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Archive for November, 2005

Is E-Mail Really “So Five Minutes Ago”?

Posted: Wednesday, November 30th, 2005 @ 7:17 pm in , , , , | 2 Comments »

Interesting article in BusinessWeek about the brave new world of office productivity toolsThis week’s BusinessWeek article about the vanishing power of e-mail at the workplace (may require subscription) has triggered an interesting debate about real-time collaboration, groupware, instant messaging, and wikis as alternative solutions to team productivity. The BusinessWeek writer Michelle Conlin argues that "the onetime productivity wonder […]

New Education Section in Mindjet User Forum

Posted: Monday, November 28th, 2005 @ 11:35 am in , , | 1 Comment »

We just opened an Education section in the Mindjet User Forum. Recent postings show students how to easily access our student map templates and submit their own maps to publish in our library. We’ve also proposed questions to find out more about our educational audience and how we can continue to support educational needs. We hope this forum becomes […]

MindManager and Patent Drafting

Posted: Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005 @ 2:30 pm in | 1 Comment »

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.

Great–Generous–use of MM Viewer

Posted: Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005 @ 12:00 pm in , , , | 1 Comment »

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 […]

Research and Search with MindManager

Posted: Thursday, November 17th, 2005 @ 4:00 pm in , , , | 17 Comments »

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 […]

Can you Guess the Celebrity?

Posted: Wednesday, November 16th, 2005 @ 1:29 pm in , | No Comments »

Inspired by a popular Bay Area radio morning show trivia game, we created our own "Guess the Celebrity" map. Use Mindjet MindManager’s Presentation Mode (Toolbar:View:Presentation, then "Next" at the bottom of your screen) to reveal the clues one at a time. Once you reach the end of the clues, you’ll find instructions on how to submit your […]

“Powered by MindManager”

Posted: Friday, November 11th, 2005 @ 2:38 pm in | 1 Comment »

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 […]