Firstly we fire up the FreeMind, then type "Unified Communications" as the central theme. After that, focus your mind on the central theme, then a stream of rough information will quickly burst out from your brain. We don't know yet what the real connection is with the central theme, but this is not our problem now. All we need is to capture all of these information as quick as possible, before you forget them.
The burst of information will last for several minutes before it stop.
Now, below is my captured picture that is created in less than 5 minutes :
It quite an impressive list of anything related to Unified Communications !
Organize It
Normally after several minutes our brain will run out of ideas and it is now a good time to organize the Mind Map. Let the most general items attached to the center theme circle, and move the more specific items to the outer, attach them to one of general item that has the closest relationship with. And so on.
New Ideas and Reorganize
What usually happen during the organizing, our brain will start to pop up some more new ideas, and we have to stop arranging and quickly type the new ideas before they are gone :
When our brain is jam again, reorganize again.
Cleaning Up
After several repetition, you will find some duplicated/similar ideas or some ideas that does not fit anywhere. Delete them, make our Mind Map simpler.
Now our mind map is almost finished :
Interconnection Links
Last thing to do is to make some interconnections (links) between two related subjects. Below is our first version of Unified Communications Mind Map (click to enlarge) :
Never Ending Map
Based on my experience, building a Mind Map is a never ending task. I never satisfied with one Mind Map, so usually I always make small modification whenever I see it to make it better.... I believe, a Mind Map is only final when we are get bored and decided to go for different central theme :p
Well, the dynamic nature of Mind Map is a benefit. The content, interconnection, and flow are very easy to be changed. It's different with a written text. Once you wrote a full page of article, it's difficult to change the interconnection or flow from one paragraph to another later on. Mostly, what you could ever change is only several sentences that means a little with the interconnection/flow.
Practices make perfect - so Keep Practising :)
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