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".
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.
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.
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.
1. Has a Leap Year Birthday
2. It's a team
2.1 But a special mention for Glenn Watkins3. Committed to this world
4. My journey
4.1 Not a physiotherapist
4.2 Telesales course in a Monmouth4.3 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
5. Ecademy has a heart
6. Back 10 years
6.1 3 x 0 to 5 year children
6.2 Pizza Express
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
9-6
7. Captain Plum
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
8. Community
8.1 Support
8.2 Testimonial
8.3 Credibility
8.4 Recognition
9. Acceleration is good
9.1 But slow development is best
10. Ecademy is Organic
10.1 Much happens by Osmosis
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
12. Team
12.1 Julian Bond
12.1.1 Web Site
12.2 Lesley Morrisey
12.2.1 Support
12.3 William Buist
12.3.1 BlackStar
12.3.2 Membership
12.4 Sophia Watkins
12.4.1 London Meetings & Administration
12.5 Kate Power
12.6 Jude Germain
12.7 Jamie Roy
12.8 Christine Clacey
13. Thomas Power Early Meetings
13.1 Pasta Suppers
13.2 Wine Bar
14. Advocacy
14.1 Dave Clark NRG
14.1.1 Advocating others
14.1.2 Brings you advocates
15. Institute of Networking
15.1 Our objective
15.2 Chartered
16. Touch the keyboard
16.1 Power of Ecademy
16.2 Whispers
17. Me
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
Labels: Ecademy, event, meeting, mindmanager, tablet pc
posted by Andrew Wilcox @ 20:51
3 Comments:
At 17 March 2008 at 13:11 ,
Unknown said...
I'm trying to figure out a good way to use Mindjet for web site design in the way of wireframes and mockups. So I was thinking that I could use it in the typical sense by creating a sitemap and then from the sitemap, drill deeper by creating a wireframe and then screen mockups and attaching the images.
Is there a better way that anyone can think of? Or are there any templates that anyone is aware of that might help here? Love this tool and I just want to use it as much as I can where it will help.
At 17 March 2008 at 14:21 ,
Andrew Wilcox said...
Marian
I think this is a very constructive way of using MindManager and I know of other people apart from me who do this.
For one site I just sketched the web site using MindManager in ink mode on my Tablet PC. As you suggest I constructed the site map as main topics and sub topics. Then I sketched in the notes what I felt was needed on each page. I gradually converted these to text and image pages. You can get into ink mode with Vista and a graphics tablet without using a Tablet PC.
When adding screen image mock ups to the notes, do these as linked image files. It is an option when you insert an image. When you modify the image in your drawing package and save it this will be refreshed in the map either automatically when you open it or manually by pressing F5 with that topic selected or shift F5 to refresh the whole map.
You can also add folders of existing images to the MindManager library. See this tip.
http://www.cabre.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,21.0.html
With respect to templates you might wish to copy and modify one of the web export templates so that it suits your purpose. You might wish to have just an image in the header which you are editing using other tools.
At 20 March 2008 at 07:51 ,
Steve Rothwell said...
Andrew
Useful tips here on making html maps searchable - or at least the page into whichthey are embedded.
Regarding the problem/option to expoert hyperlinks with the Alt text rather than the URL, have you looked at the MM web template file by any chance? Is there anything in there that could be edited do you know?
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