We’re excited to let you know that MindManager 7 Mac now supports Mac OS X Leopard. This update supports the latest OS release, including compatibility for the Quick Look feature that allows previewing a map without opening the file. Service Pack 1 is free for MindManager 7 Mac users and available immediately from this link.
The Mindjet Team
A story featuring MindManager biotechnology customer, Amoax, was published in Baseline Magazine today and is available at this link in its entirety.
Excerpt:
In 1999, Amaox, which acts as a sort of virtual bridge for government, universities, and industry to develop better solutions to the bioterrorist threat, took the lead by establishing the Advanced Medical Countermeasures Consortium, including researchers from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Chemical Defense, Harvard Medical School, University of Michigan, east Tennessee State university, Drexel University, Northern Ontario Medical School , Meharry Medical College, AFG Biosolutions, Inc., and Amaox.
The fledgling company initially was faced with what Dr. Smith calls "a Herculean task. The relationships between and among the members had to be clearly mapped out so that everyone in the consortium—and potential funding agencies—could clearly understand what we were trying to create and how we would organize the work," he said. "But the ideas were too complex to do all this with just words. They say a picture is worth 1,000 words, but if that’s true, then a visual map is worth 5,000 words."
The task of creating and managing a virtual team of researchers who were geographically scattered but who were working to address a specific medical challenge was made a lot easier and less time-consuming through the use of MindManager, which can best be described as software for brainstorming or idea-sharing. Drs. Stone and Smith use the software to capture and organize the group members’ ideas and information. "Each scientist has a different way to look at a problem, and we needed to gather that information," Dr. Smith explained. "Gaining a high-level view of the information is key to the process."
"Mind Manager has been an advantage for us, because it brought everything together on one sheet of paper," Dr. Smith said. "Being able to map out each idea, it allows us to see the relationships between and among things. We can take very complex concepts and components and see how the different factors involved integrate and affect each other."
Read the full Mindjet case study with Amaox now within our Customer Success web pages on Mindjet.com.
Mindjet would like to learn more about what business systems companies are using and how they might like to extend the use of MindManager within those business systems. We invite you to share your feedback with us in this very brief survey.
Thank you in advance for your support!
Join Jerry Manas for his Mindjet webinar "Leading with Humanity" on Thursday, January 24th 11 am PST / 2 pm EST.
Jerry, author of the upcoming book Managing the Gray Areas and the international bestseller Napoleon on Project Management, will share his set of guidelines and tools to help today’s business leaders with the challenging dilemmas they face every day. In this webinar he will show how MindManager Pro 7 can increase business leaders’ effectiveness through visually mapping cultural and social considerations, ethics models for decision-making, systems relationships, and more.
View past Mindjet webinars here.
A basic search within the Q&A section of LinkedIn today on "mindmapping" returned 42 lively and passionate threads! Check out these summaries and throw your knowledge and expertise into the mix. Perhaps they’ll even inspire you to start your own thread.
The mapping threads turned up a wide variety of questions and themes:
Advice on user preferred mapping software programs on Windows and Mac
Calls for "tips n’ tricks"
Leads on mapping support groups
Mapping special interest groups (Example: Tablet PC users)
Testimonials and use case scenarios on using mapping software for everything from websites to new products and projects, to training courses.
Conceptual discussions about best practices within the workplace for visual collaboration and innovation
Check out the mapping software threads on LinkedIn now by loggin in, searching under "Answers" and typing in the keyword "mindmapping. Also look for more developments in this area, coming soon.
All of us here at Mindjet would like to wish you a happy and successful 2008. In celebration of great things to come, we wanted to start your year off right with some mapping resources to quickly boost your productivity.
Lifehack.org’s “Questions for a New Year” in a MindManager map. The Who, What, Where, When, Why and How you need to ask yourself to reach your goals in 2008:
(Thank you to MindManager user, Alan Yoshioka, for submitting this!)
The Mind Mapping Software Weblog ” 2007 Year In Review”, featuring Chuck Frey’s most important posts on the mapping software trends, research, reviews, articles, templates and tips n’ tricks of last year.
A new mapping software blog you’ll want to keep an eye out for: “Mindmapping Everywhere” from Alberto Martinez, a MindManager Pro 7 user. Read his interview with Dr. Friedlander of the Assistive Technology blog now and access Alberto’s new template for preparing a management meeting here.
Expand your networking circle. Chat with other MindManager users in the active MindManager User Group on Ning.com.
Have a mapping software tip for our community for the New Year? Please share it here at a comment to this post.
Happy Mapping!
You are currently browsing the archives for January, 2008
Or get your updates via email...
