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Want to Rock the Whiteboard? Listen to what other people have to say about how I helped them rock. “Very helpful. During the session we found creative solutions to the challenges posed by the path we chose. It was great!” Carlos Guestrin, Co-founder, Flashgroup Armed with a shared visual vocabulary, we were able to practice [...]

I was honored to have the chance to do large scale visual notes at the Sprout Fund’s Making Sparks event in Pittsburgh recently. Community members, childhood development specialists, technologists, and media producers converged to share ideas, tips, and inspiration around the topic of how to create projects that engage children ages birth to eight in [...]

Capturing moments at IFVP Conference 2010

I am delighted that I will be taking visual notes at the 2010 140 Characters Conference, as I did last year. Only this year, on the first day, I will be creating the notes on an iPad that award winning digital agency R/GA is sponsoring me with. Since the conference is about the business and [...]

I was proud to have the opportunity to speak at a press conference at City Hall on the topic of Philadelphia’s request for Google to install an ultra high speed data network here in Philly. That is Mayor Nutter looking at me as I share my thoughts on why Philly would be an ideal testbed [...]

Richard Saul Wurman delighted me when he spoke at the SenseMaker Dialogs last Tuesday in New York City. I remember picking up his book, Information Anxiety for the first time in the early 90′s, a terrified and confident young man, and loving every little bit of it, the provocative micromanifestos, the frequent sidebars, the anecdotes, [...]

At this month’s VizThink, veteran public speaker, Jonny Goldstein (that’s me), will show you how to use visual thinking to create and deliver a powerful presentation. Afterward, we will head somewhere nearby for some food and drink. YOU MUST RSVP BEFORE FRIDAY, NOON, SEPT 11, in order to attend the Monday, Sept 14, event. Otherwise [...]

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 [...]

When my friend Ariel Churi asked me to substitute for him for the first meeting of the Visual Organization and Visual Design class at Parsons School of Design, I jumped at the chance. We created a bunch of mind maps to get them started on their first task: to create a project which communicates information [...]

Have you Battledecked yet? Battledecks is a genre of extreme conference presentation. Here’s how it works, you get up and give a presentation while 20 slides you have never seen before play behind you. You are supposed to tie in your talk to the slides. I decided ahead of time to loosely make my talk [...]