Archive for the ‘Podcasts’ Category
Friday, June 20th, 2008
Earlier this week, we had the opportunity to sit down with Martin Eppler, Professor of Information and Communication Management at the University of Lugano in Switzerland. He has written eight books, mostly on knowledge communication, management, and visualization. His latest book is Ways of Knowing. You can learn more about his university work ...
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
UPDATE: The webinar was a fantastic success and has been published for viewing on our blog here.
Our webinar with presentation guru Nancy Duarte is one week from today on Tuesday, June 17th. You may know Nancy from her work on the presentation for Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth. This ...
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Last week, I was interviewed for a podcast by Aaron Munter and Christine Martell from ASTD's Cascadia chapter. For those who aren't familiar, ASTD (or the American Society for Training and Development) is a global organization for training and learning. They have many regional chapters and this one happens to be the ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Today is Ryan Coleman's first day at VizThink. We thought a great way to start off his first day would be with a podcast to let the visual thinking community know a little bit about him and the plans for his new role as our Chief Community Evangelist. It's a ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Today is the launch of Luke Wroblewski's new book, Web Form Design. For a review of the book, check out our recent blog post. During the podcast, Luke answers a variety of questions such as:
Why web form design is important
If form design is everywhere and easy, why are ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
In the visual thinking community, we frequently use the term visual language. Some would say that it gets used pretty loosely. So, today we began that discussion with 3 experts in our field in order to begin to understand what visual language really means. Neil Cohn, Yuri Engelhardt, and Dave ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Watch or listen this 2 minute, 3 second podcast for information about new regional communities and upcoming events including the VizThink London community:
Hint: Use the Full Screen Button to see this video in greater detail.
You may also download the audio here...
MP3 Audio File
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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 ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
We always expected that there would be immergence at the conference, though during planning we weren't sure exactly how it would show up. Sure, we thought that groups would get together, new relationships would be built, and new ideas would be formed. We also knew that people would be open ...
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Today, we had the opportunity to sit down with Chuck Frey, the author of the Mind Mapping Software blog (http://mindmapping.typepad.com/), the most extensive web-based resource available for those interested in learning about mapping.
During our discussion, we talked about a variety of topics including:
What is mind mapping?
Paper versus computer-assisted mapping
The history ...
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Yesterday, we had the opportunity to sit down with Noah Iliinsky and discuss his approach to diagram design. We talked about a number of topics including:
What is complexity?
Complexity versus complicated
Complexity versus simplicity
Visual methods of displaying multiple data sets at once
How goals can impact the design
How the context of the audience ...
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
At VizThink '08, Dave Gray gave a 12-minute segment on How to Draw a Stick Figure. Karl Gude has continued that thought with 3 more videos on How to Draw a Human Eye, How to Draw in Two-Point Perspective, and How to Draw a Ball and a Cone. He promises ...
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
This past week, Tom had the opportunity to do an interview with Rodolfo Carpintier from Baquia TV while in Madrid, Spain. In these 3 short (less than 5 minutes each) video clips, we discuss the recent San Francisco event, the European event this fall, and the future of the VizThink ...
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
As the days speed toward the conference, now only 19 days away, I get more and more excited about the possibilities. Today was no exception. We had the privelege of spending time with Nigel Holmes on our next podcast. Nigel was the graphics director at Time and has had work ...
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
What is visual language? How does culture impact visual languge? Does the language have structure and sequence? What research is being done in this area? If you want to know the answers to these and many more questions, check out our latest podcast and attend VizThink '08.
We had a great ...
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Thursday, December 27th, 2007
Here is our 3rd in an ongoing series of podcasts on visual thinking. This week's topic was graphic recording and faciliation with industry veterans Eileen Clegg and Christine Valenza. During the example-filled call, we use their 5 R's (Relationships, Resonance, Rest, Reflection, and Relevance) as a framework to discussion how graphic ...
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Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
This is the second in our ongoing series of podcasts from leading people and companies in the visual thinking space. The interview is with Tony Dunckel, Product Manager of SnagIt and Jing.
Duration: 28 minutes, 54 seconds
Topics Covered:
How did TechSmith get started?
How has SnagIt evolved?
How does Camtasia compare to SnagIt?
How does SnagIt ...
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Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
Today we did our first VizThink podcast. The topic was Idea Mapping, and we were honored to have idea mapping experts Jamie Nast, author of the book Idea Mapping, and Susi Watson, Creative Director at For Balance.
Duration: 32 minutes, 10 seconds
Topics Covered:
What is idea mapping?
How does idea mapping compare and ...
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