Q&A: Who uses mind mapping?

Mindmapping is used by teams in companies, by individuals who think visually and by students in Europe - in the United Kingdom especially, because the man who claims to have coined the term, Tony Buzan, is British. It has a good hold in Asia - Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Australia and Hong Kong to a lesser extent.

Importantly, through 2007-8 we have seen ever-increasing awareness of the technique in the USA. There is now a steady daily stream of blog posts, news items and new sites, and mindmaps themselves are even appearing as integrated parts of web sites and blogs.

It is used by project managers to do their initial planning and organize their project information, by writers preparing to blog, by business people preparing reports, and by hobbyists to organize their collected information about their favorite topic.