I go to a lot of conferences. The Common Ground conference in Baltimore is hands down one of my favorites. The conference is for educators who want to think about how to provide a great learning experience for kids in the 21st century. I provided graphic recording a couple of years ago when the conference [...]

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The 2nd annual NASA Space Apps Challenge is coming up April 20-21, 2013! No matter where you live you can participate. And if you are in one of 75 cities around the world, you can join other developers, designers, and space enthusiasts in person to work on projects to improve life on Earth and in [...]

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The United States Federal Government is without a doubt the most powerful organization on the planet. Between the Department of Defense, the Social Security Administration, the Medicare System, and the other myriad departments that comprise the U.S. Government, US taxpayers spent 3.630 trillion (That’s $3,630,000,000,000,000) for fiscal year 2011 to provide a myriad of services.The [...]

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(Capturing conversation at the community partnership workshop) If you are in any of the photos and would like your name captioned, send me an email jonny(at)envizualize.com, or comment below and I will write a caption for you. Helping plan and run an International Forum of Visual Practitioners (IFVP) conference is a powerful learning experience, once [...]

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(Graphic by Leah Silverman) (Leah Silverman, Emily Marko, Jonny Goldstein at our first planning meeting for the IFVP 2012 Conference) (Jonny Goldstein with brainspill on the topic of the upcoming visual thinking for groups conference in Pittsburgh, AKA the 17th Annual IFVP Conference) The rapid approach of the 2012 International Forum of Visual Practitioners Conference [...]

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I am thrilled that the International Forum of Visual Practitioners 2012 conference will be happening in my current hometown, Pittsburgh, the City of Bridges. Pittsburgh holds the world record for number of bridges, edging out Venice by four bridges. I think this is very appropriate to the IFVP conference, as we help our clients connect [...]

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(Benefits of using pictures to plan projects) Complete photoset from last night here) It was my pleasure to give a mini-workshop for the Pittsburgh Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication last night. We focused on using pencil on paper drawing and diagraming techniques to plan projects. Each participant picked a project they were working [...]

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