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Mindmapping enthusiasm
March 29th, 2005
If you’re into mindmapping, then the chances are you’ve come across MindManager from MindJet. If you haven’t, then it’s well worth a look - although nothing will ever replace the sheer flexibility of pencil-on-paper when it comes to mindmapping, MindManager comes pretty damn close.
Via Projectified, I came across Hobart Swan, who’s a MindJet employee just starting up a blog covering the product - it’s relatively new, but he’s covering some interesting ground on topics such as using MindManager with a Tablet PC. That’s about as close as it’s going to get to pencil-on-paper.
But what struck me about the blog were the reasons for starting it:
“I am starting this blog because I believe passionately in the company I work for. There, I’ve said it. I came up in a period in our nation’s history when allegiance to a company was not exactly what my friends and I aspired toward. Old habits and predelictions die slowly. Nevertheless, here is sit four years after I began working for Mindjet amazed at my affection for a company.”
Which by any measure is exactly the kind of sentiment that you want from a company blog, and is the absolute antithesis of the old-style communication-by-press-release which we’ve accustomed to ignoring.
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Mind Maps change your life!!! No longer do I make pages and pages of notes at meetings that I never read again. One page for even a day long meeting with single keywords linking my memory to the conversation theme.
Brain storming problems using Mind Manager, preparing reports with pertinent headings for Word Documents and mapping out presentations for importing into PowerPoint or just using as key points in meetings. I’m even organising my calendars and key using the web feature, linking in key documents against meetings. I bore the pants off my colleagues about it and tend to get funny looks when apparently doodling in the corner during meetings… but hey all trailblazers are treated as geeks!!