Have you heard about mind mapping, but are not sure whether you should spend your time looking deeper? Are you looking for a trustworthy and reliable explanation? To keep mind mapping simple, we will look at the three things that it does best out of the hundreds of potential uses. These are not just marketing slogans but are the experience of thousands of mind mappers. Three things mind mapping does for you These three elements…
Mindomo has powerful features for communications and collaboration. It provides a way to keep information about a project in one place where everyone can access it. But there is much more to collaborative mind mapping than technology. Many collaboration tools and even unified communications solutions focus on features and forget that collaboration is about real people. In Nesbit and Adesope’s 2006 paper on the effectiveness of visualization in learning, they make some interesting observations: While…
The terms “Spider Diagram” and “Mind Map” are used interchangeably. But are they the same thing? If not, how do they differ? And do the differences really matter? In this article, we’ll discover that a Mind Map is a special type of Spider Diagram. The differences between them are small. The more important question is why you would use visual tools to organize concepts and ideas. We’ll try to explain the differences between visual diagrams…
There are dozens of books and hundreds of online articles that explain what mind mapping is and how to do it. So many, in fact, that there hardly seems to be room for another one. All of these explanations follow the same path. First, the question “What is mind mapping?” is interpreted as “What is a mind map?” Then there is an explanation of what a mind map is, some examples, and advice on how…
Before mind mapping software was available, there were “rules” about how to design Mind Maps for studying and memorization. The rules included using only one word per branch and using plenty of color and images. Mind map software is now used in a wide range of settings for an even wider range of purposes. Project management, working collaboratively, and writing business plans or a marketing strategy are well beyond the original design concepts. There are…