Linklogs talk, mind map and Wikipedia article stub
I presented some thoughts on Linklogs in one of the presentations at a Brussels Blog Dinner last Friday. I used Freemind, an open source mind mapping tool to prepare. Basically, a mindmap is nothing more than a visual presentation of an outline, but it does help to be able to reshuffle your thoughts in a visual way. Freemind is visually less attractive than commercial tools, but has an open file format and several export options. See for example my “Linklogs Mind Map”:
- pure html + javascript (that I like best)
- clickable map (collapsed state in this case, the whole map was too big)
- browsable java applet (gives an idea of the Freemind interface itself – heavy 300 kb applet though!)
I added more text and links since Friday and created a Wikipedia article stub on linklogs. Let’s see whether the rest of the world thinks Linklogs are a subject worth as decent an entry as Blogging…
About the presentation itself:
Evaluation was mixed: a bare-bones outline (this is the original mind map) and a bunch of open tabbed Firefox windows is a bit risky as preparation. When I lost track of the order at some moment, it became euhm… a bit chaotic I’m afraid (my apologies if you had to sit it through!). Still I’m happy at least some people got some inspiration from it. Lesson learned: determine scope beforehand and don’t try to focus on more than 1 or 2 points in a “short” presentation (thank you Cindy).
(BTW: I must have been really hyper since I spent more than half an hour searching for my keys on leaving for Brussels – I thought I had accidentally dropped them. I went twice through my car and my weekend holiday luggage on a dark parking lot… In the end, they were still in a door lock!)
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October 12th, 2005 at 04:13
Posting in link blog folksonomies: Freemind, OPML
Linklogs talk, mind map and Wikipedia article stub is a great collection of the different ways of making linklogs….my addition is that these can even be aggregated and shared in a folksonomy environment.
See more on the idea of a Blog-based fol…
October 12th, 2005 at 11:05
LOL
I can see it right in front of me, you searching for your keys.
Interesting thoughts though.
October 13th, 2005 at 01:08
I’ve been talking about linklogs today in a business environment. Think it can become a powerfull communicationtool.
And euh.. I was very well informed after the presentation on friday ;-)
October 15th, 2005 at 23:25
How to use mindmapping concepts in a website….
January 29th, 2006 at 00:45
[...] a mind mapping tool helps you to organize thoughts and concepts (see earlier posting for an example). [...]
April 22nd, 2010 at 08:37
good work thanks….