Archive for the ‘VizThink’ Category
Friday, June 27th, 2008
There are only 3 days left on our call for sessions for VizThink Europe '08 in Berlin on 12 October - 14 October. We're looking for the best of the best facilitators for our event. Do you have something to share? Be sure to get your idea in now. Our facilitators get ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
As you may have noticed in our earlier post today, June 25th is VizThink's one-year anniversary. One of the questions we get most often is, "How did VizThink get started?". So, we thought this might be a good time to re-tell that story:
The story begins quite a while before June ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
Today, June 25, 2008, is VizThink's official one-year anniversary! So, we thought we would use today to share a little bit more about us. One of the things many of you may not know about VizThink is that we're a completely virtual company. While the business address is in Portland, ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Mark your calendars to join us on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 for another VizThink webinar. Join Jamie Nast and Chuck Frey as we talk about mind mapping. Jamie is a mind mapping expert who teaches a variety of related classes, plus is the author of the very successful book, Idea Mapping Success. Chuck is the author ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
We're pleased to announce that on July 25, 2008, Dave Gray - visual communication guru and founder of XPLANE - is coming back Toronto, as part of VizThink's ongoing series of workshops.
During this workshop Dave will show you how to visualize your ideas so you can think and communicate with ...
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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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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Thanks again to everyone who contributed to last month's question on PowerPoint & Presentations - to see the responses & find out who won visit our post here - This month we're turning our sights on the technique of Mind Mapping.
Question of the Month
Mind Mapping at it's core is a ...
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
Wow. What a session. In our largest webinar to date, Nancy Duarte, principal of Duarte Design and one of the guru's behind Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth presentation , took over 135 people through her advice & thoughts on how to create powerful presentations.
Miss it?
You're in luck! We've packaged it ...
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
... seems to be the verdict.
Last month we asked the community "PowerPoint: A powerful tool poorly used or a poor tool overused?". We got a great set of responses and several people even took the time to craft some great posts on the topic for their own blogs.
Blog Posts:
For Successful ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
We're happy to announce the second VizThink Austin meeting! This session will explore a technique on spontaneous group learning and generate ideas around how to apply this learning in your lives the next day. And yes, the learning is centered on the application of visual thinking principles.
The event is capped at ...
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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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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
You may have already noticed that our website (http://www.vizthink.com) has been redesigned. Along with a pretty significant redesign, there is some new content. Over the next 3 weeks, there will be quite a bit more new content as well including webinars, podcasts, events, and articles.
While the new design and content ...
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
Karl Gude is back in a new, 2-minute video answering the question:
What Five Things Would you Tell a Journalist to Look for to Assist in Illustrating a Story?
His response?
Statistics
Location
Timeline
Structure (flow, organization)
Photographs
Take a look at his video to get more details:
What I find interesting is that his five things line up ...
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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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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
UPDATE: The webinar was a fantastic success and has been published for viewing on our blog here.
Mark your calendars to join us on Tuesday, June 17, 2008 for another VizThink webinar. Join Nancy Duarte, presentation guru and designer of the presentation for Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth, as we discuss ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Planning for VizThink Europe '08 is well underway. The event will be held October 12 - 14 at the Crowne Plaza in Berlin, Germany. For future events, we've decided to open up the Call for Facilitators to the community. This is your chance to be one of the facilitators at ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
A few months ago, we wrote a post with a few videos from Karl Gude on a few key drawing skills. The one on drawing in perspective was particularly interesting. While Karl later pointed out that it had a few errors (like the telephone polls not being in perspective), but in any ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
VizThink Europe '08 is coming up quick. Five months from today we will be in the middle of our first day at VizThink in Berlin. I (Tom) leave this afternoon for Berlin to work on the many details that it takes to pull an event like this off. When I ...
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
Ah, PowerPoint – love it or hate it, PowerPoint, and apps like it, are here to stay.
We’ve all seen brilliant presentations but more often than not we’re recoiling as the first slide pops up on screen... that moment when you realize you’re in for a long trudge through bullet point ...
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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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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
There are only 3 days left until the New York Visual Thinking Workshop. There are still a few seats available and there's still time to register. Come join Karl Gude & Dave Gray for a fun, engaging day as we learn how visual thinking can be used to explore complex ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
It's time for another book review. Releasing later this week is Luke Wroblewski's latest book, Web Form Design. Not surprisingly, the book is about how to design good forms for websites. Luke is an author, the Senior Principal of Product Ideation & Design at Yahoo! Inc, and was a facilitatorat ...
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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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Friday, April 18th, 2008
It's so exciting to see what's going on in the community. Just a couple days ago, over 35 people gathered from all over London for the first meeting of visual thinkers there. They had quite the mix of people from graphic designers to internal communications to musical theatre producers who ...
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