Comments on: Do You Mindmap In Public?

By: Andrew Wilcox

Andrew Wilcox — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:06:03 +0000

I think that will happen after yesterday but in general no.

This presentation will get 1 in 10 attendees to start mind mapping or use mind mapping software.

http://www.cabre.co.uk/presentations/mind_mapping_for_business/index.html

By: Arjen

Arjen — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:48:53 +0000

Hi Andrew,

It is great to hear from you and learn about your successful mind mapping usage. I also have people who ask me to create their mindmaps for them.

Are other people also starting to use mindmaps after they saw you make them?

By: Andrew Wilcox

Andrew Wilcox — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:37:04 +0000

All the time with my Tablet PC using MindManager in Ink mode. I have done more than a thousand this way since MindManager 2002 Ink was released.

Yesterday evening was my monthly Entrepreneurs World meeting and I mapped an after dinner speaker talking about his political and business life (I am hoping to get a cartoonist to add some cartoons of politicians to my map).

The result: half a dozen conversations about mind mapping and software. Ranging from I lost a quote because someone else presented the client with a mind map (commercial insurance) to using MindManager and SharePoint for dashboards to please can I have a license and some training. One of my potentially more successful evenings commercially.

Nearly all the mind maps on ConferenceREACTION were created in public, in ink on a Tablet PC with MindManager, converted to text and exported to the web. I have been doing this for years and sometimes people even pay me to do it!

http://www.conferencereaction.co.uk

By: Arjen

Arjen — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 09:22:43 +0000

Hi Peter,
Perhaps the evil serpent could be that you don’t call them mndmaps and you just let the vicar break the sermon up into keywords that show the direction of the sermon for her. When she creates these words and some are not clear, you create second level keywords or images (preferable words – in my opinion). This way she is not learning & using a new technique but simply writing in short keyword notes her own thoughts.

Let me know if this helps!

By: peterr1946

peterr1946 — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:48:58 +0000

I use mindmaps (MindGenius 3) for creating sermon notes and then preaching from them. Most people have never seen mindmaps before and can’t understand how they work and even less how anyone could speak from them. (Sermon notes, when not written out in full, traditionally come in list form). On the other hand, they are all in their seventies and for most of them, computers are confusing enough, let alone notes that don’t go from top to bottom in black and white.
By contrast, our vicar is slowly beginning to be tempted into thinking she might try them. But she’s taking far longer to try mindmaps than Eve ever was to try the apple. Perhaps I need lessons in temptation. Anyone seen the evil serpent lately?

By: Arjen

Arjen — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:27:30 +0000

Hi Matthew,

So true. Sometimes I think that it is fear of the unknown. Many people want to see, hear, experience and have more. But when it comes to it… they want to leave things the way they are, most of the time. Just as long as they know we are here to assist them when they do want to start mind mapping.

By: Matthew Lang

Matthew Lang — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:20:39 +0000

I’ve limited success in getting interest from people when mind mapping in public. A few people have seen my mind map and have enquired as to the benefits of it.

The rest simply look at it, and then don’t ask. It’s hard to pinpoint their reasons for not asking. Some might be ignorant, some might be dismissal of my ‘doodling’.

But there might be another reason. Perhaps it’s those that don’t ask that are afraid.