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Archive for August, 2007

MacLife Review of MindManager 7 Mac

Aug 31

Posted by Melinda Venable in Mindjet

MacLife’s Stuart Gripman recent review, "Mindjet MindManager (Mac) 7 – Escape the linear nature of note taking by creating mind maps and ask yourself, ‘is this your brain on Mac?’ " Aug 29, gave a "Solid" rating with a 3 out of 5 squares.

Stuart positively commented on the start-up menu action to guide new users calling this a "welcome sight" with "instructive and well produced" tutorials. After some experimenting, he noted that "the key to formatting is the inspector palette." Other new features to receive his kudos were outline view, background handling, rules-based filtering, and a presentation timer.

To read the product review in its entirety, go here.

Nice map, Stuart! Makes me wish I would have had MindManager when I took Art History and studied the masterworks of Botticelli!

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Mindjet to Present at Office 2.0 Conference

Aug 30

Posted by Melinda Venable in Mindjet

Anyone planning on attending next week’s Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco? It’s going to be another hit and  the Mind Mapping Panel is sure to be the "Central Topic!"  Lisa Arthur, Mindjet’s Chief Marketing Officer, will be one of the participants on the panel on Friday, September 7th at 1:30 p.m.

The annual Office 2.0 Conference is aimed at discovering the future of online productivity and collaboration. They describe their followers as visionaries, thought leaders, and customers using innovative online services for getting things done at the office, at home, and on the go.

At the conference, Lisa Arthur will contribute insights on how the use of MindManager is enabling new forms of team collaboration and innovation in the online workplace. She will discuss how nearly a million people around the world are able to work smarter, think creatively, and save time  by visually capturing, organizing and communicating ideas and information more effectively using Mindjet applications. 

WHERE: Gallery Ballroom, St. Regis Hotel, 125 3rd Street, San Francisco, CA

WHEN: 1:30 – 2:15 p.m., September 7, 2007

TICKET TO GET IN:  Register before Friday, August 31st, 2007 to benefit from the $1,495 online rate. Starting September 1st, 2007, regular tickets will be sold for $1,695. Pretty spendy ticket, but everyone who registers gets an iPhone to participate in an iPhone conference experiment! And if you already have an iPhone, you can opt for a Playstation 3.

This links to full conference agenda. A few of us from Mindjet will be there. Be sure to stop by Lisa’s panel on Friday to say hi!

The Office 2.0 Unconference (aka Open Space) is organized by Kaliya Hamlin, Identity Woman, and Ross Mayfied, Socialtext CEO. The unconference is open to all conference attendees, as well as the general public. It will take place on September 5th, 2007, from 9:00AM to 5:00PM in the Impressionist room at the St. Regis Hotel, San Francisco, CA. Participation fee for the Unconference only is $25 and is limited to the first 75 registrants – register here.

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SnagIt Output Updated for MindManager 7

Aug 29

Posted by Gaelen O'Connell in MindManager, Mindjet

Brian Friedlander, of the Assistive Technology Blog, just completed a great post on the TechSmith’s SnagIt Output update for MindManager 7.

If you’re a MindManager 7 user, you’ll want to have both applications open first, use the MindManager Output function to copy your preferred screen shot and then place the image in your MindManager map. View Brian’s step by step video now to find out how.

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Turn your “To Do Lists” into Visual Maps with MindManager

Aug 28

Posted by Gaelen O'Connell in MindManager, Mindjet

This is a great blog post on "Ten Ideas for Productive Lists", created recently by Chris Garrett of the Codswallop blog. Check out the blog link to read a full description of each list Chris indentifies here:

  1. "To-Do Lists"
  2. “Did-Do List”
  3. “Not-To-Do List”
  4. Ranking, Prioritizing and ordering
  5. Recording Ideas
  6. Processes and Procedures
  7. Note-taking
  8. Checklists
  9. Daily Reminders
  10. Writing Top-Ten Articles

Then download Mindjet’s Personal Productivity Dashboard here to begin creating your own visual "To Do List."

Creating visual maps of my personal "To Do List" action items is something I do regularly. I like using mapping software for it because it’s easy for me to assign dates to each of my items, drag in Outlook contact information (names, phone numbers, emails, addresses) associated with each item, add icons to my "list" for easy filtering, use the "strike out" feature to cross out items and easily update tasks and deadlines using the task information feature, when things change.

Want more from the Codswallop blog? Here is Chris’ most recent post on "Using Mind Maps for Creativity, Note-Taking and Productivity."

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Using MindManager to Plan the Annual Non-Profit Yosemite Writers Conference

Aug 23

Posted by LindaC in MindManager, Mindjet, News & Events

It’s about time that the renowned authors, writing group leaders, East Coast literary agents, volunteer faculty, blog mentions, recorded panel presentations, printed press and web links, and each photo picturing the exquisite beauty of Yosemite— all the elements that make up the Yosemite Writers Conference — be gathered together into a MindManager® conference planning dashboard.  Starting tomorrow, a select group of authors, editors, literary agents and publishers from across the state, from the other side of the country, and perhaps a few from overseas, will spend a weekend together devoted to writing, surrounded by the beauty of Yosemite at Tenaya Lodge.

For more information about the conference visit www.yosemitewriters.com; for more information about her experience there, contact Linda at linda.cleary@mindjet.com.

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Join the new MindManager User Network on Ning.com

Aug 15

Posted by Gaelen O'Connell in MindManager, Mindjet

Mindjet is excited to introduce you to a new customer founded "MindManager Users" social community we came across on Ning.com. The group can be found here and we encourage you to join. The MindManager Users group contains MindManager enthusiasts from all around the world. The group also hosts employees from Mindjet Corporation, to create a place for your open dialogue on how Mindjet can best serve its customers.  

Create an account and begin sharing your love for mapping with others- offering your own wisdom, sharing templates/maps, mapping blogs/resources and getting answers to your questions.

Within the MindManager User group you can:

·         Create your own profile and add other mapping software users to your friend base

·         Chat with users about mind mapping software tips n’ tricks

·         Discover new  mapping use cases and templates

·         Share your own discoveries in the mapping forums

·         Create your own mapping interest groups

·         View/upload video demos, and more

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MindManager 7 Receives 5 out of 5 Stars from KickStartNews.com!

Aug 14

Posted by Gaelen O'Connell in MindManager, Mindjet

Read the full article here to find out why KickStartNews.com highly recommends MindManager Pro 7, calling it “an unusually useful and amazingly creative product.”

KickStartNews.com editors began by putting MindManager Pro 7 through a rigorous review process involving a variety of use cases: “Our business test environments throughout the review period drew praise for easing collaboration and for sustainable improvements in productivity. Our student testers used MindManager for everything from note-taking to project planning.”

The transition of MindManager 7’s User Interface (UI) from use cases to product features, received much praise from KickStartNews.com editors: “Our view is that the Ribbon interface in Microsoft Office 2007 and in products such as MindManager Pro 7 makes a lot of sense. Basically, the ribbon approach is meant to group contextually similar features and functions in the same place. The future of ribbon interfaces appears to hold more dynamic functionality, automatically grouping and displaying or removing items as you work on a particular project. At the moment, it works quite well, providing logical sets of features and functions for each mode you select.”

 

Lastly, and most importantly, the article advocates the value of businesses using MindManager for financial gain: “ A couple of months of review in two busy businesses revealed that once staff embraced MindManager Pro 7, their success rate at helping other people more completely understand their ideas and plans improved geometrically. That impressive little fact is what it’s all about. The more thoroughly ideas and plans are understood by all stakeholders during the earliest phases of a project, the more efficiently and successfully the whole thing is going to go. That’s money in the bank.”

To read the full article, click here.

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