Hobart's Mindjet Blog II

Have yourself a Merry Little...Holiday

Just a little Holiday greeting and farewell to everyone. I will be back up and running after the holidays and hope you have a wonderful few days with friends or family or nature or whatever way you choose to spend your time. Lots of people talk about Read More...

Reflections on Mapping; Mapping Global Warming

I have been thinking about the trip I took to Florida recently to map Learning 2006. Now that the dust has settled, I think that this kind of mapping of large events is probably not the most useful thing in the world as far as introducting people to MindManager Read More...

Seeing the real me, and questions for you

Thanks (or not) to Brian Friedlander at Assistive Tech , who suggested a "group Skype" to address the issue of what an online Mindjet community might look like, I am now the proud owner of a LogiTech UltraVision camera. Skype me at hobieswan Read More...

Yes, I know I'm blogging a lot today...

I read in Robert Scoble and Shel Israel's essential book, Naked Conversations: How blogs are chnging the way business talk with customers , that Scoble does most of his blogging at 4 a.m. That seems just a tad bit early to me. But early does seem Read More...

James Surowieki's "Wisdom of Crowds"; Stephen Covey on Trust

James Surowieki , who I happen to think is one of the most engaging writers around, spoke at Learning 2006 about the thesis behind his best-seller, The Wisdom of Crowds . You can find MindManager maps of Surowieki, Steven M.R. Covey on The Speed of Trust Read More...

30 Camtasia videos in 30 days

I was over at RobiNZ CAD Blog just now and saw his post about how TechSmith's blog, The Visual Lounge , has "a great series of Camtasia demos: 30 Videos in 30 days." Alas, a demo of MindManager was not on the list. (You can see the list Read More...

MIndjet at Boston Scientific

When I was at Learning 2006 last week, I had a chance to attend a session given by John Abele, founder and chairman of Boston Scientific. After the session, which, interestingly*, was on improving meetings, I went up to John and introduced myself. [A Read More...

Let's Get this Party Started!

Shortly before I left for five days of Elliott Masie's Learning 2006 and then a couple of days off to pursue my elusive goal of finishing the two-story tree house I am building for my daughter, I asked a question on the Mindjet Blog about what an Read More...

Mapping Out the Winning [Sales] Strategy

I have been talking recently with senior management at three large multinational organizations about how they use MindManager in their sales departments. I have to say that a few months ago I was not particularly clear on the value our software brings Read More...

GUI gets a makeover

There's a good article in the 9/25/06 issue of Computerworld on interface changes that will come with Office 2007 and Vista. The main idea is that everyone recognizes that as the number of features available in any given application grows, it becomes Read More...

And so with renewed vigor, I blog again!...

This new blog marks my second attempt to maintain my own blog. I started the first "Hobart's Mindjet Blog" back in March of 2006 as part of our internal campaign to get Mindjet to create a corporate blog. We succeeded--as evidenced by the Read More...