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Dan Roam Keynote at IFVP 2010

Dan Roam explains how created the Healthcare Reform presentation and the response that it received both online and from the White House. It's a great keynote. 

Part 1 

IFVP 2010 Keynote: Dan Roam (part 1) from Alphachimp Studio Inc. on Vimeo.

Part 2

IFVP 2010 Keynote: Dan Roam (part 2) from Alphachimp Studio Inc. on Vimeo.

Part 3 

Dan Roam, pt 3 - Solving Big Problems from Alphachimp Studio Inc. on Vimeo.

XPLANE's Did You Know 4.0

New from XPLANE - updated from 2.0 

The Back of the Napkin Goes to Washington

Dan Roam gave a workshop to the heads of staff for Senators from the Democratic side. His post shows a great working example of his principles from his book The Back of the Napkin. He condenses a lot of heavy data comparing eight years of the Clinton Administration with eight years of the George W Bush administration into graphics that are easy to understand and that anyone could produce.
Consider this next time you have to present any boring company data!

See the full post with many more graphics here

Electing a US President in Plain English

This is a another great video from Common Craft.
This is an example of a explanation that is deceptively simple; great storytelling and visualization techniques!

What do you get when you cross a Bic pen, an infrared light and a Wiimote?

This is very ingenious; using infrared (IR) light pens and the Wii Remote, it is possible to create very low-cost multi-point interactive whiteboards on various surfaces and multi-point tablet displays. Johnny Chung Lee is MacGyver with a Bic pen and an infrared light!!

Download the software

Nancy Duarte on Presentations

Nancy Duarte, principal of Duarte Design and one of the guru’s behind Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth presentation, took over 135 people through her advice & thoughts on how to create powerful presentations on Vizthink.

Everyone is tired of the same old lifeless PowerPoint presentations. Nancy focuses on telling the story, some tips and tricks, and then there is a Q&A period. I love one of her tips - leave you bullets in your gun!

Click here to see the webinar.

She also has a new book, Slide:ology, that will be available on Amazon soon.

Dan Roam on AtGoogleTalks

This is Dan Roam, author of The Back of the Napkin, on AtGoogleTalks.
See previous posts for more info on Dan's book and approach to visual thinking.

Garr Reynolds at Google - Presentation Zen

I spotted this on Dave Gray's blog Communication Nation.
Garr Reynolds, Presentation Zen, presents at Google.

Here is Lawrence Lessig's presentation at TED.

Garr also mentions that he starts the creative process in analog mode by first creating the story on paper.
Here is a tool from Cliff Atkinson to create storyboards in PPT.

What do Social Media and Ice-cream have in common?

Here's the latest video from Common Craft great ice-cream analogy - show me the way to Scoopville!

Social Media in Plain English from leelefever on Vimeo.

Dan Roam on Fox Business

Here's the Happy Hour segment from Fox Business with Dan Roam.
He has a simple explanation of Microsoft's strategy to buy Yahoo.

You can download the The 10 1/2 Commandments of Visual Thinking: The "Lost Chapter" from The Back of the Napkin here at ChangeThis

Also see previous posts:
Dan Roam's Napking Sketches on Fast Company
The Back of the Napkin