What are you using visual mapping for? Please share your thoughts in the InnovationTools Forum. Wallace Tait is compiling information for an upcoming e-book aimed at corporate users of visual mapping software, and he would like to hear from you.

Visual Bubble is a new website that aims to be the MindManager resources portal. It contains over 100 enhancements for the popular business mapping software, including add-ins, maps, templates, map parts and wizards for MindManager X5 and MindManager 6. An annual subscription of US$17 gives you full access to all of the site’s resources. My […]

Mindjet reported earlier this week that its annual revenues increased 41 percent in 2005, and credits its strong growth to the increasing demand for better ways to harness ideas for planning and decision making. I believe that Mindjet’s rapid growth is a bellwether, an indicator of accelerating interest in mind mapping software as a whole. […]

According to a number of news items published by Mac news websites, MindCad has just released Incubator 2.0 for OS X, a new visual mapping application that is the successor to Pyramid, its existing mind mapping program. Here’s how MindCad describes the relationship between Incubator and Pyramid: "Incubator is our flagship product and is a […]

CS Odessa has just announced a new upgrade to its well-regarded ConceptDraw MINDMAP application. Version 4.2 now supports the OPML outlining format, which means that this mind mapping software program can both import text outlines from OPML-compliant outlining programs and export to this format. This update is free to existing users of ConceptDraw MINDMAP v4. […]

Mindjet’s development team has been busy lately! In the Mindjet Blog, the company recently posted a request for beta testers for a WebEx (conferencing) add-in for MindManager. In its latest issue of the Mindjet Insider e-newsletter, published on Feb. 17, it is also soliticing beta testers for French and Japanese versions of MindManager for Windows, […]

A recent topic of discussion in the Yahoo MindManager group has been a tool for MindManager called Visual Project Maps Pro. It acts like a "front end" for this popular mind mapping software program, by providing a dialog box where you can define the key parameters of your project. This "wizard" then generates a "project […]

Late last year, CS Odessa launched ConceptDraw MINDMAP Pro 4, the latest iteration of its full-featured mind mapping software. I just completed a review of it, which you can read on the InnovationTools website. Read it to find out what makes the newest version of ConceptDraw MINDMAP more attractive to business users than ever before.

In its January e-newsletter, Mindjet has announced that it is planning to release a Japanese language version of MindManager Pro 6, and it is seeking bilingual beta testers for it. The beta testing program will start in March 2006. If you are fluent in Japanese and English and have any interest in helping Mindjet to […]

Cameron Reilly from the Personal Productivity Show conducted an extensive interview with me earlier today on the topic of mind mapping software. You can download the podcast and listen to it here.