[NHCOLL-L:5271] FW: REMINDER: MIDEA Connect Session on Feb 24 features Beck Tench

[Judith Price]

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From: Rachel Varon [mailto:rachel.varon at nmc.org] 
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 2:52 PM
To: Rachel Varon
Subject: REMINDER: MIDEA Connect Session on Feb 24 features Beck Tench

 

Dear MIDEA members and friends:

Just a reminder that the next MIDEA Connect webinar is coming up on Thursday, February 24 at 11am PT / 1pm CT/ 2pm ET (check for local time <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=2&day=24&year=2011&hour=11&min=0&sec=0&p1=224> ). Beck Tench, Director for Innovation and Digital Engagement at the Museum of Life and Science <http://www.ncmls.org/>  in Durham, North Carolina will speak to us about her approach to Information Visualization in this special session, Info Viz from the Trenches.  For more information, please visit the event website at http://midea.nmc.org/event/info-viz/. 

If you have not done so already, please sign up at http://go.nmc.org/midea-connect-signup.  You will get a follow-up email closer to the event with the details for how to log in to the webinar. The workshop is free and is sponsored by the Edward and Betty Marcus Foundation.
   
              

Info Viz from the Trenches

Beck Tench is on a quest to convince all knowledge workers (museum professionals, journalists, teachers, physicians, etc.) that information visualization is a new core competency of our work.  She will discuss grassroots information visualization and share the insights she's gained from creating both good and very bad visualizations.  We'll approach data broadly, assessing how and when to use words, sketches, tables, graphics and computational programs to communicate the story they tell.
 
 
About Beck

Beck Tench is a simplifier, illustrator, story teller and technologist. Formally trained as a graphics designer at the University of North Carolina’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, she has spent her career elbow deep in web work of all sorts – from the knowledge work of information architecture and design to the hands dirty work of writing code and testing user experiences. Currently, she serves as Director for Innovation and Digital Engagement at the Museum of Life and Science in Durham, NC where she studies and experiments with how visitors and staff use technology to plan, enhance and share their everyday lives.

  Learn more about Beck Tench and see her beautiful drawings at  <http://becktench.com/> http://becktench.com/.

Best,
Rachel

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