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So what do Google, Scott McLeod and comics have in common? They have just collaborated to launch Google’s Chrome Web Browser. Why comics? They are visual … they tell a story (which are hardwired to understand) … they turn the ‘complex’ into the ’simple’ AND they are FUN!

When Jackie Huba* (from Church of the Customer) tipped me off that Tom Fishburne had a new book coming out filled with more of his clever marketing cartoons, I immediately thunk two thoughts… (1) I gotta get Tom and This One Time At Brand Camp on the Post2Post Virtual Book Tour.

Just posted the below blog over at Leadership Network. Take a look. A few months ago I noticed the book The Back of the Napkin by Dan Roam appearing over and over again at Amazon in the section "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought." It was alongside a lot of my favorite books so I figured I should give it a read.

The Post2Post Virtual Book Tour featuring Tom Fishburne’s latest book, This One Time At Brand Camp: Marketing Cartoons by Tom Fishburne” begins on Monday, August 25! Here are your five reasons for following along… (1) Chris Wilson, (2) Jackie Huba & (3) Ben McConnell, (4) John Moore, (5) Dan Roam, and (6) Seth Godin Each will be posting about Tom’s book!

This is the second post of the series on Visual Expression (Also see The Power of Visual Expression) Back in March, at the South By Southwest Interactive conference, yes this was the conference with the now infamous interview of Mark Zukerberg by Lacey Peterson, where twitter helped, well you know…..

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.

Having trouble working through complex concepts?  Struggling to get a “simple” message across?  As human beings, we are all pre-wired to absorb visual communication.  You should take advantage of that to give yourself an edge when it comes to communicating.

At the moment I am completely immersed in reading about visual thinking for my upcoming book on business model innovation. Do you wonder what the connection is? Well, the book I'm working on will be very visual and practical, containing only the very necessary text...Visual tools are an increasing

How’s this for a piece of zeitgeist? I posted yesterday about Dan Roam’s book The Back of the Napkin. Overnight, he picks up a Google Alert about my blog post and in turn, comments - and posts a very nice response in return. Might need to look at updating my sketch to map the ongoing impact….

Dan Roam’s “The Back of the Napkin” book about visual thinking is a novel approach to problem solving (and deserves a blog post all of its own) Informative blog too. However, I thought it worth examining how I went from not knowing a thing about Dan Roam at midday on Saturday, to understanding