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Added PDFs about Mindjet Connect Overview and Business v Free
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012Thinking Space provides Mindjet with their Andoid app
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011Mindjet has acquired Thinking Space the Android mind mapping application.
I have been using Thinking Space for more than a year on my HTC Wildfire. It is a competent app: great for taking notes, brainstorming on the go, transferring files between Android and PC, and viewing maps of knowledge that you have created in MindManager. The smart phone screen is a bit small for mind mapping but on an Android tablet, Thinking Space offers more features than some of its counterparts on the iPad.
If you are an Andoid tablet user I highly recommend it. Especially now it’s free as Mindjet for Android. More info at Mindjet’s blog: Mindjet for Android is here.
Here is a blog I wrote a year ago about using Thinking Space to take notes and then further process with MindManager: Making the Most of LinkedIn and Thinking Space.
I wonder how this app will develop?
MindManager 2012 service pack 493
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011Mindjet announced the release of the service pack today – Mindjet Connect November Release
The main issues for me have not been Connect but loss of functions in the desktop product which I have been using for years. I am pleased to report “verified by me” fixes to these problems in quick inital tests:
Fail – It still removes spaces from your web export Topic Notes text anymore.
Pass Fail – The Right click topic > Send to new map is working for PC based maps (not checked Connect ones) Problem occured 6/12/2011
Fail – The Quick Access Toolbar – image export icon is still an Adobe PDF icon!
Pass – The Windows Arrange tool behaves as you would expect. Click a map and it opens.
And the Quick Access Toolbar is reset to the default as per previous service packs.
Any good news for you?
Andrew Wilcox
Free MindManager 9 upgrades to 2012 closes 30 November 2011
Monday, November 21st, 2011If you bought MindManager 9 Windows after 7 July 2011 you are entitled to a free upgrade to MindManager 2012 Professional. Visit Mindjet’s Grace Period page to get your free upgrade. This is the UK page. There will be a different page for your region. You will need your license key which you can get from File > Help.
My clients who bought upgrades from previous versions of MindManager e.g. 8 and earlier have not been able to get the license key accepted as promo code. If this happens to you contact Mindjet using the deatils on the Grace Period page. You will need your license key and probably a copy of your resellers invoice to get the upgrade.
Mindjet have released Connect SP – a SharePoint Solution Package
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011The new package allows you to:
- Embed maps in SharePoint sites so non-MindManager users can benefit from visualising the project, process etc.
- Create project dashboards with task status.
- Map and mark up the information stored in the SharePoint database.
Are you a SharePoint user? What were the benefits of previous incarnations of the Mindjet SharePoint integration packages?
For more information visit Mindjet Connect SP on the Mindjet web site or the Mindjet Blog – Mindjet Connect is Sweet on SharePoint!
Choosing the Right Business
Friday, November 11th, 2011Tom Ball from Cognac Systems and NearDesk presented his entrepreneur’s story about how he choose his businesses and what he learnt on route. He gave his top tips for choosing the right business.
See the summary in this ConferenceREACTION map of the key points: How to Choose the Right Business.
The event was hosted by NRG at the Sartoria Restaurant, Saville Row, London
Visual 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 software packages or cloud solutions. We’re software agnostic!
What interests us is visual management approaches that really help drive performance improvement, creativity and productivity.
Please join
Visual Management for Improvement
WebSummarizer – Gives the key content of your blog post as a map
Monday, October 31st, 2011
Henry 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 and see if you are interested.
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 and WordPress so far. Which leaves at least iMindMap, MindMeister, Evernote, Dropbox to get.
Browsing is very quick. More news when I have tried a few things out.
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 is missing the link to the book Six Thinking Hats by its creator Edward de Bono but you will find it in my mind mapping and related subjects library.
