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Category Archives: Mind Mapping
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
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
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
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
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
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
Big Business carves up the internet – part 2
I had intended to return a lot earlier to my discussion (see part 1) about how major IT companies are trying to lock in users through the vertical integration of their software, the introduction of annual or monthly subscriptions to … Continue reading
Now for something completely different: MindManager importing tricks 1
As well as writing about social media and small non-profit and public sector organisations generally, one thing I always intended to do through this blog was to write the occasional article about mind mapping software and in particular MindManager (MM). … Continue reading
MindManager 9: Mindjet keen to respond to user issues
A brief update on the MindManager 9 (MM9) story. As I noted in my last post, Mindjet had replied positively to the detailed map I compiled of user concerns regarding the most recent release of their flagship mind mapping product which I … Continue reading
MindManager 9 problems – a positive response from Mindjet
In my last post I commented on some of the major problems with the latest version of the market-leading mind mapping program, MindManager, from Mindjet. To summarise, MindJet recently introduced MindManager 9 with a range of new features, many of which are worthwhile. … Continue reading
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