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Problem Resolution
You can use a Mind Map like this as a stand-alone prompt mechanism so that people have a checklist to go through when they have a problem to solve. A more powerful use of this is to use it as a template, replacing the title with the challenge you are trying to overcome and altering the branches to suit your needs. Add extra branches and attach text to fill in the details of the problem and potential solutions. You can easily communicate your chosen resolution to other people using your Mind Map.
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Speaker Notes
Relevant information is summarised on one page and used as a prompt for speakers so no information is forgotten. The Mind Map can be handed out as notes for the audience. This is a Bible based Mind Map used for a talk about the speeches of Paul.
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Personal Life Planning
Use NovaMind to map out what is important to you in life, and how all the different parts of your life work together for you to accomplish your life purpose. Make it easy to feel the progress you are making.
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Your Life Purpose
Use NovaMind to map out your life purpose, and how the different parts of your life relate to each other. Map out the different areas like personal development, finance, career, family, spiritual development, physical health and social skills. For each area, identify what you would like to be, do and have.
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Business building - Mastermind groups
One of the techniques that is used to propel the success of many ventures is the use of MasterMind groups. The concept of MasterMind groups has been around for many years and was formally introduced in the classic book "Think and grow rich" by Napoleon Hill, and further codified by Jay Abraham, the World's #1 Marketing Wizard.
Marc Dussault has taken this concept to the next level in his eBook "How to Create a Fun, Effective and Powerful MasterMind Group to Catapult You to Exponential Success", which draws on his vast experience of the power of well organized MasterMind groups. In order to clearly convey the message of the different aspects of running, or participating in, a successful MasterMind group, Marc turned to the use of Mind Maps.
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Uses of Mind Mapping
A general Mind Map of the things you may like to use NovaMind for.
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Summarizing Information
This Mind Map summarizes the life of artist Van Gogh, the research material was aquired from a number of websites. Relevant information was extracted and categorized. Building the Mind Map while researching the topic helped to categorize the information appropriately and avoid duplication.
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The Laws Of Mind Mapping
Reproduced with the permission of the Buzan Centre, this Mind Map is a diagram that explains the techniques for effective Mind Mapping. Refer to our webpage on Mind Mapping for more tips on effective Mind Mapping with NovaMind.
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Marketing Plan
Use a Mind Map to plan your marketing efforts and identify opportunities and weak spots. This can then easily be communicated to others on the team using the NovaMind presentation.
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Study Tips
This Mind Map clrealy illustrates some important study tips by breaking the information down into the logical groupings of Surroundings, Sessions, Mind Maps, Summarizing text, Music, Food, and Remembering. Each of these topics is clearly explained using just a few words, which, when taken along with the images, make the information easy to understand and use.
Because our brains are particularly good at remembering pictures, especially ones with smooth flowing curves and plenty of color, this Mind Map will stick in your mind and help you to remember to do the right thing when studying, and therefore maximizing the amount of information you both understand and retain.
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Business communication
Host-Beneficiary relationships
In order to leverage the contacts and client base of multiple businesses, and to provide better and more complete ranges of services, host-beneficiary relationships can be formed between different organizations.
One of the big challenges with setting up host-beneficiary relationships is understanding the possibilities and opportunities, as well as the structures that work, so this Mind Map has been put together to explain these concepts in a way that people can pick up easily.
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What Is Your Learning Style?
Do you know what is your most effective way of learning something new? This Mind Map has a brief explanation of the eight different styles as studied by Professor Howard Gardiner.
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Summarizing Class Notes
To summarize a class, note the key points as they arise on the main branches of your Mind Map. Where there are specific facts related to the branch, just record it as child branches. This Mind Map is used for memorizing Antibacterial and Antifungal agents.
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Summarizing Class Notes - 2
This shows how you can achieve a completely different visual look for your Mind Map of the same material, just by changing the colors.
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Motivating People
The same as above, but with a different background to illustrate the difference of just changing the background image.
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Marketing and Book Summarization
In a single sheet, you can see the entirety of the information content of the entire first chapter of the book as well as see the inter-relationships of the individual strategies. This gives you both a clear overview of the subject material while also illustrating the individual details, tactics and how they all fit together.
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Meeting Agenda
This Mind Map demonstrates how to use your agenda items as the top-level branches to be distributed before a meeting. During the meeting, information and decisions are recorded on the appropriate branches as the minutes (below).
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Meeting Minutes
This Mind Map demonstrates how the above agenda has become the basis for recording the meeting minutes. Simply record your meeting information and decisions on the appropriate branches and they can be distributed in a number of graphic formats or exported in outline mode to the staff.
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Clear Understanding - Building Rapport
This example shows how a detailed topic can be summarized for memorization, understanding, or presenting to others.
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Human Computer Interaction in 2020
This is a pair of Mind Maps in a single document, used by internationally renowned user interface expert and author Scott Jenson <scott at jenson dot org> in his presentation at the HCI 2020. Scott is a former user interface designer for Apple, Symbian DesignLab, the VP of product design for Cognima, and is now a user interface design manager for Google. He published "The Simplicity Shift" in 2002, and has written chapters for "The Inside Text" and "HCI Remixed".
As a battle scarred veteran of the software industry, Scott has survived shipping a consumer spreadsheet, 2 Mac OS releases, 5 Newton product versions, 4 commercial web site revisions, designed 3 different mobile phone UIs, run dozens of usability trials, and has 14 patents granted with 4 pending.
He says "I just wanted to let you know that I made a bit of an impression using NovaMind for my talk (instead of Powerpoint)... Just wanted you to know that I'm hooked and thinking this could completely change the way i give talks"
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Brainstorming - How to do it
This Mind Map not only demonstrates the use of adornments, attached graphic text, link lines and more, it has been designed to show you how to brainstorm effectively either by yourself or in a group situation. It tells you how Brainstorming works, why it is effective, what are the guidelines to follow and what to do with the results of your brainstorming session.
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Defect Rate - Problem Resolution
This Mind Map was created using the problem resolution template for a hypothetical company to assess, identify and resolve a high defect rate in their assembly line.
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Class Plan
This Mind Map is a plan for an English lesson. Used by the teacher, it organizes the order of events for the lesson, lists the equipment required and highlights the objectives of the lesson. The class "Argumentative Debate" brainstorm results are below.
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NovaMind Sample
This Mind Map has been created as an example of the many features available in NovaMind, and explanation of the features in the branch notes.
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Company Structure
This demonstrates how a company structure can be represented or a restructure planned using a Mind Map.
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Class Argumentative Debate
A class "Argumentative Debate" resulted in this Mind Map recording the pros and cons of banning smoking in public places. This exercise has been planned in the above Class Plan.
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Designing a Website
Use a Mind Map to plan your website for business, recreational clubs and personal websites. This Mind Map was once used on our site as the navigation map. This format is excellent for also sorting out what hyperlinks are required. You can also create your website in NovaMind and use the HTML export feature for the fastest website creation imaginable!
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Business Plan
Joe's Motors have used a Mind Map to clarify their service, staffing, QA, goals and marketing plans.
As you can see from the example Mind Map, the company, Joe's Motors have planned their business by breaking down the business into the categories: Service, Quality, Target market, Business ethics, Marketing/sales, Placement, and Staffing. In this way, all the important aspects of the business are covered. When dealing with the specifics of the business directions, you find it easy to brainstorm the ideas, adding them at the appropriate place and rearranging as necessary.
When presenting this to the existing staff in the business, they will be able to see how all the parts work together, and why their particular job is important and valuable to the business. They are likely to see other areas of the business where they can contribute, so you benefit from their increased productivity, increased enthusiasm, and using talents that may otherwise be underutilized.
You can then use the Mind Map as a poster on the wall so that both staff and clients can see what the business is all about.
When presenting this information to management or investors, they can understand the logical connections between the items as well as seeing the overview of the business. They buy in to the concepts quicker, making those funding requests go so much more smoothly.
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Mind Mapping for Journalists
Mind Mapping can dramatically improve your note-taking and ability to put together reports and articles that are both gripping as well as clear and concise.
This is an example of a Mind Map showing some of the ways it can help you to make new associations between ideas, come up with well formed articles with a new point of view, as well as assisting with the collection and organization of a lot of information without information overload. The results are clear, gripping and concise articles and reports.
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Career Planning
Planning is essential to success and NovaMind is a great way to organize your personal goals and priorities. This example shows the use of NovaMind in career planning, ensuring all the right skills are obtained. You know what job to take when, and the right time to leave one job and move on to the next.
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School Assignment Handout
The Mind Map title is the assignment subject. Requirements for the assignment radiate from the title in numerical order to help guide the students.
Large amounts of information are summarized onto the one page and the format is visually appealing, concise and easy to understand.
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Subject Orientation Handout
This sample handout explains to prospective Economics students what the subject is about, two specific examples, how to enroll, and a quick exercise for a combined class activity.
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