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

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.

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1. Has a Leap Year Birthday

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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

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3. Committed to this world

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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

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5. Ecademy has a heart

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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

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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

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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

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9. Acceleration is good

9.1 But slow development is best

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10. Ecademy is Organic

10.1 Much happens by Osmosis

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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

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12. Team

12.1 Julian Bond

See related topics and documents

http://www.ecademy.com/account.php?id=1

12.1.1 Web Site

12.2 Lesley Morrisey

See related topics and documents

http://www.ecademy.com/account.php?id=37944

12.2.1 Support

12.3 William Buist

See related topics and documents

http://www.ecademy.com/account.php?id=37979

12.3.1 BlackStar

12.3.2 Membership

12.4 Sophia Watkins

See related topics and documents

http://www.ecademy.com/account.php?id=19308

12.4.1 London Meetings & Administration

12.5 Kate Power

See related topics and documents

http://www.ecademy.com/account.php?id=22057

12.6 Jude Germain

See related topics and documents

http://www.ecademy.com/account.php?id=78129

12.7 Jamie Roy

See related topics and documents

http://www.ecademy.com/account.php?id=229497

12.8 Christine Clacey

See related topics and documents

http://www.ecademy.com/account.php?id=30245

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13. Thomas Power Early Meetings

13.1 Pasta Suppers

13.2 Wine Bar

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14. Advocacy

14.1 Dave Clark NRG

See related topics and documents

http://www.ecademy.com/account.php?id=42737

14.1.1 Advocating others

14.1.2 Brings you advocates

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15. Institute of Networking

See related topics and documents

http://www.ecademy.com/instituteofnetworking.php

15.1 Our objective

15.2 Chartered

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16. Touch the keyboard

16.1 Power of Ecademy

16.2 Whispers

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17. Me

See related topics and documents

http://www.ecademy.com/account.php?id=1001

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

Who uses MindManager and for what? An FAQ!

At my recent courses attendees and their applications have included:

• Someone studying for an acupuncturist qualification who wanted to use MindManager to assist with the studying and writing required during the course.
  
  
• An environmental management department leader in an international networking company who wanted to explain the strategy and requirements, manage projects, their team and the complexity of the legislation.
  

• An interim manager who wanted to use MindManager to rapidly understand the next business he was contracted to.
  
  
• The managing director of an engineering company for business strategy and planning.

• A trainer for course planning and delivery
  
  
• An accountant and his administrator for managing their business.
  
  
• A channel development manager for a CAD system who wanted to use it for presentations and meetings.

A Hare Krishna monk, the non-executive director of a web site development company, the director of a food import business, consultants, writers, researchers and project managers they have all found great ways to apply MindManager.

Please comment and add how you apply MindManager or any examples you have seen.

Applying MindManager to the Medical World

I found this web site today Pathologymindmap.com created by Hooman H. Rashidi, MD. Which uses MindManager maps to map Surgical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. See this example about Small Round Blue Cell Tumors.

Using MindManager to commentate and play music at a cricket festival

For the last six August Bank Holiday Mondays I have used MindManager to assist me with the commentary and play the team's anthems etc. at the Cheriton Sixes Cricket Competition. How does MindManager get involved? I have my Tablet PC connected to the PA and several maps which link together to provide a virtual jukebox / mixing desk.

One click on the right place in the right the map, and the crowd and players, hear "It's All right Now" or a duck quack (for those out for nought) or perhaps a snippet of Geoff Boycott's comments (someone's alias in 2006 was Jeff Boycott).

My top level map has the opening anthem "Fanfare for the Common Man" played by ELP and then links to the team maps and various song and sound effects maps.

The (eight) team map is colour coded to match the team strips. For each game, I open that team's branch and hopefully I have a numbered list of cricketer's names whose shirt numbers match the list. I can make notes against the names for the various prizes or identification. One click on the teams hyperlinked tune sounds their anthem out of the speakers. So a good dismissal or a six is quickly rewarded with a blast of "Wild Thing" or similar.

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The MindManager icon in the centre of the map links back to the parent which links to the sound effects map and a map with all the tunes I am likely to use e.g "Here comes the sun" or "Here comes the rain again"

Secondly I have taken the organiser's Word document, tidied up the styles and imported it into MindManager.

Then by arranging the map and notes pane suitably, I have immediate access to relevant parts of the rules. Breaking up all the paragraphs in to sentences helped readability. A click on any of the rules topics brings up the relevant sentences in the notes pane.

Easier than handling pieces of paper when under a blustery gazebo at the edge of the boundary

The screen grab has been resized to 600 pixels wide and does not reflect the quality of the actual screen.

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I also use MindManager to build a web site providing a record of the events - Cheriton Sixes 2006 & 2007.