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Early Feedback

We just starting to gather and analyze all of the feedback from VizThink ’08, and we’ve got to say we’re humbled by the overwhelming support.  We thought it might be interesting to show some of the results from our final activity of the conference.  Matt Homann led the final exercise asking three questions, with a twist…the number of words were limited per question in a modified Haiku.  A few people took some liberties with the number of words, but here’s a sampling of the results in words and pictures:

   

Why did you come to VizThink? (5 words)

To be part of a community
To resucitate my visual thinking inclination
Draw strength from visual pioneers
Learn how visual narrative facilitates learning
Get introduced to visual thinking
Imagining data visually organized
Learn to tell my story
Make the message more compelling
Help to build visual thinking communities
Explore my whole brain
It was meant to be
Learn new ways of communicating
Meet and exchange across fields
To do visual thinking work
Learn tools for future clarity
To learn creative visual strategies
Exhange visual communication experiences, fun
Get more out of work
Make connections in different disciplines
Improve my visual thought, illustration
Meet & play with visual thinkers
To learn more about visualization

What did you learn? (7 words)

Tools, techniques & contacts to empower me
Distill message to essentials and reduce noise
Various visual instruments available to visual learners
Visuals express messages with memory and emotion
There is a visual community
Alter perspectives on visual communication
I can draw things enough to communicate
That keep it simple stupid really matters
Many visual methods: simplify, combine, map, rerepresent
The future is already here now!  Wow!
Interest in visual thinking goes well beyond designers
This is where I want to play
Visual thinking is not only about drawing
Technology isn’t enough, people need to connect
I can draw like a 5 year old
Power of visualization must be revealed now
There are others just like me- Horray!
That visual thinkers have natural, raw energy
Speaking from the heart is always compelling
Different views = diverse, robust, visual output
More than I have space to write
Clarity rules, visual thinkers exist everywhere, ideas
There’s more people like me out there!
Pictures connect people through ideas & communication
Information design has many personal/professional applications
There’s a bigger community than I thought!
VizThink is fun, funky, functional, fantastic, is the future
There are many methods to this madness
There is more than one right way
New methods to improve worn out processes
Ethics cannot become optional in visuals
Use one page and low production video
Visual thinking is the future of training 

What are you going to do next with what you’ve learned? (5 words)

Use the visual thinking concepts & instruments to change learning
Run a meeting using graphical facilitation
Start an infography sketch book
Share visual possibilities and applications
Plant the seeds of visual thinking and cultivate it in my company
Stay connected to new friends
Process, document, share, innovate, sleep
Keep pushing the ball uphill
Connect with visual thinkers in e-learning
Buy a tablet very soon
Continue through community
Share the experience with others
Making a simple video
Share it on my blog
Start a local visual thinking community
Create more visual educational tools
Prepare and present to CEO
Go through VizThink wiki online
Create maps depicting my objectives
Draw a picture for our vision and mission
Grow & share my toolkit
Develop my visual thinking style
Draw and video my vision!
Teach others about effective visualization
Apply those things I learned

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