One of the first conferences I attended in northern Virginia was Frontline's Emerge Conference. At this two-day event, Ken Baugh used dry erase markers to illustrate Mclean Bible Church's ministry process. Those images never left my mind. They were conceptual; they were raw; they were half-baked. And I loved it. Here are just a few whiteboard uses from mainstream media...
In A Beautiful Mind, John Nash turns windows into whiteboards using a bar of soap.- In the TV show House, Dr. House's team uses a whiteboard to solve rare medical mysteries.
- The FBI in Without a Trace uses a whiteboard to chart clues and relationships related to missing persons.
- Tim Russert uses a hand-held whiteboard on election-nights to report voting results.
- In Numb3rs, Charlie Eppes solves murders by scribbling math formulas on windows and whiteboards.
I don't know what the Whiteboard speakers will say. But I'm hoping they'll share the rawest, most conceptual, even half-baked ideas that keep them up at night. I want inside the minds of ministry's most influential leaders. I don't want the same content as last month's conference. Sure, I'm organizing this event. But I'm very much coming as an attender.
Wow. What year(s) did you go to Emerge. I attended two years in a row. It would be amazing if were there at the same time! :-)
Posted by: Jumaine Jones | March 24, 2008 at 05:05 PM
I'll bet we were. It was 4-5 years ago... can't remember exact years.
Posted by: Ben Arment | March 25, 2008 at 08:45 AM