Author Archives: Alex

Using MindManager dashboard maps with Outlook: part 4

Having described how to sync MindManager (MM) tasks with Outlook and then how this relationship could be used to create an interactive dashboard as well as some of the limitations and issues involved in this approach in my earlier posts, … Continue reading

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Using MindManager dashboard maps with Outlook: part 3

In my previous posts I covered how to sync MindManager (MM) tasks with Outlook and then how to use this relationship to create an interactive dashboard which can provide a basic snapshot of progress across multiple projects and maps. Once … Continue reading

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Using MindManager dashboard maps with Outlook: part 2

In the previous post I demonstrated how MindManager (MM) tasks could be integrated with Outlook categories when tasks are synced between the two programs. In this article I’ll show how a single dashboard map can be created to provide a … Continue reading

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Using MindManager dashboard maps with Outlook: part 1

Do you use MindManager, and have you always wanted to have one map to rule all the other ones? This series of posts outlines an approach that can be used to provide such a map, or at least one that would give … Continue reading

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Update: an easier way to export MindManager slides to PowerPoint

A few months ago I described a workaround for one of MindManager’s shortcomings – the inability to export MindManager’s slides as images to PowerPoint. You can export the content of slides as bullet points or as PowerPoint objects, but not … Continue reading

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Mindjet: turning over a new (or old) leaf?

Recently James Gardner, Senior Vice President Product at Mindjet, responded to a conversation I’d started over at LinkedIn on some of the problems Mindjet seems to have been having lately, especially with the release of the iOS 7 update of … Continue reading

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Should the MindManager file format be the lingua franca of mindmapping?

Over on the Mindjet forum things are getting a bit heated about MindManager’s lack of facilities to import and export other mindmapping file formats. I have a record of criticising this too, but I think there are two sides to … Continue reading

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MindManager to PowerPoint: a post for MM tragics

Well, after announcing the return of this blog with great fanfare, things got delayed a bit… Anyway, the next few articles will mainly be for MindManager tragics, like me (MindManager being the leading mindmapping program, at least on Windows desktop … Continue reading

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A new direction…

After a long period without posting I have been wondering about the usefulness of this blog and its future. When I started Sociamind in May 2009 I was interested in exploring the usefulness of social media and “Web 2.0 applications” … Continue reading

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The software subscription model: will consumers buy it?

A response to my last post on Mindjet’s flawed and ultimately unsuccessful attempt to move its entire user base to a subscription model asked whether even major companies such as Adobe will ever succeed in convincing their customers to rent … Continue reading

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