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A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods

An amazing overview of Visualization Methods. Check it out. 

Concept map vs mind map

Concept map - Wiki:  Concept maps have their origin in the learning movement called constructivism. In particular, constructivists hold that prior knowledge is used as a framework for understanding and learning new knowledge.
Concept mapping can be contrasted with the similar idea of idea mapping.
The latter is often restricted to radial hierarchies and tree structures. Among the various schema and techniques for visualizing ideas, processes, organisations, concept mapping, as developed by Novak is unique in philosophical basis, which "makes concepts, and propositions composed of concepts, the central elements in the structure of knowledge and construction of meaning."

Mindmapping exploited

 Accelerating Your Human Potential ... That is what IQ Matrix tries to achieve by delivering large mindmaps. Adam Sicinski developed a very creative format and a pretty smart businessmodel came with it.

Online Visualization and Organization Tools

A nice survey of available tools in several categories of application

 

Online Visualization and Organization Tools

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The Secret - Planet Earth HD

You know THE SECRET? If you don't you have to spend some bucks on the book or the movie because you have to know the essence of the secret, which is not a secret at all but very helpful to bring you the sense and inspiration that will be rewarded by fulfillment.
So far so good. BUT: I have a sincere objection against the good feeling gift that comes with the secret: The wonderful Planet earth movie that's also released on Youtube. If you study my earlier blogs you will understand that pure beauty is only half the message about earth these days. Specially believers of the secret should become aware of the other half. Please find out what that is ... HERE.

Video Excerpt

Okay, I agree: I was already interested because the book "Drive" is written by Daniel Pink (also author of A whole new mind). But it was the video that pushed me to the BUY button. Well done by Amazon.com.  Watch here a Video Excerpt from Drive.

To serve you: Drive is about two questions that can change your live:

A. What is your sentence? (the statement about you that you sincerely want to become true)

B. Did you do better today than yesterday? (Are you still open for improvement?)

That's not rocking science but for sure as true as the fact that we often forget to live by that truth. 

Scribbles: Incredibly easy to use

Scribbles by atebits (also known from Tweetie for Mac and I-Phone) is a drawing application with minimized functionality resulting in the justified claim: "Scribbles is a drawing tool for everyone. Whether you want to sketch a cartoon, draw a birthday card or jot down some design ideas, Scribbles can help bring your imagination to life".

Best Online Collaboration Tools

Great example of mindmap use for datacollection. Best Online Collaboration Tools 2009 - Robin Good's Collaborative Map - MindMeister Mind Map. Data offer a lot of links to state of the art webbased tools.

Good thinking

Some outstanding thoughts of Jerry Manas, the author of Managing the Gray Areas: 

"Black-and-white thinking is an ineffective approach that leaders tend to rely on in their efforts to grasp a complex situation. It's a natural defense mechanism, but it often guides us down the wrong path. There are three ways we can avoid this trap."