Valerie Alba (aka VLA – Super V.A.) is a Virtual Assistant and guest blogger. Each Tuesday she will provide tools, tips, and tricks direct from her life-saving “utility belt”.
Episode 11: Mind Mapping – Your Map to Success
While a treasure map is a map that marks the location of buried treasure, a valuable secret or a hidden locale, a mind map is a map that will lead you to treasured success!
Mind maps are by definition, a graphical method of taking notes. A mind map is often created around a single word or text, placed in the center, to which associated ideas, words and concepts are added.
Mind maps have many applications in personal, family, educational, and business situations, including note taking, brainstorming (ideas are inserted into the map radially around the center node, without prioritization, hierarchy or sequential arrangements, and grouping and organizing is done in later stages), summarizing, revising, and general clarifying of thoughts.
Mind maps can be used for:
- problem solving
- collaboration
- project planning
- memorizing
- team building
- visual outlining
Mindmaps can be drawn by hand as “rough notes” and/or produced on the computer. Once you distill the information and organize it you can communicate it by exporting the information to Word, PowerPoint, Excel or Outlook to convey the completed thoughts and ideas.
I am currently using Xmind (a free, easy to use basic open-source program) to map out my idea for an interactive adventure & entertainment mall.
Discover a new world with mind mapping.
Check out http://mindmappingsoftwareblog.com for more information on mind mapping and mind mapping software options.
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Source: http://en.wikipedia.org
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Mindmeister is a very cool online mind-mapping shareable tool. Great for initial project planning and brainstorming.
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