What Social Media Looks Like
I recently had the opportunity to deliver a Twitter Power 2.0 presentation at EventTech, an Event Marketer conference providing people in the event industry with the latest trends in technology.
My 45-minute presentation was initially going to illustrate the latest Twitter fails produced by some big brands. But something funny happened the night before. I accidentally deleted my presentation!
As soon as I had realized what I had done, I had to laugh. I had been working on the presentation for the past couple days, and I’d spent hours pulling together some great stuff.
In just a moment it was all gone and I was unable to recover the keynote document.
So I did what any respectable speaker would have done when it came time to deliver my talk the next day… I winged it!
I took questions from the audience, which naturally unlocked key parts of what I wanted to say anyhow. So the content managed to surface and several people told me that they found my talk highly valuable.
But that’s not the best part of this story.
EventTech hired a woman named Stephanie Crowley to come and do live graphic murals of several presentations, and mine was chosen to receive the treatment!
I don’t know how to explain what Stephanie does except to use this paragraph direct from her website, Chrysalis Solutions…
The mural captured key elements of my talk, including concepts of authenticity, relationship, bringing value, hiring the right people to manage your campaigns, and more.
Stephanie is a talented young lady, and her deliverable is one-of-a-kind. Since I didn’t have a Powerpoint presentation (a blessing in disguise), her work provided a fantastic visual for those who were at my session. They saw the concepts visually manifest before their eyes. Truly remarkable stuff.
This is a thumbnail of the image which was drawn on a VERY large paper canvas. Click the image or the link below to see the full-sized image.
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What a great story Joel – and the mural is fantastic too. Have just saved as my computer desktop as a great reminder of what to be focusing on. Appreciate you sharing this with us
Oh I hate these kinds of comments but geez Joel. .. awesome stuff!
Hi Joel! You talked about the remarkable features of Twitter:hiring people, managing your campaigns,authenticity, relationship, bringing value… and Twitter represents the social media in general. By the way, I want to say the mural looks so cool and creative!!!
What are you talking about, I always follow, because I think you are the one who succeeded in the IT business.
I just thanks so much dear Joel Coom .. know my situation here , all respect
Isn’t technology great. I had a similar situation with technology today when I committed to having an interview go live with mega best selling author Dr. & Master Zhi Gang Sha. I kept returning to audioacrobat to upload my skype/itunes interview and my 1pm EST post deadline came and went and then… of all days they said they were doing updates. Not a good time with a guest with over 100K of followers. Doh! So after I laughed at the irony it forced me to upload 10 minutes of the interview on youtube and have something to joke about on my wednesday newsletter! PS. The powerful chanting/ meditation is up now… it just was on a different timeline than my committed expectations. LOL! How would Stephanie depict promoting a spiritual teacher via divine timing?!