ul> <p> It's going to be an awesome discussion. I hope we'll see you there! </p> http://commoncraft.com/going-sxsw-come-our-panel-shift-happens#comments conference event speaking SXSW visualthinking Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:48:53 +0000 leelefever 7031 at http://commoncraft.com Going to SXSW? Come to Our Panel "Shift Happens" http://commoncraft.com/going-sxsw-come-our-panel-shift-happens <p> <a href="http://sxsw.com/interactive/talks/panels?action=show&id=IAP0900080"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3185/3284743689_fe3bb22f77.jpg?v=0" alt="sxsw-interactive-125 by you." title="sxsw-interactive-125 by you." onload="show_notes_initially();" class="reflect" align="right" height="125" width="125" /></a> Sachi and will be heading down to <a href="http://sxsw.com/interactive/">South-by-Southwest Interactive</a> (SXSWi) March 13th-17th and I hope we'll see you there. We'll have plenty of <a href="/yaay-common-craft-stickers">stickers</a> - just ask! </p> <p> I'll also be speaking, along with an excellent group of folks from the visual thinking world, at a panel discussion called "<a href="http://sxsw.com/interactive/talks/panels?action=show&id=IAP0900080">Shift Happens - Moving From Word to Pictures</a>." The panel is on <b>Monday (3/16) at <strike>5pm</strike> 10am.</b> </p> <p> Other panelists include: </p> <ul> <li> <a href="http://sxsw.com/interactive/talks/panels?action=bio&id=168550"><b>Sunni Brown</b></a> <i>Owner</i>, <b>BrightSpot Info Design</b><br /> </li> <li> <a href="http://sxsw.com/interactive/talks/panels?action=bio&id=188032"><b>Tom Crawford</b></a> CEO, <b>VizThink</b> </li> <li> <a href="http://sxsw.com/interactive/talks/panels?action=bio&id=189642"><b>Dave Gray</b></a> Chairman, <b>XPLANE</b><br /> </li> <li> <a href="http://sxsw.com/interactive/talks/panels?action=bio&id=163725"><b>Dan Roam</b></a> <i>Pres</i>, <b>Digital Roam Inc</b></li> </ul> <p> It's going to be an awesome discussion. I hope we'll see you there! </p> http://commoncraft.com/going-sxsw-come-our-panel-shift-happens#comments conference event speaking SXSW visualthinking Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:48:53 +0000 leelefever 7031 at http://commoncraft.com Going to SXSW? Come to Our Panel "Shift Happens" http://commoncraft.com/going-sxsw-come-our-panel-shift-happens <p> <a href="http://sxsw.com/interactive/talks/panels?action=show&id=IAP0900080"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3185/3284743689_fe3bb22f77.jpg?v=0" alt="sxsw-interactive-125 by you." title="sxsw-interactive-125 by you." onload="show_notes_initially();" class="reflect" align="right" height="125" width="125" /></a> Sachi and will be heading down to <a href="http://sxsw.com/interactive/">South-by-Southwest Interactive</a> (SXSWi) March 13th-17th and I hope we'll see you there. We'll have plenty of <a href="/yaay-common-craft-stickers">stickers</a> - just ask! </p> <p> I'll also be speaking, along with an excellent group of folks from the visual thinking world, at a panel discussion called "<a href="http://sxsw.com/interactive/talks/panels?action=show&id=IAP0900080">Shift Happens - Moving From Word to Pictures</a>." The panel is on <b>Monday (3/16) at <strike>5pm</strike> 10am.</b> </p> <p> Other panelists include: </p> <ul> <li> <a href="http://sxsw.com/interactive/talks/panels?action=bio&id=168550"><b>Sunni Brown</b></a> <i>Owner</i>, <b>BrightSpot Info Design</b><br /> </li> <li> <a href="http://sxsw.com/interactive/talks/panels?action=bio&id=188032"><b>Tom Crawford</b></a> CEO, <b>VizThink</b> </li> <li> <a href="http://sxsw.com/interactive/talks/panels?action=bio&id=189642"><b>Dave Gray</b></a> Chairman, <b>XPLANE</b><br /> </li> <li> <a href="http://sxsw.com/interactive/talks/panels?action=bio&id=163725"><b>Dan Roam</b></a> <i>Pres</i>, <b>Digital Roam Inc</b></li> </ul> <p> It's going to be an awesome discussion. I hope we'll see you there! </p> http://commoncraft.com/going-sxsw-come-our-panel-shift-happens#comments conference event speaking SXSW visualthinking Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:48:53 +0000 leelefever 7031 at http://commoncraft.com Going to SXSW? Come to Our Panel "Shift Happens" http://commoncraft.com/going-sxsw-come-our-panel-shift-happens <p> <a href="http://sxsw.com/interactive/talks/panels?action=show&id=IAP0900080"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3185/3284743689_fe3bb22f77.jpg?v=0" alt="sxsw-interactive-125 by you." title="sxsw-interactive-125 by you." onload="show_notes_initially();" class="reflect" align="right" height="125" width="125" /></a> Sachi and will be heading down to <a href="http://sxsw.com/interactive/">South-by-Southwest Interactive</a> (SXSWi) March 13th-17th and I hope we'll see you there. We'll have plenty of <a href="/yaay-common-craft-stickers">stickers</a> - just ask! </p> <p> I'll also be speaking, along with an excellent group of folks from the visual thinking world, at a panel discussion called "<a href="http://sxsw.com/interactive/talks/panels?action=show&id=IAP0900080">Shift Happens - Moving From Word to Pictures</a>." The panel is on <b>Monday (3/16) at <strike>5pm</strike> 10am.</b> </p> <p> Other panelists include: </p> <ul> <li> <a href="http://sxsw.com/interactive/talks/panels?action=bio&id=168550"><b>Sunni Brown</b></a> <i>Owner</i>, <b>BrightSpot Info Design</b><br /> </li> <li> <a href="http://sxsw.com/interactive/talks/panels?action=bio&id=188032"><b>Tom Crawford</b></a> CEO, <b>VizThink</b> </li> <li> <a href="http://sxsw.com/interactive/talks/panels?action=bio&id=189642"><b>Dave Gray</b></a> Chairman, <b>XPLANE</b><br /> </li> <li> <a href="http://sxsw.com/interactive/talks/panels?action=bio&id=163725"><b>Dan Roam</b></a> <i>Pres</i>, <b>Digital Roam Inc</b></li> </ul> <p> It's going to be an awesome discussion. I hope we'll see you there! </p> http://commoncraft.com/going-sxsw-come-our-panel-shift-happens#comments conference event speaking SXSW visualthinking Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:48:53 +0000 leelefever 7031 at http://commoncraft.com Going to SXSW? Come to Our Panel "Shift Happens" http://commoncraft.com/going-sxsw-come-our-panel-shift-happens <p> <a href="http://sxsw.com/interactive/talks/panels?action=show&id=IAP0900080"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3185/3284743689_fe3bb22f77.jpg?v=0" alt="sxsw-interactive-125 by you." title="sxsw-interactive-125 by you." onload="show_notes_initially();" class="reflect" align="right" height="125" width="125" /></a> Sachi and will be heading down to <a href="http://sxsw.com/interactive/">South-by-Southwest Interactive</a> (SXSWi) March 13th-17th and I hope we'll see you there. We'll have plenty of <a href="/yaay-common-craft-stickers">stickers</a> - just ask! </p> <p> I'll also be speaking, along with an excellent group of folks from the visual thinking world, at a panel discussion called "<a href="http://sxsw.com/interactive/talks/panels?action=show&id=IAP0900080">Shift Happens - Moving From Word to Pictures</a>." The panel is on <b>Monday (3/16) at <strike>5pm</strike> 10am.</b> </p> <p> Other panelists include: </p> <ul> <li> <a href="http://sxsw.com/interactive/talks/panels?action=bio&id=168550"><b>Sunni Brown</b></a> <i>Owner</i>, <b>BrightSpot Info Design</b><br /> </li> <li> <a href="http://sxsw.com/interactive/talks/panels?action=bio&id=188032"><b>Tom Crawford</b></a> CEO, <b>VizThink</b> </li> <li> <a href="http://sxsw.com/interactive/talks/panels?action=bio&id=189642"><b>Dave Gray</b></a> Chairman, <b>XPLANE</b><br /> </li> <li> <a href="http://sxsw.com/interactive/talks/panels?action=bio&id=163725"><b>Dan Roam</b></a> <i>Pres</i>, <b>Digital Roam Inc</b></li> </ul> <p> It's going to be an awesome discussion. I hope we'll see you there! </p> http://commoncraft.com/going-sxsw-come-our-panel-shift-happens#comments conference event speaking SXSW visualthinking Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:48:53 +0000 leelefever 7031 at http://commoncraft.com Help Us Speak at SXSW http://commoncraft.com/help-us-speak-sxsw <p> It seems like a long way off, but South-by-Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) is just around the corner (March 2009). At the moment, the public is voting on what speaking panels should be accepted for the event. When the voting finishes (August 29, 2008) the SXSW staff will consider the results of the voting when deciding what panels will be picked. </p> <p> I say all this because I hope you'll <a href="http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/836">vote for our panel</a>. :) Here are the details: </p> <p> <a href="http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/836"><b>Shift Happens: Moving from Words to Pictures</b></a> </p> <p> <b>Description: </b>People are hardwired for visualization yet we rely significantly on text. Most games, graphic novels, magazines, interfaces, IKEA instructions, and many other forms of communication take advantage of people’s natural visual thinking ability. Panelists will discuss how to leverage visual techniques to improve your games, websites, movies, communications, or presentations.<b><br /> </b> </p> <p> <b>My fellow panelists</b> include <a href="http://digitalroam.com/">Dan Roam</a>, author of <a href="http://www.thebackofthenapkin.com/">The Back of the Napkin</a>, <a href="http://communicationnation.blogspot.com/">Dave Grey</a>, Founder and Chairman of <a href="http://www.xplane.com">Xplane</a> and two Austin, Texas natives <a href="http://eyescience.blogspot.com/">Sunni Brown</a> and <a href="http://marilynmartinconsulting.com/">Marilyn Martin</a>. I'm so honored to be a part of this group. Thanks to Tom Crawford as <a href="http://www.vizthink.com/">VizThink</a> for getting the ball rolling. </p> <p> We'd love to have <a href="http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/836">your vote</a>, pretty please? </p> http://commoncraft.com/help-us-speak-sxsw#comments conference events speaking SXSW visualthinking Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:21:36 +0000 leelefever 6953 at http://commoncraft.com Help Us Speak at SXSW http://commoncraft.com/help-us-speak-sxsw <p> It seems like a long way off, but South-by-Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) is just around the corner (March 2009). At the moment, the public is voting on what speaking panels should be accepted for the event. When the voting finishes (August 29, 2008) the SXSW staff will consider the results of the voting when deciding what panels will be picked. </p> <p> I say all this because I hope you'll <a href="http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/836">vote for our panel</a>. :) Here are the details: </p> <p> <a href="http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/836"><b>Shift Happens: Moving from Words to Pictures</b></a> </p> <p> <b>Description: </b>People are hardwired for visualization yet we rely significantly on text. Most games, graphic novels, magazines, interfaces, IKEA instructions, and many other forms of communication take advantage of people’s natural visual thinking ability. Panelists will discuss how to leverage visual techniques to improve your games, websites, movies, communications, or presentations.<b><br /> </b> </p> <p> <b>My fellow panelists</b> include <a href="http://digitalroam.com/">Dan Roam</a>, author of <a href="http://www.thebackofthenapkin.com/">The Back of the Napkin</a>, <a href="http://communicationnation.blogspot.com/">Dave Grey</a>, Founder and Chairman of <a href="http://www.xplane.com">Xplane</a> and two Austin, Texas natives <a href="http://eyescience.blogspot.com/">Sunni Brown</a> and <a href="http://marilynmartinconsulting.com/">Marilyn Martin</a>. I'm so honored to be a part of this group. Thanks to Tom Crawford as <a href="http://www.vizthink.com/">VizThink</a> for getting the ball rolling. </p> <p> We'd love to have <a href="http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/836">your vote</a>, pretty please? </p> http://commoncraft.com/help-us-speak-sxsw#comments conference events speaking SXSW visualthinking Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:21:36 +0000 leelefever 6953 at http://commoncraft.com