At Anything Under the Sun, Krajec tells an excellent story about how he used MindManager to manage a client’s patents. He describes a very good working process for using MindManager to first get one’s own thoughts in order, then to use the resulting map with the client to create a mutually agreed-upon knowledge structure.
Archive for November, 2005
At http://beyondmanagement.blogware.com/, Haily has posted what I think should win a prize for Most Generous Knowledge Sharing. Using the functionality around Mindjet’s new IE-browser based Viewer (available here), Haily has embedded a map that links to dozens more maps that contain information on a wealth of subjects from Activity-Based Management to Mergers & Acquisitions to Profit Impact of Marketing Strategy (PIMS). It is really quite a staggering example of how you can use our new viewer to share truly prodigious amounts of information. (NOTE: when navigating Haily’s maps, you can always return to the top-level Overview map by hitting F5.) Nice work, Haily!
When we posted the Research Accelerator on our Mindjet Labs we solicited feedback. We wanted to know how people would use it to do both search and research. Recently we added Google Desktop Search and Windows Desktop Search so you could search your desktop computer for all of the information in the various files and systems. We then got an avalance of feedback! Our users found the Research Accelerator very exciting but they also found they couldn’t search in all of the MindManager Maps that they created. A partner, IFilterShop makes a plug-in for Microsoft Windows Desktop Search that indexes MindManager Maps but if you used Google Desktop Search, you still couldn’t find the diamonds locked inside your Maps.
Well that’s too big of a hole!
So, on Monday night, after the boys went to bed, I started cracking the Google Desktop API and by Tuesday I had a working prototype that indexed the content in MindManager X5 and MindManager 6 Maps.
Download and try the free Plug-in for Google Desktop Search and tell us what you think!
“Powered by MindManager”
Nov 11
I have to say that is pretty cool to FINALLY be at a conference where MindManager is ubiquitous. Welcome to BlawgThink: About 100 attorneys meeting in a conference center in Chicago to learn about and share best blogging practices. Two out of three presentations I’ve seen have been run by MindManager, and four of the five presentations stored in BlawgThink’s online file-sharing storage area are mind maps (yes, there was 1 (one) PowerPoint file). It’s great to wander around the halls and see so many people with their laptops open, MindManager on their screens, and either mapping out their notes of the session they are in or, in some cases, working on the presentations they will give…in MindManager. The really interesting thing to me is that "MindManager" and "mind mapping" are not the subjects of the conversations. (We are getting due recognition for providing people with the technology to create the maps here at the event.) People are not here to talk about mapping. They are here to talk about the intersection of law and blogging. MindManager is simply the environment many of the presenters are using to communicate.
For instance, Jim McGee, a consultant and practitioner working to apply information technology within and between organizations and whose blog McGee’s Musings is very popular, used MindManager to present: "Collaboration, KM, and the power of the virtual first impression." This was very cool for me to finally meet Jim. He has been following MindManager for some time–having first started using it about 2000. He partnered in his presentation with Jack Vinson, whose Knowledge Jolt with Jack is another stellar site.
Lots more MindManager-enabled presentations. But the night is late…
FORTUNE Business Innovation blog editor Dominic Basulto just posted Mind maps for visualizing innovation that gives a very nice, concise summation of how mapping is starting to gain a foothold among American businesses.
"PowerPoint presentations are apparently so 1990’s and vendors like Mindjet are now snagging business clients who want better ways of tracking information flows throughout the business and jump-starting employee creativity."
Mindjet CTO Mike Jetter will be interviewed tomorrow, Sunday, Novermber 6 between 9-11 am Pacific Standard Time on the “Business of Success” radio show with Alan Rothman. The show has affiliate stations coast-to-coast with over 1 million listeners. Previous guests include Ray Bradbury, Michael York, Dennis Weaver, Dr. Laura, and Bill Gates. You can listen to the show live online here at http://www.businessofsuccess.com/radio.html. You can search by zipcode for participating stations at http://www.businesstalkradio.net/zipsearch.shtml. (It doesn’t look like there is a Bay Area station carrying the show.)
“Business of Success” Radio will give us a specific link to the show, which we will post on the Mindjet blog and website after the program has aired.
If you haven’t tried it out yet, now is a great time to try the MindManager Research Accelerator for MindManager Pro 6 in the Mindjet Labs.
We have just uploaded a new version (1.0.22) with Windows Desktop Search as an available service. Once the MSN Search Toolbar is installed (free download), then you can search files on your desktop, Outlook, and Outlook Express using the fast Windows Desktop Search from Microsoft.
For some added fun, try searching for music or video files and playing them right in task pane of the Research Accelerator.
