Answer: Yes

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Please consider developing a MindMap Wiki. This would make an excellent compliment not only to the development of MindManager but to many discussion boards online.

Best Regards,
Brett
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I’m sorry we didn’t get to connect as fully as I desired to Tech-Ed. We were in a few BoF sessions together and some chalk and talks and even had a meeting psuedo-planned and never got to make that connection. I’ve been trying out MindManager for bit and do enjoy the product (you’ll find a few maps on my blog). As you know since my area is largely VSTS/TFS I am definately interested for us to make that missed connection. Drop me a line and let’s see if we can actually get the dialogue going now that Tech-Ed is complete.

Michael — it’s like your “Charette” font and blueprint working together, behind the scenes to “invite participation”. that’s a start.

from this side of the table, I’d like to see the natural next step with what you’re suggesting.

the NetViewer application already makes it easy to “invite participants” to colloborate on small-scale.

add-in the SnagIt/Camtasia, first as “add-ins” similar to how SnagIt/Camtasia install themselves into the menu bar of MS Office products. Do that with MindManager.

next, in addition to the “meet now” that’s possible with NetViewer – add to MindManager an “Archive Now” option, right into the Menu Bar somewhere.

Make it easy to record the meeting, behind the scenes as it were.

This will put you and MindManager on a par with the
Big Box and Big Bill tools called Live Meeting and WebEx. The Big Boys have come at this from the other way. They are struggling with “Meet Now” and with “Archiving” from their side of the equation. But, they do have it working. It’s easy to use the Big Box tools to not just do the big webinars, do the application sharing, such as MindManager into WebEx or into Live Meeting — but also to do the small Meet Now kinds of things. And, to record and archive.

But the recording is Klunky.

No user options. Difficult to get to the archive at their warehouse. Difficult to use their tools.

Difficult, but possible to get the archive, and to
repurpose it.

Camtasia Studio could do such a neat job here.

Just like the Web 2.0 and 2.5 tools. You scale right in there, when you ask questions like this. You are only a small step away. and, you just took a great step by asking your question and being open to feedback.

It is easy to agree with you, about the TechSmith folks and Betsy Weber. She even came to see us !

That is, she traveled to see her customers, and listened to them. Her colleagues put up with all sorts of grief with people under deadlines and who want to get things done now, without reading manuals.

Troy Stein is just as amazing, as are the persons working to keep .swf and Flash under a users control.
Try their Tech Support staff sometime. Try their user group community. They’ve got it right.

Oh. One more thing. show us some demos of tablet PC, MindManager, NetViewer, and Camtasia working together. Not just a “desktop demo” or Screencast of one. It’s time to start collaborating by example, and putting feedback in.

It’s time to start connecting MindManager to the Camtasia timeline and markers. It’s time to show us how to connect from a MM Map right into the particular mark-in the archive’s footage.

Why don’t you and Betsy and colleagues put something together, over distance. I am pretty sure Betsy will be back here in town in August, and at our huge world conference on Distance Ed. I’m not sure why she’s not on stage, but her style is more like engaging participants right at their level on the street and in the aisles.

But, you needed wait for that event. The collaboration starts now.

So, are there more tools in this “MindManager, Application Sharing over Distance, NetViewer, Camtasia/SnagIt” integration?

How does VoIP fit in ? Skype. It would seem pretty easy to have a “Poor Persons’ Collaboration and Archiving Suite”. In fact, we have it all, already.

Give us a MindMap of those tools.

After the map, “do the laundry”.

We’re just lacking you and TechSmith putting your heads together, at the applications level.

many, and best, regards.

thanks for getting together with TechSmith.

the two groups, it seems already have “participation” and “collaboration” pretty naturally hard-wired into their DNA. You’ve also demonstrated that with your ‘blueprint’ project.

Encore. Encore.

//j