Elevator speech
The four-slide sales pitch
A contest. Also, a great way to think through your elevator speech.
Visuals
Teaching and Learning
Stuff: the whole story
A 20-minute video that will surely trigger a much-needed debate in your classroom.
International Business
Three maps on international business
geo.worldbank.org A mashup of Google Maps with World Bank data that gives the reader a visual entry point to browse our projects, news, statistics and public information center by country. Business Planet It maps online databases of the World Bank Group that support private sector-led growth and
Resources
An extraordinary visual tool: Gapminder
Choose between a number of indicators, select which countries you want to show and then see the development over time. Watch this 20-minute presentation from its developer at the TED conference 2007: [youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=YpKbO6O3O3M] Go to gapminder.org for more information and other databases.
Resources
Visual literacy
It is as necessary to effective business communication as computer literacy is to effective business practice. References: The Virtual Literacy website is an e-learning tutorial on visualization for communication, engineering and business. You also want to explore the International Visual Literacy Association (IVLA) website. Resources: You cannot afford not
Edward Tufte
The guru of quantitative information display
His field is almost sui generis, containing bits and pieces of art direction, data-crunching, economics, historical research, and plain old expository writing. It’s often labeled “information architecture,” or “analytic design.” Tufte himself describes it many ways, but one is drawn from a classic piece of science writing: “escaping