RSA Animate

Thanks to a friend of mine on FB - I ran across this video from an organization called 'RSA' Animate'. Interesting thoughts on our educational system.




Enjoy!

More Visualizations on the how we got to where we are..

As I continue in my desire to learn more about effective communication, one area that I like to learn about is how to best use visuals to get a point across. Getting rid of bullet points etc. is becoming a war cry for me. I have recently been observing the power of simple drawings to obtain this (somewhat lofty) goal.

Along those lines I have run across a few interesting visuals on how the economy got to where it is at right now. If you are offended by foul language, you may want to skip the first one (it drops the f-bomb a few times), but it does do a really good job of simplifying how we got to where we are.

Visual 1 - 'A Subprime Primer ' - a slide show that utilizes stick people

Visual 2 - 'Uncorking CDO's', - A video that does a good job of explaining the same thing utilizing a slightly different but yet simple delivery method.




Enjoy!

Banking Crisis Visually

A friend sent me this link yesterday (thanks Larry!) and I deemed it worthy of the rant. We have heard a lot of press lately about the banking crisis. This blog site gives you a good visual of what we are up against. Kind of crazy what happens at the end of 2007. Time to get out of debt ladies and gentlemen....

As a side note - make sure you are using Firefox for this one. IE doesn't seem to like it. I don't know about Safari.... Enjoy!

The kinder, gentler Clinton

This year I decided to be more invloved in the political process than I have been in the past. What this really amounts to is reading up on it more and comparing what I read to try and distinguish the truth from the 'slightly' true. So, I ran across this acticle today about the Clinton camp and it kind of reminded me why I tend to shy away from politics. A few phrases from the article made me chuckle.

• '(they) bemoaned the degree to which former President Bill Clinton’s criticism of Senator Barack Obama last week had inflicted lasting damage on his wife’s presidential candidacy.'
• 'a sense among many Democrats that Mr. Clinton had injected himself clumsily into the race, will try to shift the former president back into the sunnier, supportive-spouse role'

Anyway - I like the 'sunnier, supportive-spouse' too. How dare he be so mean. Hard to imagine how her presidency would go. Is Bill being allowed out, or does he have to stay in? Sit Bill, sit. Good boy......