Two of my friends in the MindManager fraternity discussing Hans’s involvement in mapping over 35 years. I particularly like the crowd and cloud mapping concepts which I would be pleased to arrange in the UK or on the web. It will be an “elegantly steal”. Little known fact: My first face to face meeting with [...]
Archive for October, 2011
Hans Terhurne of Creamatics talks to Liam Hughes of Biggerplate
Monday, October 31st, 2011Visual Management for Improvement – New group on LinkedIn
Monday, October 31st, 2011This group is a result of a continuing discussion between Ian Seath of Improvement Skills UK and Cabre. It is for anyone interested in sharing ideas on ways to improve organisational performance using Visual Management techniques. This includes Mindmapping, Strategy Mapping, Benefits Mapping and Lean Thinking (and probably many more). We’re not promoting any particular [...]
WebSummarizer – Gives the key content of your blog post as a map
Monday, October 31st, 2011Henry Lewkowicz is experimenting again with his Context Discovery tools. The WebSummarizer blog shows how the summariser works on a Wikipedia article about Black Pepper. Don’t get to excited, this is a trial on Blogger which if it gets enough interest, will be extended to blogs like this one on WordPress. Please visit the blog [...]
Can I use password protected MindManager files in Mindjet Connect or iPad?
Sunday, October 30th, 2011No. Password protected files are not supported based on my trials today.
My iPad has arrived
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011It was an impulse purchase, driven by seeing and reading about everyone having great fun with this sliver of a tablet computer. I am typing this with the fingers of my left hand because that where the space on my desktop is and as a penance. I have installed iThoughtsHD, Mindjet for iPad, Hootsuite, Facebook [...]
A request to publish my “Six Thinking Hats Process” map
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011I recently received a request to use my “Six Thinking Hats Process” map in an educational publication. That was a nice compliment but looking at the map on my old web site I realise it’s time to revise the map and incorporate it in the new Cabre web site. The shortly to be replaced page [...]
“GRASP the Solution” – A process for solving problems
Thursday, October 20th, 2011Out of stock when I wrote this news item! Chris Griffiths the CEO at Think Buzan has written a book about the process of solving problems. The inputs are: Generative Reactive Analytical Selective Proactive Apply these to the GRASP the Solution system and you will be able to: Define Generate Evaluate And get a Solution If [...]
Cabre’s “Sources of MindManager Knowledge” gets critiqued by Chuck Frey
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011Mind map analysis: MindManager resources map Chuck Frey’s Mind Mapping Software Blog has an “Insiders Club” where amongst many activities Chuck critiques mind maps. This October unknown to me he critiqued Cabre’s map ”Sources of MindManager Knowledge”. Fortunately I noticed my friend Maurice Poole‘s retweet and had a look (I suspect Chuck has told me somewhere and [...]
I created a new map in Connect but I can’t rename the file?
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011This is what happens for me in the Mindmanager 2012 Desktop Client: When I open a New Map, right click the map name and then Rename, my typing is not changing the name! Open the map edit the Central Topic or add a topic and “Save” the map. Return to the Mindjet Connect Manager window and [...]
How do you invite new users to your Connect account or a map?
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011This is what happened for me: In MindManager 2012 Connect desktop client Sharing > Contacts did not open a web page in Firefox, my default browser. It did in Internet Explorer. A friend reports it does work for them in Firefox. Maybe I am blocking some functionality with my Firefox settings. I added a new [...]
