14 June 2005

Your Company Strategy—in Pictures. Preparing a company strategy can bury you in data. Make it easier by drawing a strategy picture, advises this excerpt from Harvard Business Review. Here’s how Southwest Airlines found "The Big Picture." : http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=3020&t=strategy

Overview Maps : In several studies of pre-Web hypertexts, having an overview map of the information space improved users' performance between 12% and 41%. Knowing where you are, where you've been, and where you can go is a significant help in navigating online information. : http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20050103.html

Attractive Vectormaps - a call for well arranged webmaps : http://www.svgopen.org/2002/papers/dahinden__good_map_graphics/ Keywords: Mapping with SVG; Cartography; Interaction and Animation; Layout; basic principles for designing visually attractive maps.

Financial Maps : http://www.smartmoney.com/maps/ Map of the Market Map Your Portfolio Market Map 1000 ETF Map Mutual Fund MapRisk Map 1000 Sector Maps Fund Map 1000

http://www.sitemapspal.com/ : tool for creating Google sitemaps xml file for your server, to use with the google sitemaps program. Simply type in your domain name and our spider will fetch all the links on your page and create and xml file for you to upload onto your own website. Discussed at http://www.researchbuzz.org/google_announces_google_sitemaps_.shtml

Spatial Aspects of Task-Specific Wayfinding Maps; A representation-theoretic perspective : http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/kcdc/books/VR99/Freksa.html

Many good "map" definitions : http://www.answers.com/map

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