It’s been roughly three months since I last updated my Web 2.0 mind-map, and while things slowed down during the holidays, there have been some changes and new developments. I still have several dozen articles, blog postings, and various other tidbits that need to be incorporated into the mind-map, but I’ve added enough new stuff that an update is warranted. As always, you can find the mind-map in the “downloads” section of my website, or by simply clicking on this link to download the 8.9 megabyte PDF file.

Here’s a summary of what I’ve added or modified since the last update:

1. I did some general cleanup, dragging various links around to reduce the clutter and confusion.
2. On the “Introduction” page, there’s a sub-sub-branch labeled “Political commentary” (part of the “society” sub-branch, within the “Web 2.0: Profound business, social, technical changes” branch), in which I replaced a sub-sub-sub-branch entitled “Smartmobbing Congressional Corruption” with a new link to “Techpresident“. Maybe it’s just me, but I get the impression that everyone now assumes that Congress is permanently and pervasively corrupt, so why waste our time looking at the details? Meanwhile, the Techpresident site is tracking the impact of the Web on 2008 U.S. presidential candidates, as well as the impact of those candidates on the Web (i.e., on the activity of bloggers, etc.).
3. On the same “society” sub-branch of the “Introduction” page, there’s a sub-sub-branch entitled “People power,” to which I’ve added a new link (and associated graphic icon) for the Time magazine “person of the year” issue, which was all about Web 2.0
4. On the same “Introduction” page, there’s a major branch containing various definitions of Web 2.0; I’ve added a link to the YouTube video by M. Wesch titled “Web 2.0 … The Web is (Us)ing Us.” There’s a brief discussion about this in my February 9, 2007 blog posting, as well as glowing reviews and commentaries about the video on numerous other blogs throughout the blogosphere.
5. On the same “Introduction” page, there’s a sub-sub-branch called “Publishing,” within a sub-branch for “business.” A sub-sub-sub branch of Publishing,” titled “Communal authorship” now has a link to the Wiki that I’ve set up on the main part of my website for the communal updates and revisions that are currently underway on a book, Just Enough Structured Analysis, which I originally wrote in 1989.
6. On the “Enterprise 2.0″ page, there’s a branch labeled “Reactions and trends within large companies,” to which I’ve added a new sub-branch titled “Ed’s list of corporate blogging policies”. This contains links to two blog postings, one written on December 15, 2006 (shown on the mind-map as “part 1“) and one written on December 21, 2006 (shown as “part 2“). I’ve written several additional blog postings about aspects of corporate blogging, but haven’t yet figured out where (or if) they should be placed in the mind-map.
7. On the (reference) “Books” page, I’ve added a new link (and thumbnail graphic icon) to Don Tapscott’s Wikinomics book.
8. On the “Enterprise 2.0″ page, under “Reactions and trends within large companies,” Ive added a link to a CIO Magazine article that predicts that “IT reluctantly embraces Web 2.0” in 2007. There’s a discussion of the whole article in the November 24, 2006 posting on my blog.
9. On the “Introduction” page, in the “technology” sub-sub-branch of the sub-branch titled “Web 2.0: profound business, social, technical changes,” I replaced “tools for quick creation” (whose meaning and significance I can’t even remember at this point) with a new branch titled “Web as Platform,” and three sub-branches for Google Documents & Spreadsheets, Virtual Ubiquity, and 30 Boxes.
10. On the “Wiki Phenomenon” page, there’s a branch for Wikipedia — to which I’ve added a new sub-branch that links to the Harvard Business School case study on Wikipedia.
11. In the “political commentary” sub-sub-sub branch on the “Introduction” page, I’ve added a new link to an article discussing the Pew Institute study of the impact of Web 2.0 on the U.S. 2006 election campaign.

By the way, if you want to know how all of this was done, I simply typed the text and links — along with various graphics and JPEG images — into a mind-mapping tool called ConceptDraw MindMap. The 16-page mind-map was then exported to a PDF file, with all of the hyperlinks preserved. There are lots of other mind-mapping tools available; all you need to do is google the term “mindmap,” and you’ll get an enormous list of articles, tutorials, and “sponsored links” for various tools and products. And if you wonder why on earth I’m using a mindmap presentation, rather than Powerpoint, I invite you to read through my blog posting titled “Sayonara Powerpoint“.

Stay tuned for more updates and additions in the coming weeks…