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Archive for February, 2006

New Student Exam Measures “Information Literacy”

Posted: Wednesday, February 15th, 2006 @ 4:12 pm in , , , , , | No Comments »

Mapping software, like MindManager, would be a great resource for high school and college students to use in preparation for new “information literacy” tests, designed to assess their abilities to navigate an increasingly technological world.CNN.com recently announced that the Educational Testing Service, (ETS), creators of the SAT, developed an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) literacy […]

The Mindjet Map Library: Visit, Discover, Contribute!

With the relaunch of our web site in September 2005, we decided to offer our users the chance to publish their maps in the Mindjet Map Library. By publishing your map, you may link to their website or blog and generate discussions about the map content. For more details on how to submit your map, […]

BMA International Marketing Roundtable: The Mindjet Blog Success Story

Posted: Saturday, February 11th, 2006 @ 7:18 pm in , | 1 Comment »

I am invited to speak on behalf of Mindjet at the BMA (Business Marketing Association) International Marketing Roundtable in Palo Alto on February 15. The topic will be  corporate blogging and the success of the Mindjet blog, which I helped launch in March last year.I will talk in particular about the following aspects of corporate blogging:- […]

Highlights from DEMO 2006

Last year we were invited to DEMO, the “premier launchpad for emerging technologies” in Phoenix, Arizona, to present our MindManager Accelerator for Salesforce.com. This year’s DEMO just ended, and here are four of the highlights most discussed in the throng of DEMO blogs:Iotum (http://www.iotum.com) won a DEMO God award, and I like their tag line: “Simply relevant.” […]

HBR on Synthesizing Leaders, Feature Bloat

This month’s Harvard Business Review has a couple of interesting articles. The first, Breakthrough Ideas for 2006, begins with a piece by Harvard professor Howard Gardner called "The Synthesizing Leader." Gardner relates how Nobelist Murray Gell-Mann once told him that "the most valued personal trait of the 21st century would be a facility for synthesizing […]

Managing Your Boss

Posted: Saturday, February 4th, 2006 @ 5:26 pm in , , , | No Comments »

Gary Slinger has created a nice map to illustrate the key takeaways from the “Managing your boss” session that Mark Horstman and Mike Auzenne hosted on their “Manager Tools” podcast. The map shows the five aspects of their process/methodology for establishing a good/better relationship with your boss:Boss Goals Boss Communications Boss Scheduling/Time Management Boss Workstyle […]