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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:  Grimm electronics   Product:  Mind Finder (in german)    Added:  2002-02-27
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Screenshot mind mapping software Mind Finder (in german)    
What they say:  " Endlich ist sie da! Die Mindmap(r) - Software für kreatives, skizzierbares, effektives Lernen und Denken. Damit können Sie auf einfache Art die Leistungsfähigkeit Ihres Gehirns um ein vielfaches steigern. Alle, die mit Lern- und Denkprozessen befasst sind, haben jetzt die Möglichkeit, jede Idee, jeden Einfall, jede Aufgabe, jedes Projekt, jedes Problem systematisch anzugehen und in einem Mindmap(r) umzusetzen."
Observations:  mindmaps software
Spider diagrams rather than mindmaps - looks old and uncared for. Site all in German
Where:  http://www.mindfinder.de/index.htm
OS: Windows
Price:  E40.40
Categories: mind maps
 
From:  GroupScope, Inc.   Product:  LinkSViewer    Added:  2007-12-27
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Screenshot mind mapping software LinkSViewer    
What they say:  " LinkSViewer is a visual network analysis tool for exploring investment relationships in the Link Silicon Valley database. The LinkSViewer product, developed by GroupScope, Inc., offers users over 1.7 trillion unique network views of the investment capital relationships in the Silicon Valley, easily adjustable to highlight whatever you are most interested in.
If you have a dataset with relational information, you can see and explore it in an interface like LinkSViewer. Please contact us to talk about licensing this technology, as well as what kind of features could be personalized to match your needs."
Observations:  This is a web-based service that gathers together information about people, companies, educational establishments and all sorts of relationships and turns them into an interconnected map. A concept map of sorts. You can sign up and make these maps for your own purposes, at US$25/month.
Where:  http://linksviewer.com/home/
OS: browser based
Price:  US$25/month
Categories: data visualization, influence diagrams, networks, visual organizer
 
From:  Haus Weilgut GmbH   Product:  Weilgut MindPlan    Added:  2007-05-25
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Screenshot mind mapping software Weilgut MindPlan     Screenshot mind mapping software Weilgut MindPlan     Screenshot mind mapping software Weilgut MindPlan    
What they say:  " Visualizing Teamwork
Mind Map - Project Management - Lotus Notes Three In One
The MindPlan editor allows you to create - as a single user or in collaboration with others - mind maps illustrating your ideas, concepts and other challenges.
The MindPlan Gantt editor enables you to transfer your ideas (the mind map) to a classical project and resource planning step-by-step.
A Lotus Notes database is used to store the MindPlans. Each branch of a MindPlan (node) will be stored as a document within that database. This approach enables you to store additional text as well as file attachments with a node."
Observations:  An unusual integration of mind mapping, Lotus Notes and Gantt charts. Expensive but at first sight, it looks useful to enterprises running Lotus Notes.
'Lotus Notes client version 6.x or 7.x is required to run MindPlan'
Where:  http://www.mindplan.biz/mindplan/hwMindPlan_en.nsf/id/pa_home
OS: Windows
Price:  US$129 - 428 (+update charges)
Categories: Gantt charts, mind maps
 
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, 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.

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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