MindManager presentation at MindCamp
The first presentation I attended at MindCamp was some sort of commercial pitch for a product called MindManager that claims to have 750,000 users, a pretty decent install user base. At first, it looks like some sort of digital white boarding tool so I was not too excited about it but the more the guy got into how to use it and what it does, the more interesting it looked. I particularly like the integration with the Research feature in Microsoft product that he demoed and also how he positioned the product as a tool to help to get things done (something I am very interested in, there were two sessions on this at Mindcamp but both Sunday morning so I missed them, too bad, I will have to read online about the discussion) and even more interesting, as a way to reach consensus on a meeting and track the discussion and the decisions, actions, etc. After some research on the web I found that there is an open source version called FreeMind that also looks interesting (and free even, this in not cheap stuff, the basic version is more than $200 an the professional one is $350) so I will keep this on my list of things-to-do-when-I-have-time-that-almost-never-get-done and perhaps check it in more detail in the future. The idea of trying to map the mind while you are brainstorming and use that as a way to capture the resulting discussion and agreement and then use it to track progress against it certainly seems very appealing to me.
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