Exploratree is a new website that offers an impressive selection of free visual thinking guides. While not mind maps, they are marvelous tools for visual thinking and mapping of information and ideas. Think of thinking guides as blank templates that you can fill in with your ideas and information. You can download them for free, […]

Tom Crawford, CEO of VizThink, reports that the full guide for the VizThink Conference (January 27-29, 2008 in San Francisco, Calif.) is now online. Tom’s opening comments in the brochure set the stage for what this unique event is all about: "VizThink ’08 is all about exposure and experience with a wide variety of visual […]

Alberto Martinez recently launched the Mindmapping Everywhere blog, in which he demonstrates how he works with visual maps. The topics so far are very informative, as shown by these examples: Guidelines for mind mapping styles Mind mapping meetings Mind mapping business scorecard Welcome to the community of mind mapping bloggers, Alberto! We’re expecting great things […]

Mappio, a site that started life as a way to create visual maps from a text-based outline, relaunched itself in December as a repository for MindManager and FreeMind maps. Maps are searchable by title and keyword tags, and you can also view a set of featured mind maps. The developer, Alexander Uslontsev, recently told me […]

Kyle McFarlin, the Visual Strategist and author of The Underlying Blog, was recently featured on The Productivity Show, a weekly podcast that covers technologies and methodologies for getting things done more efficiently. In this one-hour conversation, host Tony Goodson talks with Kyle about a wide range of mind mapping topics, including: The current state and […]

Tom Crawford, writing in his VizThink Blog, announced this week that he has released a draft schedule of the breakout sessions for the VizThink 2008 conference, which will be held January 27-29, 2008 in San Francisco, California. A quick perusal of the schedule turned up these promising-looking topics related to visual mapping: BizViz: A Framework […]

The developer of TPAssist, a personal productivity add-in for MindManager, recently launched a free webinar to help MindManager users to understand what TPAssist is and how it can be used to manage goals and small projects. TPassist adds goal-related task info to your tasks in MindManager, enabling you to manage them and track your progress […]

Mindjet, the developer of MindManager 7, has developed a framework to help businesses to understand the value that its mind mapping software can provide, both in terms of direct and indirect benefits. In the process, it has illuminated some interesting facts and figures that should be of interest to anyone considering investing in any brand […]

Eric Blue has been beating the drum for some time now for a universal mind map file format, to make it easier for users of mind mapping software to easily share their files with one another, no matter what program they use. The emergence of web-based mapping tools makes this need even more urgent, he […]

I recently had an opportunity to speak with Tom Crawford, CEO of VizThink, a new online community for visual thinkers. The first initiative of this new group is a conference, VizThink ’08, which will be held January 27-29 in San Francisco, California. The list of facilitators that Tom has already assembled for this conference reads […]