Which is the best mindmapping software? I track discussions about mind mapping on Twitter and in blogs, and I often hear or read the question "Which is the best mindmapping software?" Anyone who gives you a single, immediate answer either knows you and your mindmapping activities very well, or is likely recommending the one that they've become familiar with themselves. What's "best"? What is "best" depends so much on how you use mind maps. Some people use them for study, some for planning projects, some for organizing information, some to spark ideas and facilitate brainstorming sessions, some while planning the writing of a report or blog post. Some mindmap alone, others mindmap in groups. Myself, I mostly use Xmind, 3D Topicscape Pro (naturally, as much of it is my design), MindManager, MindMeister and CMAP depending on what I'm doing. Two drivers for mapping (wondering which software made this map? Either because it makes you think The process of building the map can help you think something through, get new ideas or learn.
The Best Practices of Technology Brokers Companies that are best at developing out-of-the-box thinking on new products employ four successful work practices. An excerpt from the new book, How Breakthroughs Happen. by Andrew Hargadon Technology brokers have discovered how to bridge the disparate worlds they move among outside their boundaries, and how to build new ventures from the technologies and people they come across. Capturing good ideas The first step is to bring in promising ideas. Designers at IDEO, for example, seem obsessed with learning about materials and products they have no immediate use for. Technology brokers capture even more ideas from doing focused work on specific problems, especially when studying new industries or visiting new locations. We wanted to observe the procedures, so we had a cadaver lab, which was actually in a swank hotel. The result? All of this curiosity means that technology brokers create massive collections of ideas.
50 Great Examples of Data Visualization Wrapping your brain around data online can be challenging, especially when dealing with huge volumes of information. And trying to find related content can also be difficult, depending on what data you’re looking for. But data visualizations can make all of that much easier, allowing you to see the concepts that you’re learning about in a more interesting, and often more useful manner. Below are 50 of the best data visualizations and tools for creating your own visualizations out there, covering everything from Digg activity to network connectivity to what’s currently happening on Twitter. Music, Movies and Other Media Narratives 2.0 visualizes music. Liveplasma is a music and movie visualization app that aims to help you discover other musicians or movies you might enjoy. Tuneglue is another music visualization service. MusicMap is similar to TuneGlue in its interface, but seems slightly more intuitive. Digg, Twitter, Delicious, and Flickr Internet Visualizations
15 Great Mindmapping Tools and Apps Mindmapping is the process of drawing up diagrams that show relations between various ideas, tasks or information. For many of us this shows to actually be a way of taking notes that can be more useful than just writing down keywords or sentences like we do on a to-do list. By drawing mind maps you actually visualize your tasks and how each task can influence each other in a better way, making your brain remember more easily and/or come up with new ideas. The Tools There are various tools for mindmapping out there, both free and paid versions. The ones that require any installation, can be run on all platforms that support Java unless something else is specified. Freemind ↓ I found the application quick to install and very easy to understand, – which is probably why it is one of the more popular. You can download Freemind here. Xmind ↓ Xmind has a more professional business-like look compared to FreeMind. You can download Xmind here. Bubbl.US ↓ Web application. MindMeister ↓ Freeplane ↓ Bookvar ↓
Demos | Projects The Atlas of Ideas In May 2007, the United Arab Emirates launched a $10bn foundation to create research centres in Arab univerisities. In Brazil, a consortium of 80 organisations has teamed up to invest $3 billion in biotechnology. Wherever in the world you look, new enrants are reshaping the landscape for science and technology-based innovation. In early 2007, Demos published a series of reports on science and technology-based innovation in China, India and South Korea, and the prospects for closer collaboration with the UK and Europe. For further information on specific projects, visit:- Brazil: The Natural Knowledge-Economy; - Knowledge Nomads; - The Atlas of Islamic World Innovation For further information about the Atlas of Ideas, please contact James Wilsdon (james[dot]wilsdon[at]royalsociety[dot]org) Publications Related Articles
user javascripts for greasemonkey Main Page FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping software written in Java. The recent development has hopefully turned it into high productivity tool. We are proud that the operation and navigation of FreeMind is faster than that of MindManager because of one-click "fold / unfold" and "follow link" operations. So you want to write a completely new metaphysics? Did FreeMind make you angry? Download See Download. Get yourself what about 6000 users download each week[1]. Project news See more at News. New beta FreeMind 1.1.0-Beta2. New beta FreeMind 1.1.0-Beta1. New release FreeMind 1.0.1 available for download. New Release FreeMind 1.0.0 available (19 Oct 2013). Information for Mac Maverick (10.9) and Mountain Lion (10.8) Users (20 Aug 2012). FreeMind has made it as the finalist for the 2009 Community Choice Award in the category "Most likely to change the way you do everything"!! Running To run FreeMind, do one of the following. FreeMind runs on various operating systems: Getting a taste of FreeMind
Demos | People Charles Leadbeater is a leading authority on innovation and creativity. He has advised companies, cities and governments around the world on innovation strategy and drawn on that experience in writing his latest book We-think: the power of mass creativity, which charts the rise of mass, participative approaches to innovation from science and open source software, to computer games and political campaigning. We-think, which is due to be published in 2007, is the latest in a string of acclaimed books: Living on Thin Air, a guide to living and working in the new economy; Up the Down Escalator, an attack on the culture of public pessimism accompanying globalisation and In Search of Work, published in the 1980's, which was one of the first books to predict the rise of more flexible and networked forms of employment. In 2005 Charles was ranked by Accenture, the management consultancy, as one of the top management thinkers in the world.
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8 miljoen voor topsector creatieve industrie [Blik op Nieuws.nl - Economie] Den Haag - Het InnovatiefondsMKB+ stelt €8 miljoen beschikbaar voor private investeringsfondsen die willen investeren in de topsector creatieve industrie. Dat heeft minister Verhagen van Economische Zaken, Landbouw en Innovatie (EL&I) maandag bekendgemaakt. "Het InnovatiefondsMKB+ zorgt dat creatieve starters in deze snelgroeiende topsector toegang krijgen tot risicokapitaal", zegt minister Verhagen. "Op deze manier kunnen meer vernieuwende producten in architectuur, mode, design, gaming en nieuwe media op de markt komen." Creatieve Industrie De topsector Creatieve Industrie is al jaren één van de snelst groeiende sectoren van de Nederlandse economie. Met het fonds investeert het Innovatiefonds MKB+ in de vroege fase van creatieve starters tot maximaal 50%. InnovatiefondsMKB+ Het InnovatiefondsMKB+ start 1 januari en bevat voor de komende jaren €500 miljoen aan innovatiekredieten en durfkapitaal. De ondergrens voor innovatiekrediet wordt verlaagd van €300 naar €150 duizend.
Kickstarted: How one company is revolutionizing product development 172inShare Jump To Close Kickstarter is funding an era of product development uncompromised by focus groups and committees The million dollar idea. We’ve all had it at one time or another, with very few luxuries to show for our sudden fits of brilliance. Enter Kickstarter, a thoroughly modern twist on the concepts of commerce and patronage; an approach so alluring that it now counts over one million people who have combined to pledge more than $100 million to fund ideas both big and small, serious and whimsical, since it launched in April of 2009. From the moment of its unveiling on September 1st, 2010, Scott Wilson, a self-described watch fetishist and former Global Creative Director for Nike, felt the desire to build a watch band for the 6th generation iPod nano. A few months later, Scott took a chance and placed his TikTok + LunaTik project on Kickstarter, earning more than $6,000 in pledges on its first day. What happened next is the stuff of crowd-funding legend. Brendan Dawes agrees.
Nike: The No. 1 Most Innovative Company Of 2013 "This is the raw stuff." Stefan Olander, head of Nike's three-year-old Digital Sport division, is watching a group of his engineers hack an experiment together. They're using a pair of Nike trainers with embedded sensors. That's why Burroughs, who is outfitted head to toe in Nike attire, is crouched in anticipation like a runner before a starter pistol is fired. Olander, who bears a distracting resemblance to Matthew McConaughey and looks fit enough to have cleared that hurdle with ease, jokes that the only problem here is that Burroughs "is not very fast." In 2012, Nike's experimentation yielded two breakout hits. The other innovation is the Flyknit Racer, featherlight shoes that feel more like a sock atop a sole. To produce even one of these innovations in a given year is a rarity for any company, especially one with 44,000 employees. Every CEO says this kind of thing (minus the enema part). Rule #1: TO DISRUPT, YOU MUST GO ALL-IN "Flyknit is a platform," Nike's Jones says.