Feb27Written by:Charlie Marval
2/27/2010 12:55 PM 
The main driver behind thought leadership is content development. Generating engaging and useful content requires a lot of research, preparation, and writing skills. An excellent approach to organizing your ideas is to use mind maps.
A mind map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged around a central key word or idea. Mind maps are used to generate, visualize, structure, and classify ideas, and as an aid in writing — Wikipedia
Bubbl.us, a free mind map tool, not only allows you to easily organize your ideas but it also allows you to export your mind map into an outline. You can then use this same outline to expand on your ideas.