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An Idea Mapping Success Blogs Weblog
Although the official promotion starts Feb 1, 2007, you could start seeing Idea Mapping in 70 airport bookstores across the USA beginning now. Look for Idea Mapping in your favorite concourse and let us know where you’ve spotted the book! We’ll see how many book spottings we can find in the 70 airports can be found!
Hal Kirkwood is an Associate Professor and one of the librarians in the Management & Economics Library at Purdue’s Krannert School of Management. He created a map that is designed to provide an alternative method of access for students and faculty to the multitude of business databases available. It started out as a proximity map and has since mutated to the current version.
He’s working on improving the usability/viewability of it, as well as providing a layer of information on where the information comes from, how it flows through the topics, and then into the databases. The goal is to not only direct students to the proper resources for their information needs, but to also improve their awareness of the business research process.
So far it has been very well received by students. Due to the emphasis on technology transfer at Purdue, many more engineering students are looking for business information and they find the map to be extremely useful. Hal and his team will be testing and experimenting more with it this Spring semester and presenting on it at the Computers in Libraries conference in April.
A few weeks ago I stumbled across an excellent resource for writers of any kind. The site is called Today’s Woman Writing Community — supportive online writing community for men and women over 18. It containing articles, short stories, poems, interactive forums, blogs, writing classifieds, downloads, writing contests, writing events, writing tips, writing resources, ezine newsletter, famous quotes, author interviews, book reviews, and many more features. For $50 Canadian you can even advertise your book for 3 months — quite a deal for the amount of traffic this site gets!
The founder of this community also has an amazing blog at http://www.rosedesrochers.todays-woman.net/. Check it out!
For those of you who know William Reed, you know he is a man of many talents — including Idea Mapping. The Japan Times has just written a wonderful article on him that you will want to read. Click here for the article link. Congratulations William!
On May 3-4, 2007, Jamie Nast will be teaching the first open public Idea Mapping workshop at The House of Tan Yeok Nee Conference Center. This facility is the home of The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
Registration is now open to the first 42 participants. Registration will be closed once these 42 spots have been reserved or by April 3, 2007 — which ever comes first. This is necessary because of the large amount of materials that will need to be shipped from the USA.
This workshop is non-standard in several ways. The workshop will run from 9am – 5:30pm on both days. Lunch (as well as morning and afternoon tea) is included in the price of the conference. For more information and to register for this event click here. We look forward to meeting you at this premier event!
Rolonda Watts will do a live interview with Jamie Nast on January 16, 2007 from 1:30-2:00pm EST. This show airs out of Hollywood, California, but can be heard online at www.greenstoneradio.com. Jamie will be joined by some of her past clients who will share how they have applied Idea Mapping to their work and life. These guests include three top business managers: Michael Shaw (Mayo Clinic), Darcy Salman, and Megan Clark — both from a major automotive manufacturer in southeast Michigan. Listen in!
If possible, the audio of this broadcast will be made available.
Today a WikiSummary went up (thanks to the extraordinairy work of web designer Cornel Ivanescu) on http://wikisummaries.org/Idea_Mapping. The text even includes chapter summaries. Check it out!
Today I had an interview with one of Ft. Wayne, Indiana’s radio personalities. Leslie and I spent 30 minutes talking about Idea Mapping, its benefits, and applications. The show will be heard on February 18th at 7:00 AM on a program called A Closer Look. This show can be heard on both 1250AM and 102.9FM (WGL). The following week you will hear clips from the interview on these stations as well as:
WNHT 96.3 FM – Wild
WXKE 103.9 – Rock 104
A recording of this interview will be loaded in the Press section of www.ideamappingsuccess.com when the audio is available.
There is a book review of Idea Mapping in the November 2006 issue of ASTD’s (American Society of Training & Development) T&D Magazine. If you have the magazine, the review is on page 74. If you are viewing the pdf file, it is on the 3rd page.
Tomorrow (January 4, 2007) from approximately 2:30-3:00pm EST, Scott Hagwood (4-time USA Memory Champ and the 1st USA Grand Master of Memory) will be interviewed by nationally acclaimed Rolanda Watts. Jamie Nast and Angelo Lam will also join the show as Scott’s guests.
The purpose of this blog is to share idea mapping examples and related learning from my Idea Mapping, Memory, Speed Reading, and Certification Workshops. This blog is dedicated to my Certified Idea Mapping Instructors, my clients, Mind Mapping and Idea Mapping practitioners around the globe.