Idea Mapping

If you want to take your meetings to the next level consider using Mindjet’s new Jetpack. Mindjet has put together a package of tools, templates and tips to help you turn meetings back into a way of collaborating, making decisions and getting things done. The Meeting Jetpack provides the methodology and mechanisms to make all your meetings […]

If you want to take your meetings to the next level consider using Mindjet’s new Jetpack. Mindjet has put together a package of tools, templates and tips to help you turn meetings back into a way of collaborating, making decisions and getting things done. The Meeting Jetpack provides the methodology and mechanisms to make all your […]

Australian Joe Cross went on a 60-day juicing fast across America to gain back his life. The documentary of this adventure was captured in the entertaining and inspiring movie “Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead.” This Idea Map covers the 7-day prep involved in advance of a juicing fast. This is also my first attempt at […]

Visual Root is a new website that enables visitors to create massive online collaborative Mind Maps and Idea Maps. Created by Victor Palmer and James Patton Visual Root is different from the MANY commercial (and free) mind mapping programs out there.  Victor states: “The idea is to take a user-initiated thought tree (I never know […]

Chuck Frey must be the world’s leading expert on mind mapping or idea mapping software. He has done a series of surveys and this won proves to be another winner. As with past surveys from this blog, this year’s Trends survey yielded some surprising results: Nearly half of respondents said that mind mapping software has […]

I have a new friend named Tom Sembongi from Japan who founded the FreeMind Users Forum Japan in 2008. He is also the author of “How to grow your business with FreeMind.” In this Idea Map he describes the forum’s goal, background, participants, what they do, and contact information. If you are interested in looking […]

In the January 26, 2009 posting one of Tim Schweizer’s idea maps was featured along with a mention about the above map being featured in the Mindjet Newsletter. Tim is the Professor of Management at Luther College. This idea map and the story only stayed on the Mindjet Newsletter site for 4 weeks. I am […]

October 13-15, 2009 will be the debut of a new training offering. On October 13-14, 2009 I will be offering the 2-day Idea Mapping Workshop and Mindjet is working on developing the third day where they will help participants put Mindjet solutions to work. Stay tuned for more details that might be available in a […]

Yesterday I returned from teaching an Idea Mapping Workshop at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP) in Toronto. One of the participants was Dan Houle who is the VP of Investment Operations. He has been and avid mind mapper and user of MindManager since 2005. He estimates that he has easily created over 650 maps using […]

On January 22, 2009 I did a webinar with Mindjet titled, “Increasing Productivity with Idea Mapping”. Lisa Fait was the MC and Michael Deutch was the interviewer. Learn more about Idea Mapping and see some really cool examples from mappers around the globe! Listen to the recorded version.