In my previous post about the mind mapping wiki, I promised to write about the phrase ”information maps”:  It’s used in that wiki as a term to cover the whole domain.  The nature of mind-mapping.org is that I need some general term. I don’t limit the content to mind map software in a strict or even a loose sense.  I toyed with “visual maps”
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In a post some months ago, I promised to tell you more about WikIT, the mind mapping wiki but kept getting distracted.  Now I have found a few minutes to keep my word. WikIT is a facinating resource.  It takes the line that different uses of ‘information maps’ (I’m planning a post about that phrase!) are best served by different map types and
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Have you noticed the growth of sites featuring libraries of mind maps on the web?  I’ve just published a page collecting information about these. I’ve has this on my ToDo list for far too long and yesterday I finally put it to bed here: The Mind-mapping.org Mind Map Libraries List.  When I say “finally” I mean
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Arjen ter Hoeve has just started a new site called Mind Maps Unleashed. He believes that many mappers make maps and don’t use them, and now offers a training course to remedy this.  So far he has covered topics like: Looking & Seeing, Knowing & Understanding 3 Questions Regarding Children, Age And Mind Mapping The
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Chuck Frey, over at the MindMappingSoftware Blog has a piece predicting that 2009 will be the year when mind mapping goes mainstream. As readers who followed my competition here at the end of last year will know, I sure hope he’s right. But I do think it’s going to take effort from the community. What’s
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Here at last are the results of the competition to come up with an idea for expanding the world of mind mapping. John Taylor‘s map suggests: Provide more integration of mind mapping software with common business software Practitioners to use it visibly and extol it – empowers fluid thought Thought leaders to work together, to
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I thought a review of comments and communications would be good at this half-way point of the competition, after I followed the suggestion to extend it. The response is encouraging and some good ideas are coming out.  This is how the suggestions have built up so far, most recent first: Chance Brown has posted a comment about his
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I’ve had off-line suggestions that the objective of the “expand mind mapping” competition is so great that a month is not much time to pull it all together.  We’ve had some good ideas already, which may set us on the right track, but I haven’t seen what I feel is that “killer idea” yet. I’m
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A few days ago, I blogged about my competition for suggestions to expand the population of mind mappers exponentially.  It’s time to give my thoughts, though I’m not an entrant in the competition. We have to ‘normalize’ mind mapping; make it seem like something that people do as a matter of course. When Tom Cruise controlled
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I have a free license for Buzan’s iMindmap* to give away for the best answer to a competition.  This is it: Many, many people have never heard of mind mapping.  Others have heard of it but have no idea what it is or how it might help them. Write a comment to this post (and/or send a mind map!) suggesting how to achieve exponential growth in the numbers of people doing mind mapping.  This
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