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Smartphone doodles – is Samsung Galaxy Note my next phone?

I dumped my iPhone 4 for a (European version of the) Samsung Galaxy S2 this summer. Well, I actually dumped iOS for Android first – the choice of phone came second. I love my customized home screens and the control over my phone and being free of iTunes. I’ll stick around with Android for a while. Maybe my next phone will this upcoming Samsung Galaxy Note – it comes with a stylus. It would be to almost go full circle to my once beloved Handspring Prism I had ages ago. I really like the idea of a thin tipped stylus with my phone – doodling with your finger just isn’t the same thing. But then – I might not ever get “off the phone”…

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The Presentation Summit: The conference for presenters, presentation designers and powerpoint junkies | Better Presenting

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A couple of years ago I was randomly searching the world wide web for more on presentation design and came across an upcoming conference on PowerPoint in San Diego. Not too far from Sacramento, I decided at the spur of the moment to sign up and spent 3 awesome days with others like me, exploring presentations from all different angles. It’s a conference like no other and you leave energized and full of new knowledge.

This year, my 4th year as a patron, The Presentation Summit, the “conference for presenters, presentation designers and powerpoint junkies”, takes place in Austin, Texas and the seminars look just as good as usual.

Find more information at: www.presentationsummit.com

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Watching a keynote through sketchnotes

Craighton Berman made sketchnotes during the Internet Week – follow along as he draws while listening to Nicholas Kristof’s keynote. You don’t even have to listen to the keynote, but can enjoy the music and follow along and “hear” what Kristof says.

Check out more sketchnotes on Core77′s Sketchnote channel: www.core77.com/sketchnotes

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Offline table

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Putting my offline table in the studio to work.

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Creative lettering

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I attended Rachel Smith’s workshop on Creative Lettering earlier this week. Very inspiring workshop! I think I have to start every day doing some creative lettering.

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How to have more fun at work (if you have windows in your office)

This story out of Paris is fantastic: bored and creative (or just creative!) office workers in downtown Paris must have ransacked the office supply room and started making Post-IT art on the windows. Neighboring offices took the challenge and responded and now there are Post-IT art in windows all over Paris. Could this become a world wide trend? There is a Facebook page with pictures from around Paris (and other European cities) with some great, creative windows.

Sure wish we had neighbors across our studio. Maybe the birds would enjoy a little art show?

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Before the fear of drawing

I have set up a scribe station in my office and my 5-year old son stopped by for a visit the other day, took 5 seconds to look at the stick figures and faces I had been drawing, grabbed a chair, climbed up and took the markers and started drawing faces. No hesitation. We should all have elementary kids nearby in our offices – to show us how easy it is and how much fun it is to draw without fear of someone’s opinion on how it looks.

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When words visualize | Storytelling at its best

At this year’s TED, Sarah Kay received standing ovations for her talk “If I should have a daughter”. The talk is an extraordinary powerful example of storytelling and her way of telling her poetry (telling – because this is way beyond “reading”) really draws you in, almost makes you hold your breath.

She talks about her passion, spoken word poetry, as a way to understand the world and self.

“Everyone can communicate in some way, and everyone of us has stories, that the rest of us can learn from.”

It’s a beautiful talk – turn it on and let her words visualize and flow and listen to her stories.

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