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Review: ConceptDraw Mindmap helps businesses brainstorm, create, and present mind maps |
November 27, 2012
Turning your ideas into a mind map can help make better sense of them, show how they relate, and turn them into actions. If you're just a single user starting to dabble with mind maps, you may benefit from the many free mind-mapping utilities available, such as Blumind. But if you're an old hand at mind-mapping and use it with a team of coworkers or employees, $199 powerhouse ConceptDraw Mindmap can add a few important tools to your arsenal.
The first thing you'll note when installing ConceptDraw Mindmap is that it uses the Ribbon interface, just like recent versions of Microsoft Office. But those are just looks; What's interesting is how ConceptDraw Mindmap connects mind maps with business processes. For example, you can tweet right out of ConceptDraw, and you can directly use a mind map as a presentation.
At first I thought the Twitter feature was a bit gimmicky, but then I came across a template that showed how ConceptDraw Mindmap can be used to plan out a social Twitter campaign for a product or a blog: You brainstorm the campaign and plot it out as a mind map, and then you tweet each node of the mind map when its time comes. This keeps the overall strategy and campaign flow in plain sight, while letting you execute it step by step.
With its Ribbon interface, ConceptDraw MindMap looks like an integral part of Microsoft Office.
ConceptDraw Mindmap's most impressive feature is its presentation mode. It works like this: First, you create your mind map as usual. Then, you switch on the Slide Navigator panel, which pops out under your mind map. Next, you zoom and pan around the mind map, collapsing and expanding nodes in any order that makes sense for presenting the map and explaining it to your audience. On every step along the way, you can take a snapshot of the current view, including the zoom level, the node state, and everything else.
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