Here, on the Visual Thesaurus web site you can find an interesting application of mind mapping. From what I saw, you can use a trail to test it. I just did and it works)))
Maybe, in future time, all vocabularies will be presented as such map with usable search engine.

Here Hendry Lee introduces readers to some tools to help them in their blogging endeavors.
He describes some characteristic properties of such activity as blogging. And then he talks about tools, which support one or more basic activities blogging consist of.
I tried to categorize these tools into more general categories.
So, in blogging for you can be useful:
1. Internet Browser
2. Blog editor. You can use special editor for your type of blog engine, or you can prefer general WISIWIG editor.
3. News aggregator for reading RSS and so on.
4. Special program for capturing text, images instead of standard image editor, for example.
5. Image editing software
6. One of the personal organizers to store your ideas, to-dos, resources, links and so on.
7. Communicate tool.

Earlier, in "Help yourself in learning foreign language. Use mind maps."  we discussed using mind maps for learning foreign languages.
Here I attached an example for this theme. It is a mind map considered to English verbs for Russians. However, it could be useful for English-speaking people also.

Review of “Power Tips&Strategies for Mind Mapping Software” e-book.

E-book: Power Tips&Strategies for Mind Mapping Software.

E-book home page: http://www.mindmap-ebook.com/index2.asp

Purchase fee: $29,95

Author: Chuck Frey

Author background: Chuck is running very interesting and informative resource about various innovation

techniques, such as mind mapping.

Chuck Frey, author of “Power Tips&Strategies for Mind Mapping Software” provided us with opportunity to review his new e-book.

In short: it is very interesting reading as you will learn much more about using mind mapping for your daily business and personal tasks.

What do we like about this e-book:

1. All information is structured in most useful way: short introduction + some most important ideas + some samples + some related links.

2. It covers not just mind mapping technique, but it’s applications to various problems.

3. You will find real-life tips and tricks regarding mind maps. Many tips were suggested by mind mapping professionals.

What we were missing: A good comparative review of various mind mapping software. There are a lot of tools for mind mapping such as Mind Jet or our Mind Pad, but readers of this e-book will be familiar mostly with Mind Jet. The good news are that Chuck is now working on this review and suggesting it to e-book readers as “free bonus report”. This comparative report is now covering 13 of the most popular mind mapping tools.

Our conclusion: those who are at mind mapping business know that this technique is very effective, but most people don’t use it’s power. We think that 29,95$ investment in this book would help your increase your productivity greatly.

Find in Jim Berkowitz’s e-Journal quotation about sales force equipped with order-processing software. It’s a common practice to supply sales force with contact management tools, but Beaulieu (Carpet company, Beaulieu Group) didn’t want that “We know who our customers are and really have no need for contact management”.

 

Good experience about necessity of integrating contact management with some other business tools. Our studies shows that most businesses don’t looking for any advanced contact management functionality, but for linking some customer related data with it’s contact information. Our response is making contact information visual in a contact map.

 

It’s something about one of the “real thing” that people feel comfortable with. As mind mapping is a natural approach to note-taking, contact map is a natural approach to linking various contact information with related data.

 

Looking for blogs about mind mapping!

Our blog is running now and we are going to fill it with interesting articles about mind mapping (such as using mind mapping to support blogs. But we also wish to find and comment some other great blogs about mind mapping.

Google might help in this case as it has a blog search function. Searching google for "mind map" blog gave some really interest results. 

If you know about good blog about mind mapping (or related) or you are an author, then please, comment this post.

Thank you!

Do you want your blog to be really popular? Does blogging help you in your professional life? If it is so, you need to create an interesting relevent blog. Mind mapping can support your blogging.

By Jane Smorodnikova, www.mind-pad.com

What is the problem?

Blogging is the way to express yourself in a different way. You may write blog as a professional, as yourself, as the ultimate tool for personal embarrassment. Everyone has different personas they put on for life's multiple milieus. We will talk about those people, who want their personal or professional blog to be really popular.

And if you want your blog to be more interesting than others, you need to write in a regular manner. Every entry of your blog should be substantial and interesting. What are the main characteristics of a good blog? You entries should have main idea, facts, arguments and proof.

So, why is it difficult? You will find too main problems with writing an outstanding blog: quantity and quality. And it means that you must post something relevant. And you must keep posting even if you have a fear of the blank page.

Today many popular bloggers talk about this fear. They are afraid of writing something not such interesting as before, they have problems with ideas and arguments. It means, that there is a problem and you should find a way to solve it.

Possible solutions

So, what you can do with all this stuff? We see some different ways. First of all, to continue without changes and, possibly, without results you can just work harder to make your blog better. On the other hand, to conceal yourself from this problem you can pay somebody to write your blog. But all these ways are do not solve the problem, aren’t they? The only way to solve it yourself is to increase your own efficiency. You can do it using mind maps. What is this?

Mind map is a visual tool for capturing and organizing ideas and information. Mind maps visualizes your thoughts, organizes them, and puts them in context.  It is the perfect catalyst for writing a successful blog post.

What is the difference? You can view your posting as a picture, map or text, in different ways. So you will be the first, who will appreciate your posting at its true value. It is the "See what you think" solution. Further you can examine how it works.

The technique

So, what you should do?

1. Capture.

Start with your blog topic in the center of your map.

See what’s out there. Blogging is two-way communication and in order to say something relevant, you ought to listen first! So, browse through existing blogs, scan ideas and thoughts, and import relevant content in your map (quick summaries, RSS feeds, images, hyperlinks, trackbacks).

2. Organize

Now make connections and identify trends and potential opportunities for new ideas. Create a report of your thoughts and develop a logical progression of your points. If the flow doesn’t work, rearrange the order of your points. Make reports several times during working.

3. Share

Finally, formulate the text according to your ideas and map, and create the final blog post as a report. You can copy/paste it directly into your blog provider’s interface as a plain text or use the html format, if your blog supports it. Go back to where you started and make sure you trackback or link to those blogs that provide the context for yours.

See attached file for sample of using mind mapping for blogs.

Summary of the mind map benefits.

1. Mind map - is one if the best way of thinking. And you can use special tool for this. For example, this article was created with Mind Pad 2.0. I did not use any special opportunities - only those which are intuitively understandable for new user. For example – it is very useful to use text on links – you can creat connections between arguments.

2. You make sure that your topic is relevant and that those you refer to will refer back to you.

3. You easily organize your key points, link them to existing blogs using hyperlinking, and make your argumentation crystal-clear. You also can use images, manipulate them to decide - which of them give the best fit.

 

Hello, dear reader of this new weblog. 

We have a good experience running an RSS channel and now it's a time to run a fully-features web-log. We were reading a lot of great blogs for the last months and have learnt a lot. We wish to stay informative for both: Mind-Pad web-site visitors, blog readers and those who use RSS aggregators.

Here are our key ideas:

• We are going to run this weblog as a full-content. We will not cut our articles so you will not have to click "Read more..." links several times - just read post if you are interested;
• We worked to bring our Mind Pad brand identity closer to our readers, so we used Mind Pad logo at blog page. Also, you will find our logo in your RSS aggregator if it supports <image> tag.
• We are going to publish "html" content (not text), so the text will be easy readable;
• To bring some content to our weblog we have published some old posts here first;

To blog owners and active readers:

• You are welcome to visit our weblog and write your comments (good or bad, we like criticism if it's detailed and useful);
• Quote our posts and articles at your blog or web-site, use trackback urls. If you are running blog about mapping, then will be glad to add it to our "links" section;

Finally, few words about publish periodicity. We are going to publish new articles every week. If we have some news, we will publish them too.

Thank you!

Balanced Scorecard is a strategic planning approach that describes companies goals in four perspectives - "Customer", "Business Process", "Financial" perspective and "Learning and Growth" perspective. We created a Balanced Scorecard mind map to support creation of scorecard for personal or business needs.

Read more: http://www.mind-pad.com/solutions/balanced-scorecard/balanced-scorecard-map.htm

It's now a time to change the way you manage your contacts. It's now easy to replace your old contact list with a new contact map. Mind-Pad object oriented mind mapping lets you visualize all your contacts and relation between them.

Read more: http://www.mind-pad.com/solutions/contact-map/contact-mind-map.htm

Nowadays information security is a big challenge for most organizations. Threatening inside the company multiply outside threatening from hostile information environment. Developing information security policy is the first step of organization to manage its' risks and safety. Developing a policy is a difficult process and mind mapping can help.

Read more: http://www.mind-pad.com/solutions/mind-map-security-policy.htm

Select group of CIOs from a variety of industries/sectors came in response to the challenge. As a consequence of this survey, I can draw a conclusion that most of them permanently using different mapping technologies. The most popular technique is process mapping, of course.

Read more: http://www.mind-pad.com/support/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=55