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Software for mindmapping and information organization
 
 

Software for mindmapping and
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Vic's compendium of software that supports knowledge management and information organisation in graphical form. Includes mind mappers, concept mappers, outliners, hierarchical organisers, KM support and knowledge browsers, 2D and 3D.More...










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From:  Cinergix Pty. Ltd.   Product:  Creately    Added:  2009-10-12
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Screenshot mind mapping software Creately     Screenshot mind mapping software Creately     Screenshot mind mapping software Creately    
What they say:  " Creately Desktop is cross platform and runs on Windows, Mac or Linux. Your diagrams automatically sync to the cloud meaning no more email attachments or USB drives to worry about. It allows you to work from where ever your are both on and offline.
Create fast, professional looking diagrams with Creately's large library of objects and easy start templates. Now you can draw anything easily.
Collaborate with your team and clients with easy sharing, publishing and post-it style comments. Multi version support means you never lose your work.
A fully interactive interface that works right in your browser along with industry standard encryption and redundant backups. No downloads or installs necessary.
Plans:
Public -- Free
Unlimited Public Diagrams
3 Private Diagrams
Max. 5 Collaborators
Publish & Export
Publish, Share & Embed
Creately Logo
10Mb Storage
SSL Security

Unlimited Private Diagrams (or publish them to share)
Unlimited Collaborators (no charge to them)
24hr00 Priority Support
No Creately Logo
No Creately Branding on PDF Exports or image Embeds
Unlimited Storage
Full Data backup
"
Observations:  An on-line or desktop (using Adobe Air) diagramming tool.
Where:  http://creately.com/
OS: Adobe Air, browser based
Price:  US$5/mth; US$10/mth; group plans. Desktop US$79.
Categories: diagramming, flowcharts, mind maps, modelling, site maps, UML diagrams
 
From:  Claro Software   Product:  ClaroIdeas (formerly known as Claro MindFull, Claro Concepts, and just MindFull)    Added:  2006-03-14
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Screenshot mind mapping software ClaroIdeas (formerly known as Claro MindFull, Claro Concepts, and just MindFull)    
What they say:  " ClaroIdeas is an easy to use, powerful and fresh visual software solution for assisting with research, planning, outlining, studying and presenting. ClaroIdeas will help users and groups to capture their ideas, pictures, research notes, web page links, audio and video files with more freedom, flexibility and creativity.

Creating 'Idea Maps' using ClaroIdeas enables users to focus thoughts, organise concepts and include text notes, graphical and media content. A user can plan revision, reports, essays and presentation content in a more spontaneous but controlled manner with ClaroIdeas.

Idea Maps allow a user to focus on bringing together thoughts and related content in various formats, and are a recognised way to maximise learning potential, improve problem-solving, enhance research and aid revision."

Observations:  Colourful concept maps software with a twist: Can store concepts as audio recordings.

The screenshot is from MindFull - there are no screenshots of ClaroIdeas on the site.

Where:  http://www.clarosoftware.com/index.php?cPath=245
OS: Windows
Price:  GBP29
Categories: concept maps
 
From:  Climbing Mind Ltd.   Product:  ThoughtMuse    Added:  2009-09-01
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Screenshot mind mapping software ThoughtMuse    
What they say:  " Basic (free): Save and share 3 mindmaps online
Gold ($2.95/month): Save and share 30 mindmaps online; Encrypted, secure connection
Platinum ($4.95/month); Save and share unlimited mindmaps online; Access to all present and future features; All-inclusive"
Observations:  Similar to Co-mapping and Meadmap, this is a left-to-right graphical organizer. I see this as more a graphical outliner than a mind mapper.
Maps can be shared but no provision for collaborative editing is mentioned.
Where:  http://thoughtmuse.com/
OS: browser based
Price:  Limited free option; $3/month; US$5/month
Categories: mind maps, outlines
 
Articles
Concept maps and web research

For me, web research and concept maps are a good pairing. As I research - I build a map. As I map - I realise new areas that need research.
This papers variously by Arguedas, CaƱas, Carnot, Carvalho, Dunn, Eskridge, Gram, Leake, Maguitman, Muldoon and Reichherzer have helped me to understand why, and see other possibilities.

Assessment by concept map

This piece discusses the nature of knowledge, the difficulty in measuring achievement in the three types of domain knowledge, and how concept maps offer one way of judging students' knowledge structure.

Framework for mind mapping

Here is a link to a set of free templates for many types of mind maps. This is good solid stuff, and if you have MindManager, there's no reason not to get it.
But if you don't have MindManager, well, there's still no reason to hold back - go and pick up the MindManager Viewer from MindJet's site. That is also free.


Knowledge mapping for communities

Here's an interesting slideshow in which authors Simon Buckingham Shum and Alexandra Okada make a case for a move away from text towards knowledge or mind mapping presentation in a knowledge community. Their objective is to change cognition, no less.

Visual mapping and recession-proofing your job

It looks like businesses are in for a tough time in 2008 and beyond. If your employer downsizes, how can you take steps to make sure you're one of the survivors?


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