Pandemic podcasts
The pandemic has not only accelerated the podcasting boom. Some podcasts have played a big role in explaining and fighting against the Coronavirus. A case study from Germany.
Substack: a critique.
A critique in nine articles, selected for you between November 2020 and March 2021. The dream of a…
The future of work and the written word.
We will not come back to our old habits after the pandemic. The future is distributed and asynchronous work. For this future, embracing writing will be crucial, as much as learning how to handle better video-calls.
Content marketing needs to change.
There is too much content out there. Too irrelevant. The problem of content has a name: content marketing. Time to go back to the basics of what content must do: deliver value and meaning, not keywords and click baits.
A story of data, dashboards and definitions.
This post is about vaccination data and dashboards:
- about good visualizations and the pitfalls to avoid,
- about what to keep in mind when reading such data,
- and about the transparency we deserve from our governments.
A red line that is a ray of hope.
We have seen too many #COVID19 charts in the last 9 months, but this one is perfect for #xmas2020 , taken from the #BioNTech vaccine study on 44k participants that led to the vaccine approval. The red line, this time, is a ray of hope.
Cinque minuti a mezzanotte: Lockdown, ora.
Ho messo assieme sei tavole con dati “made in Germany”. Li ho rielaborati per renderli più chiari e parlanti. L´obiettivo: farvi capire perché noi, a nove giorni dal Natale, entriamo in un Lockdown duro; perché ci sentiamo “a cinque minuti dalla mezzanotte”; e perché questo senso di urgenza riguarda anche voi.
World´s largest trade agreement: why the RCEP matters, in a few charts.
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) in one table and three charts. Why this is the beginning of a new world order.
Simple tables that solve big information problems.
Everybody is in love with data visualizations and often forgets the first format of visualisation: tables. If well-designed, they still work. Especially on digital.
Three learnings from The Guardian US election live tracker.
The 2020 US live election tracker was the most viewed page of The Guardian ever. The result of a tremendous effort of journalists, designers and engineers.
USA elections 2020: a “best of” gallery of DataViz.
No matter how your electoral system works, you can learn a lot from the USA 2020 vote data visualizations. Good DataViz can drive journalism.
Decoding newsletters, part three. Make your newsletters shine.
10 things you can do to make your editorial newsletter a stellar experience.
Learning with newsletters.
Instructional designers spend more time with Mooc, videos, digital learning platforms and interactivity than with emails. Few of them have considered newsletters as instructional design objects. But they are. In this post, some examples that inspired me, and hopefully you too.
Decoding newsletters, part two. Types and genre.
Made to read on mobile, made to skim, daily or weekly, newsy or narrative. Newsletters grow and differentiate. A map and a taxonomy to explore newsletters.
Decoding newsletters, part one. The value of curated newsletters.
A "back to basics" three-part series on editorial newsletters. Why are they so popular? And how do they work? A short guide and some best practices.