Long a fan of telling business “stories” with pictures, I’m always looking for new sources and references for ideas. One dropped in my lap the other day when a Point B colleague mentioned A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods in a Yammer posting (more to come on Yammer in another post…). Graeme’s gift prompted me to recollect and revisit Visual Complexity, another longtime favorite of mine.
Was ist das? Eintausend Wörter.
I’ve been exposed to mind mapping a couple times and it’s nothing new to many folks, but I personally haven’t done much with it. However, it’s picking up steam with many of my colleagues, so I’m giving the Mindjet application a shot as a way to learn about mind mapping. In many respects, Mindjet is just a different way to collect and organize notes, which is something I do a lot regularly with MS OneNote. But it’s also interesting in that it does a lot of things you might try to do graphically with MS Visio, but a bit easier.
So I guess it’s sort of a hybrid tool, but it’s really not the tool that interests me. It’s the mind mapping techniques and other presentation formats like you see on the Periodic Table that I need to spend time learning how to use. Really not sure where this post is going other than making plugs for PToV and Visual Complexity. They’re just cool.
