I attended the Behance 99% Conference last month. It was a conference for creative professionals about how to get things done. As a former conference planner and attendee of conferences large and small, I have to say that this was one of the most organized and well done conferences I have attended in a long time. Especially since it was their first one. I would recommend it to anyone (creative or wannabe) in the future.
My favorite speaker (next to Seth Godin, ofcourse), was Scott Thomson. If you are an avid reader of my blog, you will remember that I wrote a post in mid-April titled, Lessons on community organizing from the Barack Obama Campaign. Scott Thomson was the lead designer for MyBarackObama.com. His speech was great – engaging slides (with little type), well organized ideas and he connected with the audience. My favorite line of his was, “Designing and building the community was like building a plane in mid-flight.” I thought that was a great description of the times where you just have to get things done and move on. I look forward to seeing what he does next!
Here is a a video from his presentation.
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