According to the development team at Buzan Online, version 3.1 of iMindMap will be released this week, which will contain several project management enhancements.

MindMeister is without question the most innovative of the web-based mind mapping applications available today. Its developers have taken a truly creative approach to leveraging the capabilities of this Web 2.0 tool to the maximum. Here are 8 cool things you can do with MindMeister’s unique toolset.

Inspiration Software , the developer of the well-respected and widely used mind mapping program Inspiration, has just released the beta of a web-based version of its flagship product. Dubbed Webspiration, it does an admirable job of translating the well-designed Inspiration user interface to the web, while adding collaboration capabilities.

Mind mapping software acts like a prism, separating a major task or challenge into its component parts and enabling you to see the relationships between them, so you can more effectively develop creative solutions to address it.

What are the defining characteristics of an excellent software-produced mind map? Please share your thoughts in this discussion!

iMindMap 3 was recently launched, and includes a number of improvements from the beta version that I recently reviewed. Here’s what’s new.

NovaMind has just launched a new social map sharing website, NovaMind Connect, that you can use to store your NovaMind maps, and leverage many advanced social networking capabilities.

MeadMap recently announced that users can now attach files to maps created online. To enable this, the developer has increased the amount of file storage to 1 GB for each MeadMap account.

Jamie Nast, author of the popular book Idea Mapping and the Idea Mapping Success Blog, is one of the most world’s most prolific trainers and speakers on the topic of visual mapping. In this interview, she explains why it’s critical that executives learn to express their ideas visually, using hand-drawn idea maps and mind mapping software, and the risks of not doing so.

YouTube contains an impressive collection of videos that are focused on MindManager, including many tutorials on how to get the most out of it.