Vern Burkhardt from IdeaConnection.com recently interviewed me about mind mapping and mind mapping software. We start out discussing what mind mapping is, and then focus on its value as a business tool. To read this interview, please click here.

NovaMind 4 Platinum offers this free plug-in program, which transforms the mind mapping program into a brainstorming tool. In this brief screencast, I explain how it works.

A writer from management guru Tom Peters’ website recently interviewed Dan Roam, author of the new book, The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures, about visual thinking and how it can help business people to cope with a variety of business challenges, including information overload. While this fascinating interview doesn’t [...]

In a recent blog post, Brett Bumeter took Mindjet, the developer or MindManager 7, to task for not keeping pace with users’ changing needs. That, however, is not the focus of this post. Rather, what I’d like to do here is take some of Brett’s key points and issue a challenge to all developers of mind mapping software. I believe that he has identified some real needs here that ought to be addressed by them.

Dr. Brian Friedlander recently posted a screencast in his Assistive Technology blog that briefly and simply explains how to use MindManager’s new "show branch alone" command. Why is this important? This feature is one that many users are likely to overlook, yet it may be one of the more important additions to MindManager. You see, [...]

I recently wrote a review of NovaMind 4 Platinum on my InnovationTools website. What I discovered was a solid, well-designed mind mapping program with a few cool surprises. Gideon King and his development team continue to push the envelope with cool "how did I ever get along without that" features, which include: Live previews of [...]

My new e-book, The Mind Mapping Manifesto, is now available! It aims to help business people to understand what a powerful business tool mind mapping software is, and how it can help them. Here is a brief summary of the valuable insights and advice it contains: The true cost of information overload and multi-tasking (it [...]

Recently, I hinted in this blog that I’m about to launch a new e-book, entitled The Mind Mapping Manifesto. It aims to help business people to understand what a powerful business tool mind mapping software is, and how it can help them to: Conquer information overload, Make better decisions, Reach clarity faster on key issues, [...]

Thank you to all of the visual mappers who submitted entries for the opportunity to win a free copy of my popular e-book, Power Tips & Strategies for Mind Mapping Software. The stories were so good that it was hard for me to choose just one winner. That’s why I decided to choose three: Lee [...]

Mind mapping has been evolving very slowly, with no real breakthroughs in recent years, according to Mark Salamango, CEO of SpinScape, the developer of a powerful new web-based visual mapping tool that is now in private beta testing. He thinks it’s about time for Mind Mapping 2.0, a new era in visual mapping characterized by [...]