End of Your Weekly Tutor – The dawn of a new era

Posted by Faizel Mohidin on Jul 31, 2010 in Mind Mapping, News | 0 comments

This is the last of Your Weekly Tutor articles as you’ve come to know it.

If you are sad because you’ve been looking forward to getting a weekly tip into you email inbox, don’t worry, something else and hopefully something better will replace it.

I started the ‘your weekly tutor’ to serve two purposes. Firstly, to create content for my new blogging website, MindMapTutor.com and secondly, to get a mailing list of followers that could serve as a yardstick to measure my degree of success, or failure.

I am now happy that I have achieved both objectives. MindMapTutor.com is a well established Mind Mapping authority on the Internet. My list of followers have also grown satisfactorily.

But there was a problem with the Blog format. I wasn’t happy with the way the content was organised for you, the reader. I wanted you to be able to get maximum benefit from the content.

Blogs are organised chronologically by default. This means that it’s mainly the new articles that get focus. The older ones just drop of the map.

If you are interested in a particular branch of Mind Mapping, it is very difficult to follow related articles on MindMapTutor.com.

With this in Mind, I started UsingMindMaps.com. By starting a ‘normal’ website, I could organise the content in a structure that was more ‘reader friendly’. I’ve been running both in parallel for a few months now, but the duplication of effort has become too great to sustain.

To make things easier, I’ve decided to provide the following touchpoints:

1. Set up of a new UsingMindMaps Facebook page.

The UsingMindMaps Facebook page will allow a community of people that are using, or want to use Mind Maps in their daily lives, to grow. I want it to become a community of ordinary people doing extraordinary things with Mind Maps.

The community allows two way communication, where you can not only give input on how you are using Mind Maps, but also connect with fellow Mind Mappers. In this way, we can all learn from each other’s experiences.

I hope to attract both newbies and expert Mind Mappers, as we can learn the most by being in touch with fellow Mind Mappers.

The Facebook page will also enable me to get your input and give you insight on our latest projects.

I foresee an exciting and vibrant community that is willing to share and collaborate with each other to make a difference.

So, join us on Facebook now. The page is still young, so get in now and be one of the people that helps take the community forward.

2. MindMapTutor Blog

MindMapTutor.com will be run more as a Blog and News site than before. I will update the blog as and when I find useful information to blog about.

I have not been a traditional blogger until now, as my articles were ‘real’ articles. This means that they were researched, drafted and redrafted before being published.

The blog will be more off the cuff opinions and news about Using Mind Maps and progress updates of our MindMapTutor developments.

I hope that this will therefore be more personal. It will also allow you to comment on updates and give input into the type of material that you would like.

If you don’t do anything, you will still get blog updates to your inbox, but it will not be the same as the ones you get at the moment.

The updates may be more regular, but also more erratic. So, if you don’t want this, feel free to unsubscribe and you will immediately be removed  from the list.

I don’t want be accused of sending you junk mail. It is not my policy to spam you with marketing information, as regular readers know.

3. UsingMindMaps.com

This will be the content resource centre.

It already needs a bit of revamping to get the content categorised better. I will continuously try to ensure that the content is organised in a way that is easily accessible and gives you maximum benefit.

I also publish a monthly newsletter on UsingMindMaps.com. So if you want to still get the good quality content that you’ve become used to in your Email inbox, subscribe now to our monthly newsletter.

The monthly newsletter will highlight the articles of the previous month, as you may miss them on the sight because the website is not organised chronologically.

The newsletter will also highlight what’s coming and have some news on the latest projects and activities.

You will also be given the latest tips and techniques on using Mind Maps when you subscribe to our newsletter.

To encourage you to sign up, we are offering some valuable freebies. So sign up today to get maximum value from UsingMindMaps.com.

I hope these changes will make your Mind Mapping experience a good one and that you will be able to start reaping all the benefits that Mind Mapping can give you.