MindMapSearch.Org was founded in 2007 and is a sister site of Mind-Mapping.Org. I update it from time to time, but now it has just had a soup-to-nuts review and update.

This, if you haven’t come across it yet, is a categorized source of all the authority mind mapping sites together with a focused mind mapping search engine.

There are so many worthless web pages that claim to deal with mind mapping but have obviously been thrown together to attract clicks to the adverts … (read the full article…)

Author Prof. Toni Krasnic today published a book about learning with mind maps called “Concise Learning“. “Teachers alone cannot ‘produce’ learning and success in students. Students need to accept that, ultimately, they are responsible for their own learning and success” says Prof. Krasmic and sets out in this well-reviewed book how this should be done. The book has a dedicated web site about learning through mind maps and Prof. Krasnic’s
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If you have spent a few minutes at Mind-Mapping.Org or on this blog, you will know that I like and use mind maps and concept maps.  You may not know I also use more formal visual models like data models, object-role modelling, and process simulation models.  I find these immensely useful in understanding the way businesses work, improving businesses and finding ways to solve problems. One modelling tool I learned about
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For three months, I had a post on this blog’s front page: “Questions about Edraw”. Now, I’m really pleased to say that the questions have been resolved and I have removed that post.

The publishers have released Edraw Max V5.3 and Edraw Mind Map V4.6.

Edraw Mind Map is a very capable, professional-looking application and is free. It makes more than just mind maps. With it, you can produce glossy-looking bubble charts, block 2D diagrams, 3D diagrams and use its smart-looking collection of clipart. There is dynamic help on the right-hand side of the main window, which is a nice touch, but anyone familiar with Visio … (read the full article…)

Cytoscape is a free, open source Java program, originally designed for highly specialised use in bioinformatics.  But if you’re glazing over, stick with me here: Through all the versions leading up to 2.7, its present release, it has developed into a general purpose analysis and visualisation tool for complex networks.  It has just been added to Mind-Mapping.Org. The core distribution provides a basic set of features for data integration and visualization.
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Freeplane first appeared in Mind-Mapping.Org last year but recently they announced that they were on a stable, live release: 1.1.1

They list the most important new features as these:

* Better inline editor for all plain text nodes * Edge-like connectors (available from connector pop-up menu) * External bitmap and SVG images can be attached & the dialog has file previews * Images can be scaled and reset * New scripting API * Loading and execution of external Groovy scripts * Full-screen mode … (read the full article…)

I love this one, folks. Mind mapping (sort of) for groups . . . without software, but definitely with soft components. Pitched somewhere between felt-board stories for pre-schoolers and Board of Directors strategy sessions, Ketso is a kit of parts which, by its design, imposes the mind mapping and visual thinking approach on a meeting. And you can wash it up in a bucket afterwards . . . But I
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VivaMind is a browser-based application for making mind maps (kinda – or bubble charts). It allows you to add text, video, image and code attachments to nodes. The control to add images and videos includes a nice little Google / YouTube search box to help locate suitable material.  Each node can also be set up to take you to a web page. It’s not clear what the code attachments can
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I wrote about Mindjet’s inclusion of me as a Trusted Voice in my last post and my abstention, but as I thought about it, I noticed some odd omissions. I edit MindMapSearch – a search engine that focuses on people and sites that provide good information about visual thinking (and keeps the “made for advertising” sites out of the search results).

So I have a pretty good idea of those who have a “voice and leadership in the mapping community”. They have good and trustworthy people on the list, ……. But just a minute, “leadership in the mapping community” does not include Tony Buzan? (read the full article…)

I just had an invitation from Mindjet to be badged as one of 14 blogs they consider to be “Trusted Voices”.

I’d like to have the advanced information offered, and access to the Mindjet blog. It can only improve my information source and ability to spread the pro-mapping word.

But I like to think that Mind-Mapping.Org is already everyone’s trusted voice. Surely association with Mindjet puts a doubt in the mind of anyone using Mind-Mapping.Org or reading my blog posts and tweets?
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