Archive for the 'Mindmapping' Category

I’m speaking at Office2.0 on mindmapping and culture of Enterprise 2.0

Sunday, September 2nd, 2007

I’ve accepted an invite to speak on two panels (Thurs-Fri) at Office 2.0 in San Francisco, California this week:

Cultural and Technology in Enterprise 2.0 rollouts (hosted by Jevon MacDonald).

This will explore the cultural nuances related to designing, developing and deploying Social Software in the Enterprise. Being a wiki kind of guy I’ll bring some perspectives […]

Conceptmapping Thesis: Chapter 2, part 10.2c: Imagery and recall

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

10.2c Imagery and recall
The Buzan Centre promotes many memory aiding techniques. The underlying theme to these systems is to incorporate the creative and logical functions of the brain. By synthesising informational, perhaps abstract facts with experiences we are able to commit them to memory. This is related to an issue raised in [MIM] that questions […]

Conceptmapping Thesis: Chapter 2, part 10.2b: Imagery and recall

Monday, March 26th, 2007

Imagery and recall
To explain point 9 of Figure 2-1, we note that a principle law of Mind Mapping is to emphasise. [p. 97, The Mind Map Book] advises ‘Always use a central image’ and ‘Use images throughout your Mind Map’. The justification for this is simple:

“While both words and pictures are symbols, they are different […]

Conceptmapping Thesis: Chapter 2, part 10.1: Omitting background words – a key principle in the Mind Mapping Technique

Friday, March 23rd, 2007

2.10.1 Omitting background words - a key principle in the Mind Mapping Technique
An important principle in Mind Mapping is the deliberate omission of the many background words; these are simply not needed because the purpose of these words in the text would be to imply structure. The mind map has a less discursive format and […]

ConceptDRAW: For free. Only Today.

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

I met Tari Akpodiete at PodCamp Toronto 2007 a couple of weeks back. Tari was giving talks about a host of things, one talk (videocast) I attended was about MindMapping and Getting Things Done. Like me, it seems that Tari also subscribes to Giveaway of the Day. But, unlike me she spotted this already and […]