When Nick Duffill sent me an e-mail about Mindomo, I was expecting to see just another web-based mind mapping tool: you know, basic functionality in a Flash-enabled interface. Some features, but mainly lots of future promise. But imagine my surprise when I read Nick’s post and then tried it for myself - and discovered [...]

Mind Technologies has just announced a public beta test program for Visual Mind 9. The most important new feature is real-time map sharing, via a new Visual Mind Server that manages collaboration between users. Any changes made to a shared Visual Mind map will immediately be made available to other users who are working [...]

Marcus Ingemann, in his Mind Mapping Power Pack, outlines a number of intriguing techniques for visual mapping. One of them is called "The Scale." It can be used any time you need to compare several items or choices with each other. It’s a marvelous way to visualize the advantages and drawbacks of a number [...]

Marc Orchant, who writes the Knowledge at Work blog for ZDnet, recently published a review of MindMeister, the most promising of the new batch of web-based mind mapping tools I told you about earlier this month. Like me, he is impressed with its well-designed functionality:
"I am mighty impressed with this beta. It’s polished, easy [...]

Earl Moore, the author of the Meandering Passage weblog recently published an informative review of ConceptDraw MINDMAP Professional version 4.5.6. His verdict?
"ConceptDraw MINDMAP Pro is a strong and capable mind mapping package that excels in it’s ability to exchange data with other applications and in providing additional drawing, sorting, and node arrangement functions."
Earl’s [...]

Last week, I told you that I launched a Squidoo lens (a highly customizable resource page) on mind mapping software. I just discovered, thanks to a reference in the Mindjet Blog, that marketing guru Roger C. Parker has launched one entitled Guerilla Marketing with Mind Maps. It explains how 10 common, marketing-related tasks can [...]

Slowly but surely, users and developers of mind mapping software are starting to post video clips on YouTube, the immensely popular video sharing website. The latest clips to be uploaded to this site are 3 that are focused on business usese of MindManager:

How to add a custom button to the MindManager toolbar
Using one of [...]

In 2005, marketing expert Seth Godin launched a Web 2.0 toolset with the weird moniker of Squidoo. Its purpose was to make it easy for people to create collections of resources and information, focused on very specific topics, and to have the entire universe of Squidoo pages act like a search engine that only [...]

Matchware, the developer of the OpenMind 2 mind mapping software application, have just announced the launch of a free file viewer, which enables users of the program to share their OpenMind files with colleagues who aren’t users of it. If the user of OpenMind saves the file using the program’s "Pack & Go" feature, [...]

Two weeks ago, I announced my latest mind mapping software survey. To those of you who have responded, thank you very much! To those of you who haven’t filled out the survey, please do so by the end of this week. My hope is to close out the survey by Saturday, February 17th.
Please [...]