Archive for the ‘VizThink’ Category
Monday, July 21st, 2008
We're happy to announce Dave Gray's involvement once again with VizThink. As many of you know from the Story of VizThink, Dave was instrumental in getting the idea of VizThink off the ground. Much of our success is due to his ongoing support, and today's announcements are a great representation ...
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
What role does realism play in visualization and simulations? When is realism important and when is it not? How does the selection of media impact learning and communication outcomes? How and when do you use mixed media? What determines those choices? Discussions on these and many other topics are just some ...
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
While we're excited to have all of our facilitators, it is especially gratifying to have community members involved. We started talking to Ole Qvist-Sorensen just a few months after VizThink began. He was one of over 80 people who came from outside North America to attend our inaugural event in San Francisco. ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
And the announcements keep rolling...we're excited to introduce Mark Wogan as our next facilitator for VizThink Berlin. Mark will be facilitating an exciting discussion about the role of visualization in leadership, particular in the task of creating a vision for an organization. Often the vision is left in binders or in ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
We're very excited about the next addition to our VizThink Berlin agenda, Yuri Engelhardt. He is an expert in visual language and communication. In fact, you may remember him from our podcast, Visual Language: Linear vs. Non-Linear along with Dave Gray and Neil Cohn discussing what qualifies as visual language. Now, Yuri ...
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
We've been working hard to find the best of the best in our industry for our upcoming conference in Berlin, and we'll be announcing a them over the next few weeks. For those of you who attended San Francisco or may be considering attending San Jose, each conference will be a completely ...
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
We're just over a week away from our upcoming mind mapping webinar with Jamie Nast & Chuck Frey - that also means you've only got a few more days to share your stories of unique uses of Mind Mapping as we announced last month.
Mind Mapping at it’s core is a ...
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Saturday, July 12th, 2008
We here at VizThink HQ can't believe it's that time already - one week from today, July 19th, is the last chance to take advantage of our early registration discounts for VizThink Europe '08.
VizThink Europe takes place from Oct 12-14, 2008 in Berlin Germany - Even if you attended VizThink ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
Missed out on a book at the conference earlier this year?
New to the Visual Thinking space and wondering where to start?
Just need a new book to read this weekend?
We've got an announcement for you...
VizThink Store is Now Open
We're pleased to announce the addition of the VizThink Store to our website. ...
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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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