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Tao of Productivity with PR & productivity expert Steve Rubel

Nov 3

Posted by MichaelDeutch in MindManager for Mac, MindManager for Windows, Mindjet for iPhone, Success Stories

steve-rubel-231x300 For those of you who follow social media & productivity gurus, you may be familiar with Steve Rubel. He is the senior vice president for Edelman Digital (PR agency) and has often been considered a thought leader on PR, Social media and productivity.

Yesterday, I caught this nice interview for the Tao of Productivity series with Steve on the blog, Homepages of Karthick Gopal.

In it, Steve shares, “I have become a huge fan of mindmapping. I use MindManager on my PC, Mac and iPhone to brainstorm ideas and solutions to problems. I like to mind map when I am in the air and use the time for ideation and to catch up on correspondence.”

Check out the full interview here.

P.S. I love to map on flights as  well! It’s amazing how separating from land spurs on my own creativity and breakthrough thinking! Where’s your favorite place to get creative?

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Designing in Context

Sep 30

Posted by MichaelDeutch in Mind Map Examples, MindManager, MindManager for Windows, Success Stories, Tips n' Tricks

RCapper Robin Capper, a Kiwi Mindjet mapper (say that a few times fast) and CAD expert, demonstrates how to take advantage of MindManager 8’s embedded browser to design in context!

Robin illustrates how MindManager and Autodesk Design Review (ADR) work together directly within MindManager.

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Accelerated Learning with Mind Maps

Aug 12

Posted by MichaelDeutch in Mind Map Examples, Mindjet, Success Stories

Accelerated Learning with MindManager

The following is a guest post by MindManager user, Fernando Montenegro. Fernando is a technologist with a large IT company in Canada. He has been a MindManager user since 2001 and uses it extensively for professional and personal needs. Check out how Fernando maps his way through the ongoing technical certification process for IT professionals:

Technical certification exams are a part of life for many IT and knowledge professionals. These exams may be steps in one’s career plan or may be requirements for specific assignments or business partnerships. Because the field I work in – network security – is quite broad, I keep track of certifications across a variety of areas.

I’d like to share how I use Mind Mapping in general (and MindManager in particular) to help me manage and prepare for my certification exams. This method has worked well for me when preparing for several exams. Read the rest of this entry »

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The Art of Using Twitter

May 5

Posted by MichaelDeutch in MindManager, Mindjet, Success Stories

Inspired by Tim O’Reilly, I thought it would be interesting to visualize with Wordle the information I’ve been sharing with Twitter over the past four months.

It’s been a fantastic resource to meet and speak with many of our customers and people looking for better ways to think, work, and live. In the Twitter world, I’ve been using my name, @MichaelDeutch, while Gaelen O’Connell has been answering many of your questions and providing great links using @Mindjet. Hop online and say hello, we’d love to hear from you.

Here are a few previous posts about our use of Twitter:

And, here’s a new post from a MindManager enthusiast, ‘ActivityOwner’, who started to use MindManager 8 as a dashboard for his Twitter account. Check it out!

 

While I’ve found Twitter to have great value in initiating conversations and learning about our customers, I know many have yet to see value or have written it off as a waste of time. What are your thoughts about Twitter? Have you tried it? Does it make sense? What’s stopping you from testing the waters?

 

Share your thoughts and comments below.

 

About the Author: Michael Deutch is Mindjet’s Chief Evangelist, content contributor for the Mindjet Blog and the Mindjet Connections newsletter. Get more from Michael on Twitter. 

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Mind Mapping News

Apr 20

Posted by MichaelDeutch in Mindjet, Success Stories

Welcome to another action packed week! It’s sunny and beautiful in California and I thought I’d share some sunny posts about mapping, Mindjet and other inspiring news!

How to Tell Your Story Using Mind Mapping Randy Englund, a project management consultant, shares how he leverages mind maps to enhance his communication skills!

The Social Media and Tweet Challenges For a little humor and mind mapping: Larry King vs. Ashton Kutcher with a dash of the Conversation Prism, a visualization created by Brian Solis which he uses to create his own brand’s social media MindManager map.

Where Do You Like to Mind Map? Brett Bumeter asks, where do you likt to map? Oh, I could go on and on with this one but some of my best maps were created on airplanes. Nothing beats unplugging from the day-to-day and letting my mind free to create amazing maps!

6 Human Needs Adam Sicinski’s latest work maps out the influence of our needs on our lives.

Mind Map Galleries Provide Places to Share Your Maps and Get Inspired Chuck Frey lists online sites to share mind maps or view maps for creative inspiration.

Baby Matterz is Using Mindjet Connect Baby Matterz is utilizing Mindjet Connect for real-time collaborative planning of an innovative education program that gets students to learn first-hand about the social, emotional, and physical development of babies and toddlers.

Living Building Challenge Tools: Mind mapping and Integrative Design Process If you’re up in Portland, Oregon this May, check out Mary Davidge as she and others present how they’re using Mindjet Connect to collaboratively research, track, document, and implement the prerequisites for the Living Building Challenge.  

 

About the Author: Michael Deutch is Mindjet’s Chief Evangelist, content contributor for the Mindjet Blog and the Mindjet Connections newsletter. Get more from Michael on Twitter. 

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Top Ten Solutions for MindManager 8

Apr 8

Posted by MichaelDeutch in Mindjet, Success Stories

Based on your downloads, here’s a list of the top 10 partner solutions for MindManager 8.

  1. Map Linker for creating linked map dashboards by Mindjet (free)
  2. FastTrack Schedule for perfecting project management by AEC
  3. OutlookLinker for a tighter Outlook synchronization by Ontaris
  4. theRealizer 2 for better brainstorming by Realize AB
  5. 2009 Visual Project Maps for managing projects with Prince2 by VTS Limited
  6. GyroQ for quickly capturing ideas & interruptions by Gyronix
  7. Pocket Mindmap for mobile mapping on the Pocket PC by JKRB Software
  8. aHa!1Way XLS for task exports to Excel by aHa coaching
  9. Map4Plan for project Scheduling by MindBusiness
  10. ThemeReader for scanning documents to maps based on themes by MindSystems

Check out all of Mindjet’s Partner Solutions.
And here’s a link to the German Mindjet Partner Solutions site.

What’s your favorite MindManager add-in?

Add your favorites & comments below!

 

About the Author: Michael Deutch is Mindjet’s Chief Evangelist, content contributor for the Mindjet Blog and the Mindjet Connections newsletter. Get more from Michael on Twitter. 

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Map Links

Apr 3

Posted by MichaelDeutch in Mindjet, Success Stories

Another great week of productive mapping. Here’s a short list of some inspiring map posts and news.

How to Mind Map: A Beginner’s Guide – Adam Sicinski of IQ Matrix has put together an awesome guide for how to get started with mind maps.

Richard Branson: Secrets to My Success – Ever since I lived in England, I’ve been a fan of Richard. Adam again has done a great job mapping out Richard’s patterns of success.

Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School – twelve simple principles to help us make the best use of our brains, enabling us to become better teachers, students, parents and business leaders.

MindBerry: Mindmapping software for the Blackberry – a new mind mapping software for the blackberry hit the market. Not yet integrated with MindManager, send in your feature requests! Actually, I met the developer on Twitter recently and they’re looking to integrate with Mindjet.

April Fools Day Mind Map Competition - A little contest from Paul at the Mind Map inspiration blog.

The Benefits of Using a Mind Map as a Personal Dashboard – Matthew Lang at MindMapSwitch has started to document the benefits and ways to use mind mapping for personal dashboards.

What has inspired you this week?

About the Author: Michael Deutch is Mindjet’s Chief Evangelist, content contributor for the Mindjet Blog and the Mindjet Connections newsletter. Get more from Michael on Twitter. 

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