Thanks to Hobart Swan’s reference in the Mindjet Blog, I’ve just learned of the intriguing EGO (electronic graphics organizer) project. This is a research project headed by Leigh Zeitz of the University of Northern Iowa and Lynne Anderson of the University of Oregon. Their goal is to advance the use of electronic graphic organizers for [...]

The developers of NovaMind continue to add new features and functionality to the "early adopter" Windows version to bring it up to parity with the Mac OS X version, via weekly releases. Latest improvements include the addition of branch boundaries (drawing a border around a group of items in your map), completion of the outline [...]

Blogger Eric Mack and Gyronix principal Nick Duffill are collaborating on a new series of podcasts, entitled Mind Mapping for Results. The first installment is now available for download from Eric’s blog, and is focused on how to utilize Gyronix’s popular ResultsManager application with MindManager. The basic focus of this podcast is that Eric wants [...]

NoteTalkers.com has announced the winners of its MindManager map contest, and there’s plenty of inspiration here for all users of mind mapping software. In particular, I really enjoyed student Jason Dorko’s screencast of how he utilizes MindManager as his central planning and management tool, on a Tablet PC. His strategies include creating an Active Desktop [...]

Kyle McFarland from The Underlying Blog likes to write about mind mapping and information visualization, and recently had some nice things to say about my e-book, Power Tools & Strategies for Mind Mapping Software: "I’ve noticed a lot of people are interested in how to build better, more sophisticated sets of map infrastructure. To that [...]

The latest white paper from Gael Ltd., the developers of MindGenius, describes how mind mapping software can help dyslexics to organize their thoughts and access them in powerful new ways. Christina Sellers knows what she writes of, because she is dyslexic. Here’s a summary of how visual mapping benefits her and other dyslexics: "Many widely [...]

Mindjet recently published a new white paper entitled, "MindManager: A Vital Solution for Improved Project Management." It explains, in a very clear, easy-to-understand writing style, how MindManager can be used to: Create a project charter (a high-level document that identifies business needs, and the product or results that will satisfy those needs) Create a project [...]

A new website called My Mind Map offers downloadable templates, which you can use to map out your ideas – manually, not using mind mapping software. The site currently contains 6 templates, plus a collection of articles about mind mapping and links to additional resources.

Nick Duffill from Gyronix has posted an interesting essay on how mind mapping software can create value in organizations. He divides this value into three levels: Features, functions and ergonomics – The basics of what the program is capable of, which provides the foundation for the other two levels. Representation and modeling – This is [...]

At first glance, i2Brain looks like just another mind mapping software program. But in fact it can do much more. Its developer calls it “a new type of software for visualizing information and its structure.” It enables you to create a conventional mind map, with a topic in the center and sub-topics radiating out from [...]