THIS IS A TECHNICAL POST SO IT MAY SEEM A BIT TECHNICAL AND ESOTERIC TO MOST PEOPLE (but it’s really cool to techies like me)When I was a C++ software developer, I became interested in the technique of Generative Programming where you create software code that generates other software code. Over the past few months, […]
Chris Sells, Program Manager at Microsoft refers to MindJet’s MindManager software while blogging about vital PM skills.“My preferred technique for building consensus is what I’ll call "the big mess." The idea is you get the team (or a representative sample of the team) into a room and you ask the leading questions, e.g. What are […]
Here’s an interesting number that Francois Lavaste, our VP of Worldwide Marketing & Strategy, just shared with me: One year ago on Google, "Mindjet" returned 199,000 results and "MindManager" 130,000. Today, "Mindjet" returns 2,180,000 and "MindManager" 1,110,000. While it may be flawed to equate Google search results with brand recogniton (and of course this boost […]
It was a blog & buzz-intensive year for Mindjet! Here are some noteworthy recent posts I came across while browsing through the Mindjet BlogRoll: Richard A.D. Jones mentions MindManager in his “marketing lessons for software companies,” fortunately referring to our trial version as marketing that works (thanks!). Eric Mack writes about his campaign for MindManager’s integration […]
Tony Goodson has a good explanation of how he used MindManager recently to respond to a tender ("tender" is described here by Wikipedia):"I used MindManager to run the tender response," Tony says. "We brainstormed ideas using a projector on to a wall. We reviewed our progress every day as a group. We planned our response, and did lots […]
Chuck Frey of Innovation Weblog noted today that in a special Tech Insert to this week’s (Dec. 19) issue of Newsweek, Bill Gates has written a column titled: “The Road Ahead: How ‘intelligent agents’ and mind-mappers are taking our information democracy to the next stage.” Gates notes that “…advanced software and Web services can help us […]
Marc Orchant has discovered a fun quiz that helps you find out whether you are a right- or left-brain dominated person.http://similarminds.com/brain.html
