I’ve mentioned before that David Armano is one of the bloggers that inspires Hard Knox Life thanks to his ability to capture complex thoughts through simple visuals.  In his latest presentation, he gives us an inside look at how he comes up with those visuals, including these five tips: Empathize...

Knowledge Management using Mind Maps In these days of information overload, the compact way of representing ideas that is embodied in Mind Mapping is essential. You can summarize a huge amount of information in a very compact space. For us to be able to cope, we need efficient knowledge generation, ...

His mother was a doctor who was concern her son would get sick in the epidemics, so he chose to school him at home. His unemployed uncle taught him, and he had many strong ideas about not liking rote learning: " He...avoided teaching me the alphabet and multiplication tables (even today they give me...

As I was finishing up the manuscript for The Back of the Napkin last year, I had a bunch of fun conversations with Will Weisser and his publicity team at Portfolio, brainstorming on the promotional copy for the book. We were all excited about how the book had come together and knew we were on to som...

Last night Tom Ball & Rick O'Neil from Cognac ran the first VizThink community event in London, England. Based on a couple of quick emails I've received from the guys it was a big success - everyone had a good time, it went smoothly and they learned some lessons for next time. A slideshow of the pic...

... but in this case, a (rather old) post by fellow Canadian Dick Hardt has me feeling pretty tiny tonight. I came across it via Stumble Upon this evening... It's a great post, with some great visuals, that show you just how big the world isn't. Check it out here. On a side note: if you haven't seen...

So here it is, almost a week later now - the VizThink conference is wrapped up and everyone has headed home. I'm surprised with how much enthusiasm has stuck with me. Conferences tend to be a happy, friendly place in general but VizThink just had that extra *spark*. When people have asked how it was...