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Registrations Top 150, Hotel Space Filling Up!

Registrations are filling up quickly.  Dave Gray’s Sunday pre-conference workshopwas so popular we added an additional session on Saturday.  Over 150 of your colleagues have already signed up for this exciting event.  Karl Gude’s pre-conference workshop, the MOMA tour, and the Cartoon Museum tour are all close to selling out as well.  Be sure to sign up soon to reserve your space.

Also, our room block at the beautiful Westin San Francisco Market Street is only available until January 4th, so be sure to reserve your room now.  The price of $229/night is well below other similar area hotels.  Plus, you will have the convenience of having the conference right in the same building as your room.  Be sure to reserve your room now!

For information on the hotel:
http://www.vizthink.com/where_to_stay.html

For information on registration:
http://www.vizthink.com/registration.html

Industry Veteran Mindjet Exhibits at VizThink

We’re excited to announce our next sponsor, Mindjet.  Mindjet has been a significant player in the visual thinking space for almost 18 years.  To find out more about Mindjet, check out their wiki page (http://wiki.vizthink.com/Mindjet) or to meet them in person register for the conference now at http://www.vizthink.com/registration.html).

Empressr Added as a Sponsor for VizThink ‘08

We’re very excited to announce the addition of Empressr as a sponsor for VizThink ’08.  They offer a very interesting web-based tool for creating and delivering online presentations.  It’s feature set makes it a powerful alternative to other desktop-based presentation tools.  Lots of exciting announcements are expected in the upcoming days.  Be sure to check them out!

New Pre-Conference Workshop Added by Dave Gray

Dave Gray, founder and CEO of Xplane, has just agreed to add another session to his pre-conference workshop.  This very popular session sold out on Sunday, but now will be repeated on Saturday!  It’s the exact same session, so you’ll be able to get the same great workshop.  The details of this session are now available on the wiki.

Karl Gude’s two-day pre-conference workshop, How to Communicate Visually Using Information Graphics, is also almost full as well.  There won’t be a second offering of this one, so be sure to sign up soon.

To register for the conference and for these great pre-conference workshops, be sure to go to http://www.vizthink.com/registration.html to sign up today.

Free Web-Based Mind Mapping Usage Survey

Our friend Chuck Frey over at Innovation Tools (http://innovationtools.com/) has just released the results of a very interesting new FREE survey about the use and future of web-based mind mapping technologies.  Here’s just a few of the questions that your peers responded to:

Where do you utilize web-based mind mapping tools?
What features are most important to you?
What’s the single biggest benefit of a web-based mind mapping tool?
Where are the biggest short comings?
What are the areas for improvement?
What is the future of web-based mind mapping tools?

The results are insightful and helpful for anyone considering the use of mind mapping tools in general and web-based tools specifically.  You can get your copy at http://www.innovationtools.com/survey/.  You can also read more about it on Chuck’s post.

VizThink ‘08 Agenda to be Released

Well, the time has come.  We’re wrapping up a few last minute details, but the draft of the conference agenda is scheduled to be released on Monday, December 3rd.  It will include Session Titles, Facilitators, Dates, Times, and Rooms.  We’ll be adding more information to it and making it more visual over the coming weeks, but we wanted to get it out as soon as possible given the huge demand.  It will still be a draft as some of the rooms or times may change, but it will give you a good idea of the content in the breakout sessions.

We’ve brought together 39 of the best from our industry to lead us in discussions, get us involved in hands-on practice, and introduce us to new ideas and concepts.  We’re really excited about the possibilities and hope you are too.

Be sure to continue to check the blog for the latest updates!

Popular Visual Thinking

Arguably one of the most frequently used (and therefore most popular) methods of visual thinking is the napkin sketch.  How many times have you asked the wait staff at a restaurant for a pen to be able to demonstrate an idea to someone?  It’s even better when the restaurant has the paper table cloths that offer a much larger canvas!  I was at a dinner recently with several of the facilitators from the conference and I thought we might run out of paper.  One even came prepared with scissors to be able to easily transport the new creations back home!  But I digress.

Given the popularity of the Napkin Sketch, our final facilitator for VizThink ’08 is well prepared to take our skills to the next level.  Dan Roam is the author of the soon to be released book, The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems with Pictures.

Register for the conference now at http://www.vizthink.com/registration.html to join Dan and a list of other amazing topics and discussions!

Using Visualization in Business

We’re excited to announce the addition of Tom Wujec from Autodesk to the VizThink ’08 agenda.  He’s a brilliant thinker, has written many books, and is in process of writing his latest book, BizViz: Using Images to Foster Innovation and Collaboration.  The book covers a wide array of visual thinking approaches using examples to show how they’ve been applied in business.  During Tom’s breakout session, you’ll get a preview of the structure of the book and the many uses of visualization in business.  It promises to be a lively fast-paced look at the world of visualizaiton.

To register for the conference and join in this exciting discussion, go to http://www.vizthink.com/registration.html.

3D Information Graphics

Initially the use of 3D imaging is seductive, but when and how is it best used?  Bryan Christie is going to help us with that.  Bryan’s beautiful work has been include in major publications like Newsweek, WIRED, GQ, the New York Times, Conde Nast Portfolio, and many other publications.

 

This is going to be a great session covering an interesting and evolving portion of the visual thinking space.  Register for VizThink ’08 now at http://www.vizthink.com/registration.html to learn about this cutting edge and beautiful approach.

Mapping Your Future

 

We’re excited to announce the addition of Jamie Nast and Susi Watson to the VizThink ’08 agenda.  Jamie is the author of Idea Mapping, an awesome book on the concepts and application of mind mapping.  What’s really exciting is that Jamie & Susi’s session won’t just be about concepts either.  It will be about the application of mind mapping to a real world scenario first on paper to learn the basics and, later, if you want on the computer.  This promises to be a great session where you’ll walk away energized and ready to apply mind mapping to your daily life and work.

For more information about their session, check out their wiki page at http://wiki.vizthink.com/08n531.  To register for VizThink ’08, go to http://www.vizthink.com/registration.html.

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