Paige Jackson
Paige has spent 10 of the last 15 years working from home. Her love of home-based businesses shows in her writing - whether it's articles, e-books, or books. Paige wants to help others grow their home-based businesses and avoid making the same costly mistakes she made. She hosts several blogs on a variety of topics including working at home, travel, and books/writing as well writing articles for the Create 2 Sell website. Paige authored the "From Suits To Sweats" series of books detailing how to start or grow your home business. You can find her e-books on Clickbank, at the Suits2Sweats e-book store, and on Amazon. You can purchase a hard copy of her books at Amazon starting mid-February, 2009.
A Study of Mind Mapping
- By Paige Jackson
- Published 04/21/2007
After years of personal and professional friends alike touting the wonders of mind mapping, I have finally caved in and have decided to try it for myself. My first step, of course, was finding out what mind mapping really was. So I went to Wikipedia (I do that quite a bit) and here is what I found:
A mind map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks or other items linked to and arranged radially around a central key word or idea. It is used to generate, visualize, structure and classify ideas, and as an aid in study, organization, problem solving, and decision making.
It is an image-centered diagram that represents semantic or other connections between portions of information. By presenting these connections in a radial, non-linear graphical manner, it encourages a brainstorming approach to any given organizational task, eliminating the hurdle of initially establishing an intrinsically appropriate or relevant conceptual framework to work within.
A mind map is similar to a semantic network or cognitive map but there are no formal restrictions on the kinds of links used. The elements are arranged intuitively according to the importance of the concepts and they are organized into groupings, branches, or areas. The uniform graphic formulation of the semantic structure of information on the method of gathering knowledge, may aid recall of existing memories.
Okay! Now that that is clear as mud it is time to go download some open source software. I am off to download FreeMind and will let you know in a week or so if I am a new mind mapping convert - map on!
A mind map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks or other items linked to and arranged radially around a central key word or idea. It is used to generate, visualize, structure and classify ideas, and as an aid in study, organization, problem solving, and decision making.
It is an image-centered diagram that represents semantic or other connections between portions of information. By presenting these connections in a radial, non-linear graphical manner, it encourages a brainstorming approach to any given organizational task, eliminating the hurdle of initially establishing an intrinsically appropriate or relevant conceptual framework to work within.
A mind map is similar to a semantic network or cognitive map but there are no formal restrictions on the kinds of links used. The elements are arranged intuitively according to the importance of the concepts and they are organized into groupings, branches, or areas. The uniform graphic formulation of the semantic structure of information on the method of gathering knowledge, may aid recall of existing memories.
Okay! Now that that is clear as mud it is time to go download some open source software. I am off to download FreeMind and will let you know in a week or so if I am a new mind mapping convert - map on!
