cancer-map

This map was created by Judy (Grewell) Bess and John Grewell, and it is featured in Jamie Nast’s book titled, Idea Mapping (John Wiley & Sons, September 2006). This map documents all of the final planning for Judy’s husband John, who was diagnosed with terminal cancer. He passed away 6 weeks after the completion of this map. See Jamie’s book for more details.

Many other idea maps are in previous postings in this blog. The largest collection can be found at www.ideamappingsuccess.com.

New Idea Mapping Squidoo Lens

14 May 2007 In: Websites

See http://www.squidoo.com/IdeaMapping/ to check out the new Squidoo Lens. It’s going to be a work-in-process, so have fun watching it grow, change, and inform visitors.

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T.J. Rivard is the program director for a program called ABC3 which is a chapter of Dollars For Scholars at Willow Run High School in Ypsilanti, Michigan. (See 4-17-07 posting for related entry.) In this map, T.J. outlines the program’s goals, meeting dates, contact information for all involved, programs offered to the students, and student work days. T.J. used MindManager Pro 6 for this application.

If you go to http://www.ideamappingsuccess.com/press.cfm you will find Jamie’s 30-minute interview with Leslie Stone from Summit City Radio under the Radio & TV section. This interview has just been made available.

Hint #8 – Determining Key Words

7 May 2007 In: Helpful Hints

Today’s hint is how to determine key words. Find an article, piece of mail, book, or any other linear document. If you don’t want to write on the paper, make a copy first.

With your purpose for reading this document in mind, begin reading. Highlight, underline, or circle those key words that you want to remember or meet your purpose for reading. When you are done, you can begin to create an idea map (if that still fits your purpose). Add the key words from this document to your map. Keep in mind that just because you highlighted a key word(s), does not necessarily mean it automatically goes into the map. Now that you’ve read the whole document, you may decide that some of your highlighted words may no longer be necessary for the map. You can also add to or replace key words with an image to strengthen your recall.

Idea Mapping Workshop at ACH

5 May 2007 In: Idea Mapping Workshops

ACH (Automotive Components Holding, LLC) is a subsidiary of Ford Motor Company. This week the 2-day Idea Mapping Workshop was approved as a standard course in their catalog of offerings. The first class is scheduled for June 6-7, 2007. I’m looking forward to the positive impact that the workshop will have on many new mappers.

Way Cool Website!

4 May 2007 In: Websites

You must go to www.mooter.com and check it out. You type in a key word or phrase, and it returns with an idea map of all the major categories of associated links it finds across the entire web. You can then see the links by category or ALL of the links at once.

I tried two searches just to test it out — one on Idea Mapping and the other on my own name. Give it a try. Thank you to Megan Clark for sharing this with me.

Announcing MindManager 7

1 May 2007 In: Mindjet, MindManager

The “Sneak Peek at MindManager 7” Recorded Webinar Link provides the link to a webinar I attended yesterday. The official announcement is today and the product will be available at the end of May.

Enroll today for Jamie’s next engaging webinar titled “Memorability Factor“. The date is Tuesday, June 5, 2007 at 10:00AM Pacific Daylight Time.

Attendees will actively participate as they experience how much the visual aspect of idea mapping increases their own memories, as well as those viewing their maps. Each participant will have the opportunity to establish a baseline for their current memory, experience some of the principles behind memory, learn to remember a list of 10 items perfectly, and then see how these memory principles transfer directly to mapping. I will provide some suggestions for applications where maps are used publicly and need to be more memorable to the audience.

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Today’s postings are a double whammy! I am going to contrast two idea maps. They contain identical data, but one of them also includes images. These maps were created in MindManager by Vickie Flis. She wanted to prove to her sons that you could create a map of a book. She read John Maxwell’s book, Dare to Dream Then Do It, and then created these maps. Above is the map WITH images. The other entry today is the same idea map WITHOUT images.

I have heard some business people claim that pictures aren’t necessary. Maybe not in all cases, but I would really have to think hard to find a scenario where images didn’t provide a benefit in some way. But then that’s me. What do you think? Which one do you prefer?Click here for the pdf version that is larger and easier to read the details.

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