Idea Mapping

Last week I was privileged to speak at the HSMAI National Conference in Washington, D.C. This organization offers three conferences per year to meeting planners. What differentiates HSMAI is that there is no fee for attendees. I had 90 people attending a 75-minute Idea Mapping session. The photos you see are from the Association Activity […]

Luciano Passuello is a regular contributor to this blog, and his specialty is using idea maps to summarize books. Today’s map features Michael Gelb’s book “How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci”. This is the folded version. The full version can be downloaded here. For more of Luciano’s book reviews, search on “Luciano” within this […]

Liza Jennings Seiner is a CIMI (Certified Idea Mapping Instructor) that has shared several idea mapping examples since the inception of this blog — including her idea map that celebrated the life of Linda Goodremont who lost her battle with cancer. (Search on “Liza Seiner” for her other contributions.) That was Idea Map #8, and […]

VizThink is hosting its first European conference in October of 2008 in Berlin. Tom Crawford (VizThink CEO) is looking for a mapper to: – Create live mind maps for 2 of the 4 general sessions at the conference. The general sessions are 90 minutes long and there are 2 each day. It would be done […]

Steve Rothwell from the UK has previously contributed several idea maps to this blog. This is the collapsed version of a much larger map he created using MindManager. I’ll let Steve tell you about it in his own words. Email me if you want me to send you the full version. “The attached is the […]

Daniel Pace was one of the participants in my recent June workshop and a Senior Business Process Analyst for the Larimer County Government in Ft. Collins, CO. Daniel will tell you his story in his own words: “Jamie, this is my first ‘real-time’ map. I did this exclusively in pencil, so that I would not […]

Larisa Brigevich is the Director of the Global Research Library at Franklin Templeton. In April 2008 she completed the 5-day Idea Mapping Certification workshop. Her first contribution to this blog was January 7, 2008 and she has had several since then. I’ll let her explain how she used idea mapping and MindManager to manage this […]

I’m still catching up with news from some of the workshops I taught in June. This series will be from an organization out of Toronto called the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan.  We have 22 new Idea Mappers! Niles created this map during the workshop and brings us up to Idea Map #116.

I’m SO sorry about the technical problems on today’s webinar. This idea map was used to drive my piece of the program. Double click on the map you see a clearer view. You can listen to the recording here. The following links and maps are for the idea maps that I couldn’t share because I […]

Glenn Stennes is a brilliant consultant and CIMI (Certified Idea Mapping Instructor). He recently created this fun idea map to plan a barbeque. In some instances it might be challenging to understand someone else’s idea map. In this case I’m sure you can figure out what all the images represent. The colors and images bring […]