Information Design and Data Visualization - Articles Archive
from April 20, 2009 to August 31, 2008

If you are looking into innovative ways to browse and explore search engine results, visual search engines may provide exactly what you have been looking for. Instead of long lists of page titles and URLs, visual search engines deliver visually rich maps of content results, often ... read more

Visual thinking is about leveraging our innate ability to see - both with our eyes and with our mind's eye - in order to discover ideas that are otherwise invisible, develop those ideas quickly and intuitively, and then share those concepts with other people in ways ... read more

Do you need to edit images on your computer? In this mini-guide I have hand-picked the best free picture editing software available out there. As you probably know, there are already many web-based image editors that let you edit your pics directly from your browser window. But ... read more

Here is Part 2 of my New Media Trends and Predictions for 2009. In this report I look at major trends while I try to anticipate key changes and the type of innovation taking place around the world of new media communication and professional web publishing. While ... read more

Here my new media predictions for 2009: what to expect when it comes to new media, professional web publishing and learning, collaboration and social media? Find out everything I see coming across these key areas in this two-part report opening today. I have prepared this report, which ... read more

If you are looking for the most effective ways to create new content, provide value to your readers, innovate and improve the quality of your online content, this digest brings you the best content I, Robin, and the other article editors have prepared this year here ... read more

Video publishers are in for some good news today. There is a new web service that lets you pull together multiple video feeds from sites like YouTube, Hulu, Comedy Central, and more in order to create your own Internet TV station. And if you love Post-it notes, ... read more

Are you looking for an effective way to collaborate and organize ideas with other people? If you're still into voice and text chat, you might want to give mind mapping a try. Mind mapping is a cool way to share your ideas in total freedom, without ... read more

Web widgets are the new frontier of content distribution when it comes to social media marketing. Web widgets are tiny interactive micro-applications made up by small portions of code which can be easily embedded in your blog site, or run in a widget platform installed on ... read more

Create professional looking presentations without using PowerPoint or Keynote and do it all from the web. Or at least that is what SlideRocket promises to offer. SlideRocket is a powerful new web-based solution for designing and sharing your presentations. You can even design and present offline using ... read more

Do you need to capture your screen activities, test out color combinations, or join multiple videos into a single one? In this visual communication Sharewood Guide I have collected some cool new tools to help you prepare, organize and communicate your visual and video messages more ... read more

Do you want to create a web site but you know nothing about HTML coding? Finally, the time has come for everyone to take advantage of a growing number of web site and web page creation services which allow you to create and publish your online ... read more

How can you convert the contents of a web page into RSS? How do you generate a RSS feed for a website, search result page or news source that doesn't have one? Can you do this without spending any money and without having any technical HTML ... read more

Need to convert your videos between major video file formats, create web-based charts, as well as editing or adding effects to your existing pictures? All this and more in this roundup of new cool visual communication and video publishing tools I have personally selected for you. ... read more

Web-based image editors are online tools that anyone can use to easily modify, resize, edit and crop digital photographs or graphics files, without needing to download and install any software. Digital image editors, are typically free, and, in most cases, do not even require a registration ... read more

If you want to convert your videos file formats, arrange your digital images inside an online photo albums, or be able to browse a huge database of free fonts and typefaces, I have gotten some tools for you. Here my selected visual communication and video publishing tools ... read more

In this issue: Sync up any YouTube video with any Slideshare presentation. Finally get the chance to easily mix together the video recording of you delivering a presentation alongside the slides you were actually showing at that time. Sync it all up, publish it online or ... read more

Collaborative review tools represent a new group of web-based collaboration tools designed specifically to facilitate and support any visual review process. From graphic design approval sessions, to creative visual brainstorms, collaborative review tools provide the relevant context and technical toolset needed. From collaborative highlighting, to annotating ... read more

Need to edit images and arrange them in audio narrated slideshows without using any particular application or video editing skill? Check out what Robin Good and I have found for you in this week's visual communication tools collection. Here below the full set of visual communication and ... read more

If you need to edit your images without installing or paying for any professional software, today's visual communication centered Sharewood Guide can really help you out. Great tools personally selected by Robin Good, concerning video and image research, color schemes and visual charts, are waiting for ... read more