May 5, 2004
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TEKKA: Photo Stories

The hard part of using a digital camera for work is knowing what you might want to photograph. Derrick Story covers this nicely in the new Tekka: Digital Storytelling for Conferences and Big Events.

No, we don't want to see more dim, fuzzy pictures in which a microscopic key note speaker is barely visible from the second balcony. But we do want pictures: that's as true for your Trip Report after a business conference as anywhere else. Your company just spent a couple of grand, paying you to fly somewhere else; the trip report's the product that gives this expense a hope of lasting payoff within the company. Images, used wisely, matter.

The key isn't getting a better camera or better photo ops with Bill Gates. The key is knowing which pictures you need to tell your story -- and remembering to take them when the story is still unfolding.

TEKKA: Photo Stories
"Heathrow. Three hours into my scheduled five-hour wait. It was 3am back in Bosthe pictures you may need to tell the story, and give yourself the best chance of being able to tell it well.