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Archive for April, 2005

Mapping Your Maps

Posted: Friday, April 8th, 2005 @ 6:52 am in | 3 Comments »

I don’t know. Maybe most of you MindManager power users (or even not so power users) out ther have been doing this for years. I just figured it out…I don’t like the file folder metaphor. And yet, that is how, from day one, I have been saving all my maps. When I try to conjure up […]

MindManager and Flat-ilization

Posted: Wednesday, April 6th, 2005 @ 9:07 pm in , , , | 4 Comments »

If “it’s a flat world after all,” MindManager Maps can be very helpfulIn a grad school class about globalization, I joked with a classmate about the concept of “flat-ilization” – that perhaps the world is so globalized that it can once again be perceived as flat.  And now Thomas L. Friedman has coined the term […]

Mapping and the Value of Information

Posted: Friday, April 1st, 2005 @ 11:26 am in , | 5 Comments »

I have been musing of late on the concept I call the ‘the half-life of information’ and how it relates to the value of information within business. [Half-lives are usually associated with the decay of radioactive materials. The half-life is the amount of time it takes for half of the atoms in a sample to […]

Writing about Art is like Dancing about Architecture

I love the quote "Writing about Art is like Dancing about Architecture" - not sure who to attribute it to though - Google suggests too many different options - but it’s so true. Another way of saying this of course is "A picture is worth a thousand words". Imagine looking at the map of the […]

Application Landscaping

Posted: Friday, April 1st, 2005 @ 9:08 am in , | 1 Comment »

I’ve been tracking the market response to our recent MindManager Accelerator for Salesforce product launch at Demo this year. One of particular interest is Stewart McKie’s (Ventana Research) Application Landscaping - Enterprise Applications Have a New Visual Front-end article. "It’s easy to see how this application landscaping paradigm could be applied to CRM, project systems […]