Jeff Bennett

Just got back from the VizThink conference a few days ago and trying to figure out what's next. My original intent in going was to see if I could pick up some visual communication tips for websites (I'm a freelance web developer). I wasn't sure what to expect from the conference, but something happened that I really wasn't expecting.

The energy level was pretty high as 390+ visual thinkers congregated to learn, grow and share visual learning and communication techniques. What I wasn't expecting was that beginning on the first morning, the conference awakened the long-dormant visual communication inclination in me. After two packed days of general sessions and break-out sessions I found myself energized with the goal of trying to incorporate visual thinking and visual communication into what I do.

In the last general session on Tuesday, Matt Homann from XPLANE, led an exercise where he had everybody respond to three questions: 1) Why am I here? 2) What have I learned? 3) What am I going to do next? He asked that everyone answer in a pseudo-haiku of 5-7-5 words ( I thought a true haiku doing 5-7-5 syllables would have been more interesting, but ...). Here's what I came up with ...

In trying to figure out what to do for step 3, all I've been able to figure out is to start a blog. So, here's my new blog, VisualThinkScape.