As I write this short article I am extremely excited with what I am looking at inside the Comapping application. The Contextual Organizer cloud app has recently been added to the interface. It’s merely a test at this time, and is in beta mode.
I am very happy to see a contextual analysis tool included with Comapping. This will be invaluable for cutting through document and web page overload.
The bottom line is, we have an excellent marriage of a very effective process approach to information management in the Comapping …

Why after almost 40 years; do we have to explain what Mind mapping is to almost every colleague, client and potential we meet?
Most (not all admittedly) who look over my shoulder while I am graphically mapping out information, invariably ask, “What is that”. It does become rather tedious after a while; doesn’t it?
But, as a consultant and trainer, I persevere with this question numerous times, and I go through the same old same old process of taking some through a discovery, which undoubtedly changes their perception of how they may …

Hypershifters experts discovered  some interesting visualization and infographics on the web. Especially one of the Internet itself, please see below. Please find a selection of other:

An overview of  markt shares of webbrowsers, via Axiis
Visual Resume, via Fastcompany
Webtrends of 2009, via InformationArchitects
Best movies, via dataviz
Is Bottled Water Really That Bad? Yes, via Fastcompany

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Did you discover any interesting visualizations, please let us know…

This ebook was written a few years ago now, but I firmly believe (as my colleague and co-author Arjen Ter Hoeve does) it certainly has continued relevance.
There’s a few other freebies to grab, so don’t be shy.
BTW, to navigate the map, simply choose a branch and press the TAB key or right mouse click and choose FOCUS.

Google has been around for only 11 years. In this 2 minute video which is published by the Google Channel UK on Youtube one gets a nice overview on the history of Google and the launch of its services. This overview is presented in a chronological way. This video ends with the recently launched beta of Wave.

The video ends with: “What next?” What will be the next service of Google? Please leave your ideas below.

Wallace Tait and Brian Friedlander
Web 2.0 has certainly made a significant impact on the ways we now create, manage and exchange information and knowledge. Collaboration is indeed the corner stone for real time communications within personal, academic and business arenas while using web 2.0 (Cloud) applications.
We have simply been given much more flexibility through the use of cloud computing.
Regarding Visual mapping; cloud collaboration has exponentially increased the potentials for being more effective and productive. The cloud can become a repository (Data bank) for storing and sharing much of your information …

I am absolutely amazed at the lack of use, ignorance and even disregard of probably the most effective root cause process freely available.
It’s the “Interrogatives” of course; and they’re very rarely openly used out with academia, and even at that, they are hardly ever pushed as being the foundation for effective root-cause analysis.
If at all we are to see a shift in societal perceptions regarding information management and communication, I firmly believe we have to get back to basics and start with the interrogatives.
Just think about it for a moment; …

Below is an almost verbatim of my interview with the very unique and professional Chuck Frey during February 2009. I recently revisited the interview to assess the validity of my statements, and I updated a few sentences to align with what I have been recently discussing with Chuck Frey, Philippe Boukobza and other professional visual mapping colleagues. To view the original interview, go here:
Wallace Tait is a professional visual mapping consultant based in the Canadian Province of Ontario. He is the co-author of the e-book Visual Mapping: “A Systematic …

Brian S Friedlander PhD and Wallace Tait
Sitting in any vehicle; what’s the centre of visual control (Apart from keeping your eyes on the road PLEASE)? It’s the instrument panel, better known as the “dashboard”. Every vehicle has one, we require them and they give us an accurate measurement of performance and capability.

Personas is part of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit at the MIT Museum by the Sociable Media Group from the MIT Media Lab. The web services uses a sophisticated natural language processing algorithms to create a detailed, visual data portrait of one’s aggregated online identity.
In a nutshell: Personas shows you how the Internet sees you.
How does it work? Simply enter your name in this website. To create the portrait Personas makes use of the information available of one persons name on the web. It uses that information to characterize the person and …