Without further ado I present the full video and transcript of my talk at Innotown 2011. I’ve given the summary and the long form story of my experience at Innotown in June of 2011.

Video, Transcript and more info on it when you Read the Rest!

This is a long and deep look at the behind-the-scenes of my trip to speak at Innotown in Norway a few months ago. From the first email, to my take on the city, architecture, pictures, boat rides and more importantly my talk and reality TV debut from my feature on Norway’s TV2 television station.

I’m the son of a retired army major and an interior designer. For this among other reasons you could say art runs in the family. All my exercise books and textbooks from pre-school all the way to Form 4 (12th grade) have drawings, sketches, cartoons and caricatures filled in them in the space that wasn’t marked for writing notes and any blank space or page.

So when I found out a while back that there’s people who’ve taken this into a very unique career, the likes of Austin Kleon and Mike Rohde I set out to make sure I start thinking visually and taking better sketchnotes of talks and speakers I listen to.

Which brings me to this blog post; Innotown is the most amazing conference I’ve ever been to. It was a life-changing and mind-blowing experience that had my brain tired from all the sponge-work it was doing. Listening, noting down and reflecting on the amazing lessons I was learning from 8 of the smartest people on the planet talking about innovation, technology, nature, the deep sea, marketing, social change, energy, music and nuclear science (yes, those two together) and finance and economics.

These are my sketchnotes.

Following the #mbgeeks Twitter Chat discussion hosted by Jesse Oguntimehin, last month I promised to write my thoughts out in a blog post to share and allow for the conversation to continue past Twitter.

I tackle 7 questions facing Social Media in business in Africa today.

Just over a month ago, I was in Sweden for CinemAfrica’s annual film festival. CinemAfrica is one of Europe’s respected African film festivals and takes place in the beautiful Swedish capital, Stockholm. I was glad to be African Animation Curator at the film festival for it’s first African animation focus and put together a 4 hour Forum with African animators, animated films and Swedish animation professionals. This is the story behind the event including animated films from Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda and pictures from my interactions with Swedish Television, Radio and the press. All this and more after the jump!