I’m a fan of David Armano’s work. Here’s a great presentation from the recent BlogWorld 2009 conference in Las Vegas.
It’s a fast but worthwhile journey, exploring how to Get Visual in 4 M’s and six steps to Getting Visual…
Dave starts your journey with The 4 M’s to Get Visual…
- Metaphor
- Model
- Metaphor + Model
- Mindmap
Next, he walks through the following six steps…
- Empathize: See the world as a child
- Memorize: Commit thoughts to memory
- Analyze: Take a step back
- Synthesize: Filter signal from noise
- Visualize: See it, then do it
- Materialize: Make it tangible, make it stick
In the end, David sums up nicely the reasons for getting visual…
- Get people’s attention quickly
- Helps us to learn faster + more effectively
- Lets people do their own thinking
- Helps us tell stories
Take a walk and see it for yourself…
#1 by Otto at November 5th, 2009
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I thoroughly enjoy mind mapping. Here is the thing, some folks get really confused by mind maps. Their style of learning is very linear. So a mind map for them has to be very simple. I’m working on that very issue at my office. We’ll see how it goes.
#2 by Catherine Franz at November 5th, 2009
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Interesting. I’ll have to think on all this…I’m not getting anything at the moment other than visual thinking is more important than we ever thought.
#3 by Neil Longley at November 5th, 2009
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good visual presentation with ideas to bounce around and re-think and re-look at the visual impact of visuals in promoting a message through many mediums
#4 by Isaac at November 5th, 2009
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Great post. very nice and interesting.
#5 by Blackberry&Cross at November 4th, 2009
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Great post. The slides are really valuable. Of course, put this into practice is where fun really is.