Archive for September, 2007
Sunday, September 30th, 2007
Who are visual thinkers? Anybody who uses any of the visual arts for learning or communication. Easy said, hard to picture.
So, we'd like to enlist the community to help us out. How would you picture the community? Which groups are involved? What roles are involved? How are the groups related ...
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Sunday, September 30th, 2007
We're excited to announce our newest sponsors for VizThink '08, Xplane and Digital Asset Deployment (D.A.D.).
D.A.D. is a business incubator, based in Madrid, Spain. They focus on community & Internet-based businesses.
Xplane creates information-driven communications. They use visualization to convey complex ideas, processes, and services to improve decisions and speed action.
In ...
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Friday, September 28th, 2007
By popular demand, we've extended our early registration discount until October 24th. Many of you, especially our corporate customers requested an extension in order to allow enough time to get the appropriate approvals. So, we thought we'd extend it for everybody.
Also, be sure to check the website and blog frequently ...
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Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
...3D to be specific. Our goal is to create a community of people from all forms of the visual arts for learning and communication, and 3D is no exception. There is a lot of research going on in virtual worlds and serious games. Does 3D matter? If so, when does it matter? What can be done ...
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Monday, September 17th, 2007
While we've certainly been talking a lot about the conference, the goal of VizThink is to create a global, sustainable community of visual thinkers with the conference as a launch.
However, lots of community work is already been done at a grass roots level, and our next facilitator, Ryan Coleman, is a ...
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Sunday, September 9th, 2007
We're really excited about how the content is shaping up for VizThink '08. We've got some of the industries greatest thinkers coming together to share what they've been working on. However, it's not all theory and research. In fact most of the content will be oriented around small group discussion, ...
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Friday, September 7th, 2007
We can't tell you how excited we are about this next announcement...Scott McCloud is going to be facilitating at VizThink '08!!! Scott has written several books that are ostensibly about comics, however, in our opinion, have more to do with visualization, communication, and especially storytelling. His books should be required reading ...
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Thursday, September 6th, 2007
Christine Martell adds another interesting dimension and approach to visualization and facilitation. Sometimes, people feel intimidated with creative activities like drawing. While using photos avoids that stress and allows people to still tap their inner creativity. The photos are compiled and organized by the participants to creatively describe their situation and solve their problems. ...
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Thursday, September 6th, 2007
We often talk about the use of visual language and the ability of visuals to communicate. Neil Cohn has taken that to heart. He believes that like spoken and written languages, there is also a visual language with structure and grammar. His current research focuses on how this language is ...
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Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
Probably one of the most maligned yet most used forms of business communication is the presentation. Since the days of Harvard Graphics 1.0 over 20 years ago, the power to make presentations moved from the professional presentation designer into the hands of users everywhere. As with all things new (remember ...
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