Build Your Own ContactMap

The ContactMap approach to social communication concerns in our personal messaging strategies is a subset of a greater phenomenon exploding on the Web. The idea of the Mind Map, turned into a million dollar idea by Tony Buzan, has generated multiple open source software products to enable us all in developing useful Mind Maps.

I particularly recommend FreeMind and would be happy to demonstrate the software to anyone interested. I find that the usefulness of such tools increases with age of the user, but can see how a basic ContactMap could be created quickly using captured photographs, e-mail links, and attached notes.