Lifelong Learning UK conference 2009

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lifelong Learning UK has announced its 2009 conference. Entitled The Power of Lifelong Learning: Innovation During a Recession, the event will explore the idea that now more than ever, learners and workers across the UK need to re-skill to stay ahead.

 

The conference will take place on Tuesday 8 December. 

Further details avaiable via:   http://www.lluk.org/lifelong-learning-uk-conference-2009-get-involved.htm

Webinar: “What’s New in MindManager 8″

Saving time, conquering information overload and becoming more effective is on everyone’s mind these days. Studies conducted internally by Fortune 500 companies show that workers who use MindManager found better clarity of thought, made faster, yet more informed, decisions, and realised an overall increase in time spent on strategic initiatives when incorporating MindManager into their daily routines.  

Here’s another opportunity to attend a Webinar and learn about the innovative new features that make MindManager 8 a “game changer”:

• Mindjet Player Integrated Web Services
• Mindjet Connect Automated Task Management
• Integrated Microsoft Office File Editing
• Embedded Web Browser
• Database Linker

 

 

Title:	What’s New in MindManager 8
Date:	Tuesday, 10th February 2009
Time:	10:00 AM GMT / 11:00 AM CET
Speaker:	Janina Miller

To Register, click on the Mindjet logo:-

New e-mail law ‘is an attack on civil liberties’

by Murad Ahmed, Technology Reporter, and Richard Ford, Home Correspondent – Times Online

“Upcoming rules that force internet companies to hold details of every e-mail sent in Britain are a waste of money and an attack on privacy, according to a prominent security expert.

From March, all internet service providers (ISPs) will have to keep data about e-mails sent and received in the UK for a year. The content of individual e-mails will not be kept by the authorities, but the timing and number of each communication will be stored.

At the moment, a similar database of telephone records – fixed and mobile – is held by telephone companies. The implementation of an EU directive, agreed after the alleged plot in August 2006 to set off bombs aboard transatlantic airlines, will extend the information available to the Government to include e-mail and internet traffic.

The Government will reportedly have to pay the ISPs more than £25 million to ensure the law is obeyed. “

Full story: Times Online

Hertfordshire in the snow

Apparently this is the heaviest snow fall for 18 years so I went for a walk to make the most of the beautiful views…

 

Widford Church

Behind the garden, across the farmer’s fields

The woods behind our house

River Ash

Idea Mapping in Mind Manager – Webinar

22 January 2009

Jamie Nast

 

Register for the upcoming 1-hour event with Mind hosts Lisa Fait and Michael Deutch. Join NastGroup founder and Idea Mapping author, Jamie Nast, in this webinar as they explore how idea mapping in MindManager can help you and your colleagues increase productivity every day.

A Special Kind of Courage

 By: Brian Tracy 

“There are several different aspects of courage. Perhaps the most important is the courage to endure, to persist, to “hang in there” in the face of doubt, uncertainty and criticism from others. 

Practice Patience in Adversity
This is called “courageous patience,” the willingness and the ability to “stay the course” in the face of uncertainty, doubt and often criticism from many quarters. 

Stay the Course
In my experience, there is a critical time period between the launching of a new venture and the results that come from that venture. During this hiatus, this waiting period, many people lose their nerve. They cannot stand the suspense of not knowing, of possible failure. They break and run in battle, they quake and quit in business. 

The True Leader
But the true leader is the person who can stand firm, who refuses to consider the possibility of failure. The turning points of many key moments in human history have been the resolution, or lack thereof, of one person. Courageous patience is the acid test of leadership.To encourage others, to instill confidence in them, to help them to perform at their best requires first of all that you lead by example.”

 

 

Further ideas from Brian Tracy via his website

Chuck Frey’s Research & Reports

Chuck Frey (author of The Mind Mapping Software Blog) has created a valuable resource containing various Research & Reports which I highly recommend you visit.  It contains surveys, reports and eBooks available for download.

Surveys:

Web-based mind mapping applications

Benefits of mind mapping software

Applications of mind mapping software

Reports:

A comparison of the major web-based software applications

8 Ways to Improve Your Mind Maps

10 Mistakes to Avoid with Mind Mapping Software

eBooks:

Power Tips & Strategies for Mind Mapping Software

The Mind Mapping Manifesto

 

I reviewed “Power Tips & Strategies for Mind Mapping Software” in October 2007.

Learn to think visually – or else

[Extract from a Q&A Interview by Chuck Frey with Jamie Nast]

Jamie Nast, author of the popular book Idea Mapping and the Idea Mapping Success Blog, is one of the most world’s most prolific trainers and speakers on the topic of visual mapping. In this interview, she explains why it’s critical that executives learn to express their ideas visually, using hand-drawn idea maps and mind mapping software, and the risks of not doing so.

When I prepare for these Q&A interviews, I take great care to craft questions that will be informative to you, the reader, and which highlight the interviewee’s unique strengths and will draw out some interesting insights. When it all comes together, it’s a beautiful thing. This is one of those interviews, where Jamie took the questions I gave her and used them to hit a “home run!”

Chuck Frey: You conduct workshops on idea mapping on a regular basis. What are the most common misconceptions that attendees have about idea mapping?

Jamie Nast: I think there are several:

• Idea Mapping is a right-brain skill.  No, idea mapping is a whole-brain skill that leverages the natural way the brain associates information.

Full Q & A Interview on Chuck Frey’s blog

Jamie is visiting the UK in October to conduct a 2 day Idea Mapping Workshop.  See you there?

Visual Mapping: a Systematic Framework …

… for Business Success

 

(Extract from an article on Mindjet’s website by By Arjen Ter Hoeve, Brian S. Friedlander, and Wallace Tait)

“Today’s businesses are driven by ideas, processes, and information more so than ever before. Take a good look at your company or organization: how are you capturing this important and crucial information? From our perspective, far too many organizations have simply failed to sufficiently develop systems that can clearly identify, track and monitor the “information economy” that resides within one’s own organization. There may be hundreds of documents scattered on network hard drives, but isn’t there a better way to manage these important processes? Ideas and information are the working capital of your company, shouldn’t we systematically access, control and update them?

The key to understanding the working capital of your organization requires that you understand the importance of the information economy, data banking and knowledge governance. Within our international consulting work, we realize the power of graphic frameworks for creating, managing, expressing and exchanging the essential information processes that make up corporate knowledge. And the genesis of effective visual mapping begins at a personal level with MindManager, a visual mapping software application, to help solve and communicate ideas more effectively and naturally.”

Full article available on Mindjet’s Website

Brian S. Friedlander (Assistive Technology) has organised a 2 day conference Intelligent Visual Mapping on 2 & 3 October 2008 in New Jersey, USA. 

Full details available

Thinking Visually to tackle business challenges

“A creative and innovative approach to problem solving”

London, September 30th 2008

“Statistical surveys have shown that design and visualisation have a verifiable impact on business performance. Visual articulation is important when solving a problem that involves strategic goals and initiatives. At its core, it helps bridge the problem or opportunity with the solution. That is why helping decision makers to think and express themselves visually gives organisations a competitive edge in the marketplace.”

More info via VizThink London website