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Visualization can be a very powerful tool. Even simple images have the power to be provocative, insightful, challenging, and even funny. Jessica Hagy’s book and associated blog, Indexed, are no exception. In fact, they are great examples of very simple images such as line charts and Venn diagrams used to communicate complex concepts, often with [...]
Why should you come to VizThink ‘09? What could you learn? What will you be able to do with what you learn? These are all great questions, and while we certainly can help with those answers (check out the visual we created for VizThink ‘08), it’s always interesting to see the answers directly from some [...]
Just a quick reminder that tomorrow, November 20th, the Netherlands community will be meeting for their second community event: You can find all the details at the Netherlands community blog: http://vizthink.nl
The iPhone OS version of OmniFocus (winner of Best iPhone Productivity Application at the WWDC 2008 Apple Design Awards) brings powerful task management functionality to users’ fingertips. With live, automatic syncing, location-aware custom actions lists, and on-the-fly task entry with voice notes and image capture, OmniFocus for iPhone is built to enhance your busy life. [...]
At the LISA conference last week Apple's Director of Engineering of Unix Technologies Jordan Hubbard showed a slide that stated a release time frame for the next major OS X release of Q1 2009. Apple previewed OS X 10.6 aka Snow Leopard at the WWDC08. Ba...
To close out VizThink Europe Tom & facilitated a final session focused on the visual thinking community. We wanted to close out the conference by helping to connect the attendees with other visual thinkers from their region or country. We wanted to facilitate the attendees learning a bit more about each other in hopes of [...]
The Group of 20 is piling the pressure on the World Trade Organisation to resume the Doha round of world trade talks as more ammunition is thrown at the global economy.
As Amazon starts to publish their Top of 2008 lists for the year it’s great to see a couple of Visual Thinking oriented books show up on the “Best Business & Investing” list: Presentation Zen At #3 on the Customer’s Favorites list is Garr Reynold’s “Presentation Zen“, his wildly-popular and highly regarded book on making presentations simpler, [...]
While we’re still wrapping up VizThink Europe ‘08, it’s time to begin launching VizThink ‘09 in San Jose. Today is the first in a series of posts that will announce the incredible lineup of facilitators we have planned for San Jose. We’ve got lots of great things planned for this event and we’ll be telling [...]
Just a couple of quick reminder for VizThinkers in the United Kingdom: VizThink Leeds - Tonight! November 11, 2008 Tonight the Leeds community is holding their first meet up. Mark Wogan and Andrew Kirk are organizing the event. It starts at 18:00 and will be held at O’Neill’s, Great George St, Leeds. All are welcome, you can [...]
The Tuesday morning general session was facilitated by Ole Qvist-Sorensen & Amber Nystrom and focused on the opportunities for using visual thinking to help contribute to solving the challenges of Climate Change. Both Ole and Amber have dedicated a lot of their personal time towards climate change education and action They explained that there are nine [...]
Filed under: Video, WWDC, Developer In case you missed WWDC 08 because of a project deadline, the impending birth of your first child, or you just couldn’t make it, Apple Developer Connection now has the conference sessions available on video. The videos aren’t cheap — each track (iPhone, Mac, or IT) costs $499, or you can get [...]
As you may remember in September we had 3 new local communities launch (Madrid, Seattle & Amsterdam). Well, we’re getting ready to grow even more over the coming months – right now we’ve got people working on, or have expressed interest in getting a local community going in the following cities/regions: North America Boston, MA Chicago, IL [...]