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Name Tent Activity. Can You Guess These Names?
6 May 2011 Author: Jamie Nast In: Idea Mapping Workshops, Name Tent Activity
In August of 2008 I introduced the first posting about an activity I use to introduce participants to each other in my Idea Mapping Workshops. Read the first posting to understand the purpose and background of this activity.
Can you guess the first names of these two people from their drawing? I’ll share the answers in the next posting. If you want to be challenged to guess other name tents from this blog, search on “name tent”.
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Website Design for ZEL (Zealous Entertainment Live) – Idea Map #280
30 Apr 2011 Author: Jamie Nast In: Idea Mapping Example
Meet Evin Lantz who founded ZEL (Zealous Entertainment Live!) in 2007 before he even had a drivers license. Evin is a sophomore at Luther College and a student of the well-known Dr. Tim Schweizer who started the Idea Mapping experiment with his students in the fall of 2009. He is majoring in Business Management and minoring in Information Systems and Theatre (sound/lights).
Evin’s Idea Mapping Example is the framework for the ZEL website that will launch July 1, 2011. He developed this website design using MindManager by Mindjet. Proprietary information has been hidden. This idea map had to be collapsed because of the large amount of detail. If you would like a full version (minus proprietary info) please email me.
ZEL started out primarily as a mobile recording studio — recording local school concerts and community events. That then transformed into running full sound systems for the events. Although ZEL operates during the school year, it is in full swing end of May through August. Based in Rochester, MN, ZEL is a team of entertainment technicians specializing in audio, video, and lighting sales and installations for homes and professional venues. They also offer a mobile DJ or PA service and a video/audio editing services. In general they service a 120-mile radius of Rochester, MN.
As many of us have experienced there are a lot of amateur mobile DJ’s out there that buy the cheapest gear they can get. Those folks don’t last long in this kind of business. At Zealous Entertainment LIVE, they use only high quality equipment and always strive for the highest quality outcomes possible in whatever they are doing. Evin has every intention to keep this business alive as long as he is, and hopes to grow ZEL enough to never be faced with a job that is too big!
You can also find ZEL on Facebook.
For more background information on Dr. Schweizer’s experiments see the October 23, 2009 posting. For the many examples provided by Luther College students, search this blog on “Luther College.”
VizChef – An All-Visual Cooking App for the iPad
27 Apr 2011 Author: Jamie Nast In: iPad App, iPhone App, iPod App, iTunes, Visual Communication
Tom Crawford is the Founder, Designer, Developer, and Head Cook at VizChef. He was previously the CEO of VizThink – a community of professionals using pictures to help solve problems, think about complex issues, and communicate more effectively. I met Tom when he invited me to be a presenter at the first VizThink Conference in 2008 in San Francisco, CA.
Tom recently developed a cooking app for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch which you can get from the iTunes Store via previous links. The entire recipe is shown in beautiful, full-color photographs. You will see every finished dish, ingredient, piece of equipment, and most importantly every single step necessary to create the dish.
Above you will see an image of Tom’s recipe for Edamame Spread. Find 60 additional recipes in the iTunes App. For more information go to VizChef.
Future Trends in Urban Water Treatment – Idea Map #279
18 Apr 2011 Author: Jamie Nast In: Idea Mapping Example, Mind Mapping Examples, Mindjet, MindManager
Meet Jim Lauria – V.P. of Marketing and Business Development for Amiad Filtration Systems.
He has been using mind maps for over ten years, first creating them by hand and then for the last seven years using MindManager. Three years ago he joined Amiad and declared that he would become a thought leader in the water industry. This has now become a reality in large part due to mind mapping. Jim states:
“I have read all the current books on water issues and have mind mapped the highlights. After completion I use these maps as resource material for the articles I publish. As you can see from the link on the Mindjet site we have been recognized through a case study that shows how our articles have been composed using MindManager.
In the past year we have gotten cover stories in four water trade magazines. I was even given my own blog on water issues on the Huffington Post by Arianna Huffington. I also use mind mapping to create presentations for the many water conferences where I speak.
This mind map that I created ultimately became a cover story for Water Online’s print edition for the largest wastewater conference in the world — WEFTEC. I find one of the benefits of using Mind Manager is that the map becomes a living document that can be updated on a regular basis to track the outcomes for each individual map.”
The map that Jim shared had to be collapsed due to size. The images inside deeper parts of this file are very nice. If you want the original MindManager version I’m happy to email it to you.
Boeing Webinar Update
1 Apr 2011 Author: Jamie Nast In: WebinarsToday’s Idea Mapping Webinar for Boeing Project Management and Mind Mapping Interest Groups
28 Mar 2011 Author: Jamie Nast In: Webinars
I’m excited to deliver my second webinar today to those Boeing professionals who are part of Boeing’s Project Management and/or Mind Mapping Interest Groups. Thank you to David Halverson for making this happen again. I look forward to the session that will start at 2:30 EST.
New Mind Chi iPhone App, iPod Touch App and iPad App Available
18 Mar 2011 Author: Jamie Nast In: iPad App, iPhone App, iPod App, iTunes8 minutes a day is all it takes to open up a world of superior mental performance. The simple and effective 8-minute Mind Chi Basic routine is now at your fingertips at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mind-chi/id404718317.
Mind Chi is a book authored by my dear friends and colleagues Vanda North and Richard Israel.
Mind Chi is a unique program designed to have a positive impact on your life by reducing your stress. It is founded on research into brain function, proven psychological processes for change, eudenomics (the study of happiness) and eighty years of combined research and experience by the authors.
Luther College Students are Back to More Idea Mapping. Idea Map #278.
9 Mar 2011 Author: Jamie Nast In: Idea Mapping Example, Mind Mapping Examples, Mind Mapping Software
The very first posting about this experiment with Luther College students was on October 23, 2009. (You can get some background there.) Dr. Tim Schweizer led the experiment. From this date through the April 15, 2010 posting you will find many examples from this first group.
For the next semester Dr. Schweizer change the assignment a bit. I started sharing those examples beginning with the May 19, 2010 posting. Again more idea maps were posted through the August 24, 2010 posting.
So here we go again with the first example from the Winter semester 2011 Luther College students. For today’s example I’ll let Alla Makoveeva tell you about it in her own words:
“I find Idea Mapping extremely useful to catch up all the thoughts that we have in mind and to structure them without concentrating on the outline. After taking some tests in Dr. Tim Schweizer course, I understood that I comprehend information only visually through images and written text for me is a waste of paper. Being introduced to your book (Idea Mapping), I started using idea maps in my daily life: while listening to the lecture, planning my week schedule or reanalyzing current activities.
This maps presents my current internship on the faculty of Foreign Languages in Luther College, Decorah, IA. Specializing in Japanese, English and Spanish and being a native speaker of Russian, I am assisting Professor Laurie Iudin-Nelson with classes of Russian 1,2 and Political Russian.
The main brunches symbolize main activities that I’m responsible for within the semester: Russian table, poetry evening, pen-pal project, video about Luther college and Political Russian course.
I tried to use as many symbols as possible but as it was my first time using the program Free Mind I was not very creative with them and used the standard ones.
Branch “table” stands for Russian table where I need to prepare games, practice every day Russian and check the attendance. The time for these meetings is Thursday and Tuesday 10am-11am and Saturday 1pm-2pm.
“Poetry” branch reminds me that we are going to organize a poetry evening in March. I need to select easy and more advanced poems for it, practice it with students and schedule the date and the time.
For the “pen-pal” project I need to find more participants from Russia for the 2nd course, ask the students to email me their letters beforehand so I can check them. I also need to call Russia to talk to their English professor.
We have and idea to create “video” about Luther college in Russian. Students will write short texts, which I will practice with them. We need to find good music to some slides and “key people”, who are creative and can work with cameras.
The last but not the least part of my internship is teaching political Russian to the 3d year students, where we read news and discuss relevant international questions.
The whole bunch of words mentioned above was replaced by only one idea map. I find this technique extremely helpful for economizing time and stimulating the mind for creative thinking.
I also have an idea that maybe such maps can help me in learning characters. I haven’t found the time to try yet, but I’m sure I will in the nearest future. And as a linguist, I have a firm sense that it could work.”
Alla – Many thanks for your contribution!
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The 14th USA Memory Championship
5 Mar 2011 Author: Jamie Nast In: Memory
…will be held on Saturday March 12, 2011 at Con Edison in New York City. Although registration is closed for participating you can still watch these mental athletes battle for this years title. Ronnie White will defend his title. More information.
Idea Map #277 – FreeMind Users Forum Japan
24 Feb 2011 Author: Jamie Nast In: Idea Mapping Example, Idea Mapping Software
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 into this forum you can visit their website, follow them on Twitter or email at info@freemind.asia.
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