MindManager map of the Twitter and Related World

This is an example of how MindManager can be used to quickly aggregate knowledge for sharing with others. I started the map at 9:38 this morning and the first version was on the web at 10:46, it was in the Ecademy twitter Club at 10:54 and I Tweeted it at 10:55.

Click for the full screen view. Click the map to go the web page indicated.

For those wondering what this is all about. Twitter is web application which allows you to publish 140 character messages to the web. Sort of SMS on the web but rather than one to one it's one to many. You follow other peoples Tweets and they follow yours. Click my Twitter link to see what I mean.

What you Tweet about is up to you. It can be social, it can be business, it can be a mix. You can have multiple accounts with different purposes. The search tools above allow you to find people with similar interests and start a conversation. Of course if you publish frequently about your niche knowledge, service or product. You may be found. See what Mark Shaw is doing with respect to ebooks.

My thanks to the members of the Ecademy Twitter club for providing all these references in their threads.

The map above is self explanatory. What follows is for Google to find and was created by exporting the map to Word and removing the links because I want you to interact with the ones in the map :)

CCabre's Birdworld

1 Twitter

= 140 character messages to the world

1.1 Bird Feeders - Ecademy Twitter Club

1.2 Blog Baths - GottaBeMobile

1.3 twhirl a twitter client

= Managing your twitter

1.4 Twitter4Skype

= So you can call or chat with a Twit about their Tweet with one click

1.5 The Twitter Club

= Share twitter know how

12 Ways Twitter Can Improve Your Efficiency

10 to Follow

Ecademy club posts & comments to Twitter

1.6 Summize Conversational Search

MindManager

1.7 Real-time Twitter Search Tweet Scan

Ecademy

2 Wakoopa

2.1 Ecademy Team

3 Flock

3.1 The Social Web Browser

4 FriendFeed

4.1 Aggregate all your friends guano

5 Twits

ajwilcox, thomaspower, markshaw, clarocada, hensel, mgpoole, simon_morice

Using MindManager to track the promotion and the results for an event

On Tuesday 22 April, I facilitated my first Open Space Technology event. It was attended by 29 people from Ecademy and their theme was "How can we work better together so that we all get more from Ecademy?". The event was the result of three months of discussion between principally four people. Most of our discussion was on-line using Skype chat and conference calls, and using the Ecademy forums. Two of the people I have never met face to face. One of them attended the event. Apart from the obvious note taking during these on-line meetings, one of the uses for MindManager was to track the promotion of the event and results of that activity.

Use 1 - Monitoring Progress

Initially we had two dates and the map tracked those registering, those who said no or maybe and those that had paid, each linked to their Ecademy profile. I had a MindManager spreadsheet (not Excel range) in the map which noted how these numbers changed on a daily basis. It also showed the home page views for our host Ecademy club for the event.

Each promotional activity was tracked by linking to all the blogs and adverts for the event. Click the image below and you will see the map I shared on line with my colleagues. Each topic with an Ecademy icon clicks through to a page on the Ecademy web site,



Some things I learnt I would like to share with you.

- The MindManager spreadsheet does not work beyond column Z. Mindjet are aware and will fix this.
- Regardless of the bug next time I would use an Excel range for a large spreadsheet such as this. This would allow me to show the summary in one topic and the details in another.

I will publish some more ways in which I used MindManager with these events over the next few days.

Using MindManager to write a script and be the teleprompter (Part 2)

The second phase was to convert the script in to keywords or prompts.

I used Insert > Parent Topic to add a dummy topic before each of the script topics. I marked each script topic with an map marker and then started to add keyword or prompt topics. I emphasised the key benefit keywords with a blue backgrounds.

This is the final map.



Then I filtered it with the Power Filter to hide all the script topics. This was the map I used to make the final recording which is viewable below.

The next stage is just to learn the script and not have the prompt. Perhaps I should do shorter videos or do them in scenes and bolt them together afterwards. From a video process viewpoint I will also turn off the autofocus and the auto white balance, and wear a darker shirt.

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

9-6

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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