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Author Archives: Richard Overy
Cost of Social Media
It has been a while since my last blog but here goes…..on 10th September I was lucky enough to attend Digital Futures, a free event hosted by Shropshire Council at Theatre Severn; the event celebrated the work of digital champions across … Continue reading
How productive is hot desking?
I was pleased to learn that my colleagues and I will be moving from Darby house in Telford Town Centre to the new civic buildings in my home town of Wellington. The new offices are attached to the improved civic … Continue reading
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Tagged Desk, Hot desking, information graphics, julian treasure, noise, Office, open plan offices, Telford, Wellington, Wellington Shropshire
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Do you still use a cassette tape or a phonograph?
Copied from Communities of Practice This is my last blog post to Communities of Practice. The site will soon become obsolete (31st March 2012); I am sad that the CoP site is coming to an end but I’m also excited about the brand … Continue reading
National Map of Shared Services
The Local Government Association have used Googlemaps to visualise shared services throughout England as shown in the map below. Although shared services may not be suitable for every council or for that matter every service, the drastic public sector cuts … Continue reading
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New Year Resolutions
For many 2012 will start with the usual New Year’s resolutions, Teresa Wozniak an Illustrator from Halifax, Canada produced the poster shown below with a few suggestions. I didn’t really make any resolutions but finish every book you have started reading and spend … Continue reading
The 10,000 Hour Rule
10,000 hours is believed by many to be the magic number of hours needed to become an expert or the best in a particular field. Malcolm Gladwell discusses the 10,000 hour rule in his book Outliers, Gladwell states “Practice isn’t the … Continue reading
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Tagged 10 000 hours, data visualisation, Ericsson, Florida, Gladwell, information graphics, Malcolm Gladwell, practice, richard overy, visualisation
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Painting by numbers
The London Transport Museum has a new exhibition of posters which opens on the 6th January 2012 called Painting by Numbers; as the title suggests the exhibition focuses on how graphic design was used to communicate statistics. The example below was produced by Alfred … Continue reading
A free tool to help map your thoughts
Freemind is an open source software package which allows the user to map out ideas (or mindmap) projects or thoughts visually. The software is relatively easy to use, create new branches using the return key, drag and drop or use ctrl + arrows to … Continue reading
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Tagged buzan, data visualisation, Data visualization, free, freemind, infographics, information graphics, mapping, mindmap, mindmapping, open source, richard overy, spatial, thoughts, visualize, youtube
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Social Media Visualised
The Global Web Index Lite has been created by Trend Stream to visualise social media profiles. The user selects the relevant country, gender, age group and behaviour, a simple browser is then used to provide the results. The example below is the ‘lite’ … Continue reading
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Tagged age group, country, Data visualization, gender, information graphics, interactive, profiles, profiling, Social media, visualising data
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