Mindjet has released a new Word 2007 Map Editor for MindManager. It enables you to to share maps created in MindManager with colleagues and coworkers who use Microsoft Word 2007. They can open and edit the MindManager map embedded in the Word document file, and their changes will be reflected in the map when you [...]

Tony Buzan’s new mind mapping software program, iMindMap, is now available for download. This is a beta version, with the commercial version scheduled to ship some time in the near future. I downloaded and installed it, and it’s pretty impressive. As you might expect, iMindMap adheres closely to Tony’s rules of mind mapping – and [...]

MatchWare, the developer of the OpenMind mind mapping software program, last week announced the launch of version 2.0 Business Edition. This update incorporates many new and improved features, including: The ability to add task information to your maps Microsoft Outlook import, export and synchronization of tasks A built in GANTT (project management) chart view Microsoft [...]

A few days ago, I told you about Norah Bolton’s new visual mapping e-book, See What You Think! How to Work Better and Faster with VisiMap. I’ve now had a chance to dig into it a bit more, and I think it’s a great resource for users of any mind mapping program. This new resource [...]

Norah Bolton, founder and president of consulting firm Dynamic Thinking, has written an e-book entitled See What You Think! How to Work Better and Faster with VisiMap, which was just announced today by CoCo Systems, the developer of VisiMap. Its goal is to teach you how to use visual mapping in new ways to manage [...]

Thanks to alert reader Phil Chambers (author of the 101 Top Tips for Better Mind Maps book I recently told you about), I just learned that the Buzan organization is developing a new mind mapping program called iMindMap. Its website says that it will be Java-based, which means it will be able to run on [...]

Gael Ltd., developers of MindGenius, offer a consulting service that helps companies to capture and organize and catalog its knowledge, as reported in the British publication eStrategiesEurope. Knowledge management starts with knowledge capture, which article author Ralph Clark (CEO of Gael) explains is often the most daunting part of the process: "Capturing the vast amounts [...]

How can you make an informed decision on which mind mapping software to purchase? The author of the Knowledge Mapping Blog walks us through his recent evaluation process, in which he looked at MindManager Pro, MindGenius, ConceptDraw MINDMAP Pro, MindMapper and FreeMind. As part of this selection process, he takes a set of performance criteria [...]

Phil Chambers recently shared with me his excellent book, 101 Top Tips for Better Mind Maps. Although it’s focused on hand-drawn mind maps, much of its advice is also applicable to software-produced visual maps. Phil, who is a World Champion and International Grandmaster of mind mapping, has obviously put a lot of thought into this [...]

For a number of years, mind mapping software has been available to help businesspeople record and organize their ideas. But one area that this type of software hasn’t really addressed is helping users to come up with new ideas. Until now. theRealizer is a new MindManager add-in from Swedish developer Realize AB that solves this [...]