The Mindjet Blog

Here are some of the latest blogs about Mindjet:

On the ZDNet Blogs, Marc Orchant reviews the webinar with Dan Pink ("A Whole New Mind") that we co-hosted with WebEx on Friday: "What made the experience so powerful was that this was the first example, outside of a demo, that I have seen of the integration of MindManager and WebEx. (….) Pink, who is obviously quite facile with the software, used [MindManager] in lieu of the more conventional (and generally dreadful) PowerPoint bullet list slide show so typical in webinars." By the way, watch out for the map that Pink used, with the Q&A notes he built in real time at the end of the event - we’ll post it here soon. 

Andre’s blog is covering my colleague Michael Scherotter’s presentation at the Mindcamp conference in Seattle in almost real-time.

Innovationtools reports that ActiveWords has introduced an add-in for MindManager that allows you to pre-define sets of words that trigger common MindManager application functions.

Michael Leach’s lines on i-Diablogue make us blush: "I typically don’t go out of my way to endorse software products and tools, but in this case I think Mindjet MindManager deserves special mention. As the name implies, Mindjet’s core competency is in helping people to manage brainstorming sessions, but goes way beyond that. Most brainstorming sessions are done on white boards and represent a discrete point in time. Maybe a recorder jots down the ideas before all is washed away. But the momentum of the brainstorming keeps going, yet the white board no longer exists to reflect the evolved ideas. Surely there must be a software solution to this… and there is."

Kathy Sierra refers to MindManager on the Creating Passionate Users blog: "But this gets to the heart of one of the most important aspects of passion — that it goes beyond the product/service/cause itself. Our passions often represent something about who we are. For many of us, the thing we’re passionate about is not just a hobby, product, service, cause, etc… it’s a way of life.. Ted Leung explainined to me that as a result of his relatively recent passion for photography, he "sees the world differently now." Passionate golfers have apparently elevated golf to some kind of spiritual status — it is, for them, about much more than just hitting a ball with a stick. Ditto with fly fishing (it’s apparently not about the fish or the flies). The guys from 37signals offer much more than software apps… they represent a philosophy (the whole "getting real/it-just-doesn’t-matter" thing). MindJet’s Mind Manager is not a mind-mapping tool, it’s a way of thinking.

Harish Kumar examines the limitations of Mind-Mapping on OneBigWeb: "Mindmaps don’t scale well to accommodate large amounts of information. A project for instance would typically requires dozens of maps. Its not possible to navigate seamlessly across all these maps. Mindmaps are essentially hierarchies. This tends to be highly restrictive for most collections of information. The range of visualizations that hierarchies can supports is very limited. And most importantly, hierarchies are not suitable for interacting with the fine grained content that is becoming available on the web. He concludes "that there will be a huge potencial demand for a application that would go beyond mindmaps in helping people to think better."

And the Plansphere blog has apparently picked up a rumour about a viral video in the making at Mindjet…

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