Here, VizThinker Sunni Brown gives a concise and hilarious presentation on the power of the doodle.

Last week, Scott Thomas (aka @SimpleScott), Design Director for the 2008 Obama campaign joined us here at VizThink for a conversation about his experiences during the campaign and how design played a key role in helping their candidate deliver a …

This past weekend I had the opportunity to speak at the Canadian Association of Journalists’ conference “Innovate News” – I had been asked to come and give a topic on Visual Thinking and how it could be used by journalists …

VizThink got its start coming up on three years ago when the first Toronto community events started happening. At that time, a chain of events got set in motion that lead to the first VizThink conference that took place two years ago this week.

Since that time the VizThink community has grown a lot while producing a lot of great content. So we’re going to start a new feature – Rewind Fridays – where we’ll repost some of the best content from our archives.

This week we’re taking a look back at one of our most popular webinars to-date, “Creating Powerful Prsentations” w/presentation guru and author of Slide:ology, Nancy Duarte.

Nancy Duarte, and the crew at Duarte design recently posted a video they created for Microsoft to show off PowerPoint 2010 called “Five Rules for Presentations”. It’s got some great advice in it, and clocking in at just under 5 …

Slideshare recently posted their summary data of trends that they saw in Slidedecks uploaded to slideshare over the past year. It’s interesting to see some of the stats that emerged (i.e. the French seem to use the most slides on …

What can two comedians teach you about making your presentations better? More than you might suspect.

Imagine the work environment of a stand-up comic: Performing in an unfamiliar environment, to an unfamiliar crowd and they know there are at least one or two people out there in that dimly-lit room who probably want to take them down a peg. Sound familiar?

Maybe remind you a little of your last speaking engagement or sales presentation?

While we’ve focused a lot at VizThink on making your presentations look more appealing and be more effective from a visual stand-point, we haven’t spent a whole lot of time on the skills around delivering it – which is why we started assembling this VizThinkU course. While not directly a visual exercise or skill the art of delivering your presentation is a very important component of telling your story. This workshop will introduce you to new ideas about engaging and interacting with your audience as well as approaches to think quickly on your feet and react to unexpected situations.

slide:ology is one of my favorite business books of the year so far, and, yes, it is a business book.  In fact, I think it should be the top of any business person’s reading list.  If you ever have to …

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 …

Wow. What a session. In our largest webinar to date, Nancy Duarte, principal of Duarte Design and one of the guru’s behind Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth presentation , took over 135 people through her advice & thoughts on how to …