Archive for March, 2008

Research: Visualization for Learning (Only 3 Days Left)

Friday, March 28th, 2008

For those who are thinking about sending in examples for our Visualization for Learning research project, there are only 3 days left.  The deadline is Monday, March 31st, 2008. Teaching and training have traditionally been heavily textual. However, as evidenced by the number of people in training & learning at our event ...

Chicago & New York Visual Thinking Workshops

Monday, March 24th, 2008

Want to hone your visual thinking skills?  Couldn't catch Dave and Karl's workshops or breakout sessions in San Francisco?  Then we've got just the thing for you.  We're excited to announce the newest addition to the VizThink community:  Workshops.  These 1-day sessions will be run across the country with our ...

New Website Launched!

Monday, March 24th, 2008

What is VizThink?  Are you just about conferences?  What is visual thinking?  What do you mean when you say community?  These are just a few of the questions we get all the time, and we're working hard to answer them not just with words, but with actions.  the first is ...

Book Review: Back of the Napkin by Dan Roam

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Over the next 12 months, there are a number of new books coming out related to visual thinking many of which are from facilitators at our most recent conference.  The first of these is from Dan Roam and his new book, The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling ...

Conference Visualization

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Many things are going on in the visual thinking community and the blogs (see the blog role along the side) have been capturing much of it.  Two of our facilitators and one of our attendees from VizThink '08 were involved in a significant visualization effort for one of the most ...

Research: Visualization for Learning

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

While you may know us so far from our events, our primary goal is to grow and support the visual thinking community.  Over the next 6 weeks there will be several announcements about services we're offering the community.  One of the services we're offering is research.  Some will be high-level ...

Upcoming VizThink Events

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

  There's lots of exciting things going on at VizThink.  Our first announcement is about the 6th meeting of our regional community in Toronto (http://wiki.vizthink.com/toronto) on Tuesday, March 25.  Over 30 people are already registered for this free event.  For this event, the group will be exploring the visual thinking world, ...

The Back of the Napkin

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

One of the things that became apparent while planning VizThink in San Francisco is that the visual thinking world is about to explode again with a number of  new books in various stages of development.  There are books providing an overview of the entire visual thinking space, books on visual language itself, and, of course, ...