VizThink ‘09 is on February 22-25, 2009 in San Jose, California.  Visualization can be a very powerful tool.  Even simple images have the power to be provocative, insightful, challenging, and even funny.  Jessica Hagy’s book and associated blog, Indexed, are no exception.  Original Blog Post. Original Blog Post.  .

VizThink ‘09 is on February 22-25, 2009 in San Jose, California. Why should you come to VizThink ‘09? What could you learn? What will you be able to do with what you learn? During the last general session in Berlin, we posed those same 3 questions to our attendees in an exercise using index cards.

Crimson Hexagon is currently available via consulting services and will be available via Software as a Service (SaaS) in 2009. Many people have been writing about the explosion of information through web 2.0 for some time and the need to provide better ways to understand it. Well, the Crimson Hexago n has arrived and it came from Harvard.

What is the impact on your KM strategy and objectives for 2009? How are your knowledge management efforts affected by the current economic crisis? Are budgets being cut or refocused? Join special guest facilitator APQC President Carla O'Dell for our next KM community conference call tomorrow, November 20, at 10:30 a.m.

What inspired me to write this blog post was a textbook publishing site I just stumbled upon, Flat World Knowledge Its study texts (read about their very different approaches) won’t be available till 2009, but it is a very interesting and web-culture concept. Writers write, and any medium will do. Customers had to pay for their copies.

VizThink 2009 is coming up February 22-25, 2009 in San Jose, California and registration is now open. To close out VizThink Europe Tom & facilitated a final session focused on the visual thinking community. did a similar exercise during my session in San Francisco earlier this year and I like it for a couple of reasons.

They and their team, thanks to live-wire Bertrand Duperrin , invited me and Stowe Boyd to speak at the launch of the 2009 version of blueKiwi collaborative platform. The following notes are an opinion piece, not a rigorously researched and articulated article. There’s even an Enterprise 2.0 Powered by Qumana

Folks put a lot of effort into this moke-up of the New York Times of July 4, 2009. Your lips to G*d's ears

Catch Dan Roam & Nancy Duarte at VizThink 2009 in San Jose. As Amazon starts to publish their Top of 2008 lists for the year it’s great to see a couple of Visual Thinking oriented books show up on the “Best Business & Investing&# list: Presentation Zen. Back of the Napkin. Honorable Mention.

1, 2009. Six years ago, when I wanted to make a conference call involving five participants, Bell Canada wanted to charge me $0.55 per minute per participant, resulting in a $165 cost for a one hour call. All those participants had to be in North America and a conference call operator was involved. Manifesto. Reminders via SMS or email.

Since we know that travel dollars may be limited next year, we want to make sure that our readers are among the first to be offered early-bird pricing for our 2009 knowledge management conference and training, The Knowledge Transfer Revolution: New Paradigms, New Payoffs , which will take place in Houston May 11-15.

Check out our 2009 workshops schedule If creating a great place to work is on your agenda or you need to get people on board, here's what might help you. put a plan in place or get your team ready: Find and tell great stories. Create opportunities for people to collaborate. Use stories to deliver meaningful change and engagement.

Executive Forum on 24 February 2009 is an intensive one-day executive summit organized by Future Exploration Network on how to create value with Web 2.0 Executive Forum 2009 The Australian event industry is quickly getting better from what was until recently a very low base. There are more quality events than ever. conference.

won’t be at TechKnowledge 2009 at the end of January, but it’s a good conference. In February, there’s the Training 2009 conference in Atlanta, and I’ll be running a mobile certificate program beforehand (I’ve designed what I think are some really valuable activities), as well as talking on mobile and deeper ID.

VizThink 2009 takes place in San Jose, CA from February 22-25. As you may remember in September we had 3 new local communities launch (Madrid, Seattle & Amsterdam). Boston, MA. Chicago, IL. Detroit, MI. Los Angeles, CA. New York, NY. Philadelphia, PA. Raleigh, NC. San Francisco, CA. Washington, DC. Europe. France. Dublin, Ireland.

VizThink 2009 is coming up February 22-25, 2009 in San Jose, California and registration is now open. By Monday afternoon things were beginning to settle into a rhythm.  Ellen Coomber delivered a presentation on the process they had gone through to date, and what their findings had been so far. Missed the conference?

VizThink 2009 is coming up February 22-25, 2009 in San Jose, California and registration is now open. But there I found myself, at the registration desk by 7am that day as those who didn’t make it in for the reception the night before arrived to pick up their badges. What is Visual Thinking & Language? You were five once.

What inspired me to write this blog post was a textbook publishing site I just stumbled upon, Flat World Knowledge Its study texts (read about their very different approaches) won’t be available till 2009, but it is a very interesting and web-culture concept. Writers write, and any medium will do. Customers had to pay for their copies.

VizThink 2009 is coming up February 22-25, 2009 in San Jose, California and registration is now open. It’s hard to believe two weeks ago we were just sitting down to kick-off VizThink Europe in Berlin. Berlin. Berlin is quickly becoming one of my favorite European cities. “No, we don’t need a podium, er, lecturn&#.

The 2009 Duel will be held August 30, 2009. Any of you who may be somewhat regular readers (and if you are, a sincere thank you !  It’s nice to know one is not alone in the world) may remember that back last April I proclaimed that I was beginning a training regimen that involved regular swimming sessions. Wish me luck !

NOTE: On October 8, Sitemasher announced the Sitemasher Website Design Contest which runs through March 1, 2009. Sitemasher. wasn’t sure what to make of Sitemasher when I first heard of it. With Sitemasher, you can build a web site, manage the content, get analytics, implement basic SEO, and you get managed hosting to boot.

I’ve disabled that one for now because I’ve got an active “CES 2009″ folder for planning purposes. Gmail, a staple of our work environment, becomes a little more like “big-boy&# IMAP courtesy of Google Labs. Up to now, Gmail would simply mark items for deletion in clients and not immediately delete them.

There is a call from the IFLA Literacy and Reading Section and the Information Literacy Section for Papers for a programme being held at the IFLA (World Library and Information) Congress in Milan in August, 2009. The paper should say how libraries can promote that literacy, and be based on theory, research, and/or practical applications.

Proposals for presentations and poster sessions at the 2009 SCIL Works are are required by 24 October. The annual SCIL (Southern California Instruction Librarians) Works is a half-day event focusing on information literacy pedagogy. Full info on their website at [link

will introduce Apt widely in 2009, with its 784 newspaper partners using the system by the end of this year I'll grok this soon, but is anyone else tired of claims of "revolutionizing" advertising? From AdWeek : Yahoo! At a press conference to unveil the newly renamed platform, now called Apt, Yahoo!'s Yahoo!

The 2009 Libraries in the Digital Age conference takes place 25-30 May 2009 in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Deadline for paper proposals is 15 January 2009. Themes are: REFLECTIONS: Changes Brought by and in Digital Libraries in the Last Decade, and HERITAGE & digital libraries - digitization, preservation, access.

The second Information: Interactions and Impact International (i3) Conference will take place at the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland 22-25 June 2009. Key note speakers in 2009 will include Dr. Chun Wei Choo (Faculty of Information, University of Toronto) and Dave Snowden (Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Cognitive Edge).

Expanding Literacy Studies is an International, Interdisciplinary Conference for graduate students, April 3-5, 2009, at Ohio State University, USA. Various "literacies" are mentioned (e.g. work, art, health - though information, curiously!) and literacy topics.

The acquisition is subject to various standard closing conditions and is expected to be complete in Cisco's first half of fiscal year 2009. So suddenly, I see both Avaya and Cisco as the new thought-leaders when it comes to presence (especially in regards to " social presence "). added after original post). Jive Software, Twitter).

The position is available beginning spring 2009. The Kent State University program on Information Architecture and Knowledge Management has announced a new professorship, sponsored by Goodyear: IAKM Accepting Applications for Goodyear Professor Position. Summer teaching may be available.

will introduce Apt widely in 2009, with its 784 newspaper partners using the system by the end of this year I'll grok this soon, but is anyone else tired of claims of "revolutionizing" advertising? From AdWeek : Yahoo! At a press conference to unveil the newly renamed platform, now called Apt, Yahoo!'s Yahoo!

Bioversity International, the CGIAR ICT-KM program, FAO, IFAD and WFP are jointly organizing a 3-day event entitled Knowledge "Share Fair" for Agricultural Development and Food Security to be held at FAO Headquarters on 20 – 22 January 2009. See: Knowledge Share Fair

The conference will be held in Stockholm, Sweden, June 29th – July 3rd 2009. Two conferences in this field. Firstly, the Cochrane Collaboration (the key collaboration on evidence in the health sector) has its Colloquium in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, on 3-7 October 2008.

The 37th Annual LOEX Conference (US information literacy conference) takes place April 30 - May 2, 2009 in Albuquerque, USA. The theme is Blazing Trails: On the Path to Information Literacy. There are presentations, workshops and posters. Proposals must be received by November 21, 2008.

The call for papers for the 2009 LILAC (UK Information Literacy) conference has opened. The deadline is is 20th November 2008. The conference itself takkes place 30th March-1st April 2008. More information at [link] Photo by Sheila Webber: Sheffield, September 2008

This morning brought a nice notification to our inboxes that VizThink CEO, Tom Crawford’s submission, “ Shift Happens: Moving from Words to Pictures “, to SXSW for next year’s Interactive conference has made it to the “Panel Picker&# stage of the selection process. About the Session.

An announcement was made of the next Nordinfolit summer school with the title Library education: wired (as in networked/Web 2.0-ed etc and as in distance learning). Themes include teaching-the-teachers and using peer-students and teachers. As may be obvious from series title this series is held in the European summer - so probably June next year.

There is a call for chapter proposals for a book, Collaborative Information Literacy Assessments , to be published in 2009 by Neal-Schuman Publishers. First drafts of the accepted vchapters (25-30 pages) will be due on January 30, 2009. I am working on some more reports from the CK5 conference, but in the meantime.

The dates for the 2009 LILAC (UK information literacy) conference have been altered slightly to 30 March-1st April 2009. It takes place in Cardiff, Wales

The Malaysian government had allocated US $14 billion, or 23 per cent of the 2009 Budget, for the development of human capital

This month we also opened up registration for VizThink 2009 in San Jose - check out [link] for all the details and take advantage of our early registration discount! August already? We’ve talked about the community a few times over the past month so I won’t go into huge depth - just the highlights. Events, Events, Events.

But NEAT Receipts say they’ll be putting out a new release in early 2009 with feature parity, and existing customers will get a free upgrade. NEAT Receipts has been selling their pint-sized scanners and associated software for about five years now. The scanner, along with the associated software, retails for $179.95 Share/Send

Important note: participants in the survey will obtain a free copy of the report 2009 Global Intranet Trends, which will be published in October 2008. This is the third year of the Global Intranet Strategies Survey , run by Jane McConnell. This is the definitive survey into intranet strategies, futures and realities. Did this happen?

The 2009 LOEX Conference (the major US information literacy conference) will be in Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 30 - May 2, 2009. See [link

The following links were collected from 12 to 18 May, shared via Google Reader , added to FriendFeed or highlighted on Twitter. They have been organised by Library category: Systems and the elements - People, Information and Technology (including Office, Search and SharePoint) Big theme this week - the development of drugs to help your brain.

In the Future of Media Prediction Markets we have just launched five markets: * Which IPTV channel will generate the most revenue in 2009? Will The Bulletin be relaunched in Australia by 30 June, 2009? We have just launched the Future of Media Predictions Markets , run in conjunction with the Future of Media Summit 2008. Will Yahoo!

The official announcement will be make n 2009. I am blogging from the Lifelong Learning Conference in Yeppoon Australia. Today's first keynote is by Lana Jackman, co-Chair of the National forum on Information Literacy in the USA. I'm having a go at liveblogging it, though I will probably do a bit of editing afterwards.

February 22 - 25, 2009. We’ve been working hard on many new opportunities for visual thinkers.  We’ve recently announced workshops and regional groups, and even have more big announcements coming next week.  Right now, though, we want you to SAVE THE DATES: VizThink Europe ‘08. Berlin, Germany. October 12 - 14, 2008.

We will then: Notify you when the 2009 Intranet Innovation Awards open for entries (March/April 2009). The form will remain open through the rest of this year, right up to when entries open in 2009 Since the closing date, however, we've had a few people get in touch to ask whether it's too late to get an entry in.

Perhaps at Lotusphere 2009 well see more. A decent story on IBM Connections, worth reading but some points bear closer examination: 1. The article states that SharePoint started off as a document management system. That's really not accurate in my view. Still, I still find many organizations placing bets on Microsoft.

Here's was the specific question (and all the information I have to go on) to help advise this person - I have been trying to decide whether to attend DevLearn 2008 or ASTD TechKnowledge in 2009. I'm hoping that everyone can weigh in on their thoughts. have never attended either. have been designing and developing elearning for about a year.

Some of the points it makes: Gartner predicts that by 2009 half of companies worldwide will be using wikis Examples of use Acronyms and industry terminology, best sales practices, case studies, client information, meeting minutes. Found via Big Dog Little Dog - It's information collaboration - discusses the use of Wikis within organizations.

My expectation is that I'll be doing more speaking in 2009 based on some new work. In December 2006, I posted my challenges and predictions for 2007. thought it would be worth looking back at what I said in this post to see how I did for the year. Biggest challenges for 2007? We were very fortunate. I'm still debating around this.