Idea Mapping

Looking for that perfect gift for a special person in your life? Do you have someone in your life who is overwhelmed with information, their job, managing projects, organizing their thinking, planning, studying, remembering, developing and delivering presentations, or generally bored with how they take notes in meetings or in classes. Do you know anyone [...]

This posting is the second in what is going to be a fascinating experiment this year with students at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. Last week’s posting first introduced this series. Now let’s put it into context.
Dr. Tim Schweizer teaches “Principles of Management”. He felt like teaching Idea Mapping to his students was such an [...]

I was pleasantly surprised to see the Idea Mapping Book ranked 618 in Canada today! It’s catching on!

Last month I did a 1-hour Idea Mapping webinar for the RMC Project Management Bookstore. When the webinar was announced the 1,500 available slots were taken in under 2 hours. 872 actually attended the live session and the rest waited for the archive. (See the archived version and received 1 PDU.)
On Thursday I received my [...]

I’m fascinated by statistics and trends especially as it pertains to how social networking impacts blog and website statistics. I’m also intrigued by trends in book sales. Some books have a life for a year or so and then die out. Others become classics. Here’s what I’m seeing happen to my Idea Mapping Book…
As a [...]

Here’s an ironic story…
Last month I was one of the speakers for the sold-out New Jersey PMI (Project Management Institute) Annual Conference. This is the second largest chapter in the USA. The morning started with a great spread of food and attendees strolled the bookstore and the vendor booths. I noticed that the bookstore was [...]

This is Idea Map #145. This map was used to guide me through a recent Mindjet Webinar (January 22, 2009) with Lisa Fait and Michael Deutch (both from Mindjet). During this webinar the following items were discussed:

Definition of Idea Mapping
Origins of Idea Mapping
Hand-drawn vs. software-generated maps
Who uses Idea Mapping?
Why does it work?
Benefits of Idea Mapping
Demonstration [...]

This book by Teiji Nakano just came out October 22, 2008 and is available at Amazon.jp.  Teiji is a master of the MindManager product and is personally responsible for the sales of 8,000 licenses in a previous position. He has just joined the Mindjet team in Japan and they are fortunate to have him on [...]

This past weekend celebrated the 2-year anniversary of the release of the Idea Mapping Book published by John Wiley & Sons. The publication of this book has taken me on an unexpected journey. I’ve had the privilege of teaching for many new clients around the globe, and more importantly YOU (the readers of the book [...]

Philippe Boukobza from Spain previously contributed his book summary of Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. His blogs are in English, French, and Spanish. His contribution today is a map he created of my book, Idea Mapping! This idea map was created using Inspiration 8. Thanks Philippe.