I have two three main reasons for posting this vintage organizational chart used by Walt Disney.

1. It captures a method of organization that worked well.
2. It offers organizational insight to a creative company like ours.
3. “Nurse” and “morgue” are listed among management roles.

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[via Neatorama]

Worlde might be a fun app to use to add a little life to your next presentation. As LifeHacker put it: “It makes for nice backgrounds and icons, but it can also be helpful for students and anyone trying to parse a text for emphasis.”  

It took seconds to create this graphic above – but using information I’ve built up for about two years. That’s a cloud of the tags I use to sort the bookmarks I keep sorted via del.icio.us. Wordle is not a del.icio.us add-on, per se (though as you can see by the link at the left side of this post's footer, we kinda like del.icio.us around here). You can paste in whatever text you want and watch Wordle sprout a word-cloud based on frequency of individual words in your text. You've got options to change the number of words displayed, layout, color scheme, and font.

Imagine a creative brief in this format.

Here’s the United States Declaration of Independence, in word-cloud form (the most prominent 150 words, anyway): 

Tables, histograms, pie charts and bar graphs pass before our eyes on a regular basis. They are relatively simple to create in applications like PowerPoint, and relied upon to convey complex information. But we know they don’t always work as well as we’d like them to. Sometimes an idea demands an expression that’s more innovative, more compelling, and more fascinating. This is where a little data visualization can go a long way.

There are several excellent resources for data visualization out there. While a site like Infosthetics.com is no secret, there are several other inspiring blogs devoted to the topic of data visualization.  Flowing Data recently posted a short list of such sites. That post prompted a more comprehensive list at Random Etc. Mashable, a blog devoted to online social networks, shares in this post data visualization tools that serve as great alternatives to the typical chart. Smashing Magazine breaks new approaches to data visualization into four categories: Mind Maps, Displaying News, Displaying Data, and Displaying Connections.

The best solution will ultimately depend on your subject matter and your audience, but I like to visit these sites just to be inspired. You can always search infoviz+blogs on deli.cio.us for the latest resources and inspiration, too.

Graphic created with Visual Thesaurus.