We’ve all heard that a picture tells a thousand words.  With all the gadgets we have to capture our eyeballs these days, we have a tendency to look down instead of up in meetings, but in some companies, employees are being encouraged to communicate through pictures drawn real-time.  Of course, this can be technologically enabled, but it doesn’t have to be overly complex. Sometimes it is as easy as putting down the stylus and picking up the marker.

The Wall Street Journal had an interesting article last week on ‘doodling for dollars’: