Idea Mapping

Debbie Showler’s idea map from the Oprah Show (posted on this blog on February 15, 2008) has been so popular that I decided to include another map of Oprah’s Show. If it continues to be a popular hit, maybe I will consider a once-a-month Oprah Idea Map! I created this summary map from yesterday’s history-making […]

On Wednesday, March 5, 2008 I introduced you to Jay Dugger — long-time mind mapper. The purpose of this posting is two-fold. First, the full version jpg of Jay’s map titled “Mapping” is now available above and in pdf format at my website under “Additional Maps”. If you click on any column it will sort […]

A while back Jay Dugger was asking about the significance of the various line colors in some of the maps on this blog. I’ll address the theory and benefits to this in the next posting. Meantime, Jay has contributed an idea map he calls, “Mapping.” I’ll let Jay explain this map (created using FreeMind) in […]

Matt McKibben shares one of his hand-drawn idea maps this time around. Matt is the Program Services Director for an organization in Tallahassee, FL called Communities in Schools of Florida (CISFL) and was featured in the February 25 and March 1, 2008 postings. This map is from one of his CIS staff meetings. Notice how […]

On Monday of this week I introduced you to Matt McKibben who is the Program Services Director for an organization in Tallahassee, FL called Communities in Schools of Florida (CISFL). This is Matt’s second idea map around TQS. This map is an entire day’s worth of lecturing on a new system being implemented over the […]

In December of 2007 I had the privilege of teaching a 1-day workshop for an organization in Tallahassee, FL called Communities in Schools of Florida (CISFL). Matt McKibben is the Program Services Director, and was a participant in that event. This idea map is the first of three that Matt will be sharing in this […]

What is Artrain? Artrain USA is America’s Hometown Art Museum. A nonprofit organization, its mission is to enrich lives and build communities through the arts. As an art museum housed in vintage rail cars and traveling via the nation’s railways, Artrain USA brings world class art exhibitions and art education programs to communities and their […]

Last year I posted a link to my first of two interviews with Tara Kachaturoff, host and producer of “Michigan Entrepreneur“. It was a 30-minute TV show, but this segment is edited to a 7-minute clip where I demonstrate how to create Idea Maps. The second TV segment is now available. In this 8-minute clip, […]

Creating idea maps in the moment (I call them “real-time” maps) is one of the most advanced skills, and no one does this better than Debbie Showler. Debbie is a Certified Idea Mapping Instructor from Whitby, Ontario. On February 6, 2008 the Oprah Show did a rerun of a show called, “The Secret Behind the […]

On Friday February 1, 2008 I blogged about the VizThink Conference in San Francisco for which I was fortunate to be a speaker. This posting is solely dedicated to the breakout session that Susi Watson and I did together on January 28, 2008. I’ll describe these maps from top to bottom. The first map is […]