from Eris Weaver:
One of the many business networking groups I belong to is the California chapter of the Society of Association Executives. I have an article on visual tools in the current issue of their newsletter, “The Executive”.
View article online here.
Sophia Laing of Graphic Footprints was approached by one of the teams competing in the reality tv show, The Pitch.
Here's a screenshot of her behind the team and the link to my charts on amctv.com under campaign artwork.
The IOIC is the only professional institute in the UK dedicated to furthering internal communication knowledge and practice. 
LINK: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/09/01/opinion/brown-creativity-doodles/
CNN interview with Sunni Brown, speaker and co-author of "GameStorming: A Playbook for Rule-breakers, Innovators and Changemakers." She was recently named on Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People in Business List and on the 10 Most Creative People on Twitter list. She spoke at the TED 2011 conference in Long Beach, California.
After 3 conferences, 74 panels and 20 breakfast tacos, Heather Willems and Nora Herting of ImageThink are back from SXSW to the relative quiet of Brooklyn, New York.
For those of you who weren't able to make it out to Austin, TX you can view all of the panels they captured as part of Ogilvynotes here and a description of their experience at http://www.blog.imagethink.net/.
Across 3 states and 2 countries, Ryan, Liisa, Sunni, Andrew, Heather and Nora are packing up their markers and heading for SXSW Interactive.
Watch us create live visuals of keynotes and the most popular sessions March 12-14.
Want to take note? Come by the Day Stage to get your own limited edition prints of all our illustrations and check out the gallery of graphic facilitation.
Can’t make it out west? See our work, along with visual notes from other attendees at our sponsor’s site. Or stay tuned by checking out our blog.
Follow more visual learners and famed sketchnoters at: http://ogilvynotes.com/
from Stine Arensbach in in EU:
Graphic facilitation is a business in growth. I think everybody in the field agrees with me on that. There seems to be an abundance of work where each job feeds into the next. And I wonder… why is that? Why does it work? Why are people so enthusiastic about the process and results? full article>>
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See time-lapse of Keith Bendis creating this diagram of IDEO's famed Deep Dive Process described in this classic 1999 NBC Nightline video:
Respect the doodle. Use the power of visual thinking to create and share ideas.
The teacher who chastised you for “mindless doodling” was wrong on both counts. Far from shutting down the mind, the act of doodling engages the brain in the kind of visual sense-making people have practiced for over 30,000 years. Doodling sharpens concentration, increases retention, and enhances access to the problem solving unconscious. It activates the portions of the visual cortex that allow us to see mental imagery and manipulate concepts, and unifies three major learning modalities—visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. Doodle Revolution leader Sunni Brown introduces strategic doodling and presents the ABCs of our shared visual alphabet.
You don’t have to be a great singer to write a great song—just ask Bob Dylan. Likewise, you needn’t be a Leonardo to draw your way to more and better ideas. Sketching helps you generate concepts quickly, exploring alternatives rapidly and at no cost of resources. The looseness of a sketch removes inhibitions, granting clients and colleagues permission to consider and challenge the ideas it represents. Mike Rohde outlines the practice, surveys the tools, and shares ways to become confident with this method of brainstorming, regardless of your level of artistic ability.
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