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I think the most easiest tool is a service map, which basically shows a linear progression of how the service starts off to a completed cycle. It really upto you here to start thinking where your service starts and where it ends, and how much can you extend. Ideally, look at chunk that you can really handle and then like interaction to your first retail point to a satisfied customer. And then doing tons of interviews and people interaction to really know what are the latent needs, pain points and opportunity areas that your business has in that linear progression... then look at how can we make the experiences a happier one and engage actively till there is a set process that makes it accessible for everyone in the team .... once that is done...Extend your service map a little bigger.. maybe till a returning customer or start from where your customer first finds you... or thinks of a client who could give me what you want to give him ( service / product )... its really no magic here.. its tons of listening, interventions with business goals aligned and then more hardwork... Or maybe get someone who can do it for you.. my experience and wisdom tells me ... always get an expert on the problem... just cause you know a bit here and there or maybe you know your business, and outside in perspective can really also work wonders...

I think what you’re looking to create is a mind map that links to external websites. Our diagramming tool allows you to create mind maps online and you can link to external sites from the mind map.For example the main node can be useful sites and then you can branch it out to product management tools, collaboration tools, presentation tools etc. Then further branch those nodes to point to specific sites. And then link to the actual site from those nodes. This actually is a great idea.You can get started fast using one of our mind map templates. Plus we have some great features to speed up mind mapping like the one below.

There’s lots of tools for this. Can you provide more detail? 1) what should the finished product look like and how would someone use it? 2) how would you prefer to create it? For instance “I’d like to be able to drag and drop an Excel file into a window and have it recognize each row as a record and column as an attribute.” Or something like that.

Yup, maps can be made accessible; it just takes a little bit of creativity. We’ve had blind students in the school system for a long time, now, so most of it has become pretty standardized.First of all, if your blind student has usable vision, then very little needs to be done for them to access a map—they can just put the map under their usual magnifier, whatever they happen to use. Sometimes high-contrast versions help. Lots of people don’t think about this, but in fact “blind” covers a lot of territory, including people who have low vision. Sometimes the whole thing is just called “blind and low vision” to make that point.For students who don’t have enough acuity to use visual maps, even magnified, maps and other diagrams can be turned into raised-line versions. The lines can be embossed onto thick paper of the sort you’d get with Braille, and then the student can feel where each country is in relation to the others. When I worked in my university’s tech center, we would sometimes convert textbook illustrations by magnifying them onto a large sheet of paper, then painting over each line with puffy paint—the sort you use to decorate T-shirts—which, left to dry, leaves a raised line that can be felt by the student. Scientific diagrams were probably the most common thing we converted that way.Sometimes you don’t have to go to those lengths, though, because descriptions are enough. Many of a geography book’s illustrations can just be tagged with alt text descriptions for a screen reader to read out loud to the student. Or you can give them one big map, and then when the book shows a part of that map, you can say, “Refer to part so-and-so of your main map” to tell them what’s in that particular illustration.A lot of geography isn’t just memorizing maps, anyway. It’s learning about different places, how people live there, what they produce and how they’re connected to other places. That can be taught in plain-text, no big embossed diagrams necessary.Oh, and for little kids, there are always those map puzzles they sell in educational stores. Feeling the shape of a cardboard puzzle piece and fitting it into a map alongside the other cardboard puzzle pieces can be a good introduction to a kid just learning about how to use and understand maps.

Recipes can be simple, so they are not quite rich enough to really need all the available information types.A recipe is a named procedure that requires prerequisite information (ingredients, tools, preheat oven, and so forth); a series of steps (such as "beat two eggs" or "combine 1 cup of milk with 1 ounce of melted chocolate in a mixing bowl"); and an ending point (such as "let cool and serve"). By itself, a recipe is therefore best typed as a task, and there are task tags that let you type the name of the dish, prerequisites, steps, results, and examples (for a photo of the completed dish). You do not need to break down an individual recipe into multiple topics; in fact, I suggest that trying to make the name, list of ingredients, and steps into separate topics is a misunderstanding and a mistake.If you want to combine recipes into a larger unit (that is, a cookbook), then you would want other kinds of topics. If you look at a cookbook, you may find that there are sections or chapters on types of dishes (meat dishes, vegetable dishes, French dishes, Chinese dishes, desserts, and so forth). Overview information about these different types of dishes would be best typed as concept topics. In this case I think you would want and need concept topics.Finally, cookbooks can also contain information that is neither conceptual nor procedural. For example, a cookbook might include a table of calorie counts for different types of meat, or adjustments to cooking time at different altitudes, or how to freeze different kinds of fruit and how long they keep. This kind of information (which tend to appear as freestanding tables) is best typed as reference topics.So, I think a recipe is clearly a procedural task, and should not be subdivided into topics; but a cookbook has enough variety of information to merit the addition of concept and reference topics.

What if your map detailed your own neighborhood and the important things on it, down to the restaurants you visit and what you like to eat there. You could detail how you get around to each venue, a different line and legend that detailed walking, biking or subway

Concept maps are great tool for learning so an engineering student will definitely get some value out of it.However, drawing them for each paragraph might be a bit of an overkill.

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