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New Mindjet MindManager Pro 6 Helps Business Users Create Visual “Blueprints for Action”

I've been playing around with a beta version of this for a few weeks now and it's a great upgrade to a great product.

Larkspur, Calif., Sept. 13, 2005 - Mindjet Corporation, the leading provider of software for visualizing and managing information, today announced availability of Mindjet® MindManager® Pro 6, the newest version of its flagship application for business professionals and teams. Available September 20, 2005, MindManager Pro 6 is a tool for graphically representing the core communications of business: from capturing meeting notes to creating sales campaigns and drafting business plans in an “at-a-glance” view. Now with enhanced integration with Microsoft® Office, each resulting Mindjet MindManager Pro 6 “map” can contain additional information via hyperlinks to documents, spreadsheets and presentations. Maps can also be connected to corporate applications and databases, and to Web services.

New Mindjet MindManager Pro 6 features include:

* New Microsoft Excel integration: Embed spreadsheet information into maps

* New Microsoft Visio export: Quickly create flow charts, map out processes

* Improved Microsoft PowerPoint integration: Quickly create and preview slides

* New editable outline view: Switch from map mode to standard linear mode

* New “Add Attachments”: Add multiple documents, URLs to each map topic

* New Topic Alerts: Receive alarms for appointments created in your maps

* New Organizational Chart view: Create dynamic, data-rich org charts

* New Ink-enabled Notes: Adds new power to mapping on a Tablet PC

* Improved Map Formatting commands: Make maps look better than ever-fast!

If you've not given much thought to mind mapping, you can find a post on the effectiveness of mind maps at Between Seeing.

How To Use Wikis For Business

Content management systems will always have their place in the publishing world, but they've never been the best tools for business collaboration. A simple open-source app called the wiki may soon rule the knowledge management roost.

Personal Development blogger Steve Pavlina talks about how he uses software to help free his mind for more important tasks.

Every day we generate new information, and effectively capturing and organizing it is a challenge. Fortunately, software makes it easy to do this, so I encourage you to dump more of your personal information into digital form to get it out of your head.
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>I feel that the more information I release from my head and store on my hard drive, the more mental RAM I free for tasks of greater importance.

Using software to store stray thoughts and ideas is something that has been very helpful to me personally. I use Backpack myself and it's done wonders to help me keep track of my ideas and to keep my focus on the tasks at hand.

Freeing Mental RAM

Using Your Computer To Help You Remember Things

Roger C. Parker, publisher of numerous resources on writing, marketing and newsletter production, has just introduced a free report called Mind Mapping for Marketers and Writers (pdf). It packs a lot of useful information and advice into only four pages, including:

• 27 ways writers can utilize mind maps to be more effective,
• Steps for mind mapping success,
• Making your mind maps work harder, and
• Tips for increasing your mapping productivity.

Roger is an excellent writer, with a talent for distilling a topic like mind mapping software down to its actionable essence. Highly recommended!

The Gurteen Global Knowledge Review is once again available for free download. David is sure this will be the last month of his free offer.

For the last two months we have made the Global Knowledge Review freely available to anyway who cares to download it. Well we are doing it again this month - but I assure you this is the last month. ;)

You will find the May, June and July issues available for download from the Download Center on my website: http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/id/downloads

Tags: KM, Knowledge-Management