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I delivered this presentation at the Canadian Association of Journalists "Innovate News" conference in Toronto, ON on January 30, 2010. The topic was "Visual Thinking and the Writing Process" and looks at visual techniques that writers could use in brainstorming, gathering information and developing their stories.
Technology Strategy & Architecture at BMO Financial Group
I delivered this presentation at the Canadian Association of Journalists "Innovate News" conference in Toronto, ON on January 30, 2010. The topic was "Visual Thinking and the Writing Process" and looks at visual techniques that writers could use in brainstorming, gathering information and developing their stories.
Visual Thinking & the Writing
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How Can it Help?<br />As
journalists you take fragments of information and find ways to convey complexity in an understandable form…<br />Photo: Matt Callow via Flickr<br />
How Can it Help?<br />…visual
thinking can help you become more effective at that process.<br />Photo: Matt Callow via Flickr<br />
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event elit. Phasellusaliquamidea fact, ac fringillanisl event in. Pellentesquefact factsodalestincidunt. Idea.<br />idea<br />event<br />fact<br />fact<br />event<br />idea<br />event<br />fact<br />idea<br />fact<br />fact<br />event<br />event<br />LIST<br />OUTLINE<br />DRAFT<br />PUBLISH<br />event<br />ARTIFACTS<br />MODEL<br />REFINE<br />DISPLAY<br />fact<br />idea<br />idea<br />idea<br />fact<br />fact<br />The process is actually quite similar – and in the early stages there’s no reason you can’t start at one and move to the other.<br />
See the whole picture<br />Lay
everything out where you can see it, physically move yourself to view it from different angles. What structures or relationships can you see now?<br />
Maps<br />A map can very
quickly convey the necessary information. Writing the same notion out could take many, many words words<br />Sketch: Kevin Steinhardt<br />