Only to prepare for a presentation that will show you how mind mapping software can help you organise your business.
If you can to get to Winchester on Thursday evening 24/2/2011, you can find out more at my presentation on “Using Mind Mapping Software to Organise Your Business”. It’s free and you get a free drink and nibbles courtesy of Wired Wessex.
Last night I met with an ex Unilever colleague in Gulidford who had recently returned from 20ish years working in Europe for various companies in Operations and Supply Chain. We had not been face to face for twenty years. It was a very comfortable discussion over a pint of beer. During the evening I mentioned several groups and people he could contact.
He will be getting a map like this very shortly with slightly more info than you can see as a clickable web page. It was very quick to construct with MindManager just dragging and dropping links from various web pages and using the Outlook MindManager contact buttons. In my friends version the Outlook panels are open and he will get an outline version as well, so he can copy and paste information to his “database”.
MindManager is brilliant at doing this. I will also supply him with a link to the MindManager 8 Mac and the orginal map.
The Mindjet MindManager 9 Road Show is on in London and Birmingham on Thursday and Friday, and next Tuesday in Manchester. I am very pleased to be running a 30 minute session titled “Turning Ideas Into Accessible Information”.
The map is the outline of the session (there are more subtopics to prompt me). I would like it to be an interactive session. I am looking to the audience to pose questions for which I can produce an example to demonstrate how MindManager can be applied successully to solve the problem. (Rabbit popping out of hat comes to mind)
If you are coming or not what questions would you ask of me?
Back in October 2009 I created a MindMeister Wiki Map (anyone can edit) about the Strengths and Weaknesses of Mind Mapping Software. Soon after a sub map for Mindjet was added. Today I have added a new node to that map for MindManager 9, plus some initial thoughts. Please add yours.
My other thought is why don’t Mindjet have a free wiki map tool?
I did sort of. See England v Slovenia.
A bit more preparation would of helped but I just sat down on the couch with my Hoegaarden and a packet of Cheddar crisps to watch my team recover their honour (hopefully).
Your answers please. Before the next game.
How did I do it? Firstly the original web site “Programme for Government” appeared for a while and then dissappeared. I planned to link to each section to a MindManager map and analyse it. It may be back by now.
The alternative route was to download the PDF version, paste the content in to Word, delete the index and create a document which could be analysed by Context Organiser. I linked my Word version to the map and ran Context Organiser. It is an easy process and produced the map you see a clip of to the right. The options are available in a right click drop down menu on a linked topic after installing Context Organiser for Mindjet MindManager.
After some formatting to suit a one page web export, I created this web page The Coalition: our programme for government.
Now you can see a one page overview of a 36 page document.
It is of any use?
Just before I go off to vote here is my summary of each leaders’ statements in the three Election debates:
A combination of these debates and my interactions with the local candidates in Winchester has made my voting decision easy. I had better go and do the deed now.
Do these mind maps help you?
You can do this as a solo effort with MindManager. You could invite a few people to your Mindjet Catalyst account to add their comments but they would mostly be MindManager users only. With MindMeister you can set up a map which can be edited by anyone as a no cost Wiki Map. If you want to edit the map below, you will need a free (and limited) MindMeister account.
There are customers for all the mind mapping applications but not all the potential customers can access all the applications or justify or need all the features of the more sophisticated ones. This is not about deciding which is best overall but which is best for your needs. Obviously I am interested in how MindManager stacks up against the rest.
Lets see what happens:
The latest version of MindManager 8.1 has a new button which Shares a map and allows you to edit a list of your Shared Content.
This afternoon I quickly created a map of the WinACC (Winchester Action on Climate Change) web site because I knew it would be useful to me and hopefully to some of their users. This is a good example of a map that works well in this new process.
Last week I published a map of Gordon Brown’s speech to the Labour Party Conference. It has some floating topics at the top of the map. Unfortunately these get displaced to the bottom in the shared version. I don’t want to attach them to the central topic because they are not part of the speech.
Some more experiments will reveal the best ways in which to use this new tool.
Download MindManager 8.1
MindManager 8.1 Service Pack what has changed
You do not need a Mindjet Catalyst account to use the Share option. Tweet from Michael Deutch Mindjet “
Yes, all MindManager 8.1 users can ‘share’ content with our new export. It’s faster and easier than before…”.
You can still create a Mindjet Player in a PDF file or as a Flash file SWF.
A short interview by Rod Sloane of me using his iPhone and AudioBoo to publish it. The interview took place at the Institution of Engineering and Technology at Savoy Place, London. I am a Chartered Engineer and Member of the IET.
A grand building. The BBC used to live here when radios were powered by steam.
With a quiet and comfortable members lounge.
Which overlooks the Thames by Waterloo Bridge
