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type: CatalogIndex
title: "Visual Strategy Insights & Blog"
description: "A directory of visual guides, ROI playbooks, and strategic sketching insights."
resource: https://www.bigpaperstrategy.com/blog/
---

# Blog Catalog

A catalog of articles detailing meeting facilitation tips, visual ROI, sketching checklists, and design processes.

## Concepts

* [Facilitating a Brainstorming Session](brainstorm-facilitator.md) - Running a brainstorming event as a graphic facilitator means three roles - guiding the conversation, instilling creativity, and illutrating the discussion.
* [Client Conferences: The Essential Content Checklist for Attendee Engagement](client-conference-checklist.md) - Client Conference content idea list: realize training, roundtables, and more—and discover how live illustration honors and inspires.
* [Eleven Types of Conference Artists](conference-artists.md) - Illustrators, Poets, Calligraphers and Actors- Find out our top 11 artist types that you can hire for your tradeshow or conference.
* [Conference Sketch Artist: The Value of Taking Note-Taking off Your Attendee’s Plate](conference-sketch-artist.md) - A Conference Sketch Artist will illustrate the spoken content of your event. Generate FOMO, happy attendees, and improved understanding.
* [23 Creative Meeting Venues in Ohio](creative-meeting-venues-in-ohio.md) - Choose your next Ohio meeting location with this list of unique venues. Choose between museums, art studios, coworking hotspots + hotels!
* [A Brainstorming Session to Cure Type 1 Diabetes](creativity-medical-research.md) - Showcasing brainstorming techniques to create concepts for medical breakthroughs. This particular session for T1D was graphically recorded and shared here.
* [Drawing Substantially Activates the Brain to Learn and Understand](drawing-is-learning.md) - Drawing is the best method to learn a set of facts or complex topics. Research + practical experts alike have identified drawing as the top multi-modal action.
* [Fiery Speakers and Introspective Group Discussions- Drawn Live](fiery-speakers-and-introspective-group-discussions-drawn-live.md) - March was a busy month in graphic recording.  I drew for a a Bringing America Back to Life conference and a national gathering of leaders for a specific denomination.  The projects were a mix of recording discussions among those gathered, and fast recording of fiery speakers in keynote addresses. Checkout some images below. One of …
* [13 Ways to Use a Graphic Recorder at your Conference or Trade Show](graphic-recorder-ideas.md) - Go Beyond Keynotes and Utilize Graphic Recording to connect attendees, exhibitors and sponsors through new shareable visual methodologies!
* [A Graphic Recorder in Ohio](graphic-recorder-ohio.md) - Matt Orley is a graphic recorder based in Ohio. This post outlines several of the Ohio events he has live-illustrated.
* [How to Use Graphic Recorders for a Conference with Workshops](graphic-recorders-conference-workshops.md) - Using multiple graphic recorders for a conference can have amazing benefits. Variations of backgrounds, along with more hands to draw can deliver on creativity.
* [Recording a Board Meeting with Illustrations](graphic-recording-a-board-meeting.md) - This organization's Board Meeting's notes were visually captured with a live graphic recorder in attendance. This visual provided a level of engagement, and response.
* [Graphic Recording Pricing Guide](graphic-recording-pricing-guide.md) - How much should you expect to pay a graphic recorder, scribe, or meeting artist for your conference or meeting?  This article (from a provider) details the reasoning behind pricing and what you should expect.
* [Live Illustrated Keynotes in 2020 and 2021](keynote-live-illustrating.md) - Keynote Addresses Live Illustrated as Graphic Recordings and Digital Sketchnotes. These examples showcase Big Paper Strategy LLC.
* [Building a Kid Entrepreneur](kid-entrepreneur.md) - Here are four areas in which parents can influence their child entrepreneurs. Encouragement, Education, Investment, and Reward. Many ideas in each category
* [Is AI Telling Your Attendees “No”? How Live Illustration Turns Justification into a “Yes.”](live-illustration-event-roi-justification.md) - Boost event ROI and attendee engagement with Live Illustration. Transform conferences content into visual narratives that prove event value.
* [Live Illustration Delivers Engagement at Scale](live-illustration-roi.md) - Going from Exuberant Comment to clear ROI of Live Illustration at your event is easy once you see all of the attendee touch points.
* [Live Sketching A Site Visitor Journey To Create A Sitemap With Your Client](live-sketching-sitemap.md) - Written by our own Matt Orley, this post originally appeared in smashingmagazine.com in December, 2019. Quick Summary: The sitemap meeting can be a minefield of multiple stakeholders, multi-dimensional categories, historical analytics, new products and mobile-first demands. Using a live illustration of a customer site journey, you can create a meaningful sitemap with which site visitors …
* [Meeting Illustrator Matt Orley adds Clarity and Vision to Gatherings](meeting-illustrator.md) - Meetings are a cacophony of spoken ideas, fleeting insights, and lengthy discussions. Meeting Illustration translates dynamic information into a form that’s not only engaging but also incredibly informative. Meeting Illustration is a vivid approach to business meetings that turns ordinary discussions into masterpieces of clarity and vision.  Matt Orley is one such illustrator. What is …
* [Why Managing Multiple Event Illustrators Matters](multiple-event-illustrators.md) - Experienced event illustrator with the acumen to manage multiple illustrator at a conference, meeting, or other event.
* [Enabling Vision Casting through a Holistic Graphic Recording](offsite-meeting-vision-casting.md) - A Vision Casting event is truly a group effort.  Management and Executives share the vision, while those in attendance seeing the vision can choose to accept, embrace and carry that vision forward, or honestly, see it as a myriad of new marching orders.  When Big Paper Strategy is involved, the acceptance rate goes way up …
* [Adding a Professional Doodler in Meetings and Conferences: Transforming Ideas into Visual Stories](professional-doodler.md) - Matt Orley is a professional doodler for conference sessions & meetings. Combining images with condensed text transforms event messaging.
* [Ten Components of a Successful Sales Meeting](sales-meeting-components.md) - These 10 ideas and directives will help you create a compelling and memorable sales meeting. Align your Schedule, Goals, Love and Messaging for success!
* [Speakers that I Love!](speakers.md) - I've had the privilege to listen to hundreds of speakers over the last several years.  Listening is my job, so I can spot an amazing speaker from several decibels away.  Some shine! Below is a short list of those shining speakers for keynote addresses, plenary sessions, and small workshops.  My criteria for inclusion in this …
* [Adventures in Live Illustration](stories.md) - Stories and Setups of past graphic recording projects.
* [Strategic Designer Revolutionizing Meetings with Real Time Live Illustration](strategic-designer.md) - Strategic Designer Matt Orley delivers crucial meeting cohesion through Live Illustration at meetings and events.
* [Tradeshow Floor Activations – Six Live Illustrator Examples](tradeshow-live-illustration-hand-drawn.md) - Hiring an illustrator to work in your trade show booth is one of the best investments you can make towards incredible attendee engagement.
* [User Conferences: Tips and Ideas to Maximize Feedback](user-conferences-feedback.md) - User Conferences are an opportunity to win user feedback for your software products. These game changing ideas will rock your schedule!
* [Meeting the Needs of Virtual Event Attendees](virtual-attendee-needs.md) - Improve your virtual attendee experience with these rock solid tips to improve their engagement, momentum, and sense of belonging.
* [How Live Illustration Can Simplify Complex Ideas and Bring your Event Attendees from Confusion to Clarity](why-live-illustration.md) - Live Illustration is a visual facilitation method that involves creating a visual representation of a conversation or presentation in real time.  One thing that I find is that it’s hard to explain to folks.  So I’ve done my best to craft together comments that I often hear from event attendees about how they benefit from …