Everday CIO » Web 2.0 http://www.everydaycio.com How do you take this ever changing world of technology and apply it pratically to your everyday life to truly improve it and empower yourself and others? Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:56:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Add Mind Mapping to your Technology Tool Kit http://www.everydaycio.com/add-mind-mapping-to-your-technology-tool-kit/ http://www.everydaycio.com/add-mind-mapping-to-your-technology-tool-kit/#comments Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:25:35 +0000 ianrudy http://www.everydaycio.com/?p=128 I was catching up the Twittersphere while watching my Tour de France DVR recordings and I picked up a great link to a website called Hypershifters which discusses visualization mapping for business and specifically technology.

Mind Mapping is a tool I added to my arsenal a few years ago and I can’t live without it now. For organizing concepts and ideas quickly in a visual way goes a long way at being able to organize and dissect a complex idea or to spur creative thought. I’ve used it to organize the hierarchy of SharePoint installations by breaking down farm configurations, site collection architecture, and demonstrate content publishing paths, and for figuring out the site hierarchy of a web site for a client. I started years ago using a product from MindJet called Mind Manager, but have recently messed around with MindMeister and Xmind because of the on-line collaborative component. The next best thing to mind mapping is collaborating with someone else on the mind map! MindJet also has an on-line offering, but they didn’t offer one at the time. I have settled on Xmind because of the functionality of being able to incorporate multiple ideas in one map, the ability to have a desktop version, and the collaboration aspect.

Have you given mind mapping a try? What was your experience? If you’ve tried it what tool do you recommend?

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