Annie Leonard from The Story of Stuff presents her next visual explanation of The Story of Bottled Water.
Storytelling
September 18, 2010
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September 26, 2008
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
August 27, 2008
August 13, 2008
Innovation and Business Models
This is from a post on Communication Nation - Alexander Osterwalder offers some tools on how to innovate your business model and why it matters. It's a good example of a presentation that although is 100+ slides, is easy to flip through, holds your attention and tells a good story. Here is a link to Alex's blog
July 24, 2008
A Wise Tree In The Grove
I was intrigued by a posting on David Sibbet's blog of The Grove Consultants. He eloquently recapped a recent Facilitation Mastery session that he led where participants learn the Grove's methodology and the four flows. Having a meditation practice of my own I was drawn to this exercise on working with the flow of attention (see below) and his metaphor that likened personal growth to the growth rings on a tree. I really like that metaphor and believe we are always adding to our edges or rings through our experiences.
From his posting Working the Flow of Attention
Since attention is fundamental, we threaded reflective process throughout. If you think of attention as a flashlight (metaphor again), then it can be broad or narrow beam. It can also be turned inward or outward. A facilitator needs to not only be aware of his or her own awareness but also imagine what people in the group are attending to. So how does a person develop mastery in being aware of attention?
Our big exercise day one was having people create large personal portraits of themselves inside an outline of their bodies drawn by a partner. These portraits were “current state” pictures looking at four aspects of ourselves (these questions were derived from thinking about the four flows). The question we asked of ourselves are the following:
1. What inspires you?
2. What nurtures you?
3. What intrigues you?
4. What are you committed to?
5. What gifts are you bringing to this workshop?
The graphic below was David's answer. Answers to question #1 are along the top. Question #2 answers are along the left side. Question #3 answers are along the bottom. Questions #4 answers are on the rights side. And Question #5 answers are inside his body outline.
July 06, 2008
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.
June 20, 2008
No Small Change - How Obama Reinvented Campaign Finance
This is a great explanation graphic from the folks at XPLANE
Barack Obama is the first major candidate to decline participation in the public financing system for presidential campaigns. He’s found a more effective way to raise money — by leveraging the power of the American people through online Social Networks.
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