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What has our attention right now?

Mind-Mapping

From Mashable’s list of 30 Mind Mapping tools, we are looking at:

Mind42 Bubbl.us ConceptDraw

Intros to Mind Mapping recommended by Twitterers:

@mochant: Innovation Tools
@zemote: Wikipedia entry on Mind Mapping
@lilyhill: try http://tinyurl.com/bgtcv also has vid with Tony Buzan (godfather of mindmapping)
@kellyburrus: go to the source–How to Think Like DaVinci.

Open Social

http://blog.dogster.com/2007/11/01/10-reasons-why-open-social-will-be-very-beneficial/

To get yourself up-to-speed quickly on this very new reality, read entries on OpenSocial by Marc Andreessen, Dave McClure and Anil Dash.

Jeremiah: Explaining Open Social to Your Executives

Compassion, Caring, Charity

http://sea-fever.org/2007/11/13/rocking-the-boat-changes-kids-lives/

http://www.alexshalman.com/blog/2007/10/11/caring-compassion-charity/

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November 13, 2007 at 12:40 pm

Jason Jarrett

Just my view but I think mind mapping works best with paper and coloured pens/pencils because of the action of creating the images by hand creates a stronger link in your mind.
I’m not saying software doesn’t work, it certainly helps to distribute it but I think Tony Buzan’s approach really does work best. Just my thoughts.

November 14, 2007 at 6:29 pm

Neil Ford

I have one of Buzan’s books, just never seem to have the time to read it properly (like a lot of other books!).

Like a lot of these things, specifically GTD, etc., I to think starting on paper is the way to go, moving on to software solutions later if appropriate.

BTW - cool to see you here too Jason :)
- Neil.

November 23, 2007 at 3:23 pm

Troy Turner

“diff’rent strokes” as they say, on account of how differently different people think… My eraser doesn’t do as well erasing colored pencil branches off of the notebook paper when I want to move them to a different part of my map as my delete key & drag-n-drop capabilities in the software.