Saw this on Seth’s post, that the Google Docs spreadsheet new feature has innovated away from spreadsheet, and moreover, adopted the web idea, which helps to create a poll simply with spreadsheet. This was not a feature in most desktop bounded simple spreadsheet program.

But Google Docs made a breakthrough and set in to create this within their spreadsheet. However though, how useful could it be, is really up to individual, and their purposes.

Most business people talk about surveying or polling, with this feature it will simply give the business or organization a great pilot testing ground targeted to their specific target audience.

Other than that, Seth Godin triggered the idea of a simple event auction system with limited seating. As always innovation is not just creative, but fun as well. Like what Seth talked about, instead of having to charge a fixed price to ticket, what about changing the whole idea into categorized based signup, where it is based on the number, e.g. first 5 tickets at $1, the next five at $2, and $500 for the last ten, etc. In such a sense, it rewards early bird signup.

In fact, such has been seen on some online selling websites. However though, likewise to the various pricing models, this idea does also have its own pros and cons. It is greatly based on the demand and supply of the product or services. If the demand does not meet the supply, it would be hard for the pricing model to work well.

As for a geography-based pricing system, a tracker or locater, or some sort of tracking mechanisms, that could perfectly make this idea works. However, this could be a great idea to implement for services sold towards internet based audience.Another wild idea for airlines, flights for passengers instead of passengers for flights. Personally, I like this idea, simply because I always believed in the sense of demand before supply.

These may be crazy and wild ideas, but then with the revolution of innovation and interaction. And probably one of these days, there maybe someone who may be able to realize them, with fine tuning and perfection.

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Mindmapping has been the topic for the last few posts, but just couldn’t stop me from posting this when I saw this library. Check it out over at Mappi, this is a great mind map library that contains more than 1000 mind maps. As I have stated in the previous post of Power of Mind Mapping, the technique and power of mindmapping is unlimited.

Be it for reference or for an idea, Mappi keeps a whole library of mindmaps created by others. That will aid in making a great reference when you need more ideas about mindmap creation.

As for the second part regarding this post, will be of course, my test drive for the online web 2.0 mindmapping tool called, Mindmeister, as introduced by one of my commenter in the previous post.

Free Mind - the downloadable open source mind mapping software, well known for its quick, clickable fold/unfold function.

MindMeister - online web 2.0 styled collaborative mind mapping with 3 plans, free basic, premium, and team.

bubbl.us - a free and simple application triggers brainstorming and ideas sharing online.

In additional, here are some mindmapping articles not to miss:

Articles from iMindMap :

Creating Your First Mind Map

Ultimate Thinking Tool

Problem Solving with Tony Buzan

Innovation Tools :

10 Mistakes To Avoid With Mind Mapping Software

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Mindmapping has been mistaken as something that is only great for businesses and organizations in their planning and organization of ideas and thoughts, to make up a rough planning to cater to companies’ development.

However though, this isn’t exactly true. Anyone and everyone could use it, not pratically just for businesses, but for personal life as well.

Don’t believe me?

Here’s an online sample of a mindmap that was created for a shopping list.

Image Credit: Mappio Library

Besides having to create shopping list mindmap, here are other ideas for the use of mindmaps, such as:

• Wedding Planning
• Career Planning
• Health Goals Planning
• Travel Trip Planning
• Daily Planning, etc

Here’s a small video that will show you more about mindmapping with tools, instead of having to manually draw it out. Read the rest of this entry »

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Yesterday, I mentioned about Tony Buzan, the inventor for Mindmap’s mindmap creation tool, called iMindmap. It easily helps to organize your thoughts and ideas together. Here’s the download for a test drive for the inventor’s bestselling tool, iMindmap Download.

These are videos that is talking about mind mapping, and touches on step-by-step demonstrating how exactly to is to create a mindmap.

Here’s some basic mind mapping pointers…

The Laws of Mind Mapping:

1. Start in the Center of a Landscape page
2. Use an Image or a Picture for your central idea
3. Use Colours throughout
4. Connect your main branches to sub-branches
5. Make branches curve and flow
6. Use one word per line, same length as line
7. Use images throughout

Watch the step-by-step mindmap technique displayed within the videos…

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Mind map is basically a diagram used to aid in representing words, ideas, tasks, etc that are related or radially linked to the whole main idea or topic. This is normally used to generate visualisible structure and classifying ideas in areas of study, organization, problem solving, decision making, as well as writing.

Mind mapping isn’t a new topic. However, many people still prefer the old traditional way of taking notes. Well, I have just got to admit the fact too. So, I have found a few videos on mindmapping to share.

Here’s one by Stephen Pierce. He did a summary of mind mapping. Simple to understand, and clear cut!

Main points:

• Identify your purpose
• Pull out related keywords to the purpose
• Put the book title, author and copyright date of material
• Write the chapter name on the branch
• Link the related things to the chapter
• Redraw the whole mindmap

This serves as a purpose for those who have no idea, or learnt before but didn’t get to use it. It is time to make a change.

I found this tool called iMindmap which is from Tony Buzan, that greatly helps in organizing thoughts and ideas, and as long as time is the concern, this tool greatly helps. They also have a trial version of the tool, iMindmap Download. Give it a try and see how much it is going to save you.

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Based on the last post on Ouch! Competition Hurts! Competitiors Please Get Lost! and The Secret Recipe of Competitors and Competitions, where we talked about the stall owner’s little story regarding his neighbours do not welcome competition. In my opinion, competition doesn’t come from the stall owner, instead from themselves.

Having been through selling their products for the past one year without much competition, would pretty much kept them in the state of comfort, or otherwise known as the comfort zone. Breakaway from the comfort zone ain’t easy. It is only if the parties are willing and prepare to move themselves forward.

Lately, a systematic approach for making the competition irrelevant has surfaced. It is known as the Blue Ocean Strategy. This strategy is a result that came from more than 30 industries over a century between 1880 to 2000. The study comprises of 150 strategic moves through a decade long of study. Here’s a little read about the red and blue oceans…

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In the last post, Ouch! Competition Hurts! Competitiors Please Get Lost!, we have gone through the stall owner’s comeback story. Here are some inspirations from the previous post, and we’ll be cutting right down into the way he makes things work.

Does competition hurt?

The ideas or rather the inspirations through this incident that I have drawn upon are as follow:

• Why are people so afraid of competition?
• Does having competition mean bad, evil?
• Is there any way to counteract competition?

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