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Ryan Coleman

Ryan Coleman


7/26/10

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VizThink is a global community for visual thinkers and communicators who like to get beyond words and believe that visuals can be an effective tool whether you’re just trying to work through your ideas or working to get your message across as simply as possible.

All are Welcome. Everyone Can Draw Here.

As Dave Gray, founder of XPLANE & a VizThink founding member often says “Every five year-old can draw, everyone was five once. Therefore everyone can draw.” Anyone, of any skill level, can be a visual thinker – we’re a community that believes visual thinking is about the process, not the result. Much of what we try to share and teach here on VizThink.com are skills that anyone with a pen and paper can try their hand at.

So don’t be afraid, jump right in and give anything a go – you might surprise yourself!

Visual Thinking?

We get asked all the time “So what is this visual thinking thing anyways?” – and typically we pause, try to put together a coherent answer and hope we haven’t confused the person more than before they asked. It’s a really hard question to answer, visual thinking is a very personal definition to many people, everyone has their own flavor.

Wikipedia’s (very dry) definition is “… visual thinking … is the common phenomenon of thinking through visual processing using the part of the brain that is emotional and creative to organize information in an intuitive and simultaneous way.”

One of the best definitions we’ve encountered however is from the Visual Thinking School Squidoo:

Visual thinking is about using pictures to help you solve problems, think about complex issues and communicate more effectively.

If you’re getting that inkling you may be a visual thinker, but aren’t sure where to start try our Learn Visual Thinking section, especially our content in the “The Basics” category, we’ve handpicked that content as it touches on key, foundation skills that will have you thinking visually in no time flat.

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Once you’ve had a chance to check out the site be sure to find VizThink on other sites like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Flickr, Slideshare & Tumblr. They’re all great places to get linked up with the latest content we’re finding and sharing as well as it’s a perfect way to find & meet other visual thinkers.

If you want to share something with the community just tag it with #vizthink and we’ll find it!

Welcome to the community, we’re glad to have you here.

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  • Pedro González Munné

    Bye Bye Cubanito
    By Pedro González Munné
    The recent revelations of multimillionaire swindles of Cuban clans of historical exile, seated in Florida from the 60’s; the cut of more than $100 million dollars granted annually by the federal Government to sustain their political organizations from the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959 and, the unexpected resignations of the Cuban American politicians Melquiades ‘Mel’ Martinez (Senator) and Lincoln Diaz Balart (Congressman), confirm their waited for not announced agony by less.

    Transplanted with lawyers and doctors, thousand of political personages and their acolytes of the bloody dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista (the same one that the American Government did not admitted in his territory) took root in Miami and, participated since then in whichever bloody adventure the institutions of intelligence and, the worse interests of the North American society created ( read the plumbers of Watergate, the invasion of Bay of Pigs and the Coup d’état against the president Salvador Allende in Chile)
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    During decades they were overcoming the resistance of the different original communities in the area until enriched with the money laundering of the drug trade and, the federal aid to sus-tain them, they began to tie to the local and state (and soon after federal) politics to be im-planted as implacable followers of the worse extremist conservative, racist and anti mi-grants interest of the American society.

    But all the good things come to and end, the country renews and before the popular displeasure and the interminable economic crisis extended all along of this immense territory, this reactionary dock begins to crumble. Without the support of its first institutions, revealing one after another its crimes at all the levels.

    There is no hope for them, only history’s waste basket. At least hundreds of thousands of Cu-ban American immigrants, surviving in the precarious labor conditions of south of Florida, can return to Cuba for the familiar encounter and the medical compassion of the gratuitous atten-tion. But these miserable ones will only stay as the bitter memory of a generation that destroyed a country, caused a revolution and here, through blackmail and the rob-bery became rich in the shade of an imperial power.

    Bye Bye Cubanito. Your time has ended.

    Coral Gables, FL March 2010

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