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Tools and tactics for communicating for your cause

“Message in-a-box gives you everything you need to make and distribute your own media. This website covers A Strategy for Making Media, Print, Images, Audio, Internet, Video, and Mobiles. Each section includes information, references, links and inspiring case studies that show how the right tools and tactics can be used to

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Why you might not want to hear…“great graphics in your presentation.”

Yesterday I attended the Twin Cities Research Group Brown Bag. Don Feeney, Research and Planning Director at the Minnesota Lottery, presented on the topic “Graphic Revelations: Effective Communications through Statistical Graphics”. The presentation contained lots of great information. Below are some items from my notes I thought

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Visualizing Information for Advocacy

I recently stumbled across this great free resource called Visualizing Information for Advocacy. It was written by an organization called Tactical Technology Collective out of the UK. Here’s just a few ways you can use information design according to Visualizing Information for Advocacy: Tell Your Story To

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What do brownies and key messages have in common?

Yes, Visual Voice readers, I have been neglecting my blog topics this past month. Today I did want to share a quick story from an online discussion I attended hosted by The Improve Group titled “Self-Promotion: Let your data do the talking”. Elissa’s Notes: When thinking about

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Looking Good in Print

For today’s blog topic, I am passing along an abbreviated passage I found useful from Jay and Jeannie Levinson’s Startup Guide to Guerrilla Marketing. Looking Good in Print – Tips and Techniques for Ads, Brochures, Business Cards, Memos, Newsletters, and Proposals “The quality of your print communications

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Add Color to Your Life

This week I have decided to focus my data and design tip on reviewing color basics. If you want to accent a particular item in your design, an easy way to do this is by using color. If there is no color on the page adding any

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Design for Decisions

Here are some questions I find useful when thinking about presenting information. What decisions do I  hope to inform? What actions do I want to result from the information presented? Who is my target audience, and what level of detail do they need to find the information

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Go from gathering data to producing results

Go from gathering data to producing results. Here’s how… Step 1. You collect and compile data. (i.e. research, reports, survey results, case studies, testimonials, etc). Unfortunately, this is where the process stops many times, but we can help you get from Step 1 to Step 3 successfully. Step 2. We

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