Idea Mapping

Last fall when I was teaching a 2-day Idea Mapping Workshop for the Learning Ministry in Warsaw, Poland I had a little extra time to spend with friends Wojtek and Ania Korsak. We took an adventure to E. Wedel’s famous Chocolate Cafe where we sipped on three different recipes of liquid chocolate. The Korsak’s surprised […]

Drew Davis is a Senior Business Analyst at Larimer County Public Works Division in Fort Collins, Colorado. I met him in June of 2008 when I taught my first 2-day Idea Mapping Workshop for Larimer County. The top attached map was created by Drew (using Mindjet) and used to prepare an innovation award nomination presentation […]

This is the 8th set of Idea Mapping examples from Dr. Tim Schweizer’s Spring 2012 students. I have been following Tim’s work since October 2009 — shortly after he attended one of my Idea Mapping Workshops. Search this blog on “Luther College” for more examples. Tim has developed a solid process to successfully teach Idea […]

In my April 2, 2013 posting I blogged about the upcoming 2013 Visual Thinking Conference that will be held April 13, 2013. This idea map shows the conference schedule for the day, the facilitators, their session topics, links to their websites and/or blogs and room locations. I created this idea map using Mindjet, so if […]

When this idea map was created Karen Maggard was the second V.P. of a large insurance company and was having serious problems with one of her employees. She described the issues as we talked on the phone. As she talked I mapped. In this case the purpose was to capture the information as quickly as […]

College student Melinda Dang is a frequent contributor to this blog. She has been experimenting with various idea mapping apps on her iPad. She made this example for fun because she was playing with app called “Brushes.”  The double tap to zoom makes it easy for her to map on her iPad. This is her […]

The Idea Mapping Flickr Photostream has 629 Idea Maps, photos and videos with 19,947 views. The all-time number of views is 239,668. This is a simple link which enables you to quickly search for your favorite idea maps of choice. Enjoy!

This is the 7th set of Idea Mapping examples from Dr. Tim Schweizer’s Spring 2012 students. I have been following Tim’s work since October 2009 — shortly after he attended one of my Idea Mapping Workshops. Search this blog on “Luther College” for more examples. Tim has developed a solid process to successfully teach Idea […]

Szymon Koscierzynski is the author of this idea map. He is a Senior Expert at the Ministry of the Environment in Poland and was a participant in the 5th Academy of Evaluation which began in November 2012 in Warsaw and will go through July 2013. See the December 12, 2012 posting for more information on […]

This idea map was created by Matthew Crowder from IdeaSmart using Bubbl.us. Matthew shared, “With the proliferation of computer, video games, smartphones, and the like I thought it would be interesting to illustrate the different ways media has now become integrated into the fabric of our lives. A century ago books and pictures were the […]