by Rob Cottingham | May 7, 2010 | Social Signal
Graphic recording has long held a certain fascination for me: the idea of capturing the ideas and emotions of a speech, workshop or meeting on paper, as the event progresses. (Nancy White‘s graphic record of my Northern Voice keynote last year remains one of my happiest public speaking experiences.)
Rachel Smith of the New Media Consortium delivered a quick but info-packed presentation at MooseCamp on graphical recording on the iPad – which is a pretty good answer to the question “If Rob could attend any conceivable session at Northern Voice, what would it be about?” She’s one of the leading lights in the field, and she’s understandably jazzed about the iPad’s potential.
Unlike me, she doesn’t use a stylus; because she works in so many colours, it’s inconvenient to have to put it down, swipe to bring up a colour chooser, and pick it up again.
Here are my notes – drawn, naturally, on an iPad. (The resources I noted from her and Nancy are The Grove Consultants, Nancy Marguiles and the term “digital scribing” – Rachel suggested Googling it would produce much win.)
by Rob Cottingham | May 7, 2010 | Social Signal
David Ng‘s talk on Phylo – a trading-card game inspired by the study showing kids can identify more Pokémon characters than actual local species – rocked the house, not least because he had us do Chewbacca impersonations.
by Rob Cottingham | May 7, 2010 | Social Signal
Is there such a thing as too much clarity?
Northern Voice 2010 got off to a great start this morning with Bryan Alexander‘s opening keynote, a call for us to embrace mystery in the online world. He surveyed the terrain of mainstream fear-mongering around the Internet (“Facebook can give you syphilis!”) (I’m actually willing to hear that case being made) before suggesting that some degree of genuine mystery can offer a tremendously engaging experience.
I captured some of it on the iPad:
by Rob Cottingham | Feb 20, 2008 | Blogging, Technology, Vancouver
In honour of this weekend’s Northern Voice conference, my first forays into a whole new world of art: the LOLmoose. (Okay, okay… I’m new at this thing, and I’m 44 years old. Cut me some slack…) by Rob Cottingham | Feb 20, 2008 | Blogging, Communicating, Conferences and workshops, Online Community, Vancouver
I’ll be speaking about crisis communications and the social web on Saturday at Northern Voice, the kick-ass Vancouver-based blogging conference now in its fourth year: Imagine a situation where all eyes are on you or your organization, and you need to...