Today’s post outlines a modern reporting strategy that I call the splash model. In today’s post: A recap, why it’s time for a strategy change. Avoiding the Social Media time suck. Your big three audiences. Big splash content. Byproducts and adaptations. Serve the 1st tier first. Then serve the 2nd tier. 3rd tier by extension. […]
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Slide Style Infographics – 4 Takeaways [and a free-to-watch workshop session]
Have you ever created an infographic? No? Why not? Infographics can be a fun way to deliver information to different audiences. They can also be really easy to put together. Yes? Which type? There are all sorts of different infographic styles and formats. Today’s post features highlights from one of my pro workshop sessions. During […]
Stop Reporting Like it’s 1999
Today’s post is a reflection on contemporary reporting, and how for many organizations, it looks almost identical to the approaches we used in the late 90s. In today’s post: Why I think it’s time to kill the “let’s just stick a pdf on a resource page” information sharing paradigm. What has changed in the digital […]
How to make a pie chart in Excel
This is the fourth in a series of posts on chart design in Excel. In each post we will take on a different chart type. Today we’ll go with a chart that is widely used but often maligned by chart experts, the Pie Chart. What you’ll find in this post: An Oversimplified How To How […]
How to embed Tableau dashboards, without hiding them from Google.
Okay, long story short. If you are presenting to a public audience, don’t just plop the embed code on your website. And if you don’t feel like reading about why, skip to the bottom of the page for how I would suggest you embed Tableau dashboards (and lots of other embeddable things). Short story long? […]
Find Excel Chart Formatting Annoying? Do this instead.
Ever get annoyed with formatting after you create a chart in Excel? It’s pretty easy to create a chart in Excel. A couple of button clicks and poof, there you go, chart created. But if you want to create a chart that actually looks good, you often have to do a bit more work. For […]