Data Visualization: Modern Approaches

This is a very cool look at different ways of making data visual.

Marketing U

            Marketing is about developing a strategy to interest customers in the products or services you offer, and then implementing it. Marketing is a plan for how to communicate benefits. Marketing yourself works the same way as marketing for profit or non-profit organizations.
            Begin with determining your Unique Selling Proposition (USP) Use the formula from [...]

Top 100 Web Applications

From Webware.

Information and Findability

Like talents that are never found or expressed, like ideas that languish and are lost, “Information that’s hard to find is information you can’t use.” -Peter Morville, author of “Ambient Findability.“
This is something that fascinates me about productivity and information. Productivity methods enable us to save information so that we can find it again when [...]

Storytelling

Storytelling is one of the essential strategies described in the book Make It Stick by Chip and Dan Heath. It’s also one that doesn’t come easily to me. These links provide insight into the art of storytelling:
Goizueta Business Library has an information guide with the key elements of storytelling.
Ira Glass explains what makes a good [...]

Made to Stick by Chip and Dan Heath

Want to know how to communicate ideas effectively? In “Made to Stick” authors Chip and Dan Heath practice what they preach by providing concrete examples of successful messages that are understood, remembered and have a lasting impact. To design one, simply follow their SUCCESs checklist.
Simplicity gets right to the core idea and packages it in [...]

To the point of no return(s)

Interruptions and Distractions
Over at Creating Passionate Users, Kathy Sierra talks about Is Twitter Too Good? There’s a great illustration about how the newfangled ability to be constantly connected interrupted and distracted has shot dramatically up. How can we focus and accomplish great things something anything? We need to be aware and take control of our [...]

Discovery of the Day

How to Get Started with Getting Things Done on BNET. Lots of other neat stuff here too.

Discovery of the Day

Ageless Learner has a variety of interesting assessments and articles, including a learning culture audit.

Best Free Reference Web Sites

Find tried and true great sources of information at Best Free Reference Web Sites from Reference and Users Association of ALA. Among other things, this compilation led me to score.org, with how to define goals and get organized quick guide as part of their Start the New Year Right Kit.