Idea Mapping

I recently read an article in the April 2013 Fast Company magazine titled The Visual Shift.  It talked about Facebook’s $715 million acquisition of Instagram and Pinterest hitting 2.5 billion monthly page views. Writer Joe Stewart states, “The ability to instantly communicate through imagery now seems to transcend everything for businesses.” Sites like Facebook decided […]

The 2013 Visual Thinking Conference is for anyone focused on visual approaches to thinking and communication. So whether you are a business leader giving presentations, a marketing manager designing websites and materials,  a grade school teacher looking for new ways to reach students, or a student, no other event offers you more of today’s solutions… […]

Visual Root is a new website that enables visitors to create massive online collaborative Mind Maps and Idea Maps. Created by Victor Palmer and James Patton Visual Root is different from the MANY commercial (and free) mind mapping programs out there.  Victor states: “The idea is to take a user-initiated thought tree (I never know […]

YouTube DirektVisual Thinking & Literacy Conference March 17, 2012 marked the first Visual Thinking & Literacy (VizLit) Conference in Michigan. Content was built to include a wide audience of business people, educators and students. Keynote speakers included Cliff Atkinson, Jamie Nast and Karl Gude. Breakout sessions were led by Tom Crawford, Brandy Agerbeck (also shown […]

Tom Crawford is the Founder, Designer, Developer, and Head Cook at VizChef. He was previously the CEO of VizThink – a community of professionals using pictures to help solve problems, think about complex issues, and communicate more effectively. I met Tom when he invited me to be a presenter at the first VizThink Conference in […]