periodic table of visualization methods

a very interesting idea of grouping together all sorts of visualization methods, that can help one get the right graph for the weirdest projects, offering visual solutions from the concept to the strategy visualization, all the way through the easiest and most complicated sets of levels and arrows. well, see for yourselves!

i am not sure how they got to this order, and if the table may absorb other methods, but it's for sure a good starting point for anyone looking for inspiration.

actually this is not the only thing that visual literacy offers, because they also provide online courses for understanding and creating visualization methods.

research results - coming soon

now that i'm done with the graduation part, and finally feeling relaxed :D, i shall upload soon the results of the research concerning blogging and public relations.

teaser: the theory was confirmed --> both companies and their clients regard blogs and blogging with optimism and consider it a great means of direct communication.

colourbathing

when visiting amsterdam i bought myself a caleidoscope, which got me into the mood for colours and hues and shapes and all what's inside that box of glass.

that also took me to visual complexity.
besides the very insipring ideas, it's a bright colour explosion.

but it was something else that got my attention today, a more analytical approach of the colours, under colour lovers.

yum

so i'm a grown-up now

the corporate blog - fad or pr standard - or just a superficial discussion?

friday and saturday were busy with the conference on corporate communication, held by the university of bucharest.

nice idea, good organization, international participation, some interesting topics.


yesterday at noon was the only meeting i actually had planned to attend, not only because of the topic, but also because of its format: a round table about blogging and pr. it somehow made it less formal and boring.

the discussion were polarized between the IT guys, how they called themselves, a bunch of corporate bloggers, and the PR girls, a bunch of pr specialists who also blog, and who try to introduce blogging among the usual practices within a company.
it was interesting how both sides, even if talking about the same aspects of blogging, segregated into a masculin group and its femimin counterpart, arguing about the importance and about the usefulnes of this communication platform - a dialogue of the deaf, which proved that none of them were really prepared with solid argumetns for their presentation.


the list of the participants is under the official website

the topics ranged between who should blog within a company (wich ended with no conclusion), to the very courageous generalization that romanian companies can't blog since they have nothing to say to their customers.

well, i would't dare to go that far, and i woulnd't dare to approach this topic, as long as i come to this roundtable as one of the -specialist bloggers-.

mr. specialist bloggers, i was very dissapointed by your attitude and by the whole lack of clear information, that turned the whole hour and a half into a plain and superficial discussion of "let's say something, because we are anyway in front of a whole atuditorium".

i expected solid argumenst, and not vague appreciations of someone who has no basic proof for any of their statements, like - the majority of the bloggers write about their cats.

i expected clear internal policies for blogging within a company, and not vague ideas about that.

i expected openess and flexibilty, and not superficiality and prejudice.

none the less, i expected useful conclusions, and not the overall sensation that this discussion led to nothing.

next time, i should reconsider if these type of meetings are really worth the time, since the only important things i've learned were the DON'Ts.

fundamentals of corporate communication: current trends and perspectives

potentially super duper conference this weekend in bucharest

it CAN'T be as cool, and I am SURE it won't be as cool as the amsterdam blogwalkeleven, but it's a great step ahead, for us, bloggers interested not only in writing, but also in the academical approach.

i can only be happy to see that there are things being done at this level, and i am really looking forward to participating.

a short sketch of the topics:


Jon White, “Corporate reputation, corporate responsibility: Foundations for organisational performance and competitive advantage”


Ryszard Ławniczak, “Internal Corporate Communication for Privatisation and Restructuring. The Case from Transition Economy”

Lars Thøger Christensen, “License to Critique: Corporate Communication as Polyphony”


Raluca Petre, “Institutional and Discursive Transformation; the Romanian state news agency”

plus many more in french and romanian.
yeah well, some titles sound quite boring, but but but judging before seeing would be unfair..

let's say this could be a cookie recieved in exchange for the absence from reboot 9.0.

i am mostly interested in the presentations on knowledge management, especially after realizing that i need to find a way to start communicating with my fellow coworkers, in a way or another...

grim against grim

DPA via Spiegel online

pleasant surprize to see the palme d'or coming home.
wondering still if it's not the time to shift the focus on a different angle of reality.
i don't exactly remember the last romanian movie that didn't depict social problems, poverty, repression, corruption or politics, and i refer not to the movies that go to festivals, but also to those that stay at home and never make it so big.
i really don't recall the last time i laughed, except at the 2002 production - Filantropica, which again, was about poverty and exploitation - a black comedy though.

i wonder therefore if these subjects are the only ones that pass through the director's mind when planning the next movie. is there really a need for catharsis, so strong, that no producer or director can avoid these over and over exploited topics? are these the only topics worht exporting?

it's sad to see that the past has such an influence upon the present, and even more, upon the creativity.

why would it be so difficult to make a thriller or just a comedy, or a horror excluding key words like

comunists
abortion
revolution
ceausescu
poverty
repression
corruption
bureaucracy
rroma
prostitution
beggars
handicaped
homeless
medical system

uhm, i guess it's already enough to make a bullshit bingo when watching a romanian movie. no offence to the palm d'or winner. glad to have won! sad though that only these topics can bring to life emotions.