A collection of visual thinking links found on the web in the past few days by our editors & vizthink community contributers. Have a link suggestion? Tweet it or add it to delicious and be sure to tag it with vizthink.

These are the links for July 22nd:

• 7 Basic Rules for Making Charts and Graphs –

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1. Community Wrap-up – July 2008
2. [Workshop] Visual Communication with Dave Gray – July 25, 2008 in Toronto
3. [Conference] Pre-Conference Workshop with Karl Gude

A collection of visual thinking links found on the web in the past few days by our editors & vizthink community contributers. Have a link suggestion? Tweet it or add it to delicious and be sure to tag it with vizthink.

These are the links for July 20th:

• Project: Create an Infographic About Childhood Obesity, Submissions – Projects – GOOD –
• In defense of games in the workplace – O’Reilly Radar – Interview w/Dave Gray about the forthcoming book Gamestorming

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1. Coming Soon: VizTalk – A New VizThink Podcast… Submit your Work!
2. Dave Gray on Knowledge Games at “Interaction 10″
3. [Webinar] How is Visual Thinking Related to eLearning w/Dave Gray & Tony Karrer

A collection of visual thinking links found on the web in the past few days by our editors & vizthink community contributers. Have a link suggestion? Tweet it or add it to delicious and be sure to tag it with vizthink.

These are the links for June 1st:

• Creative Review – Design your own Wallpaper* cover – An interesting use of OnDemand printing…

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1. VizThink & Visual Thinking in ‘Associations Now’ Magazine
2. Webinar with Nancy Duarte on June 17th
3. Join the Conversation

A collection of visual thinking links found on the web in the past few days by our editors & vizthink community contributers. Have a link suggestion? Tweet it or add it to delicious and be sure to tag it with vizthink.

These are the links for May 28th:

• Creativity linked to mental health – thoughts?
• BP tries to mislead you with graphs – The black art of deceptive charts…

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1. [Conference] Pre-Conference Workshop with Karl Gude
2. Interactive Data Visualization & Analysis
3. Idea Mapping 101 with Jamie Nast

A collection of visual thinking links found on the web in the past few days by our editors & vizthink community contributers. Have a link suggestion? Tweet it or add it to delicious and be sure to tag it with vizthink.

These are the links for May 20th:

• 3M Visual Attention Service – Hmm… going to have to play with this one…

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1. Reminder: VizThink Netherlands – tomorrow in Amsterdam!
2. What is Your Vision for VizThink?
3. Visualizing the Evolution of Privacy on Facebook

Recently, VizThinker Sunni Brown gave a talk as part of a TEDx event held at the University of Texas at Austin – centered on the topic of visual note-taking, Sunni laid out the case for why incorporating visuals into one’s note-taking process has benefits for  listening, comprehension, retention, and creativity. Over the past year or so, we’ve seen more and more interest in visual note-taking and Sunni is now trying to harness that momentum in what she’s calling “The Doodle Revolution”.

At, as Sunni calls it, “parent TED” they have a portion of the event focused on letting someone turn to the community and put their “TED Wish” out into the world. Never one to miss an opportunity, Sunni decided to throw out  her own “TEDx Wish” during her talk:

“… that we take doodling and visual thinking, out of the realms of designers and artists and put it into the realms of academia and business and government … and that doodling is not a distraction, it’s a tool.”

Or, in short, ‘Create a Doodle Revolution’.

Watch Sunni make her case in her talk, which has been embedded below:

Of course, if you want to get a head start on the revolution, be sure to check out our VizThinkU session, Visual Note-taking 101 – three full hours of content with Sunni, Austin Kleon and Mike Rohde where you’ll learn the basics of visual note-taking along with tips & tricks that let even those of you who think you can’t draw make beautiful, effective notes.

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3. VizThink London & Austin

Recently, Facebook announced a whole new slate of changes to their service that had broad implications for their users in terms of privacy settings and how much control people had over what information the social network shared with third party services through its API. Originally a true ‘walled garden’ Facebook kept almost everything to themselves, but over the past few years they’ve gradually been opening more and more of their data to outside services, tweaking the default privacy settings along the way.

Click through any of the thumbnails to view full infographic

To try and help illustrate how Facebook’s default privacy settings has evolved over the past few years, Matt McKeon, a developer with the Visual Communication Lab at IBM Research’s Center for Social Software has created an infographic series to try and help explain it:

… Facebook hasn’t always managed its users’ data well. In the beginning, it restricted the visibility of a user’s personal information to just their friends and their “network” (college or school). Over the past couple of years, the default privacy settings for a Facebook user’s personal information have become more and more permissive. They’ve also changed how your personal information is classified several times, sometimes in a manner that has been confusing for their users. This has largely been part of Facebook’s effort to correlate, publish, and monetize their social graph: a massive database of entities and links that covers everything from where you live to the movies you like and the people you trust.

This blog post by Kurt Opsahl at the the EFF gives a brief timeline of Facebook’s Terms of Service changes through April of 2010. It’s a great overview, but I was a little disappointed it wasn’t an actual timeline: hence my initial inspiration for this infographic.

To see the full, animated infographic you can visit Matt’s post on it here.

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Embedded below is the full 60 minute session featuring Austin Kleon, Mike Rohde, Sunni Brown & Dave Gray. If you find this session of interest, be sure to check out the full Visual Note-taking 101 VizThinkU course here on VizThink.com. (three full hours of content!). Use the discount code “sxswi” when you register and we’ll even take $15 off the registration fee before May 31, 2010.

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3. VizThink's Suggested Session is now up on the Panel Picker for SXSW 2009

A collection of visual thinking links found on the web in the past few days by our editors & vizthink community contributers. Have a link suggestion? Tweet it or add it to delicious and be sure to tag it with vizthink.

These are the links for May 5th:

• SolarBeat – Using the orbit of planets to make music…

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1. What do you want to ask the author of ‘The Visual Miscellaneum’?
2. Visual Thinking & The Writing Process
3. More visual thinking resources

A collection of visual thinking links found on the web in the past few days by our editors & vizthink community contributers. Have a link suggestion? Tweet it or add it to delicious and be sure to tag it with vizthink.

These are the links for May 4th:

• Color Survey Results « xkcd –
• Interactive Podcasts: Visual Note-Taking 101 | SXSW.com – It's audio only but still lots to learn in this recording of the #viznotes session @ SXSW this year

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1. Visual Note-taking 101 at SXSW ’10
2. Visual Thinking & The Writing Process
3. Sunni Brown and the Doodle Revolution: a TEDx talk