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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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
By Monday afternoon things were beginning to settle into a rhythm. As Tom told me, the general rule of thumb is once you’re past lunch on the first day things tend to smooth out as everyone has done everything once (registered, been to a general session, found a breakout room, and found where to eat). The [...]
I got thinking last night as I carved this year’s pumpkins, Halloween has certainly got to be way up there as an ideal holiday for visual thinkers. From carving images into pumpkins to changing your “identity” for even just a few hours, it’s a holiday that is essentially based on elements of visual communication in [...]
Just a quick post on a couple of things happening tonight in the VizThink world: Austin - VizThink Austin: “Dream Charting” Marilyn & Sunni in Austin are holding the latest VizThink meetup - this time on the topic of Dream Charting. Dream Charting is a new method of dream amplification and interpretation discovered and under development by G. [...]
The morning of day one came very early, or at least it sure felt like it, one of the side effects of these conferences is great conversation, the kind of conversation that somehow takes you deep into the night in the hotel bar without you realizing what time it is until the bartender turns the [...]
It’s hard to believe two weeks ago we were just sitting down to kick-off VizThink Europe in Berlin. The three days shot by in a flash and I think, in some regards, both Tom and I are still digesting the experience which is what has delayed this recap a bit. The reality is, in many [...]
Can you believe that VizThink Europe is just 10 days away? We’re really excited about the great line up we have planned. We have some of the best visual thinkers from around the world coming to this event. We have lots of resources available for you including facilitator biographies, session details, and just released today, the official conference guide [...]
