(Notes of Tim O’Reilly’spresentation) Last week, Jeff Pulver put on the 140 Characters Conference, AKA “The Davos of Twitter.” Great speakers, lively format, timely topic. Jeff is an innovator–he’s always looking for new ways to add value to events. That means he’s open to new ideas. I was happy to be embodying one of those [...]

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I recently did a performance slideshow at Pecha Kucha Philly 2 last Saturday night. A very friendly crowd of about 60 people. Thanks to the organizers for having me. I look forward to more of these. Joel Mathis on the Philly Weekly site wrote “Jonny Goldstein gave a hilarious disquisition about his fear of snakes.” [...]

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(Photo: Samurai Virtual Tours) Dean Meyers asked me to post a recap of the mini-workshop I did at Refresh Philly last Monday, so here it is: How it happened: Roz Duffy asked me if I would be willing to lead a hands on activity on taking visual notes at a special hands-on meeting of Refresh [...]

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If you would like to learn about visual notetaking or feel like being entertained by a presentation I’m giving about my fear of snakes, June is the month for you. June 1: Refresh Philly Hands-On. I will be leading a mini-workshop on visual notetaking in Philly at the Comcast Center as part of the Refresh [...]

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Before: After: Today’s visual notes show the power of feedback. Specifically from my Mom, Rochelle Cashdan, who is a writer and who also has an excellent visual sense. I am lucky to have someone who has sharp critical faculties who actually cares about me enough to give me detailed feedback. Mom’s suggestions for improvement were [...]

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Like many, I am very inspired by Kathy Sierra’s work in which she tries to figure out how to make her customers kick ass. I find that this focus on kicking ass is quite useful when trying to figure out whether to do something or not. If that something helps me kick ass (as a [...]

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RSVP here for VizThink Philly 2 Topic: Get Framed….at the Storyboard-O-Rama VizThinker Julia Pellicciaro will do a quick storyboarding demo, and then we’ll make our own and share them with each other. Storyboards are poweful tools for planning and pitching projects. They are can also stand alone as potent communication devices. Afterwards if you care [...]

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