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speaking http://commoncraft.com/blog-categories/speaking The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en Help Us Speak at SXSW http://commoncraft.com/help-us-speak-sxsw <p> It seems like a long way off, but South-by-Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) is just around the corner (March 2009). At the moment, the public is voting on what speaking panels should be accepted for the event. When the voting finishes (August 29, 2008) the SXSW staff will consider the results of the voting when deciding what panels will be picked. </p> <p> I say all this because I hope you'll <a href="http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/836">vote for our panel</a>. :) Here are the details: </p> <p> <a href="http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/836"><b>Shift Happens: Moving from Words to Pictures</b></a> </p> <p> <b>Description: </b>People are hardwired for visualization yet we rely significantly on text. Most games, graphic novels, magazines, interfaces, IKEA instructions, and many other forms of communication take advantage of people’s natural visual thinking ability. Panelists will discuss how to leverage visual techniques to improve your games, websites, movies, communications, or presentations.<b><br /> </b> </p> <p> <b>My fellow panelists</b> include <a href="http://digitalroam.com/">Dan Roam</a>, author of <a href="http://www.thebackofthenapkin.com/">The Back of the Napkin</a>, <a href="http://communicationnation.blogspot.com/">Dave Grey</a>, Founder and Chairman of <a href="http://www.xplane.com">Xplane</a> and two Austin, Texas natives <a href="http://eyescience.blogspot.com/">Sunni Brown</a> and <a href="http://marilynmartinconsulting.com/">Marilyn Martin</a>. I'm so honored to be a part of this group. Thanks to Tom Crawford as <a href="http://www.vizthink.com/">VizThink</a> for getting the ball rolling. </p> <p> We'd love to have <a href="http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/836">your vote</a>, pretty please? </p> http://commoncraft.com/help-us-speak-sxsw#comments conference events speaking SXSW visualthinking Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:21:36 -0400 leelefever 6953 at http://commoncraft.com Help Us Speak at SXSW http://commoncraft.com/help-us-speak-sxsw <p> It seems like a long way off, but South-by-Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) is just around the corner (March 2009). At the moment, the public is voting on what speaking panels should be accepted for the event. When the voting finishes (August 29, 2008) the SXSW staff will consider the results of the voting when deciding what panels will be picked. </p> <p> I say all this because I hope you'll <a href="http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/836">vote for our panel</a>. :) Here are the details: </p> <p> <a href="http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/836"><b>Shift Happens: Moving from Words to Pictures</b></a> </p> <p> <b>Description: </b>People are hardwired for visualization yet we rely significantly on text. Most games, graphic novels, magazines, interfaces, IKEA instructions, and many other forms of communication take advantage of people’s natural visual thinking ability. Panelists will discuss how to leverage visual techniques to improve your games, websites, movies, communications, or presentations.<b><br /> </b> </p> <p> <b>My fellow panelists</b> include <a href="http://digitalroam.com/">Dan Roam</a>, author of <a href="http://www.thebackofthenapkin.com/">The Back of the Napkin</a>, <a href="http://communicationnation.blogspot.com/">Dave Grey</a>, Founder and Chairman of <a href="http://www.xplane.com">Xplane</a> and two Austin, Texas natives <a href="http://eyescience.blogspot.com/">Sunni Brown</a> and <a href="http://marilynmartinconsulting.com/">Marilyn Martin</a>. I'm so honored to be a part of this group. Thanks to Tom Crawford as <a href="http://www.vizthink.com/">VizThink</a> for getting the ball rolling. </p> <p> We'd love to have <a href="http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/836">your vote</a>, pretty please? </p> http://commoncraft.com/help-us-speak-sxsw#comments conference events speaking SXSW visualthinking Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:21:36 -0400 leelefever 6953 at http://commoncraft.com VizThink in Review http://commoncraft.com/vizthink-review <p>Text and bullet points - they are dead, or at least used inappropriately.  That was one of the overwhelming messages from <a href="http://www.vizthink.com" mce_href="http://www.vizthink.com">VizThink</a>, a two day conference on Visual Thinking.  We agree.<br><a href="http://www.vizthink.com" mce_href="http://www.vizthink.com"><br /> <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2334/1637500754_fd836366d3.jpg?v=0" alt="" onload="show_notes_initially();" class="reflect" height="159" width="275"></div> <p></a><br>This was the first (of hopefully many) conferences on visual thinking put on by VizThink, the brainchild of <a href="http://communicationnation.blogspot.com/" mce_href="http://communicationnation.blogspot.com/">Dave Gray</a> of <a href="http://www.xplane.com" mce_href="http://www.xplane.com">Xplane</a>.  It brought together people from around the world who focus in communicating with pictures. More info on the <a href="http://wiki.vizthink.com/" mce_href="http://wiki.vizthink.com/">wiki</a>.<br><br>For example, on the first morning we sat down with three pediatric ER doctors from Loma Linda University. They often talk to parents in the ER about pediatric medical problems and a brochure doesn't work.  They see visual thinking as a way to communicate complex problems in the emergency room situation.  Indeed, there are near-infinite applications for visual thinking.<br><br>I wish I could mention everyone we met, but here are a few.<br><br>We had dinner with Ole Qvist- Sorensen of <a href="http://biggerpicture.dk/english.html" mce_href="http://biggerpicture.dk/english.html">Bigger Picture</a> who was there from Copenhagen, Denmark - I have a feeling we'll be hanging out with Ole before long - a great guy with lots of ideas.<br><br>Ryan Coleman of <a href="http://www.clay-tablet.com" mce_href="http://www.clay-tablet.com">Clay Tablet Technologies</a> turned out to be a friend of our good friend <a href="http://www.willpate.org/" mce_href="http://www.willpate.org/">Will Pate</a>. Ryan has started local <a href="http://barcamp.org/VizThink" mce_href="http://barcamp.org/VizThink">Visual Thinking BarCamps</a> around Toronto. <br><br>Cliff Atkinson of BBP (<a href="http://www.beyondbulletpoints.com/" mce_href="http://www.beyondbulletpoints.com/">Beyond Bullet Points</a>) came to our session and stuck around afterward for a chat.  We really connected with Cliff - he loves being small and independent and we share a lot of the same ideas. <br><br>Speaking of our session, we had a great time and I hope the attendees did too.  It was called "Solving Explanation Problems with Simple Online Videos"  The session was mostly group activity where we asked teams to produce storyboards.</p> <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2314/2232707341_b0c295c0c5.jpg?v=1201811422" alt="" onload="show_notes_initially();" class="reflect" height="239" width="331"></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2006/2232706105_f48bc9cb27.jpg?v=1201811530" alt="" onload="show_notes_initially();" class="reflect" height="247" width="331"></div> <p>It warmed our hearts to hear the whole group yelling "yaay!" and<br /> "boooo!" (appropriately) when the teams presented their storyboards. As Sachi said - it was like they were singing a song we wrote. :) <br></p> <p>One thing I found interesting was that we didn't meet anyone else doing video. It was like the visual thinking world and the video world had not previously intersected.  I hope that we inspired some of the attendees to take another look at video.<br><br>We owe a big thanks to Tom, Chris, Denise and the VizThink folks for inviting us to participate and pulling off a great conference. We'll be back!<br></p> http://commoncraft.com/vizthink-review#comments conference event newfriends speaking visualthinking Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:37:01 -0500 leelefever 1589 at http://commoncraft.com VizThink in Review http://commoncraft.com/vizthink-review <p>Text and bullet points - they are dead, or at least used inappropriately.  That was one of the overwhelming messages from <a href="http://www.vizthink.com" mce_href="http://www.vizthink.com">VizThink</a>, a two day conference on Visual Thinking.  We agree.<br><a href="http://www.vizthink.com" mce_href="http://www.vizthink.com"><br /> <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2334/1637500754_fd836366d3.jpg?v=0" alt="" onload="show_notes_initially();" class="reflect" height="159" width="275"></div> <p></a><br>This was the first (of hopefully many) conferences on visual thinking put on by VizThink, the brainchild of <a href="http://communicationnation.blogspot.com/" mce_href="http://communicationnation.blogspot.com/">Dave Gray</a> of <a href="http://www.xplane.com" mce_href="http://www.xplane.com">Xplane</a>.  It brought together people from around the world who focus in communicating with pictures. More info on the <a href="http://wiki.vizthink.com/" mce_href="http://wiki.vizthink.com/">wiki</a>.<br><br>For example, on the first morning we sat down with three pediatric ER doctors from Loma Linda University. They often talk to parents in the ER about pediatric medical problems and a brochure doesn't work.  They see visual thinking as a way to communicate complex problems in the emergency room situation.  Indeed, there are near-infinite applications for visual thinking.<br><br>I wish I could mention everyone we met, but here are a few.<br><br>We had dinner with Ole Qvist- Sorensen of <a href="http://biggerpicture.dk/english.html" mce_href="http://biggerpicture.dk/english.html">Bigger Picture</a> who was there from Copenhagen, Denmark - I have a feeling we'll be hanging out with Ole before long - a great guy with lots of ideas.<br><br>Ryan Coleman of <a href="http://www.clay-tablet.com" mce_href="http://www.clay-tablet.com">Clay Tablet Technologies</a> turned out to be a friend of our good friend <a href="http://www.willpate.org/" mce_href="http://www.willpate.org/">Will Pate</a>. Ryan has started local <a href="http://barcamp.org/VizThink" mce_href="http://barcamp.org/VizThink">Visual Thinking BarCamps</a> around Toronto. <br><br>Cliff Atkinson of BBP (<a href="http://www.beyondbulletpoints.com/" mce_href="http://www.beyondbulletpoints.com/">Beyond Bullet Points</a>) came to our session and stuck around afterward for a chat.  We really connected with Cliff - he loves being small and independent and we share a lot of the same ideas. <br><br>Speaking of our session, we had a great time and I hope the attendees did too.  It was called "Solving Explanation Problems with Simple Online Videos"  The session was mostly group activity where we asked teams to produce storyboards.</p> <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2314/2232707341_b0c295c0c5.jpg?v=1201811422" alt="" onload="show_notes_initially();" class="reflect" height="239" width="331"></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2006/2232706105_f48bc9cb27.jpg?v=1201811530" alt="" onload="show_notes_initially();" class="reflect" height="247" width="331"></div> <p>It warmed our hearts to hear the whole group yelling "yaay!" and<br /> "boooo!" (appropriately) when the teams presented their storyboards. As Sachi said - it was like they were singing a song we wrote. :) <br></p> <p>One thing I found interesting was that we didn't meet anyone else doing video. It was like the visual thinking world and the video world had not previously intersected.  I hope that we inspired some of the attendees to take another look at video.<br><br>We owe a big thanks to Tom, Chris, Denise and the VizThink folks for inviting us to participate and pulling off a great conference. We'll be back!<br></p> http://commoncraft.com/vizthink-review#comments conference event newfriends speaking visualthinking Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:37:01 -0500 leelefever 1589 at http://commoncraft.com VizThink in Review http://commoncraft.com/vizthink-review <p>Text and bullet points - they are dead, or at least used inappropriately.  That was one of the overwhelming messages from <a href="http://www.vizthink.com" mce_href="http://www.vizthink.com">VizThink</a>, a two day conference on Visual Thinking.  We agree.<br><a href="http://www.vizthink.com" mce_href="http://www.vizthink.com"><br /> <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2334/1637500754_fd836366d3.jpg?v=0" alt="" onload="show_notes_initially();" class="reflect" height="159" width="275"></div> <p></a><br>This was the first (of hopefully many) conferences on visual thinking put on by VizThink, the brainchild of <a href="http://communicationnation.blogspot.com/" mce_href="http://communicationnation.blogspot.com/">Dave Gray</a> of <a href="http://www.xplane.com" mce_href="http://www.xplane.com">Xplane</a>.  It brought together people from around the world who focus in communicating with pictures. More info on the <a href="http://wiki.vizthink.com/" mce_href="http://wiki.vizthink.com/">wiki</a>.<br><br>For example, on the first morning we sat down with three pediatric ER doctors from Loma Linda University. They often talk to parents in the ER about pediatric medical problems and a brochure doesn't work.  They see visual thinking as a way to communicate complex problems in the emergency room situation.  Indeed, there are near-infinite applications for visual thinking.<br><br>I wish I could mention everyone we met, but here are a few.<br><br>We had dinner with Ole Qvist- Sorensen of <a href="http://biggerpicture.dk/english.html" mce_href="http://biggerpicture.dk/english.html">Bigger Picture</a> who was there from Copenhagen, Denmark - I have a feeling we'll be hanging out with Ole before long - a great guy with lots of ideas.<br><br>Ryan Coleman of <a href="http://www.clay-tablet.com" mce_href="http://www.clay-tablet.com">Clay Tablet Technologies</a> turned out to be a friend of our good friend <a href="http://www.willpate.org/" mce_href="http://www.willpate.org/">Will Pate</a>. Ryan has started local <a href="http://barcamp.org/VizThink" mce_href="http://barcamp.org/VizThink">Visual Thinking BarCamps</a> around Toronto. <br><br>Cliff Atkinson of BBP (<a href="http://www.beyondbulletpoints.com/" mce_href="http://www.beyondbulletpoints.com/">Beyond Bullet Points</a>) came to our session and stuck around afterward for a chat.  We really connected with Cliff - he loves being small and independent and we share a lot of the same ideas. <br><br>Speaking of our session, we had a great time and I hope the attendees did too.  It was called "Solving Explanation Problems with Simple Online Videos"  The session was mostly group activity where we asked teams to produce storyboards.</p> <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2314/2232707341_b0c295c0c5.jpg?v=1201811422" alt="" onload="show_notes_initially();" class="reflect" height="239" width="331"></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2006/2232706105_f48bc9cb27.jpg?v=1201811530" alt="" onload="show_notes_initially();" class="reflect" height="247" width="331"></div> <p>It warmed our hearts to hear the whole group yelling "yaay!" and<br /> "boooo!" (appropriately) when the teams presented their storyboards. As Sachi said - it was like they were singing a song we wrote. :) <br></p> <p>One thing I found interesting was that we didn't meet anyone else doing video. It was like the visual thinking world and the video world had not previously intersected.  I hope that we inspired some of the attendees to take another look at video.<br><br>We owe a big thanks to Tom, Chris, Denise and the VizThink folks for inviting us to participate and pulling off a great conference. We'll be back!<br></p> http://commoncraft.com/vizthink-review#comments conference event newfriends speaking visualthinking Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:37:01 -0500 leelefever 1589 at http://commoncraft.com VizThink in Review http://commoncraft.com/vizthink-review <p>Text and bullet points - they are dead, or at least used inappropriately.  That was one of the overwhelming messages from <a href="http://www.vizthink.com" mce_href="http://www.vizthink.com">VizThink</a>, a two day conference on Visual Thinking.  We agree.<br><a href="http://www.vizthink.com" mce_href="http://www.vizthink.com"><br /> <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2334/1637500754_fd836366d3.jpg?v=0" alt="" onload="show_notes_initially();" class="reflect" height="159" width="275"></div> <p></a><br>This was the first (of hopefully many) conferences on visual thinking put on by VizThink, the brainchild of <a href="http://communicationnation.blogspot.com/" mce_href="http://communicationnation.blogspot.com/">Dave Gray</a> of <a href="http://www.xplane.com" mce_href="http://www.xplane.com">Xplane</a>.  It brought together people from around the world who focus in communicating with pictures. More info on the <a href="http://wiki.vizthink.com/" mce_href="http://wiki.vizthink.com/">wiki</a>.<br><br>For example, on the first morning we sat down with three pediatric ER doctors from Loma Linda University. They often talk to parents in the ER about pediatric medical problems and a brochure doesn't work.  They see visual thinking as a way to communicate complex problems in the emergency room situation.  Indeed, there are near-infinite applications for visual thinking.<br><br>I wish I could mention everyone we met, but here are a few.<br><br>We had dinner with Ole Qvist- Sorensen of <a href="http://biggerpicture.dk/english.html" mce_href="http://biggerpicture.dk/english.html">Bigger Picture</a> who was there from Copenhagen, Denmark - I have a feeling we'll be hanging out with Ole before long - a great guy with lots of ideas.<br><br>Ryan Coleman of <a href="http://www.clay-tablet.com" mce_href="http://www.clay-tablet.com">Clay Tablet Technologies</a> turned out to be a friend of our good friend <a href="http://www.willpate.org/" mce_href="http://www.willpate.org/">Will Pate</a>. Ryan has started local <a href="http://barcamp.org/VizThink" mce_href="http://barcamp.org/VizThink">Visual Thinking BarCamps</a> around Toronto. <br><br>Cliff Atkinson of BBP (<a href="http://www.beyondbulletpoints.com/" mce_href="http://www.beyondbulletpoints.com/">Beyond Bullet Points</a>) came to our session and stuck around afterward for a chat.  We really connected with Cliff - he loves being small and independent and we share a lot of the same ideas. <br><br>Speaking of our session, we had a great time and I hope the attendees did too.  It was called "Solving Explanation Problems with Simple Online Videos"  The session was mostly group activity where we asked teams to produce storyboards.</p> <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2314/2232707341_b0c295c0c5.jpg?v=1201811422" alt="" onload="show_notes_initially();" class="reflect" height="239" width="331"></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2006/2232706105_f48bc9cb27.jpg?v=1201811530" alt="" onload="show_notes_initially();" class="reflect" height="247" width="331"></div> <p>It warmed our hearts to hear the whole group yelling "yaay!" and<br /> "boooo!" (appropriately) when the teams presented their storyboards. As Sachi said - it was like they were singing a song we wrote. :) <br></p> <p>One thing I found interesting was that we didn't meet anyone else doing video. It was like the visual thinking world and the video world had not previously intersected.  I hope that we inspired some of the attendees to take another look at video.<br><br>We owe a big thanks to Tom, Chris, Denise and the VizThink folks for inviting us to participate and pulling off a great conference. We'll be back!<br></p> http://commoncraft.com/vizthink-review#comments conference event newfriends speaking visualthinking Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:37:01 -0500 leelefever 1589 at http://commoncraft.com VizThink in Review http://commoncraft.com/vizthink-review <p>Text and bullet points - they are dead, or at least used inappropriately.  That was one of the overwhelming messages from <a href="http://www.vizthink.com" mce_href="http://www.vizthink.com">VizThink</a>, a two day conference on Visual Thinking.  We agree.<br><a href="http://www.vizthink.com" mce_href="http://www.vizthink.com"><br /> <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2334/1637500754_fd836366d3.jpg?v=0" alt="" onload="show_notes_initially();" class="reflect" height="159" width="275"></div> <p></a><br>This was the first (of hopefully many) conferences on visual thinking put on by VizThink, the brainchild of <a href="http://communicationnation.blogspot.com/" mce_href="http://communicationnation.blogspot.com/">Dave Gray</a> of <a href="http://www.xplane.com" mce_href="http://www.xplane.com">Xplane</a>.  It brought together people from around the world who focus in communicating with pictures. More info on the <a href="http://wiki.vizthink.com/" mce_href="http://wiki.vizthink.com/">wiki</a>.<br><br>For example, on the first morning we sat down with three pediatric ER doctors from Loma Linda University. They often talk to parents in the ER about pediatric medical problems and a brochure doesn't work.  They see visual thinking as a way to communicate complex problems in the emergency room situation.  Indeed, there are near-infinite applications for visual thinking.<br><br>I wish I could mention everyone we met, but here are a few.<br><br>We had dinner with Ole Qvist- Sorensen of <a href="http://biggerpicture.dk/english.html" mce_href="http://biggerpicture.dk/english.html">Bigger Picture</a> who was there from Copenhagen, Denmark - I have a feeling we'll be hanging out with Ole before long - a great guy with lots of ideas.<br><br>Ryan Coleman of <a href="http://www.clay-tablet.com" mce_href="http://www.clay-tablet.com">Clay Tablet Technologies</a> turned out to be a friend of our good friend <a href="http://www.willpate.org/" mce_href="http://www.willpate.org/">Will Pate</a>. Ryan has started local <a href="http://barcamp.org/VizThink" mce_href="http://barcamp.org/VizThink">Visual Thinking BarCamps</a> around Toronto. <br><br>Cliff Atkinson of BBP (<a href="http://www.beyondbulletpoints.com/" mce_href="http://www.beyondbulletpoints.com/">Beyond Bullet Points</a>) came to our session and stuck around afterward for a chat.  We really connected with Cliff - he loves being small and independent and we share a lot of the same ideas. <br><br>Speaking of our session, we had a great time and I hope the attendees did too.  It was called "Solving Explanation Problems with Simple Online Videos"  The session was mostly group activity where we asked teams to produce storyboards.</p> <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2314/2232707341_b0c295c0c5.jpg?v=1201811422" alt="" onload="show_notes_initially();" class="reflect" height="239" width="331"></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2006/2232706105_f48bc9cb27.jpg?v=1201811530" alt="" onload="show_notes_initially();" class="reflect" height="247" width="331"></div> <p>It warmed our hearts to hear the whole group yelling "yaay!" and<br /> "boooo!" (appropriately) when the teams presented their storyboards. As Sachi said - it was like they were singing a song we wrote. :) <br></p> <p>One thing I found interesting was that we didn't meet anyone else doing video. It was like the visual thinking world and the video world had not previously intersected.  I hope that we inspired some of the attendees to take another look at video.<br><br>We owe a big thanks to Tom, Chris, Denise and the VizThink folks for inviting us to participate and pulling off a great conference. We'll be back!<br></p> http://commoncraft.com/vizthink-review#comments conference event newfriends speaking visualthinking Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:37:01 -0500 leelefever 1589 at http://commoncraft.com VizThink in Review http://commoncraft.com/vizthink-review <p>Text and bullet points - they are dead, or at least used inappropriately.  That was one of the overwhelming messages from <a href="http://www.vizthink.com" mce_href="http://www.vizthink.com">VizThink</a>, a two day conference on Visual Thinking.  We agree.<br><a href="http://www.vizthink.com" mce_href="http://www.vizthink.com"><br /> <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2334/1637500754_fd836366d3.jpg?v=0" alt="" onload="show_notes_initially();" class="reflect" height="159" width="275"></div> <p></a><br>This was the first (of hopefully many) conferences on visual thinking put on by VizThink, the brainchild of <a href="http://communicationnation.blogspot.com/" mce_href="http://communicationnation.blogspot.com/">Dave Gray</a> of <a href="http://www.xplane.com" mce_href="http://www.xplane.com">Xplane</a>.  It brought together people from around the world who focus in communicating with pictures. More info on the <a href="http://wiki.vizthink.com/" mce_href="http://wiki.vizthink.com/">wiki</a>.<br><br>For example, on the first morning we sat down with three pediatric ER doctors from Loma Linda University. They often talk to parents in the ER about pediatric medical problems and a brochure doesn't work.  They see visual thinking as a way to communicate complex problems in the emergency room situation.  Indeed, there are near-infinite applications for visual thinking.<br><br>I wish I could mention everyone we met, but here are a few.<br><br>We had dinner with Ole Qvist- Sorensen of <a href="http://biggerpicture.dk/english.html" mce_href="http://biggerpicture.dk/english.html">Bigger Picture</a> who was there from Copenhagen, Denmark - I have a feeling we'll be hanging out with Ole before long - a great guy with lots of ideas.<br><br>Ryan Coleman of <a href="http://www.clay-tablet.com" mce_href="http://www.clay-tablet.com">Clay Tablet Technologies</a> turned out to be a friend of our good friend <a href="http://www.willpate.org/" mce_href="http://www.willpate.org/">Will Pate</a>. Ryan has started local <a href="http://barcamp.org/VizThink" mce_href="http://barcamp.org/VizThink">Visual Thinking BarCamps</a> around Toronto. <br><br>Cliff Atkinson of BBP (<a href="http://www.beyondbulletpoints.com/" mce_href="http://www.beyondbulletpoints.com/">Beyond Bullet Points</a>) came to our session and stuck around afterward for a chat.  We really connected with Cliff - he loves being small and independent and we share a lot of the same ideas. <br><br>Speaking of our session, we had a great time and I hope the attendees did too.  It was called "Solving Explanation Problems with Simple Online Videos"  The session was mostly group activity where we asked teams to produce storyboards.</p> <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2314/2232707341_b0c295c0c5.jpg?v=1201811422" alt="" onload="show_notes_initially();" class="reflect" height="239" width="331"></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2006/2232706105_f48bc9cb27.jpg?v=1201811530" alt="" onload="show_notes_initially();" class="reflect" height="247" width="331"></div> <p>It warmed our hearts to hear the whole group yelling "yaay!" and<br /> "boooo!" (appropriately) when the teams presented their storyboards. As Sachi said - it was like they were singing a song we wrote. :) <br></p> <p>One thing I found interesting was that we didn't meet anyone else doing video. It was like the visual thinking world and the video world had not previously intersected.  I hope that we inspired some of the attendees to take another look at video.<br><br>We owe a big thanks to Tom, Chris, Denise and the VizThink folks for inviting us to participate and pulling off a great conference. We'll be back!<br></p> http://commoncraft.com/vizthink-review#comments conference event newfriends speaking visualthinking Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:37:01 -0500 leelefever 1589 at http://commoncraft.com VizThink in Review http://commoncraft.com/vizthink-review <p>Text and bullet points - they are dead, or at least used inappropriately.  That was one of the overwhelming messages from <a href="http://www.vizthink.com" mce_href="http://www.vizthink.com">VizThink</a>, a two day conference on Visual Thinking.  We agree.<br><a href="http://www.vizthink.com" mce_href="http://www.vizthink.com"><br /> <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2334/1637500754_fd836366d3.jpg?v=0" alt="" onload="show_notes_initially();" class="reflect" height="159" width="275"></div> <p></a><br>This was the first (of hopefully many) conferences on visual thinking put on by VizThink, the brainchild of <a href="http://communicationnation.blogspot.com/" mce_href="http://communicationnation.blogspot.com/">Dave Gray</a> of <a href="http://www.xplane.com" mce_href="http://www.xplane.com">Xplane</a>.  It brought together people from around the world who focus in communicating with pictures. More info on the <a href="http://wiki.vizthink.com/" mce_href="http://wiki.vizthink.com/">wiki</a>.<br><br>For example, on the first morning we sat down with three pediatric ER doctors from Loma Linda University. They often talk to parents in the ER about pediatric medical problems and a brochure doesn't work.  They see visual thinking as a way to communicate complex problems in the emergency room situation.  Indeed, there are near-infinite applications for visual thinking.<br><br>I wish I could mention everyone we met, but here are a few.<br><br>We had dinner with Ole Qvist- Sorensen of <a href="http://biggerpicture.dk/english.html" mce_href="http://biggerpicture.dk/english.html">Bigger Picture</a> who was there from Copenhagen, Denmark - I have a feeling we'll be hanging out with Ole before long - a great guy with lots of ideas.<br><br>Ryan Coleman of <a href="http://www.clay-tablet.com" mce_href="http://www.clay-tablet.com">Clay Tablet Technologies</a> turned out to be a friend of our good friend <a href="http://www.willpate.org/" mce_href="http://www.willpate.org/">Will Pate</a>. Ryan has started local <a href="http://barcamp.org/VizThink" mce_href="http://barcamp.org/VizThink">Visual Thinking BarCamps</a> around Toronto. <br><br>Cliff Atkinson of BBP (<a href="http://www.beyondbulletpoints.com/" mce_href="http://www.beyondbulletpoints.com/">Beyond Bullet Points</a>) came to our session and stuck around afterward for a chat.  We really connected with Cliff - he loves being small and independent and we share a lot of the same ideas. <br><br>Speaking of our session, we had a great time and I hope the attendees did too.  It was called "Solving Explanation Problems with Simple Online Videos"  The session was mostly group activity where we asked teams to produce storyboards.</p> <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2314/2232707341_b0c295c0c5.jpg?v=1201811422" alt="" onload="show_notes_initially();" class="reflect" height="239" width="331"></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2006/2232706105_f48bc9cb27.jpg?v=1201811530" alt="" onload="show_notes_initially();" class="reflect" height="247" width="331"></div> <p>It warmed our hearts to hear the whole group yelling "yaay!" and<br /> "boooo!" (appropriately) when the teams presented their storyboards. As Sachi said - it was like they were singing a song we wrote. :) <br></p> <p>One thing I found interesting was that we didn't meet anyone else doing video. It was like the visual thinking world and the video world had not previously intersected.  I hope that we inspired some of the attendees to take another look at video.<br><br>We owe a big thanks to Tom, Chris, Denise and the VizThink folks for inviting us to participate and pulling off a great conference. We'll be back!<br></p> http://commoncraft.com/vizthink-review#comments conference event newfriends speaking visualthinking Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:37:01 -0500 leelefever 1589 at http://commoncraft.com VizThink in Review http://commoncraft.com/vizthink-review <p>Text and bullet points - they are dead, or at least used inappropriately.  That was one of the overwhelming messages from <a href="http://www.vizthink.com" mce_href="http://www.vizthink.com">VizThink</a>, a two day conference on Visual Thinking.  We agree.<br><a href="http://www.vizthink.com" mce_href="http://www.vizthink.com"><br /> <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2334/1637500754_fd836366d3.jpg?v=0" alt="" onload="show_notes_initially();" class="reflect" height="159" width="275"></div> <p></a><br>This was the first (of hopefully many) conferences on visual thinking put on by VizThink, the brainchild of <a href="http://communicationnation.blogspot.com/" mce_href="http://communicationnation.blogspot.com/">Dave Gray</a> of <a href="http://www.xplane.com" mce_href="http://www.xplane.com">Xplane</a>.  It brought together people from around the world who focus in communicating with pictures. More info on the <a href="http://wiki.vizthink.com/" mce_href="http://wiki.vizthink.com/">wiki</a>.<br><br>For example, on the first morning we sat down with three pediatric ER doctors from Loma Linda University. They often talk to parents in the ER about pediatric medical problems and a brochure doesn't work.  They see visual thinking as a way to communicate complex problems in the emergency room situation.  Indeed, there are near-infinite applications for visual thinking.<br><br>I wish I could mention everyone we met, but here are a few.<br><br>We had dinner with Ole Qvist- Sorensen of <a href="http://biggerpicture.dk/english.html" mce_href="http://biggerpicture.dk/english.html">Bigger Picture</a> who was there from Copenhagen, Denmark - I have a feeling we'll be hanging out with Ole before long - a great guy with lots of ideas.<br><br>Ryan Coleman of <a href="http://www.clay-tablet.com" mce_href="http://www.clay-tablet.com">Clay Tablet Technologies</a> turned out to be a friend of our good friend <a href="http://www.willpate.org/" mce_href="http://www.willpate.org/">Will Pate</a>. Ryan has started local <a href="http://barcamp.org/VizThink" mce_href="http://barcamp.org/VizThink">Visual Thinking BarCamps</a> around Toronto. <br><br>Cliff Atkinson of BBP (<a href="http://www.beyondbulletpoints.com/" mce_href="http://www.beyondbulletpoints.com/">Beyond Bullet Points</a>) came to our session and stuck around afterward for a chat.  We really connected with Cliff - he loves being small and independent and we share a lot of the same ideas. <br><br>Speaking of our session, we had a great time and I hope the attendees did too.  It was called "Solving Explanation Problems with Simple Online Videos"  The session was mostly group activity where we asked teams to produce storyboards.</p> <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2314/2232707341_b0c295c0c5.jpg?v=1201811422" alt="" onload="show_notes_initially();" class="reflect" height="239" width="331"></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2006/2232706105_f48bc9cb27.jpg?v=1201811530" alt="" onload="show_notes_initially();" class="reflect" height="247" width="331"></div> <p>It warmed our hearts to hear the whole group yelling "yaay!" and<br /> "boooo!" (appropriately) when the teams presented their storyboards. As Sachi said - it was like they were singing a song we wrote. :) <br></p> <p>One thing I found interesting was that we didn't meet anyone else doing video. It was like the visual thinking world and the video world had not previously intersected.  I hope that we inspired some of the attendees to take another look at video.<br><br>We owe a big thanks to Tom, Chris, Denise and the VizThink folks for inviting us to participate and pulling off a great conference. We'll be back!<br></p> http://commoncraft.com/vizthink-review#comments conference event newfriends speaking visualthinking Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:37:01 -0500 leelefever 1589 at http://commoncraft.com