sacha chua living an awesome life

I sketchnoted TEDxOCADU live, and my new workflow is working out well. I’ve been moving more of my sketchnotes over to experivis.com – do folks still want to see them here? Might be handy. Anyway, I like reflecting on what worked well and what I can do even better, so this blog is still the best place for that.

For TEDxOCADU, here were my experiments:

Set up all the layers and saved them as placeholder PNGs beforehand so that I didn’t have to type in filenames or look up speaker names.

• Sketched during the dress rehearsal, and reused many of my images during the actual conference: great for knowing where people are going, although I still stuck with fairly regular layout.
• Used Dropbox to get the Twitter links, copied the URLs, and set up my list of hashtagged and linked tweets using ClipMate: great for tweeting things on the fly with just my laptop
• Set up a gallery page for updating throughout the day
• Set up a bit.ly link to track clicks for my gallery page
• Double-checked WiFi access: so much better than tethering through my phone
• Followed up with social media / web person in case they needed help getting the images up on the official site
• Eventually remembered to set up Google Analytics on experivis.com – added this to the checklist of things to do when spinning up a website…

Here are some things I can tweak next:

• Add more images to my ClipMate library
• Have a smoother delegation workflow so that I can get my sketchnotes typed in
• Figure out how to integrate text into the gallery view; maybe project-sketchnote relationship?
• More graphics! More! More!
• Don’t forget to have Archivist or some other Twitter archiver running in the background
• Consider Tweetreach or some other Twitter analytics report?
• Set up tracking links for each image, too, or always send people to the gallery page

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