1. The “lost art” of Mind Mapping

2. About Me… Liz Sundet MBA, PMP, CBAP, CSM Musician: Dog Lover:
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3. About Me… Maggie Swearingen 10 years building websites
5 years with SharePoint
Expertise in: IA, UX, Governance Planning, User Adoption and Taxonomy Planning
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4. Vulcan Mind Meld …not quite a Mind Map Why is it the lost art:
Few people have heard of it, fewer have used it in a business application

5. Thru our Mind Meld today
What is Mind Mapping
What are some guidelines around Mind Mapping
Create a Mind Map
How to apply Mind Maps to business
Demo – we need an audience guinea pig!

6. Personal Experience First learned Mind Mapping during an MBA class
It fit my learning style by combining a kinesthetic learning (doing learner) with a visual learner in a very creative way
I’ve used it in a variety of ways and get asked often “what are you doing”?

7. Mind Mapping 101 What is Mind Mapping
Graphic diagram to visually outline information
Created around a single word or text to which associated ideas, words and concepts are added
Can be drawn by hand or used with software
Also called spider diagrams, spidergrams, webs, mind webs, webbing or idea sun bursting
Very easy to use and teach others to use it and facilitate use during meetings

8. Example—IQmatrix.com

9. Origins of Mind Mapping
First popularized by Tony Buzan, a British popular psychology author and TV personality (1970’s series called Use Your Head)
Version of a concept map, but a mind map uses one central key word with radiating concepts

10. Concept Map vs Mind Map

11. Concept Map vs Mind Map

12. Mind Map Guidelines
Buzan suggests the following guidelines for creating mind maps (from Wikipedia)
Start in the center with an image of the topic, using at least 3 colors.
Use images, symbols, codes, and dimensions throughout your mind map.
Select key words and print using upper or lower case letters.
Each word/image is best alone and sitting on its own line.
The lines should be connected, starting from the central image. The central lines are thicker, organic and thinner as they radiate out from the center.
Make the lines the same length as the word/image they support.
Use multiple colors throughout the mind map, for visual stimulation and also to encode or group.
Develop your own personal style of mind mapping.
Use emphasis and show associations in your mind map.
Keep the mind map clear by using radial hierarchy, numerical order or outlines to embrace your branches.

13. Guidelines Mind Map

14. What I have found Highly creative—but with a systematic purpose
When doing Mind Mapping, others will be very interested in “what are you doing”
Use colors, use shortcuts, use pictures, use txt wrds and anything else that allows you to tell the story in the end
Start in center, upper right has 1st idea, then carry thru clockwise to other ideas
Practice it!

15. Mind Mapping and SharePoint
SharePoint is highly hierarchical
SharePoint relies on logical relationships
It’s a friendly translation from a folder-driven system

16. Key Elements of SharePoint IA
Items – Documents, Images, Pages, List items
Lists and Libraries
Metadata
Content Types
Sites

17. The Set Up 350,000 pieces of content Subset of 65,000 600 sites
One content type
No managed metadata

18. IA Planning

19. Why it worked Highly visual Very specific Easy to update/change
Exportable in a variety of formats

20. Key Questions of Taxonomy Planning
How would someone want to search it?
How is it currently organized? What’s the current folder structure?
How would I want to categorize it?
Who is it for?
Should it be categorized by year or date?
What makes my content special?
Videos
Webinars
Press Releases
White Papers
Products

21. The Set Up Mid-sized organization Public facing SharePoint Upgrade
Highly-categorized content
Site efficiency depended on faceted search and aggregation

22. Taxonomy Planning

23. Yes…There’s an app for that
Common ones are
MindMeister
MindJet
SimpleMind
Total Recall
MindNode
iThoughts
iBrainstormer
iMindMap (Tony Buzan’s)

24. Building an Intranet Taxonomy
Termsets
Terms
Synonyms
Relationships (Reuse?)

25. Questions?