<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d850b710-97e6-4826-9193-684d8119e188/B76B3891-D135-4E7D-A1D1-AADF56DE7897/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://performancing.com/using-mindmaps-5-steps-to-letting-your-blog-posts-write-themselves" href="http://performancing.com/using-mindmaps-5-steps-to-letting-your-blog-posts-write-themselves" style="font-size: 11px;">performancing.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://performancing.com/using-mindmaps-5-steps-to-letting-your-blog-posts-write-themselves"><P>If you've never come across mindmaps before, you may want to check out my <A href="http://www.tubetorial.com/?s=mindmap">mindmapping video tutorials</A> over at Tubetorial. If you are familiar with mindmaps but have never used them to develop blog post ideas (or articles in general), take note of how I use them:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://performancing.com/using-mindmaps-5-steps-to-letting-your-blog-posts-write-themselves"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Record a list of undeveloped ideas. For example, blog post titles that come to mind. </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://performancing.com/using-mindmaps-5-steps-to-letting-your-blog-posts-write-themselves"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Add subtopic nodes to general idea nodes when you think of them.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://performancing.com/using-mindmaps-5-steps-to-letting-your-blog-posts-write-themselves"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/performancing.com/img/9DE20FBC-8CC0-400D-A962-1849A8D29AD4" alt="Using mindmaps to develop blog posts" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://performancing.com/using-mindmaps-5-steps-to-letting-your-blog-posts-write-themselves"><P>My favorite mindmapping tool is <A href="http://www.mindjet.com/">Mindjet</A>'s MindManager Pro (desktop), which has a free 21 day trial. If you like mindmapping but do not want to spend $299 on MindManager, there's <A href="http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page">Freemind</A> ($0) for the desktop and Bubbl.us, <A href="http://mindomo.com/">Mindomo</A>, <A href="http://www.mindmeister.com/">Mindmeister</A> and <A href="http://comapping.com/">Comapping</A> for the web - which have free licenses as well as monthly subscriptions. There are of course many more mindmapping applications, though not free. Following MindManager Pro as a close 2nd and 3rd favorite for the desktop are <A href="http://mindapp.com/">MindApp</A> and <A href="http://conceptdraw.com/en/products/mindmap/">ConceptDraw Mindmap</A>.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B76B3891-D135-4E7D-A1D1-AADF56DE7897/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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