Reasons to Use Digital Graphic Recording

It’s 2022 and if you’re like us, we’ve found several good reasons to use virtual and hybrid meetings alongside in-person events. Virtual meetings offer flexibility of attendance, are lower cost and have lower carbon emissions, to balance out those times when meeting on-site is the best or only way.

So we thought we’d bump this up to the top of your inbox: a few great reasons to incorporate digital graphic recording into your virtual events!

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Engage your attendees

• Catch and keep attention during physically and mentally demanding online events

• Human-made and relatable, graphic recording unfolds naturally and is easy to follow

• Visual notes:

  • Are creative, fun, and thought-provoking

  • Revisit and reinforce verbal information

  • Help event attendees

    • Focus on key ideas

    • See connections

    • Understand big picture

Connect your attendees’ experience and outcome

• Graphic recording works well for virtual, on-site, and hybrid events

• Give your attendees a unified meeting experience with clear takeaways

Make your event memorable

• “A picture is worth a thousand words.”    — people are predominantly visual learners

• Studies suggest that we reconsider the way we present information, source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4340450/

  • For memorability, information should include “diagrams, drawings, pictures & videos”

  • “The text should not be crowded, and important concepts must be well highlighted.”

Enjoy the perks of going digital

• Share what happened quickly and easily

  • Send in follow-up emails

  • Post to social media

  • Make prints

PS. Digital Graphic Recording is a climate-friendly option

Our virtual graphic recording is a low carbon emissions visual offering. In fact, we’re working to calculate what an average project weighs in terms of a carbon footprint. Stay tuned!