The ideas that readers sent in to Mind-mapping.org’s recent competition are starting to bear fruit.
You can now comment at the blog or on Vic’s Picks without needing to register. There is now a Mindmappers’ Forum. Following suggestions that came up in the competition, I have added categories in the forum to cover: Case studies; Collaboration; … (read the full article…)

Thank you to all who commented and made suggestions in the ”How to improve Mind-mapping.Org” competition.  I will be acting on many and have commented below. Meanwhile, here are the winners : Wojciech Korsak, Andrew Wilcox, Paf, Ivan J. Andrade and Waveydavey001. My decisions were based on the practicality for me to make the changes suggested and, where more than one person made a suggestion, the first one to make it.
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Answer two questions about Mind-mapping.org and you might win one of the five licences for iMindMap 5 Ultimate that I have to give away:
1. Which is the most useful part of Mind-mapping.org to you at present?
2. How could I improve Mind-mapping.org? Focus on which improvement you would most like to see, but feel free to make general suggestions as well. The five most useful replies, in my judgement, will win … (read the full article…)

There is a project, started by Roy Grubb of WikIT, to help a blind student whose course means he must mind map.  That seems a little inflexible of the educators involved, but there it is. Can anyone help? I did some searching and came up with this image: … from this page: http://www.oriko.com/#industrie&006planb Unfortunately it’s a research project, otherwise it looks like a step in the right direction. There’s more
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The launch of Vic’s Picks was received with enthusiasm – my warm thanks to all the bloggers and tweeters who gave it an airing – so I decided to carry aspects of its style over into The Master List. Just finished that.

I suppose this blog should be next . . . hmmm.

Cayra is a neat little concept and mind mapper and in my view is greatly undervalued, probably because Cayra.net is now an advertising site, and the software is no longer supported. But copies can be downloaded from Cnet and other download sites and it is very usable. It has some of the qualities of mind mapping software: Organic lines and colour; but at the same time, the connections it can make allow
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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…)

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 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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