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Software for mindmapping and information organization

Software for mindmapping and
information organisation
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:  Ingo Straub Softwareentwicklung   Product:  InfoRapid KnowledgeMap    Added:  2006-03-14
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Screenshot mind mapping software InfoRapid KnowledgeMap     Screenshot mind mapping software InfoRapid KnowledgeMap    
What they say:  " InfoRapid KnowledgeMap is a free mind mapping program and knowledge management system.

InfoRapid KnowledgeMap can be used to draw knowledge maps, organizational charts, decision trees and work breakdown structures, taking down your ideas when brainstorming, or generating structure diagrams from XML files. Knowledge maps can be published on the Web or your intranet, can be added to WinWord, Excel and PowerPoint documents, and can be printed in almost any size you choose.

The program contains a complete Knowledge Management System suitable for use at home, at work or on the company intranet. Its intelligent KnowledgeMap server analyzes text document content and integrates it with a knowledge map.

The Private Edition is not functionally limited in any way and does not expire after any certain number of days. However, unlike the Professional Edition, the program displays a small reminder in the diagram that it has been created with InfoRapid KnowledgeMap. This bit of advertising is intended to acquaint a wider audience with the capabilities of the program, and is your contribution for using the program at no cost."
Observations:  Produces interesting diagrams, and claims the ability to extract information from documents. Appears to be limited to a rigid hierarchy and the ability to have multiple parents on a node is something I always need and look for in a mapping product.
Where:  http://www.inforapid.de/html/english.htm
OS: Windows
Price:  Free with nag (private use), or US$99
Categories: information management, mind maps, outlines
 
From:  Innoductive Software Co. Ltd.   Product:  MindVisualizer    Added:  2007-05-08
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Screenshot mind mapping software MindVisualizer     Screenshot mind mapping software MindVisualizer     Screenshot mind mapping software MindVisualizer    
What they say:  " MindVisualizer is a productive mind mapping software that allows you to capture, visualize, manage and share idea/information easily.
Concept Mapping with relationship descriptions, Multiple Central Topics in a Map and Flexible Node Positioning are supported."
Observations:  New product from China so it works in Chinese (simplified and traditional) but in English as well. Claims free topic-positioning as a 'unique feature of MindVisualizer'. It has the ability to draw freehand topic images.
Where:  http://www.innovationgear.com/
OS: Windows
Price:  USD79
Categories: mind maps
 
From:  Inspiration Resources   Product:  Visual Concept    Added:  2007-05-28
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Screenshot mind mapping software Visual Concept     Screenshot mind mapping software Visual Concept     Screenshot mind mapping software Visual Concept    
What they say:  " VISUAL CONCEPT is 'Visual Thinking Software'; providing a medium for all kinds of creative and systems thinking. It enables ideas to be developed as a basis of planning, designing, authoring, organising, relating, mapping, scenario building and countless other activities.
It enables you to easily structure ideas and print them out, communicate them, transfer them and relate them to other visual maps with links to ideas expressed in any Windows environment. VISUAL CONCEPT helps you capture large amounts of information and create knowledge maps either as ideas occur to you or as they are extracted from audits, meetings, lectures or texts."
Observations:  This could not easily be considered mind mapping or concept mapping, but it does represent an individual approach. In May 2007, the last change to the front page of the site is marked Last modified: Tuesday, 09 September 2003.
Where:  http://www.visual-concept.co.uk/index.html
OS: Windows
Price:  GBP98; (Educational users GBP65)
Categories: visual organizer
 
Articles
An overview of concept mapping

This is a 1997 article by Eric Plotnick, from the ERIC Clearinghouse on Information and Technology Syracuse NY

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, Cañas, 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.

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