In late March, Mindjet’s excellent webinar series featured Eric Mack, a consultant who specializes in helping executives to be more productive through the smart use of information technology. He’s also a very savvy user of MindManager, an expert in David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology and the author of a popular personal productivity blog. […]

Many companies today incorporate behavioral questions into job interviews, to get a sense of your problem solving abilities. One way to prepare for these tough questions is to do what’s called "STAR" planning. STAR stands for: Situation: give an example of a situation you were involved in that resulted in a positive outcome Task: describe […]

If you have an effective process for preparing for a major business meeting, the meeting itself is more likely to be successful. Preparing for a successful meeting is a special type of project: It requires you to set objectives, to solicit the participation of co-workers, partners and people outside of your organization, to manage a […]

Michael Scherotter recently posted a screencast in his blog at Mindjet Labs that demonstrates how to create a custom topic shape in Visio, export it in a MindManager compliant format, and how to load it into MindManager as a reusable "map part." Pretty cool! Michael, who headed Mindjet Labs and was the evangelist for the […]

Here’s an intriguing mind mapping contest: The author of the eDragonu Blog, Dragos Roua, which covers David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD) personal organizational methodology, is holding a contest for the best and most creative resume – in visual map format. The prize is a free license for MindManager 6. I normally wouldn’t highlight a […]

Mindjet recently announced that Eric Mack will present a webinar on March 27, 2007 on how he uses MindManager. A consultant on e-productivity and knowledge management, Eric is one of the savviest users of mind mapping technology that I know of. He’s also a true believer in utilizing MindManager on the Tablet PC. In fact, […]

Eric Blue recently wrote a very interesting post in his blog that describes, in detail, how to use mind mapping software to achieve your goals. It includes a step-by-step procedure that you can follow, plus some instructive screen captures that show his goal-setting visualization technique in action. Thanks for the heads up on this post, […]

Marcus Ingemann, in his Mind Mapping Power Pack, outlines a number of intriguing techniques for visual mapping. One of them is called "The Scale." It can be used any time you need to compare several items or choices with each other. It’s a marvelous way to visualize the advantages and drawbacks of a number of […]

Wallace Tait and I were talking last week about what businesspeople need to know about mind mapping software, and we got on the topic of his T.A.P. process, which makes it easy for newbies and experienced mappers to create effective business maps. So I decided to post this excerpt from my e-book, Power Tips and […]

If you’re using MindManager 6 on the Tablet PC platform, there are a number of things you can do to optimize this popular mind mapping application to give yourself more room to work. Chris Pringle explains how in this blog post.