{"id":548,"date":"2008-04-04T13:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T19:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/?p=548"},"modified":"2008-04-04T13:09:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T19:09:00","slug":"nsasa-convention-2008-alan-stevens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/nsasa-convention-2008-alan-stevens\/","title":{"rendered":"NSASA Convention 2008 &#8212; Alan Stevens"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }<\/style>\n<div class=\"flickr-frame\">\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/royblumenthal\/2386792101\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3171\/2386792101_be2eddaa93.jpg?w=605\" class=\"flickr-photo\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\t<span class=\"flickr-caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/royblumenthal\/2386792101\/\">NSASA Convention 2008 &#8212; Alan Stevens<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/royblumenthal\/\">royblumenthal<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"flickr-yourcomment\">\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediacoach.co.uk\">Alan Stevens<\/a> is a UK-based keynote speaker, conference host, and after-dinner speaker. Amongst other things, he coaches people on how to be more media-savvy. <\/p>\n<p>His keynote at the <a href=\"http:\/\/nsasouthafrica.co.za\/\">NSASA<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/nsasouthafrica.co.za\/convention2008\">Convention 2008<\/a> was all about getting free publicity, and how it&#8217;s really worth a fortune.<\/p>\n<p>Which is why the name &#8216;Alan Stevens&#8217; is all over this post. It&#8217;s cos he&#8217;s worthy of the publicity. He&#8217;s an expert at what he does. And really understands the world of media.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s going to be interviewing me sometime this weekend about visual facilitation for his podcast. That&#8217;ll be great. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/royblumenthal\/sets\/72157604379642070\/\">Here are the pics<\/a> I&#8217;ve made so far at the NSASA convention, 2008. <\/p>\n<p>The National Speakers Association of Southern Africa has a convention every year.<\/p>\n<p>The three-day programme is crammed with top-notch, high-level speakers. And that&#8217;s just the audience members!<\/p>\n<p>On the podium are the cream of the crop.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sitting in the room with my trusty tablet pc attached to a video projector. Each session, I pay serious attention to what&#8217;s being said, and I paint my interpretation of the ideas being delivered.<\/p>\n<p>My role is to supplement the speaker, not to overshadow them. I try to gauge the tenor of the speaker&#8217;s talk, and angle my pictures towards their particular personal style of delivery.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s making me very happy to find that people in the room are happy with what I&#8217;m doing.<\/p>\n<p>All of the pictures here are available for free download, and may be used for whatever purposes you see fit, within the boundaries of the Creative Commons License I release all of my work under. <\/p>\n<p>Please take a look at the title deed: <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0\/deed.en_GB\">Creative Commons &#8212; Attribution, Share-Alike<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to everyone for allowing me to make a difference in the room.<\/p>\n<p><i>All of the paintings in this group are made live, on the fly, in the room, while the speaker is delivering his or her address. I currently use a Toshiba Tecra M4 tablet pc, running <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artrage.com\">ArtRage 2.5<\/a> painting software.<\/p>\n<p>I am a professional member of the National Speakers Association of Southern Africa. You can view my profile at <a href=\"http:\/\/snipurl.com\/roy--nsasa\">http:\/\/snipurl.com\/roy&#8211;nsasa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I am available for international gigs. Please email me on <a href=\"mailto:royblumenthal@gmail.com\">royblumenthal@gmail.com<\/a> or call me on my mobile: +27 74 104 6386 to book me.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Roy Blumenthal is a writer, director, artist, and <a href=\"http:\/\/snipurl.com\/visualfacilitator\">visual facilitator<\/a>. Hire him to make pictures of your meetings or workshops.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NSASA Convention 2008 &#8212; Alan Stevens, originally uploaded by royblumenthal. Alan Stevens is a UK-based keynote speaker, conference host, and after-dinner speaker. Amongst other things, he coaches people on how to be more media-savvy. 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