Business Communication Today, 15th Ed.
Chapter 9. Visual Media
"It's estimated that 2% of the world's population suffers from face blindness, or prosopagnosia, a neurological condition preventing people from recognizing faces.
"The big upside of Instagram for companies is the ability to easily develop a communication strategy about their products and services that is by essence more direct and engaging than that of their website, which tends to be more institutional and corporate," writes François Mathieu at Pikock.
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According to John Brownlee (photo, left), "In a world where inbox zero is the ultimate goal, who cares about good typography?
"There’s more information at your fingertips than ever before, and yet people are overwhelmed by it.
Teaching oral communication on Pinterest.
This collection of resources for business communication and business writing instructors focus on a wide variety of media, including videos, infographics, PowerPoints, PDFs, and podcasts, covering every relevant topic so you can keep your course fresh and up to date.
Randy Krum features an infographic on the topic.
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Check out a Pinterest page of data visualizations.
"Imagine not being able to recognize your mother, your spouse or your own children.
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These online tools (many are free) offer a variety of ways to create infographics.
This PowerPoint presentation offers helpful tips for avoiding plagiarism when researching and writing reports.
"If you or your CEO has been called upon by a TV news reporter to comment on a mass layoff, product recall or other urgent news situation, you know the feeling that this old Wide World of Sports adage can evoke: 'The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat,'" writes Gwen Chynoweth (photo, left).
"Like many designers," writes NYTimes staff writer Quentin Hardy, "Eric Rodenbeck (photo, left) has had a long relationship with bar graphs and pie charts.
Effective communication is everyone’s job—whether you are trying to sell in a concept or convince a client.
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These concepts will help make you a better listener on the job and in every other aspect of life.
Data visualization is a method of presenting information in a graphical form.
David McCandless makes infographics -- simple, elegant ways to see information that might be too complex or too big, small, abstract or scattered to otherwise be grasped.
Infographics are a popular way to illustrate information, especially for print publications.
When we get graphs as graphics from other sources, we think there is nothing we can do with them.