Alexander Tyagulsky, marketing manager at CS Odessa (the developer of ConceptDraw MINDMAP), is looking for your help. Specifically, he’s looking for feedback on how you’re collaborating using mind maps. He has identified four different scenarios for map sharing and collaboration:

Sharing your maps in read-only mode (where your map is published each time you make [...]

Michael Scherotter recently posted a screencast in his blog at Mindjet Labs that demonstrates how to create a custom topic shape in Visio, export it in a MindManager compliant format, and how to load it into MindManager as a reusable "map part." Pretty cool!
Michael, who headed Mindjet Labs and was the evangelist for the [...]

I have just finished writing a review of MatchWare’s new OpenMind 2 Business Edition on my InnovationTools website. Among the highlights:

Two-way integration with Microsoft Office applications (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook and Project) is impressive
Timeline and GANTT views should be popular with business users who need to do project management
Many well-designed features that seem to have [...]

Here’s a link to an interesting, albeit brief, review by Stewart McKie of the Mac OS X software program NoteMind. Unlike conventional mind mapping software, which enables you to capture a set of ideas in visual form, NoteMind lets you collect and organize information in one view - a personal knowledge base - which [...]

Eric Blue recently placed a call to action on his blog, calling for the developers of mind mapping software to adopt a common file format. With the recent explosion of web-based mind mapping tools (MindMeister, Mindomo, etc.), Eric points out that mind mapping is being exposed to a much larger audience today than ever [...]

Remember I told you earlier this month that CS Odessa (developers of ConceptDraw MINDMAP) launched a ConceptDraw Labs, and that they were beta testing a program called Brainstorm Lite? Well, it’s now out of beta and has been officially released by the developer, as of yesterday.
Brainstorm Lite is an application for Mac OS X [...]

Here’s an intriguing mind mapping contest: The author of the eDragonu Blog, Dragos Roua, which covers David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD) personal organizational methodology, is holding a contest for the best and most creative resume - in visual map format. The prize is a free license for MindManager 6.
I normally wouldn’t highlight a [...]

During the last month or two, the new class of web-based mind mapping applications have generated a lot of excitement. But no one has done a side-by-side comparison of their features and functionality. So I decided to take on that challenge. The chart below is based on what the developers have published on their websites, [...]

One of the hallmarks of a well-designed software program is how well it eases the way to competency for new users. Two mind mapping software programs that do a good job of this are OpenMind 2 from Matchware and NovaMind 3.2 from NovaMind Software Pty.
OpenMind 2 has a lot of great features that seem [...]

3D Topicscape is a program that takes visual mapping into compelling new territory. It displays your ideas and data in a 3D workspace that resembles a series of mountain peaks, and enables you to "fly through" 3D space to view your information from different perspectives. Recently, Chris from the RevolutionCalling blog posted an interesting [...]