Idea Mapping

On September 17, 2009 I (Jamie Nast) will deliver a 90-minute webinar sponsored by VizThinkU. VizThink is gathering visual thinkers from all corners of the world to create the first global community dedicated to the use of visualization in all forms of learning and communication. The 1-hour webinar I taught last week for the RMC […]

Her name is Deb. She drew a bed then added the reverse arrow to imply that her name is “bed” spelled backwards which gets you to “Deb”.

Exactly one year ago I introduced the first posting about an activity I use to introduce participants in my Idea Mapping Workshops. Read the first posting to understand the purpose and background of this activity. Can you guess the name of this person? She was a participant in one of the workshops I taught at […]

This Idea Map is the agenda of the webinar that I will be delivering today for the 1,000 attendees of the RMC Project Management Bookstore monthly webinar. Although today’s event is full, you can register to hear the archived version at the bookstore. Those who participate in this webinar can receive a 10% rebate on […]

Tomorrow I’m doing a 1-hour webinar for the RMC Project Management Bookstore. Registration began earlier this month and the 1,000 spaces for enrollment filled within 3 hours with a 200+ waitlist. If you want to be notified when the recorded version is available, register (even though it is full) and you will be sent an […]

Adding images to your idea maps enhances memory, makes them more interesting, and often times a single picture can communicate more information than many words. However based on my experience teaching the Idea Mapping Workshop to business professionals, many adults have convinced themselves that they cannot draw. If you are among those sharing that belief, […]

On Septmeber 16, 2007 I posted the first idea map in this series of which this is now the 8th idea map.  As part of the Idea Mapping Workshop participants read an article that summaries Stephen Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and then create an idea map of it.  Each map ends […]

I mentioned a couple weeks ago that I’m teaching the 2-day workshop titled Idea Mapping: A Learning Workshop at the Mindjet facilities in San Francisco October 13-14, 2009. Originally we were toying with the possibility of adding a third day of Mindjet training. Unfortunately that is not going to work out. However Mindjet’s Chief Evangelist […]

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 […]

I was looking through some of my idea mapping examples that had been created by students and realized that I had not shared these examples previously. They date back to April of 2005 when I taught a workshop for 126 business owners who were part of an organization called “Institute for Entrepreneurial Excellence” which is […]