Idea Mapping

Ekso Bionics’ exoskeletons are designed to help people with spinal injuries stand up and walk again. That’s a huge undertaking, and so is the clinical testing. Ekso uses MindManager to collaborate with top rehabilitation hospitals on significant research that will lead to further advancement of their life-changing products. See this 2-minute video to see how […]

Last year I was honored to teach 8 2-day Idea Mapping Workshops to Boeing employees in the Seattle, WA area, St. Louis, MO and Huntington Beach, CA. I created this Animoto slideshow video as a tribute to those first 8 workshops. Photos were only taken in non-Boeing training facilities. Some of the idea maps were […]

YouTube Direkt Yesterday I returned from my 6th annual opportunity to kick off another Academy of Evaluation. Dr. Karol Olejniczak is an Assistant Professor at the  University of Warsaw. He runs a program called EUROREG — an Academy of Evaluation which is financed and sponsored by Polish Ministry of Regional Development and the European Union. I am the first presenter each […]

YouTube DirektIdea Mapping for PRA International This slideshow is 2:19 minutes in length and captures group activities, idea maps juggling and other memorable moments from this all day event held May 16, 2013! A good time was had by all. Thanks everyone for a great day! For more details about this workshop see the May […]

YouTube DirektDigital vs. Paper Debate at Visual Literacy 2013 A 3-person panel (comprised of Brandy Agerbeck @loosetooth, Karl Gude @karlgude, and Jamie Nast @jamienast) was given the topic “Paper vs. Online”.  Coming squarely down in Paper was Brandy, Karl held strongly to Online, and Jamie took the middle ground.  The whole thing was expertly moderated […]

YouTube Direkt In my June 7, 2012 posting I shared about a recent visit I had at TechSmith — creators of Snagit, Camtasia, Jing and more. While I was there we filmed a 10-minute video hosted by Matt Pierce. He interviewed me about idea mapping and then we built an idea map together as you […]

YouTube DirektVisual Thinking & Literacy Conference March 17, 2012 marked the first Visual Thinking & Literacy (VizLit) Conference in Michigan. Content was built to include a wide audience of business people, educators and students. Keynote speakers included Cliff Atkinson, Jamie Nast and Karl Gude. Breakout sessions were led by Tom Crawford, Brandy Agerbeck (also shown […]

YouTube Direkt2012 Idea Mapping Workshop in Poland I just returned from teaching Idea Mapping in Warsaw, Poland for a program called EUROREG — an Academy of Evaluation which is financed and sponsored by the Polish Ministry of Regional Development and the European Union. I am the first presenter each year for this 9-month program where […]

YouTube Direkt I first introduced you to Kris Mavin and the West Highland Christian Academy Idea Mapping experiment in my Oct. 17, 2011 posting. Kris has taught Idea Mapping to his students and we are tracking their progress. This Animoto video features Kris’s second Idea Mapping assignment for his students which was to map the […]

The 2012 schedule for Idea Mapping Workshops is now available. Unless noted otherwise, Jamie Nast (author of Idea Mapping) will be teaching the workshops. Currently the public workshops are scheduled to be available in: Palm Beach, FL Livonia, MI San Francisco, CA Columbia, SC Las Vegas, NV There is also going to be at least […]