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Confessions – A New Book by Jodie Rhodes
9 Jan 2012 Author: Jamie Nast In: Books
Jodie Rhodes is my literary agent and the person to whom I give credit for getting my Idea Mapping book published by a major publisher — John Wiley & Sons. I was introduced to Jodie by my good friend Scott Hagwood who is a 4-time USA Memory Champion, the 1st Grand Master of Memory in the USA and also one of Jodie’s authors who wrote a book titled Memory Power.
Jodie’s first novel was American Beauties followed by Winners and Losers which made the LA Times bestseller list its first week in print. Her recent book Confessions was just published in the fall of 2011. I finally had a chance to read it and couldn’t put it down. This memoir is not her story about becoming a literary agent. In fact, you won’t come across that until the end of the book. As Jodie states, “Instead, you will read the story of a person who lived a life that could only be written as a confession.” See the back cover of the book where 10 New York editors praised her work.
A unique attribute of this book (not surprising considering it is Jodie after all) is that all money generated by the sales of this memoir will be donated to The Jodie Rhodes Literary Book Awards. Winners of the award will have their books featured on both Barnes & Noble and Amazon, and distributed by Ingram and Baker & Taylor to bookstores all over the country. You will find submission guidelines in the last chapter of her book.
Jodie had a decorated track record in writing and marketing prior to be coming a literary agent unlike any other. You can read more about her professional history on her website, but this book gives you a peek into the unshared side of a woman with impeccable honesty and someone who never gives up…NEVER!
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Luther College Experiment Continues with more Fall 2011 Students’ Idea Maps 322-325.
6 Jan 2012 Author: Jamie Nast In: Idea Mapping Example, Mind Mapping Examples
If you have been following my postings about Dr. Tim Schweizer and his management students at Luther College, you will enjoy 4 more examples from his Fall 2011 class. I have been following Tim’s work since October 2009 — shortly after he attended one of my Idea Mapping Workshops.
Tim has developed a solid process to successfully teach Idea Mapping to his students. Tim takes the first two class periods to teach Idea Mapping to his students.
The first idea mapping example was created by Antonio Bautista about his values and beliefs. The second example is from Alex Peterson on the topic of football. Next we have Alec Travis who shares his idea map about school. The final example is from Anna DiCecco who share a previous example in my October 31, 2011 posting. This time her topic is about her post-graduation plans.
Thank you Dr. Schweizer’s Luther College students Antonio Bautista, Alex Peterson, Alec Travis, and Anna DiCecco for sharing your idea maps.
Visits to the Idea Mapping Blog and Website Increase Significantly During 2011
2 Jan 2012 Author: Jamie Nast In: Idea Mapping Blog Stats
The number of unique Idea Mapping website and blog visitors from 133 countries, page views and referrers increased again in 2011. The statistics you see are a combination of those from this blog as well as from the Idea Mapping Website. The current WordPress platform used for these sites doesn’t allow for separating the two. Hopefully upgrading to the newer version will allow for the distinction in 2012.
2011 Statistics
- Total Unique Visits – 837,490 Up 13.5% over 2010
- Total Page Views – 2,680,444 Up 18.6% over 2010
- Total Referrers – 51,945 Up 21.8 % over 2010
I’m so glad that the Idea Mapping Blog and Idea Mapping Website continue to provide content that draws more readers each year. Have a great 2012!
New 2012 Schedule For Public Idea Mapping Workshops
28 Dec 2011 Author: Jamie Nast In: Idea Mapping Workshops, mind mapping workshops, YouTube VideosThe 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 one more public course taught in Livonia, Michigan but the date is TBD. If your city of choice is not one of these, don’t hesitate to request that it be added to the schedule.
This brief YouTube video slideshow features photos from Idea Mapping workshops around the globe, a handful of Nast’s many corporate clients, Certified Idea Mapping Instructors and some of their maps, and a small peek into this fun learning experience.
Idea Map 321 is a Christmas Greeting Card
27 Dec 2011 Author: Jamie Nast In: Idea Mapping Example, Mind Mapping Examples
Jennifer Weaver is a member of the 2011 – 2012 Saline Leadership Institute (SLI) class where I teach an Idea Mapping session every year since its inception in 1998. I recently had an email from her where she shared this Idea Map.
She said, “I have found multiple opportunities to put some of the skills you taught us to work for me and with my kids, and the latest use was in our family Christmas letter. I thought you might enjoy seeing a copy. Not sure if it follows your technique exactly, but it seemed like a fun way to provide our family and friends with an update without boring them to tears with a ton of text!”
Many thanks to Jennifer for sharing this.
Merry Christmas 2011 – Dog Sings “Silver Bells”
21 Dec 2011 Author: Jamie Nast In: Messages from Jamie, YouTube VideosVanda and Helen North gave me this dog a number of years ago and it is one of our favorite things to pull out at Christmas time to brighten up the house along with all the other decorations. Enjoy the video!
West Highland Christian Academy (WHCA) Idea Mapping Experiment. Idea Maps 311-320 on the Bible.
19 Dec 2011 Author: Jamie Nast In: Idea Mapping Example |
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On October 17, 2011 I first introduced Kris Mavin who is the Senior Pastor for a church here in Michigan called “The Cause”, but also teaches two classes at West Highland Christian Academy (WHCA) where his children attend school. The name of one of the classes Kris teaches is “Misseo Dei” (God’s Mission). You can read more about that in the previous posting.
Kris has 11 students in this class — 7 high school juniors and 4 seniors. He took the first several weeks at the beginning of the school year to provide them with some in-depth teaching on using idea mapping for their studies. Now they are applying idea mapping to the curriculum. Idea Mapping will be a valuable skill for these students for both school, work, and life.
The idea maps I’m sharing with you today are from their very first assignment from Kris which was to simply do a map of the Bible. Some of the students don’t have their names on their maps, but future assignments will contain all their names. Many thanks to the students at WHCA. You may also view these idea maps in this cool Animoto picture/video slideshow.
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Idea Map 310 Was Used to Plan Thanksgiving Dinner. Maybe This Will Help You For Your Christmas Dinner Planning.
17 Dec 2011 Author: Jamie Nast In: Idea Mapping Example, Mind Mapping Examples
During my recent visit to Palm Beach to visit Vanda North (author of Mind Chi), I noticed this idea map on her refrigerator. It was her plans for preparing Thanksgiving dinner. I snapped a photo and thought the readers of this blog would be interested as we still have the Christmas and New Years celebrations ahead of us. She used a series of codes in this idea map and they were V with a smiley face for Vanda’s task, G for Gloria’s task, P for Princess’s task (AKA Jeannie) and a red dot for last minute items. A great way to capture all action items in a single view!
Vanda North, Larisa Brigevich and Jamie Nast Share an Evening of Great Fellowship
15 Dec 2011 Author: Jamie Nast In: Vanda North
Last week I had the joy of visiting Vanda North — my dear friend and the author of Mind Chi. We had a full three days of pure fun without the normal distraction of teaching workshops. Although we both love to teach it was a rare twist that we both thoroughly enjoyed. On one of the nights our dear friend and Certified Idea Mapping Instructor Larisa Brigevich joined us for dinner. Many thanks to her mom for making some special Russian breads stuffed with cabbage, rice, salmon and who knows what else. They were delicious!!
30-Second Video Overviews Past Idea Mapping Workshops Using Animoto
7 Dec 2011 Author: Jamie Nast In: Idea Mapping Videos, Idea Mapping Workshops
Today my dear friend Vanda North introduced me to an application called Animoto. It allows you to create a video or picture slideshow in a variety of styles with music and text. I tried the free version for my first attempt and think you will enjoy watching it here. No need to sign up for an account to view, but you might just get hooked yourself!
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