Conspire: A Mindjet Publication » Michael Scherotter http://blog.mindjet.com Quick, intelligent, witty, discreet--We confess. We’re leading a global conspiracy to promote better ideas through better collaboration. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:58:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Thank You Mindjet! http://blog.mindjet.com/2007/03/thank-you-mindjet-2 http://blog.mindjet.com/2007/03/thank-you-mindjet-2#comments Wed, 28 Mar 2007 22:03:49 +0000 Michael Scherotter http://blog.mindjet.com/2007/03/thank-you-mindjet-2 Today is it!  After 4 1/2 years, this is my last day at Mindjet and tomorrow I will be starting a new job with Microsoft.  This is an amazing opportunity for me.  Please read this post about it [...]]]> http://blog.mindjet.com/2007/03/thank-you-mindjet-2/feed 0 Editing Maps with Microsoft Office Word 2007 http://blog.mindjet.com/2006/09/editing-maps-with-microsoft-office-word-2007 http://blog.mindjet.com/2006/09/editing-maps-with-microsoft-office-word-2007#comments Wed, 13 Sep 2006 06:38:33 +0000 Michael Scherotter http://blog.mindjet.com/2006/09/editing-maps-with-microsoft-office-word-2007

If you haven’t noticed, not much new stuff has come out of the Mindjet Labs lately and that’s because we were working on something really cool. 

Let me start out with some background:  As many of [...]]]> http://blog.mindjet.com/2006/09/editing-maps-with-microsoft-office-word-2007/feed 3 Trip Planning with MindManager and Microsoft Virtual Earth http://blog.mindjet.com/2006/07/trip-planning-with-mindmanager-and-microsoft-virtual-earth http://blog.mindjet.com/2006/07/trip-planning-with-mindmanager-and-microsoft-virtual-earth#comments Mon, 31 Jul 2006 16:21:18 +0000 Michael Scherotter http://blog.mindjet.com/2006/07/trip-planning-with-mindmanager-and-microsoft-virtual-earth I’ve got something pretty cool in the labs to show you.  Ever since I came back from Mashup Camp, I have been thinking of a practical Mashup application for our devoted MindManager users and I came [...]]]> http://blog.mindjet.com/2006/07/trip-planning-with-mindmanager-and-microsoft-virtual-earth/feed 2 Mashed Up MindManager http://blog.mindjet.com/2006/07/mashed-up-mindmanager http://blog.mindjet.com/2006/07/mashed-up-mindmanager#comments Mon, 17 Jul 2006 17:33:03 +0000 Michael Scherotter http://blog.mindjet.com/2006/07/mashed-up-mindmanager I came back from two days of intense mashup fever at the Mashup Camp 2 in Mountain View last week.  The big question that I wanted to answer is how can MindManager be an effective mashup enabler?  I got [...]]]> http://blog.mindjet.com/2006/07/mashed-up-mindmanager/feed 3 Heading to Mashup Camp http://blog.mindjet.com/2006/07/heading-to-mashup-camp http://blog.mindjet.com/2006/07/heading-to-mashup-camp#comments Wed, 12 Jul 2006 04:08:30 +0000 Michael Scherotter http://blog.mindjet.com/2006/07/heading-to-mashup-camp I’m off to another event to evangelize about MindManager as a synergist for other software systems.  This time, I’m going with our hot-shot solutions engineer Vivek Vishist to Mashup Camp.  We’re going to learn [...]]]> http://blog.mindjet.com/2006/07/heading-to-mashup-camp/feed 2 A Visit to Microsoft http://blog.mindjet.com/2006/07/a-visit-to-microsoft http://blog.mindjet.com/2006/07/a-visit-to-microsoft#comments Sun, 09 Jul 2006 17:31:56 +0000 Michael Scherotter http://blog.mindjet.com/2006/07/a-visit-to-microsoft Because of MindManager’s extensive integrations with various Microsoft (msft) products, keeping close ties with the Microsoft is a priorty for Mindjet.  On June 29th a small group of us went up to Redmond, Washington to visit this important partner.  [...]]]> http://blog.mindjet.com/2006/07/a-visit-to-microsoft/feed 8 Back from Microsoft Tech Ed http://blog.mindjet.com/2006/06/back-from-microsoft-tech-ed http://blog.mindjet.com/2006/06/back-from-microsoft-tech-ed#comments Fri, 16 Jun 2006 16:05:22 +0000 Michael Scherotter http://blog.mindjet.com/2006/06/back-from-microsoft-tech-ed I just came back from a trip to Microsoft (msft) Tech Ed conference in Boston where I was invited to speak about the new MindManager add-in that I built for software requirements gathering for Microsoft’s new [...]]]> http://blog.mindjet.com/2006/06/back-from-microsoft-tech-ed/feed 4 How to Build an Enterprise Integration in 4 Days http://blog.mindjet.com/2006/04/how-to-build-an-enterprise-integration-in-4-days http://blog.mindjet.com/2006/04/how-to-build-an-enterprise-integration-in-4-days#comments Mon, 17 Apr 2006 15:14:16 +0000 Michael Scherotter http://blog.mindjet.com/2006/04/how-to-build-an-enterprise-integration-in-4-days Background
All software develoment teams use some some sort of bug tracking and task management system.  At Microsoft (MSFT), these teams use an application called Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) an enterprise-class scalable system that was developed in-house [...]]]> http://blog.mindjet.com/2006/04/how-to-build-an-enterprise-integration-in-4-days/feed 2 Why Is Mindjet Interested in Web 2.0? http://blog.mindjet.com/2006/04/why-is-mindjet-interested-in-web-20 http://blog.mindjet.com/2006/04/why-is-mindjet-interested-in-web-20#comments Mon, 03 Apr 2006 21:57:10 +0000 Michael Scherotter http://blog.mindjet.com/2006/04/why-is-mindjet-interested-in-web-20 Great question.

Why is the company that makes everyone’s favorite desktop productivity application so interested in what’s happening with Web 2.0?  Isn’t MindManager a desktop application and the web, well, the web?  It’s all about XML. 

When [...]]]> http://blog.mindjet.com/2006/04/why-is-mindjet-interested-in-web-20/feed 1 Can a map style encourage participation? http://blog.mindjet.com/2006/03/can-a-map-style-encourage-participation http://blog.mindjet.com/2006/03/can-a-map-style-encourage-participation#comments Mon, 27 Mar 2006 21:42:39 +0000 Michael Scherotter http://blog.mindjet.com/2006/03/can-a-map-style-encourage-participation In the blog post that I made on Friday, quite a few people requested the architectural typeface that I created.  One person, J. Strimiki made a great observation, which makes sense:

"The font invites participation." 

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