Dan Keldsen, author of the BizTechTalk blog, recently conducted a podcast interview with Michael Scherotter of Mindjet (developer of MindManager) and Richard Love, senior director of quality systems at Stiefel, a pharmaceutical company, on the topics of mind mapping and GTD (Getting Things Done, the organizational methodology popularized by David Allen). They also touch on […]

Earl Moore, the author of the Meandering Passage weblog recently published an informative review of ConceptDraw MINDMAP Professional version 4.5.6. His verdict? "ConceptDraw MINDMAP Pro is a strong and capable mind mapping package that excels in it’s ability to exchange data with other applications and in providing additional drawing, sorting, and node arrangement functions." Earl’s […]

Last week, I told you that I launched a Squidoo lens (a highly customizable resource page) on mind mapping software. I just discovered, thanks to a reference in the Mindjet Blog, that marketing guru Roger C. Parker has launched one entitled Guerilla Marketing with Mind Maps. It explains how 10 common, marketing-related tasks can be […]

In 2005, marketing expert Seth Godin launched a Web 2.0 toolset with the weird moniker of Squidoo. Its purpose was to make it easy for people to create collections of resources and information, focused on very specific topics, and to have the entire universe of Squidoo pages act like a search engine that only contains […]

Two weeks ago, I announced my latest mind mapping software survey. To those of you who have responded, thank you very much! To those of you who haven’t filled out the survey, please do so by the end of this week. My hope is to close out the survey by Saturday, February 17th. Please take […]

The Mind Mapping Power Pack is a set of e-books and video learning sessions that can help you to learn some fresh, new ways to utilize your visual mapping software. For example, author Marcus Ingemann explains: How to compare several similar opportunities, utilizing placement and coloring of your map elements to highlight the pros and […]

Last fall, I conducted a survey of mind mapping software users, which was the largest research of its kind ever performed in this fast-growing software genre. The results were quite significant: It showed, for example, that mind mapping software increases the productivity of its users by an average of 20 percent! It’s now time for […]

Nick Duffill shares a very cool way to do outcome-based planning — to visualize our relationship with a business event, such as solving a problem, launching a product, delivering a presentation or establishing a new process. Most mind mapping software programs, he points out, tend to cluster topics on the right and left sides of […]

Thanks to many of you, my first mind mapping software survey, conducted last fall, was a great success. I’m now beginning to brainstorm questions for my next survey. And I’d like your help! Please use the comments section of this post to tell me what YOU would like to know about the business use of […]

I just got word from Chris Griffiths, the managing director of Buzan Online, that a new video featuring Tony Buzan (the inventor of mind mapping) has just been released on YouTube.com. In this 5-minute video clip, Tony clearly explains why mind maps have curved branches, the importance of only placing one word on each branch, […]