NON Best of 2005

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Nonprofit Online News: The Best of 2005

Terminology

Business Model - Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_model

Recently, when trying to explain the concept of the “business model” to some people taking a technology planning workshop from me, I was pleased to discover that my favorite resource on the subject is the Wikipedia entry . Itʼs solid, well-balanced, accessible, and richly linked.

Treemaps for space-constrained visualization of hierarchies http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/treemap-history/index.shtml

Iʼm sure this is a bit esoteric for many of you, but I have enjoyed spending time in the last year working through the resources and tools at Ben Shneidermanʼs page on Treemaps for Space-Constrained Visualization of Hierarchies . What originated as an idea for visually displaying information on a full hard drive has evolved into an entire discipline for the display of hierarchically organized information of many kinds.

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