Applications of MindManager

Mindjet Connect - What is it?

2008-09-03T22:52:00.004+01:00

Mindjet Connect is a great way of collaborating with MindManager users. The Web Browser client also allows non-MindManager Pro 7 license holders to interact with the maps stored in the workspaces. Gradually I am finding partners to work with: Associates in Ecademy, my new Virtual Assistance (can we manage the admin via a workspace and a few maps?) and a team building a event for 2009.

It takes a while to grasp what Mindjet connect is and how it all hangs together. Not everything has been obvious to me or some of my clients. So I have built a map to reinforce my own understanding and to help you up the learning curve.

Click the picture or this link to the Mindjet Connect Summary map. There are several clickable areas which take you through to the full details on the Mindjet web site.

What have been your experiences using Mindjet connect?

Summertime with MindManager - The PERFECT Presentation

2008-08-14T09:16:00.004+01:00

"It's summertime and the living is easy". Not quite.

In my breakfast and evenings off, I go out mapping my friends talks and presentations.

This is Dexter Moscow's PERFECT presentation last Monday to Petersfield Ecademy at the delightful 57 restaurant in Liss. It was most enjoyable (and Dexter seemed to be enjoying it as well). A great reminder plus some new insights into all those things you need to do or be aware of, particularly when trying to make an impression on a potential customer.

Click to get the big picture

Technical aside: MindManager 7.1 Pro worked very well on my HP2710p Tablet PC. Don't install 7.2 on a Tablet PC if you want to use the ink mode. Too many ink features do not work.

MindManager Workshops in London, July 17 2008

2008-07-11T11:02:00.001+01:00

The key speaker for me is Nick Duffill who has been practising the dark art for many years. He was part of the original development team and has gone on to create amongst other things Results Manager the emulation of David Allen's - Getting Things Done.

Register Now on the Orgaphics site
Register at this Ecademy Meeting if you want Ecademy members to know you are going. I will be attending the morning session.

Venue:
Tower Hotel, 12th Floor
St Katherine's Way,
London E1W 1LD

We are pleased to announce a series of workshops designed to showcase the capabilities of MindManager and the recently released Mindjet Connect service.

Featuring the following speakers:

Dr Ian C Corner an experienced project manager and systems implementation specialist will discuss and demonstrate the MindManager add-in JCVGantt Pro 3

Mr Nick Duffill a veteran MindManager developer will discuss and demonstrate Gyronix MindManager add-in products including the latest version of the MindManager add-in DecisionMill 3

Mr Peter Urey formally an HP director and 25 year IT sales and marketing veteran will show how to use MindManager to assess, improve and develop effective customer engagement strategies

Mr Alan G Brown will discuss and demonstrate mind mapping techniques with MindManager 7 and showcase the new multiple user Mindjet Connect collaboration service.

The workshops will run for approximately 2 hours and start at 10.00 am and 2.00 pm respectively. Register for the event at www.orgraphics.co.uk. Space will be limited so register early.

Further dates will be announced shortly.

Those who should attend;

* Senior managers contemplating using mind mapping techniques
* Those looking to provided tools to their staff to improve their thinking, planning and collaboration skills
* Others seeking to use software that allows them to organise and express their ideas visually

Register Now on the Orgaphics site
Register at this Ecademy Meeting if you want Ecademy members to know you are going. I will be attending the morning session.

Promoting MindManager and Mind Mapping with a display in my local library

2008-06-30T22:45:00.003+01:00

Today I set up a display in the window of Alresford Library, my home town. Being right next to Tesco Express means 100s of people walk past every day and my display is there for two weeks. Unfortunately the library is only open for 21 hours in the week.

I had some feedback from an IBM friend who said "I need to explain it more" and my neighbour said "Drag the school teachers down for a look".

Here are some photos of the installation:

The Location

The front view

The inside view

Note: I have a blank mind map which I hope visitors to the library will add to.

Alresford is a commuter town for London, has many IBM residents and who knows who else will be visiting the steam railway - Watercress Line.

Mind Map of Presentation about Blogging & setting up WordPress

2008-06-26T18:25:00.001+01:00

Latest version of MindManager 7 Pro and Mindjet Connect

2008-06-19T08:56:00.003+01:00

The latest version of MindManager and the first release of Mindjet Connect were available from the Mindjet site yesterday. I am treating these as two separate entities for now.

MindManager Pro7 (version 72.E.374) is a service pack which has a Mindjet Connect client. Use MindManager's check for update function or go here to get it.

You do not get access to Mindjet Connect until you subscribe. You can get a trial subscription here.

If you would like to test your trial with me send me an invite from Mindjet Connect.

Can you use MindManager to create a business card?

2008-06-18T17:46:00.002+01:00

I am running an experiment this afternoon and getting some great feedback from my friends on Ecademy.

Draft 2

Draft 2.1

Draft 2.2

What do you think?

A map of the Applications of MindManager blogged so far

2008-06-16T15:07:00.004+01:00

I have been wondering what to blog next. So I thought I will look at the index on my blog. Well I have not found the whole index in Blogger yet so I decided I had better construct one of my own to make sure I don't blog about something different.

Here it is the index of my blogs so far. Split into eight categories

MindManager map of the Twitter and Related World

2008-05-22T10:56:00.003+01:00

This is an example of how MindManager can be used to quickly aggregate knowledge for sharing with others. I started the map at 9:38 this morning and the first version was on the web at 10:46, it was in the Ecademy twitter Club at 10:54 and I Tweeted it at 10:55.

Click for the full screen view. Click the map to go the web page indicated.

For those wondering what this is all about. Twitter is web application which allows you to publish 140 character messages to the web. Sort of SMS on the web but rather than one to one it's one to many. You follow other peoples Tweets and they follow yours. Click my Twitter link to see what I mean.

What you Tweet about is up to you. It can be social, it can be business, it can be a mix. You can have multiple accounts with different purposes. The search tools above allow you to find people with similar interests and start a conversation. Of course if you publish frequently about your niche knowledge, service or product. You may be found. See what Mark Shaw is doing with respect to ebooks.

My thanks to the members of the Ecademy Twitter club for providing all these references in their threads.

The map above is self explanatory. What follows is for Google to find and was created by exporting the map to Word and removing the links because I want you to interact with the ones in the map :)

CCabre's Birdworld

1 Twitter

= 140 character messages to the world

1.1 Bird Feeders - Ecademy Twitter Club

1.2 Blog Baths - GottaBeMobile

1.3 twhirl a twitter client

= Managing your twitter

1.4 Twitter4Skype

= So you can call or chat with a Twit about their Tweet with one click

1.5 The Twitter Club

= Share twitter know how

12 Ways Twitter Can Improve Your Efficiency

10 to Follow

Ecademy club posts & comments to Twitter

1.6 Summize Conversational Search

MindManager

1.7 Real-time Twitter Search Tweet Scan

Ecademy

2 Wakoopa

2.1 Ecademy Team

3 Flock

3.1 The Social Web Browser

4 FriendFeed

4.1 Aggregate all your friends guano

5 Twits

ajwilcox, thomaspower, markshaw, clarocada, hensel, mgpoole, simon_morice

Producing event signs with MindManager

2008-05-19T14:49:00.003+01:00

I used MindManager to produce the signs I need for a recent Open Space event on an A3 Canon iX5000 printer. This proved to be a very effective way to do it. MindManager by default fills the printed page. Simple signs can be made using the Central Topic for the text and using the line and background colour to produce signs like the meeting location names.

Note each of these signs is the same width but because of the number of letters the width height ratio changes. Padding out with spaces or changing the topic margins can help.

Slightly more iconic signs can be produced using the image library. For instance the one Law of Open Space is you can use your feet.

For the Four Principles of Open Space I used a music festival as an analogy. 120,000 turned up for this one, it always finishes dead on time (they want to use the same field next year), queuing early is good - you start meeting people and the comic folk singer brings along an opera singer. The audience switched from mass morris dancing to Nessun Dorma. Photos mine, event courtesy of Fairport Convention. Here I placed the images in floating topics and arrayed them around the central topic.

But next time I will make them separate central topics and print them each on their own sheet of paper. They were too small on a big wall.

Or I could use the poster printing function in the print menu to produce a 10 foot banner like this one. Which is just an image and text in central topic with no shape.

You can see what happened at the event in maps, video and photographs at Open Minded Day 01.

I hope this give you some ideas for your events. Any questions, please ask.

Using MindManager to track the promotion and the results for an event

2008-05-09T10:34:00.004+01:00

On Tuesday 22 April, I facilitated my first Open Space Technology event. It was attended by 29 people from Ecademy and their theme was "How can we work better together so that we all get more from Ecademy?". The event was the result of three months of discussion between principally four people. Most of our discussion was on-line using Skype chat and conference calls, and using the Ecademy forums. Two of the people I have never met face to face. One of them attended the event. Apart from the obvious note taking during these on-line meetings, one of the uses for MindManager was to track the promotion of the event and results of that activity.

Use 1 - Monitoring Progress

Initially we had two dates and the map tracked those registering, those who said no or maybe and those that had paid, each linked to their Ecademy profile. I had a MindManager spreadsheet (not Excel range) in the map which noted how these numbers changed on a daily basis. It also showed the home page views for our host Ecademy club for the event.

Each promotional activity was tracked by linking to all the blogs and adverts for the event. Click the image below and you will see the map I shared on line with my colleagues. Each topic with an Ecademy icon clicks through to a page on the Ecademy web site,

Some things I learnt I would like to share with you.

- The MindManager spreadsheet does not work beyond column Z. Mindjet are aware and will fix this.
- Regardless of the bug next time I would use an Excel range for a large spreadsheet such as this. This would allow me to show the summary in one topic and the details in another.

I will publish some more ways in which I used MindManager with these events over the next few days.

Planning a meal with MindManager

2008-05-03T17:12:00.003+01:00

An annual event for the local charity I work with called the Alresford Pigs Association is our progressive or safari supper. This year I offered to do a main course. My speciality is Chinese cooking. Below is the map I used to plan the menu and the shopping. I also used MindManager's built in spreadsheet to see how I was doing against my budget of £42 including drinks. Providing it does not all get drunk I might make it under budget.

p.s. MindManager does not do the cooking.

Phew! They left me with a bottle of wine (very nice French White - Picpoul de Pinet from The Naked Grape) and a beer! Leaving me £3.50 under budget.

Collaborating with MindManager - the next iteration

2008-04-18T11:26:00.005+01:00

I am now able to write about the Beta product from MindManager called Mindjet Connect.

Some of the features:

- Workspaces for different groups of people to share maps
- Simultaneous editing of maps
- Record of who, did what, when.
- Chat
- Whiteboard
- Application Sharing (not just MindManager)

My reactions to it :-

Long overdue - I still have my MindManager 2002 map server which did not take off. This will!
I would recommend the Beta for use by experienced MindManager users to collaborate. You get the rich functionality you are used to.
There are some important questions to be answered before general release.
No pricing information available but I expect to see small groups using it on Mindjet's subscription servers and enterprises buying their own server. ( This is pure speculation on my part).
There are no significant changes to MindManager Pro 7. Mindjet Connect more a host than an add in (but who has, edited what, information, is added to the map).
You get a revision store.

To try it you will need to install a Beta version of MindManager which cannot be concurrent with an existing installation of MindManager 7.

If you would like to share maps and documents with me in the Beta please make contact. It's best if you have a project or collaboration you wish to work with me on.

You may still be able to get Beta account in Mindjet's Early Look Program

There is a longer summary in the MindMapping Software blog - Mindjet debuts beta version of shared workspace tool for MindManager

Using MindManager to build and maintain web sites

2008-04-10T16:08:00.003+01:00

MindManager allows you to quickly create the structure and content of a web site. It does this with a very simple model. The topics are the page titles and topic notes are the page contents. The central topic note is the home page.

MindManager exports the structure and content via a variety of templates. In the example I am going to use it is based on the Static Outline template. Which means the menu on the left hand side always has the page links visible. The template is a set of html templates and macros which construct the web site from the information in the map and the customisation forms you complete during the export. Finally the colours, fonts, backgrounds etc are determined by a CSS stylesheet.

If you are prepared to accept one of the default styles all you may need to do is to replace the default logo with your logo in one of the template folders. It must be the same size and picture format unless you are going to edit HTML in the title template. If you are going to do more serious customisation copy one of the existing template folders to a new folder with your web project name.

The map below is used to create the Auctions in a Day. A hobby I have with a few friends who run a monthly auction in Hampshire. This month I auctioned something for £675, not quite Bonhams or Christies. I have left a couple of clues on the map to additional items I have added to the site structure to improve its visibility and our analysis of the visitors to the site. The Template Table Note notes has a preset table for use in topic notes. These are in floating topics, which do not appear in the web site.

Maintaining a web site once built is important to web site success. In this site after each auction I add photos of some of the lots to the web site. This is made easy by adding the auction's photo folder to the Images Library using the package folder process. I just have to drag and drop this month's lots to the appropriate topic text and a description. A few updates to dates, bolding the next auction and the site is ready to export again and then post to the web. If you set up a web folder you can export directly from MindManager to your web site. I prefer an intermediate step.

MindManager can be used to create viable public web sites which attract or inform customers.

Using MindManager in the writing process

2008-04-04T13:27:00.003+01:00

Tom Evans uses mind mapping and MindManager to assist him in writing books. He is passing these applications of mapping to everyone in his blog particularly in these two articles:

Why authors should use Mind Maps
Structure and releasing ideas
Embedding Personal Timelines in Mind Maps
Looking back and planning forwards

If you do have a book inside you and we all do, then Tom is getting excellent testimonials. Friends who have attended his courses have been very positive.

Mapping & Publishing Management Meetings with MindManager

2008-04-03T15:12:00.002+01:00

Last Friday and Saturday I worked with an associate who was facilitating a management team to produce in internal business development plan for 2008-09. My role was to map and publish the presentations, exercises and discussions. The team of ten was seated at a conference table and I had my production office on a table at the back of the room. I had brought an A3 Canon iX5000 printer, a TC4400 Tablet PC, an extension monitor and MindManager 7 Pro. You can work twice as fast with an extension monitor.

The first map produced was the "Intentions of the Meeting" and the last process was the conversion of the four theme task maps in to one Gantt Chart using JCVGantt with task owners and dates. At the end of each session I printed out a map and posted it on the wall for review and adding comments. During the weekend the maps, plans, photographs, PowerPoint files and Word documents supplied by the attendees were built in to a web site map in MindManager.

I cannot give you details of the content of the weekend but the statistics are:

28 maps produced

A project plan with 57 tasks as a Gantt chart printed on A3, a MS Project Plan and an Excel spreadsheet

15 photographs

Assembled in to a 38 page 15mb web site which displays the maps as images and has links to the 28 maps and 22 other documents.

This web site is now on the companies internal web server and will be used to communicate the content of the meeting to the 350 employees.

Not sure I could have done this without MindManager.

What did I learn during the weekend:

I need to experiment and practice using JCVGantt. Some of my expectations were not met because I did not understand how the "engine" worked with start date, due date and duration. All the task were floating and perhaps I need a start and finish milestone.

Polish and save the two different map styles I created during the weekend, one for the primarily portrait display on the web pages and a landscape style for printing on A3.

That you can do this. The facilitator "I know you have been talking about this for a while Andrew. Now I can see the value and promote it to my clients" and the client "I have never had the output of this sort of meeting in a publishable form the day after" were very pleased with the result.

We are quoting for a further three days for the next level down in the organisation.

Using MindManager as dashboard for SAP

2008-03-26T23:23:00.005Z

I have seen screen shots from Mindjet and been asked if an MindManager dashboard for SAP exists but I have not found much evidence of it on the web. Today an article appeared in Google Alerts:

Extract from a longer article about SAP developments titled:

The Smart Knowledge Worker

IcMAP, a project of SAP INSPIRE – the SAP unit responsible for implementing selected employees’ ideas – complements the investment of SAP Research in lightweight composition. It enables users to compose information from SAP internal and external sources within Mindjet’s mapping tool MindManager. It also provides a sophisticated middleware so that a technical user can, without programming, plug in any Web or enterprise service.

I have emailed the article author to find out more and I have received a PDF outlining the tool. In summary the tool is still a research project and is being used by a restricted number of participants under NDA in test not live situations. Looks like it is wait a bit longer.

Using MindManager to write a script and be the teleprompter (Part 2)

2008-03-23T11:28:00.003Z

The second phase was to convert the script in to keywords or prompts.

I used Insert > Parent Topic to add a dummy topic before each of the script topics. I marked each script topic with an map marker and then started to add keyword or prompt topics. I emphasised the key benefit keywords with a blue backgrounds.

This is the final map.

Then I filtered it with the Power Filter to hide all the script topics. This was the map I used to make the final recording which is viewable below.

The next stage is just to learn the script and not have the prompt. Perhaps I should do shorter videos or do them in scenes and bolt them together afterwards. From a video process viewpoint I will also turn off the autofocus and the auto white balance, and wear a darker shirt.

Using MindManager to write a script and be the teleprompter

2008-03-21T22:29:00.004Z

Today I wrote a script for a short web video about an event I am trying to attract people to. Using MindManager to write the script was a pretty obvious thing to do. I added paragraphs and sentences as topics. Then edited and rearranged them as necessary.

The next part was one of those moments of inspiration. In my first take on the video I had the webcam to one side of the monitor. My eyes obviously wandered over there and it looked rather odd. Then I had the moment of inspiration.

I have just bought a Logitech QuickCam Pro for Notebooks and I am very impressed. Picture quality is excellent. Good enough for weblogs. The auto focus camera tracks you as you move and zooms automatically.

I bought it from Amazon for £44.74. Logitech QuickCam Pro for Laptops

And it comes with a stand for mounting the camera on. This allows me to position the webcam in the middle of the map.

My second trial video was better and you can watch it. It's not the finished product. First it was made using YouTube's Quick Capture. This records your webcam directly to a browser app and then uploads to the YouTube site. It is quick, 2 minutes after you save it is visible on the web but picture quality is low.

My next improvement is to convert the maps to keywords, so I do not spend so much time with my eyes trying to read the script. Second to record using the high quality recorder that comes with the webcam, editing in Windows Movie Maker to add titles and cut off the beginning and the end. You do not need to see me fumbling for the stop button.

Using MindManager to manage your Social Network

2008-03-20T06:15:00.009Z

This is an old rant of mine prompted by a recent posting in the MindMapping Software Blog on A challenge to developers of mind mapping software. One of the links in this post goes back to September 2006.

There are huge opportunities in the area of social networking. Here are some examples from my favourite social network Ecademy.

Whenever I attend an Ecademy meeting I copy and paste the attendees list to a MindManager map. During the meeting I add notes and actions (Topic Alerts are great for this) on my Tablet PC in ink. The following day I ink to text and review the meeting.

That sounds great doesn't it?

But you get a different result depending on whether you cut and paste from Firefox (my preferred browser) or IE (currently producing the best paste result). But the paste is still a mess. I end up with one topic per attendee containing their name, company, membership level, Skype status, & location.

I would like a topic with their name linked to their Ecademy profile plus subtopics for each of the previous items with a filter option not to include country or Skype status for instance.

I can use a two step process: paste to Excel, delete columns, search and replace unwanted text, paste in to MindManager. With the correct add in I could probably get the cells inserted as sub-topics.

Now Ecademy does have a FOAF file which is an XML file listing all your contacts and some other data e.g. how many messages you have exchanged.

You can open this XML file with MindManager and it is readable but includes all the field names as well as the data. With this data you could imply other information and add it to the map. For instance their profile photo and then you would get a map like this:

Can MindManager cope with my 1251 contacts and all their associated data?

How can I keep the map up to date with new contacts and contacts whose data has changed? Possibly 10 per day.

If it could then I would use MindManager to overlay information on my social network. For instance marking up my inner circle, my collaborators, my service providers, the good guys, the bad guys, the people I know I should be talking to expand and strengthen our relationship. See this post in Ecademy about CAN.

MindManager is already the hub of my CRM system. I would like it to be the hub of my SNM system!

p.s. It also needs to do this for Xing, Ning, LinkedIn, FaceBook, and Myspace

Using MindManager to enable others to understand your business

2008-03-19T16:39:00.003Z

One of my services is to produce maps which make understanding a business easy for a client, supplier, partner or investor. Here are a few examples. Click the pictures to see a full size version. Another click will take you to the web site.

First a toolkit from the acting profession for business people to use produced for The Performance Business

The second one describing the place of BetXTech in the betting supply chain.

And thirdly a map describing the process of buying equipment at auction.

I have also prepared maps for directors of one business to use at a presentation to the directors of another business. They took two large maps on A2 sheets one which described the values and aspirations of their business, and the second which should how the two organisations could partner effectively. Which reminds me I must ask if their offer was accepted.

Preparing Quotations with MindManager

2008-03-07T15:05:00.004Z

I use MindManager to write my quotations for Cabre's customer's because its easy to assemble new quotes from old ones and a template.

I took one of my quotations as the basis for a new map. To this I added other useful clauses I had in previous quotes and saved it as a template.

To save it as a template in MindManager 7 Pro -
Tools > Map Templates > Select the folder > Add New Map Template > Rename (If necessary) > Close.

Here is my template:

The price for the session is arbitrary not actual!

To use it to create a quote. Open a New Map using this template. Delete the clauses that are not needed for the quote and edit those that remain. Save as new quotation.

I use a MindManager spreadsheet topic to do the adding up and to show the VAT. For more elaborate quotations you can link to an Excel spreadsheet range and include parts of it where required in the quotation.

My original map was already associated with a Word template which adds branding to the header and has a footer with dates, copyright etc. For all quotations, I include the map in the Word export (close it down to a suitable level first) and it becomes the cover sheet. I often have other maps included in the notes. For larger quotations you can also enable the table of contents. The Word template will determine fonts, margins etc.

Check the document in Word, paginate where necessary and then print to PDF prior to emailing to the client. Office 2007 has a free PDF printer but I have used pdfFactory Pro for many years. In pdfFactory Pro you can secure the document against editing.

Of course this process will also work for any documents you have to produce that repeatedly use the same information.

MindManager Customer Vignettes describe many applications

2008-03-05T23:06:00.003Z

The Mindjet Customer Vignettes gives 52 customer stories of how they have used MindManager.

Here are few examples of what MindManager users say they are using it for:

sales and marketing strategy,
to outline Web content and functionality,
project planning,
podcast preparation,
the Getting Things Done process for task management,
mapping consultancy/client relationships.

If you have a few minutes it is worth a look.

What are your favorite applications of Mind Mapping software and why?

2008-03-03T10:54:00.005Z

I recently posed this question to my friends and to the general membership on LinkedIn.

A friend replied:

I use MindManager for the following:

1) Project management planning: I create templates for projects that are re-usable, this means I save time on subsequent projects. I also like the fact that an incredibly complex project can be managed from one dashboard. With the ability to link every conceivable form of document and media in one source I don't know how I could plan and manage projects without MM.

2) Client workshops and problem discovery sessions: Clients find MM a great tool when I use it for workshops as it helps us brainstorm but always in a focused framework, it also means that nothing gets lost. I always record brainstorming sessions with a dictaphone and attach the audio file to the MM file for a complete record of the session.

3) Website design & planning: I now run 3 websites so it really helps to design, plan and administer my sites using MM as I can store all my images, pages, content and updates in one place.

4) Presentation planning: MM is fantastic for designing a presentation as you can create a basic template and then build out from that based on the specific requirements. I find it provides a more creative medium than just relying on powerpoint templates. I frequently save time by just using MM as the presentation tool, clients appear to prefer it to Powerpoint etc.

5) Knowledge management: Part of our core service is providing detailed audits and reports to clients. One of the deliverables we now provide is a MM of all the findings. It provides a much richer and simpler way of navigating through all of our results as opposed to a bland, one-dimensional Word document or printed report.

This is from Dylan Jones at IQ Solutions Online and his recently launched Data Migration Pro a global professional community.

You can see other answers at LinkedIn at What are your favourite applications of Mind Mapping software and why?

Mapping and rapidly publishing to the Internet is one of MindManager's strengths.

2008-02-29T20:51:00.006Z

Last Thursday I attended Ecademy's 10th Birthday Party at the Selfridge Hotel. The centre piece of the event was speeches by two of the founders of Ecademy, Thomas and Penny Power. I mapped both speeches in ink on my Tablet PC (an HP TC4400). Penny's speech in ink is shown below.

This type of map is not a verbatim record of the speech but a key word reminder of what was said. Much like Tony Buzan described 30 years ago in his mind mapping book "Use Your Head".

Those who attended will be able to jog their memory.
Those not present may see something of interest and contact the speaker or an attendee.
The speaker gets feedback from one member of the audience about what they heard.

And the finished map as blogged on Ecademy. You can click it.

There are two drawbacks to using MindManager to create clickable image maps. First Google is not indexing pictures by what you can see (quite a lot of text in this case) and MindManager uses the URLs for the alt text on the links not the topic text (which could be found by Google).

To make this map visible I really have to add the text outline below. Not very pretty but makes the point about the value of mind maps versus lists rather well.

1. Has a Leap Year Birthday

2. It's a team

2.1 But a special mention for Glenn Watkins

See related topics and documents

http://www.ecademy.com/account.php?id=2

3. Committed to this world

4. My journey

4.1 Not a physiotherapist

4.2 Telesales course in a Monmouth

See related topics and documents

http://www.monmouth.org.uk/Home/Default.aspx

4.3 Call to customer with cold

4.3.1 Sent them a packet of Ttunes

4.3.2 Got unexpected contract (the biggest that month)

4.4 Selling is about the relationship

5. Ecademy has a heart

6. Back 10 years

See related topics and documents

http://asia.ecademy.com/node.php?id=98380

6.1 3 x 0 to 5 year children

6.2 Pizza Express

See related topics and documents

http://www.pizzaexpress.com/find-a-restaurant/restaurant/771/?pc=farnham

6.3 Filled up with Lone Entrepreneurs

6.4 Sucked into the e-commerce Bubble

6.4.1 Valued at £22m

6.4.2 But

6.4.3 We could not sell out on our community

6.5 But then struggle to survive

6.5.1 Back to day job

9-6

7. Captain Plum

See related topics and documents

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/p/parachute.htm

7.1 Went to Vietnam

7.2 Then built a Big Business

7.3 One day in a restaurant he was served by

7.4 His parachute packer

8. Community

8.1 Support

8.2 Testimonial

See related topics and documents

http://www.ecademy.com/module.php?mod=guestbook&id=1001

8.3 Credibility

8.4 Recognition

9. Acceleration is good

9.1 But slow development is best

10. Ecademy is Organic

10.1 Much happens by Osmosis

11. Business Evolution

11.1 Growth by Collaboration

11.2 Candle

11.2.1 Flame

Where you need to be

11.2.2 Wax

What you need to burn brightly

12. Team

12.1 Julian Bond

See related topics and documents

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12.1.1 Web Site

12.2 Lesley Morrisey

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12.2.1 Support

12.3 William Buist

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12.3.1 BlackStar

12.3.2 Membership

12.4 Sophia Watkins

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12.4.1 London Meetings & Administration

12.5 Kate Power

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12.6 Jude Germain

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12.7 Jamie Roy

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12.8 Christine Clacey

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13. Thomas Power Early Meetings

13.1 Pasta Suppers

13.2 Wine Bar

14. Advocacy

14.1 Dave Clark NRG

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14.1.1 Advocating others

14.1.2 Brings you advocates

15. Institute of Networking

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15.1 Our objective

15.2 Chartered

16. Touch the keyboard

16.1 Power of Ecademy

16.2 Whispers

17. Me

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17.1 I am not the Entrepreneur

17.2 I have a purpose

17.3 Thanks to

17.3.1 Parents

17.3.2 Thomas

17.3.3 Children

17.3.4 The Team