Mindjet announced yesterday that it has reached an agreement with web conferencing and applications sharing giant WebEx to make MindManager Pro 6 available via its new WebEx Connect service. WebEx Connect is a collaborate online workspace that will enable users, even if they don’t own a software program, to use it as an on-demand [...]

Macworld magazine just published a review of MindManager 6 for Mac OS X, which calls the program "a strong addition to the existing slate of Mac brainstorming apps." The reviewer really likes the way that Mindjet followed Apple’s strict guidelines when creating this clean-slate application (not a port of the Windows version), which resulted [...]

During the month of August, I conducted a survey of business users of mind mapping software. My goals were to learn what executives are doing with mind mapping software, how it benefits them and what’s keeping it from being more widely used in business. The results were outstanding: over 500 people filled out the [...]

Idea Mapping: How to Access Your Hidden Brain Power, Learn Faster, Remember More and Achieve Success in Business is a new book by Jamie Nast, which was just published by John Wiley & Sons. It teaches the basics of how to capture your ideas using “idea maps” – basically, mind maps that are focused [...]

According to the latest newsletter from NovaMind Software, the developer has released NovaMind version 3.1 for Mac OS X, with over 50 new features. Among the most notable:

A new user interface, which features a multi-tabbed toolbar, to keep interface clutter to a minimum,
The ability to work with multiple maps within a single document,
Support for [...]

My mind mapping software survey is now officially closed; over 500 people responded. A big thank you to all of you who filled out the survey, and to those bloggers who promoted this research to their readers!
I’m now in the process of writing a report that details the survey results, which I hope to have [...]

Microsoft Word 2007, beneath the hood, incorporates some powerful XML, .Net and VBA tools that enable it to integrate with other applications. Mindjet Labs has been working on ways to leverage these capabilities, and has just announced that it has developed a way to edit MindManager maps from within Word 2007. This will enable [...]

Visual Technology Solutions, a UK company that develops solutions for use with MindManager, has announced that it plans to offer special version of its Visual Projects Maps Pro plug-in that will be focused on the Prince2 project management methodology. Prince2 stands for PRojects IN Controlled Environments, and is the de facto standard for project [...]

News from CS Odessa, the developer of ConceptDraw MINDMAP:
"With the increased popularity of CS Odessa’s ConceptDraw products, combined with our wish to get closer to our customer base in the Americas, we are opening an office in San Jose, California. Currently we are busy setting up the infrastructure that will make it easier for [...]

A new version of i2Brain is now available. The latest update adds the capability to create hyperlinks to documents, websites, email addresses or even phone connections. These links appear as icons to the right of an item in your visual maps. This new version also includes improvements to i2Brain’s handling of columnar data, saving [...]