#mslconnect11 live blog: Carol Whitworth, Home

Rather than bother everybody's Twitter stream with updates, I thought it would be better to provide presentation thoughts here (and serves as good note-taking for me).

Carol Whitworth, Home: “A Picture Paints a Thousand Words: How to Use Visual Maps and Smart Design to Bring Business Strategy to Life”

Images are so important because we all speak differently.
Take a complex situation, add lots of people with different perspectives where no one can agree and progress is slow.
Our eyes are the tool that helps us make sense of the world. Of all the neurons that process sensory information, 75% are dedicated to sight.
Bad presentation leads to poor employee communications, which leads to poor understanding, which leads to bad business. Vicious circle.
Basic principles to creating your own story (Where, What, Why, When, Who, How, Where) in the past, present and future. Telling a story helps people understand.
Creating visual maps (similar to infographics) makes information more understandable by telling your story with pictures.