Archive for November, 2007
Friday, November 30th, 2007
Registrations are filling up quickly. Dave Gray's Sunday pre-conference workshopwas so popular we added an additional session on Saturday. Over 150 of your colleagues have already signed up for this exciting event. Karl Gude's pre-conference workshop, the MOMA tour, and the Cartoon Museum tour are all close to selling out as ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
We're excited to announce our next sponsor, Mindjet. Mindjet has been a significant player in the visual thinking space for almost 18 years. To find out more about Mindjet, check out their wiki page (http://wiki.vizthink.com/Mindjet) or to meet them in person register for the conference now at http://www.vizthink.com/registration.html).
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
We're very excited to announce the addition of Empressr as a sponsor for VizThink '08. They offer a very interesting web-based tool for creating and delivering online presentations. It's feature set makes it a powerful alternative to other desktop-based presentation tools. Lots of exciting announcements are expected in the upcoming ...
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Dave Gray, founder and CEO of Xplane, has just agreed to add another session to his pre-conference workshop. This very popular session sold out on Sunday, but now will be repeated on Saturday! It's the exact same session, so you'll be able to get the same great workshop. The details ...
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Our friend Chuck Frey over at Innovation Tools (http://innovationtools.com/) has just released the results of a very interesting new FREE survey about the use and future of web-based mind mapping technologies. Here's just a few of the questions that your peers responded to:
Where do you utilize web-based mind mapping tools?
What features ...
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Well, the time has come. We're wrapping up a few last minute details, but the draft of the conference agenda is scheduled to be released on Monday, December 3rd. It will include Session Titles, Facilitators, Dates, Times, and Rooms. We'll be adding more information to it and making it more ...
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Arguably one of the most frequently used (and therefore most popular) methods of visual thinking is the napkin sketch. How many times have you asked the wait staff at a restaurant for a pen to be able to demonstrate an idea to someone? It's even better when the restaurant has the ...
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
We're excited to announce the addition of Tom Wujec from Autodesk to the VizThink '08 agenda. He's a brilliant thinker, has written many books, and is in process of writing his latest book, BizViz: Using Images to Foster Innovation and Collaboration. The book covers a wide array of visual thinking ...
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
Initially the use of 3D imaging is seductive, but when and how is it best used? Bryan Christie is going to help us with that. Bryan's beautiful work has been include in major publications like Newsweek, WIRED, GQ, the New York Times, Conde Nast Portfolio, and many other publications.
This ...
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
We're excited to announce the addition of Jamie Nast and Susi Watson to the VizThink '08 agenda. Jamie is the author of Idea Mapping, an awesome book on the concepts and application of mind mapping. What's really exciting is that Jamie & Susi's session won't just be about concepts ...
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
We've got a lot of great sessions planned for VizThink '08. Almost all of them have been announced on the conference section of the wiki at http://wiki.vizthink.com/vizthink08. In the next week or so, we'll be announcing the entire schedule so you can begin to plan your event.
Many of the sessions ...
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Sunday, November 25th, 2007
A very exciting new session has been added to the Tuesday afternoon agenda. We're taking a small group of only 25 on a very special docent led tour of San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art. The tour will cover a variety of exhibits including the amazing work by Olafur Eliasson.
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Friday, November 16th, 2007
Seats at the conference are quickly filling up. The final early registration discount ends next Wednesday. There's only ONE spot left for Dave Gray's special Sunday pre-conference session. Be sure to register soon to reserve your space at:
http://www.vizthink.com/registration.html
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Monday, November 12th, 2007
We're close to wrapping up the announcements on the schedule for VizThink '08. We've announced almost 30 facilitators and 20 sessions already. Details on all of them can be found at http://wiki.vizthink.com/vizthink08. In early December, we'll be announcing the schedule of the various breakout sessions, so stay tuned.
While content design ...
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Sunday, November 11th, 2007
We're very excited to announce the addition of TheBrain as our latest sponsor and exhibitor at VizThink '08. In business since 1996, their software provides a powerful way for people to create, uncover, and display relationships and linkages within information. For more information on TheBrain, check out their wiki page at http://wiki.vizthink.com/TheBrain or ...
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Sunday, November 11th, 2007
While designing the content for the conference, we've worked hard to provide lots of hands-on activities to learn various Visual Thinking styles, approaches, and methodologies. However, sometimes the bigger challenge isn't knowing what's available, but instead how to implement Visual Thinking in your organization.
We're excited to announce the addition of ...
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Sunday, November 11th, 2007
Once again, we're excited to announce another great facilitator for the conference...Michael Martine from IBM. IBM has been a leader in the virtual world space from almost the very beginning. We're excited to have him lead a session on the use of 3D visualization for learning, communication, and tracking. To ...
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
We're very excited about the event and the community. We already have over 100 registrations for VizThink '08. The pre-conference workshops and cartoon museum tour are also almost full. Here's what's available:
Cartoon Museum Tour - only 17 spaces remain
Dave Gray's Pre-Conference Workshop - only 39 spaces remain
Karl Gude's Pre-Conference Workshop ...
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
We're very excited to announce Wacom as a sponsor and exhibitor for VizThink '08. Wacom has been a leader in computer-based drawing implements for almost 25 years. Their pens and tablets are on nearly every computer-based artist's desk. They even have tablets that double as screens for direct interaction with ...
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Sunday, November 4th, 2007
In a couple of recent posts (1 and 2), we asked (and you answered) "Who are visual thinkers? How would you picture the community?" We received some great responses. Here are couple recent entries. First, this beautiful picture created by Nancy Duarte:
Then we've also added the visual definition from Bob ...
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Sunday, November 4th, 2007
Things have been very busy around the VizThink and our facilitator offices. Lot's of new details and sessions have been posted. Be sure to check out some of the great sessions like:
Karl Gude's Pre-Conference Workshop: How to Communicate Visually Using Infographics
Lee LeFever's Breakout Session: In Plain English: Fighting Complexity with ...
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Friday, November 2nd, 2007
We're very excited to announce TechSmith as a sponsor and exhibitor for VizThink '08 in San Francisco this January. TechSmith has been around for many years creating great software and tools for a variety of industries. One of the first and still very popular is SnagIt, a powerful screen capture ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Bruce Daniel from Cartifact is an expert on wayfinding, navigation, and mapping. His session promises to be very interesting and hands on. Participants will be learning how to build fully functional maps that have no words, no numbers, and no labels...only visuals. To find out more details about him and his ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
http://wiki.vizthink.com
That's right, today's a big news day at VizThink! We've launched a new wiki for the Visual Thinking community. Here's just some of the things it will contain:
Conference session details - including bios, descriptions, additional materials, outputs, notes (mind maps, sketches, etc), photographs, video & audio recordings, etc.
Visual thinking encyclopedia ...
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