Mindjet announced in a news release yesterday that it is closing in on 1 million licensed copies of MindManager sold. The company has now sold approximately 850,000 software licenses, including more than 200,000 in 2006 alone. Mindjet points out that a major contributor to this growing momentum is the presence of MindManager on WebEx Connect, […]

Hobart Swan, external affairs manager for Mindjet, recently announced that he’s leaving the company, effective February 16th, for a new position in Boise, ID – where he has been living for the past few years. So what? Hobie was not only a very good PR guy, who worked tirelessly to build recognition for the company’s […]

Mindjet recently released Service Pack 2 for MindManager Pro 6 and MindManager Basic 6 will now run on Microsoft Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007. It also incorporates a number of fixes and updates to the popular mind mapping program. No word in the release notes if Mindjet has fixed MindManager 6’s memory management issues […]

News from CS Odessa, the developer of ConceptDraw MINDMAP: "With the increased popularity of CS Odessa’s ConceptDraw products, combined with our wish to get closer to our customer base in the Americas, we are opening an office in San Jose, California. Currently we are busy setting up the infrastructure that will make it easier for […]

It has now been 3 weeks since I launched my mind mapping software survey. Thanks to the efforts many bloggers, I have now received over 450 responses! If you haven’t filled out this survey, please do so now, because I will be closing it out some time next week. The survey is only 10 questions […]

Most executives today face an endless barrage of e-mails, phone calls and new projects, which makes it difficult for them to juggle everything. They are also required to gather, organize, analyze, synthesize and make sense of unprecedented amounts of information, deftly separating the wheat from the chaff and making fast, informed decisions. Mind mapping software […]

The Hollywood Reporter website is the last place I’d expect to see an article extolling the virtues of a mind mapping program. But that’s just what happened last week: This tinseltown tattler has written a profile of how independent filmmaker Joel Rasmussen utilized MindManager on a Tablet PC in numerous ways on his latest film, […]

Arjen ter Hoeve, author of podcasts and training materials focused on mind mapping, has written an e-book on a new visual mapping technique he has developed called "summapping." Briefly summarized, it looks a lot like mind mapping, except that maps can contain items that may be closely related to one another (and therefore are located […]

NoteTalkers.com has announced the winners of its MindManager map contest, and there’s plenty of inspiration here for all users of mind mapping software. In particular, I really enjoyed student Jason Dorko’s screencast of how he utilizes MindManager as his central planning and management tool, on a Tablet PC. His strategies include creating an Active Desktop […]

Welcome to my new mind mapping weblog! Mind mapping software is quickly growing in importance, not only as a tool to capture and organize your ideas, but also to organize projects, gather and present information, collaborate at a whole new level, and much more. In the coming weeks and months, we’ll explore some of the […]