Archive for the ‘Podcasts’ Category
Monday, June 8th, 2009
DUE TO AN INJURY, THIS SESSION HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO JULY 17, 2009 @ Noon EDT
A quick reminder that next Tuesday, June 16th is the next VizThinkU webinar, “Drawing out your ideas: Techniques for visual thinking, note-taking and presentations” with master visual facilitator, Nancy Margulies - While recordings will ...
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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
While there are amazing things happening throughout the visual thinking community, some of the most interesting are happening at our sponsors, not the least of which is happening at Tableau. Late last week, we sat down with their Director of Visual Analisys, Jock Mackinlay, to discuss his work and research. ...
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Monday, February 2nd, 2009
It's easy to focus on the visual. In fact, that's probably one reason we believe so strongly in visual thinking. It helps people brainstorm, process, organize, plan, and communicate information more effectively. However, we so often talk about the visual aspects of our field (photo, 3D, sketching, color, proximity, flow, ...
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Friday, January 9th, 2009
Work and personal time is busier than ever. The economy is the worst it's been in decades. Taking 2 or 3 days to go to a conference is a big investment, both in time and money. For a few people, conferences are a boondoggle, but for most of us we want ...
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Monday, December 29th, 2008
100s of messages in your inbox, overflowing blog readers, browser tabs filled with websites to explore...that and so much more can lead to information overload. For over a decade, Jerry Michalski has been using his Brain to not just process that information, but to organize, recall, and find hidden relationships ...
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Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
Have you ever had a problem you need to solve or a question you needed to answer, but you didn't know the best way forward? Even your traditional brainstorming methods weren't providing the results you needed? Visual Thinking approaches can be very powerful for getting over those hurdles. One of ...
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Thursday, December 11th, 2008
Often, learning is not enough. It's not enough to watch a great podcast or go to a great conference and learn new things, try new techniques, or even meet intersting people. The natural high that comes from learning and attending an event can fade quickly, that is, if you don't ...
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
We live in a 3 dimensional world. Often our problems, challenges, and opportunities are in 3D too, yet we try to solve them in 2D on paper, on whiteboards, and on computers. Certainly, there are many 3D software packages and haptic devices, but even the best still don't quite achieve the same ...
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Friday, December 5th, 2008
Following up on the heals of our podcast with Laura Johnson on Autism, today we have a great podcast with Brian Friedlander on the use of visualization in Assistive Technology. Whether to help in reading, writing, math, or many other disciplines, assistive technologies allow children and people with language related issues ...
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Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Whether it's called "wisdom of the crowds" or "collective IQ", visualization has a way of bringing people together, creating understanding, and creating a shared vision of both the past and the future. In this 19 minute, 26 second podcast, we talk with Eileen Clegg from Visual Insight and I talk ...
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Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
What do autism and football have to do with each other? How can we apply these lessons to our daily work? On November 18th, we had the opportunity to ask these questions and many more to Laura Johnson from the University of Toledo. Laura's career has been very diverse from teaching autistic ...
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Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
About a month ago, I was privileged to speak amongst an amazing array of design experts at the Sarasota Design Summit hosted by the Ringling College of Art and Design. Some of the great speakers included Michael Alexin, VP of Product Design and Development for Target; Timo Arnall from elasticspace; ...
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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
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 ...
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
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 ...
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008
One of the favorite parts of my job is to talk to all of the amazing people in our industry. There is some incredible work going on in all areas of visualization. It's very exciting to have access to some of the latest research and to be able to share ...
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Friday, September 5th, 2008
Ever wonder how visual thinking applies to your business? In this 8 minute podcast with Dave Gray, Founder and Chairman of Xplane, we discuss a variety of uses for visual thinking in companies. Some of the suggestions include internal communications about strategic changes in direction, visual methods for process improvement, and ...
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Thursday, September 4th, 2008
We've been asking lots of questions about the visual thinking community almost since the very beginning (1, 2) of VizThink. Who belongs to the community? How is everybody related to each other? How big is the community? One of the best ways to solve this problem is, of course, visual thinking.
Several ...
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Monday, August 25th, 2008
One of the benefits of working at VizThink is that we get to read advanced copies of books by the many smart people in our industry. Some are better than others, but none compare to the next book on our list. Nancy Duarte has just released her new book, slide:ology: ...
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
When debating whether techonology assisted visual thinking is a good thing, we often forget that the definition of technology is dependent on context. At one point in time, the chisel, #2 pencil, chalkboard, whiteboard marker, and sticky note have all been "high-tech". It's never that one technology supplants the previous, ...
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Friday, August 15th, 2008
In the next few weeks we'll be introducing a new podcast called "VizTalk" featuring VizThink facilitators Karl Gude & Dave Gray.
It's an entirely new format for us where Dave & Karl will be offering up their expertise and advice through the process of reviewing and commenting on the work of ...
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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
TechSmith is once again sponsoring a VizThink event. We're are very happy to have them involved at VizThink Europe '08 and in the community overall. Based in Okemos, Michigan, TechSmith produces industry leading software for image and video capture. Even though you may not know their name, you likely know ...
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
Last week we had the chance to sit down with Ole Qvist-Sorensen, one of our facilitators from VizThink Europe this fall which we announced a few weeks ago. During this 32-minute video, we discuss topics such as:
Starting with a white canvas
Small group & large group visual facilitation
Using visuals to change ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Do you have business idea? Have you wondered how to start a business? Would you like to take your current independent or small business to the next level? On Sunday 12 October, Rodolfo Carpintier, President of Digital Assets Deployment, will be hosting a pre-conference workshop at VizThink Europe '08. During the session, ...
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Monday, July 28th, 2008
You've heard me say that I'm excited to have various facilitators and topics at events, and it's all true. One consistent piece of feedback we get from our attendees is that all of the content is so good that they have a hard time choosing. We have that same problem. The content for ...
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Friday, July 25th, 2008
People have said that human's are good, even great, pattern matchers. So much so, that we often find patterns where they don't exist (such as messages in the static on TV, Elvis on a potato chip). Yet sometimes, people discover or at least make clear patterns that were always present, but not ...
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