Yay! It's Show and Tell Tuesday again and I am delighted to share more fun visuals for you to know and use. This week's visuals are for showing people. People are so important, especially if your work is mission-driven.
Read MoreWelcome back to my Show and Tell Tuesday series of fun visuals to know and use! This week's visuals are for making decisions. Since we are often using our imaginations to determine best choices, I think visuals can be a very powerful way to both access information and recognize opportunities.
Read MoreThis is the first in a new blog series I am calling "Show and Tell Tuesday" in which I will feature three fun visuals that I've created that demonstrate how and why you might consider using similar ones as part of your information gathering and sharing practices. Let's launch by looking at uses for treemaps, circle maps, and Gantt charts.
Read MoreThis graphic represents all the aspects of communication and the value they bring to an organization and its audience.
Read MoreThis graphic summarizes my takeaways from the book “Show and Tell” by Dan Roam.
Read MoreThis graphic represents how visuals can help provide a cure for information overload.
Read MoreThis graphic represents the role communication plays in social change movements.
Read MoreAmong artists of all kinds there is an ongoing dialogue about the effect that our gifts can have on larger social and political debates. I've long thought the story of power, though, can actually be best understood by merely taking a course in art history. For all sorts of reasons, art has long been an essential tool of the powerful. And, importantly, it has often been a tool for unseating that very power as well. There are countless examples of this but the study of black history in particular reveals some poignant ones.
Read MoreI'm sure you've already heard yesterday's news: 2014 was the hottest recorded year on Earth. And I'm sure you've seen the attention-grabbing maps and graphs associated with this news flash, too. But did you pay attention to which were the most accurate - or just the ones that looked the prettiest? Let's take a closer look at some here. Creating a useful graphic of any kind is both an art and a science.
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