I am pleased to be associated with fellow professionals who inspire, motivate and encourage me to be all I can be, and Roy Grubb does all of this and then some.
His work at www.informationtamers.com is fantastic; being IMO, the most extensive “FREE” wiki containing a database of information and knowledge of all things relating to the tools, methods and Mindset of Mind-Visual and Knowledge mapping/management.  Roy is the go to guy of Visual mapping.
It is my pleasure to make Roy’s guest post available to you here at Hypershifters and also …

Dr Pascal Venier is currently a
Lecturer in French and International History at the School of Languages & Centre for European Security within the University of Salford, England.
A social media and Mind-Visual mapping professional practitioner and consultant; Pascal is a fellow Visual mapping colleague and is integral to the furtherance of this arena. Wallace Tait: Visualmapper
I was really delighted when Wallace Tait invided me to write a guest post for both Visualmapper and Hypershifters. Accepting to write a post is one thing, coming up with an idea is another one. …

Mindjet MindManager Emerges as Must-Have Software for Business Professionals

MindManager empowers business professionals to better capture, organize and communicate ideas, information and projects for business success

San Francisco – July 13, 2010 – Mindjet®, the leading provider of software and cloud-based applications for visually organizing and managing information and ideas, today announced the latest version of the company’s flagship software – Mindjet MindManager Version 9.  Used by millions of business professionals, MindManager delivers an inherently unique value to today’s workers – a flexible, intuitive way to visually brainstorm concepts, organize …

The Luxor Theater was the location for TEDxRotterdam on last June 4, 2010. Speakers from all over the world gathered to present ideas which are worthy enough to be distributed. Or: Ideas Worth Spreading. The theme of the day was: ‘Somethink Completely Different. The program consisted of several special performances and Talks. Our partner World of Minds facilitated this event via livemindmapping on a livestream on the web. It was possible to follow mindmaps grow which were made by the team of World of Minds. (Photo © Marc Nolte)

Wat is …

Olin is a results-driven, technology sales and marketing professional with experience building market presence and success for emerging companies. He has demonstrated ability to drive strong and sustainable revenue growth in both domestic and international markets. Olin has for the last 3 years been the General Manager of CS Odessa in the Americas, an innovative developer of visual personal productivity products based in the Ukraine, whose responsibilities include sales, channel development and marketing for the Americas.
Prior to CS Odessa, Olin was responsible for sales at Mindjet for the Americas and …

Nick Duffill of Harport Consulting has been an avid user of mind mapping software since 1994 and has created dozens of solutions for MindManager users, including GyroQ, the #1 most popular third-party extension for MindManager. He co-founded and moderates the MindManager Users Group on Yahoo, and co-founded both MindManuals.com and Gyronix. He was the technical editor for Wiley’s “MindManager for Dummies” and writes about techniques with mind mapping software at www.beyond-mind-mapping.com, as well as developing custom solutions for MindManager.  Wallace Tait: Visualmapper

The ugly truth about visual mapping and list-making

Power …

I’ve always been intrigued with argument mapping. And when I was introduced to Tim Van Gelder, the founder and director at Austhink Software, the developers of bCisive and Rationale, I just had to request that someone would do a better job than I would of delivering information regarding their excellent software offerings.
Wallace Tait: Visualmapper
Dan Prager CEO at Austhink jumped at the chance to present a good case for the use of bCisive.
Dan does software strategy, agile team leadership, design, architecture, and programming. Past experience includes research and development, commercial consulting …

Mark has spent 20 years in the information management world and realized early on that information can’t be managed until it is communicated. This has been the driving force behind crystal mapping and all Mark’s work in visual mapping engagements with his clients around the world. Wallace Tait: Visualmapper
I’ve been developing, writing about and generally evangelizing about Crystal Mapping for a few years now. I’ve focused mainly on how it can be used in business to communicate organizational level vision and team objectives …

PRESS RELEASE
CS Odessa Announces Update to ConceptDraw MindWave, a No-Cost Mind Mapping Gadget for Google Wave
San Jose, California, June 2, 2010 – CS Odessa has released an updated version of its popular mind mapping tool, ConceptDraw MindWave for Google Wave. This is a no charge Google Wave add-in, which enables users to rapidly collaborate with any amount of people, from 2 to 2000.
ConceptDraw MindWave provides teams the opportunity to interactively collaborate on a mind map while building a map structure that represents the focus …

I  looked at Open source and free offerings recently pondering these two models. Many questions such as; Are they sustainable, are these models really free in the long run and; can I actually use Open source and free software as the backbone of my information management processes that support my business operations?
IS IT DOABLE?
OK, so if I use Open office, Xmind, Nitro pdf reader and/or integrate my work with Google mail and docs; hmm, this really got me thinking; will this really work for …