Vic Gee, author of the Mind Mapping Blog, envisions a day when there is total interoperability of mind mapping programs. In other words, any program can open and work with files created in any other program. As a first step in this quest, he has created a fascinating visualization that depicts which programs can "talk […]

This is the introduction of the Mind Mapping Manifesto, a new e-book that I will be publishing very soon: In the name of organizational efficiency, chances are you’re now doing more work than ever before – more projects, more objectives, more data, more plans and more deliverables. It’s getting harder to keep up. You’re a […]

Two more mind map galleries have sprung up in recent months, which give you convenient and free places to share your maps: MindMapPedia gives you the freedom to upload your maps, no matter which mind mapping software program it was created in. You can also upload image scans of hand-drawn maps. Any map that was […]

Jamie Nast, writing in her Idea Mapping Blog, recently shared a case history of a group of 35 IT project leaders, who would meet weekly to review the major IT projects happening within their organization. Each week, a team of 4 people spent 2 days compiling an 85-page status document. By the time the IT […]

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 […]