http://www.epolitics.com/2007/07/02/why-think-tanks-and-nonprofits-should-be-thinking-like-new-media-newsrooms/ dissecting the craft of online politics and online advocacy Wed, 7 Jan 2009 04:51:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.epolitics.com/2007/07/02/why-think-tanks-and-nonprofits-should-be-thinking-like-new-media-newsrooms/#comment-103457 Stan Sat, 07 Jul 2007 19:27:14 +0000 http://www.epolitics.com/2007/07/02/why-think-tanks-and-nonprofits-should-be-thinking-like-new-media-newsrooms/#comment-103457 couldn't agree more. Thanks Colin for this post, because that's exactly the point I've been making to a think tank I'm working with. It is indeed possible to make data visually impactful. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then animated data is definitely worth a thousand boring white papers piling up on the desk of policy staffers. One guy can actually be credited for illustrating this point better than anyone else: it's Hans Rosling, the Swedish professor who's been taking his living data show around the world and getting a standing ovation everywhere, even here: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/92 couldn’t agree more. Thanks Colin for this post, because that’s exactly the point I’ve been making to a think tank I’m working with. It is indeed possible to make data visually impactful. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then animated data is definitely worth a thousand boring white papers piling up on the desk of policy staffers.
One guy can actually be credited for illustrating this point better than anyone else: it’s Hans Rosling, the Swedish professor who’s been taking his living data show around the world and getting a standing ovation everywhere, even here: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/92

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