Every company, whether global or local, will depend on the effective sharing of information. Whether it’s between job applicants and hiring managers, or between COOs and their employees, effective knowledge management is vital. Here’s how… Onboarding employees, sharing best practices, and communicating compliance […]
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We’re proud to announce that MindMeister, which already helps countless dyslexic students organize their thoughts with the power of mind mapping, now supports OpenDyslexic – a typeface specifically created for people with dyslexia! OpenDyslexic is a font that aims to mitigate some of […]
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Project planning is a diverse and many-faceted discipline that requires an equally diverse set of tools. In this article, we’ll break down the project planning process into its 7 main activities — from brainstorming to knowledge management — and look at the […]
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MindMeister 7.2 for iOS is now available on the App Store! In this latest update for our mobile mind map app we’ve added multi-tasking drag & drop support for images and text on iPad, as well as the possibility to move maps […]
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At MeisterLabs, we did our first usability test last year on our mind mapping product, MindMeister. As a team that focuses on designing attractive and easy-to-use software, the test was an eye-opening experience. It forced us to think long and hard about […]
Read article "Slave to the Ribbon: 4 Tough Questions in Software Design"
Following the 10-year anniversary of our online mind mapping tool MindMeister earlier this year, we’ve now reached a second milestone which, even more than the last, puts us in a state of awe: As of July 2017, one billion ideas have been […]
Read article "The World’s Largest Online Collection of Creative Ideas?"
In case you missed it, Biggerplate’s new Business Club offers regular live and on-demand webinars that let you learn directly from business mind mappers around the world. With our special welcome discount, MindMeister users can now join the Business Club and save […]
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Each year brings new opportunities, as well as potential new challenges. In order to make the most of the next year, it’s important to come up with cohesive strategies that will allow you to prepare for the best, as well as the worst. […]
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This post was updated on October 4, 2021. A little while ago, the European Parliament recommended a list of 8 key competencies which they believe all educational institutions should provide their students with, to promote lifelong learning. These key competencies consist of […]
This is a guest post by Jasmine Powers. Jasmine is the founder and CMO of J Powers Marketing & Publicity, a full-service event marketing agency for business and career consultants, workshop facilitators and trainers. Find her on Twitter @jasminepowers. Creating content on an […]
With TED talks booming in popularity, it can be hard to catch a ticket before they sell out. In keeping with the TED motto of sharing ideas worth spreading, live mind mapping provides a simple, visual and shareable format to present key […]
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This is a guest post by Jesse Berg, MSIT, M.Ed. Jesse is the author of Visual Leap: A Step-by-Step Guide to Visual Learning for Students and Teachers and a former teacher, instructional technologist, and educational speaker. Connect with Jesse on Twitter via @visualleap. This post was […]
Businesses use storytelling to inspire the people who work for them and sell the next great idea. Teachers use stories to help students learn concepts. Journalists tell important stories that help citizens understand the world around them. And, of course, writers and […]
Mind maps can improve memory and learning by helping students transition from collecting dots to connecting dots. This post—which was adapted from a talk given by Toni Krasnic at Biggerplate Unplugged 2016—examines the importance of learning how to learn. It provides a short overview of principles of memory and learning and effective learning techniques, and demonstrates how students can use mind maps to become more effective learners. Read article “From Collecting Dots to Connecting Dots: Using Mind Maps to Improve Memory and Learning”
Ideas matter. When the term “mind mapping” was coined by Tony Buzan on the BBC’s Use Your Head in 1974, the ways in which we take notes, brainstorm and study changed forever. We look at what makes this technique so special, which mind mapping technique you should choose, and what the benefits of mind mapping are.
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Dialectics is an important consequence in our human brain’s evolution. You must have noticed that our ideas and decisions are never the result of one single thought. We tend to think various lines of thought simultaneously, with each line again branching out, often clashing with a few others before, eventually, […]
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We’re all pretty good at making new year’s resolutions, but following through with those grand promises is another thing entirely. Most of us suck at it. In fact, research suggests that only about 8% of people setting out with some intentions for […]
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Who doesn’t know the feeling: You need to come up with a great idea, solve a finicky problem or create an inspired design, but your creativity seems to have gone on vacation — without you. Everyone faces this problem at some point, […]
The Tabby Awards /Business is a competition for the best business and enterprise tablet apps worldwide. This year, an international panel of 20 independent judges reviewed entries from a dozen countries and selected the 75 best business apps for Android, iPad and Windows […]
Great news for our Android users: The newest version of our mobile app is now available and ready to be downloaded from the Google Play store! Here’s a quick overview of what’s new: New user interface The entire UI has been overhauled […]
We’re very excited to finally share the news about a project our developers have been working on for the past few weeks: MindMeister is one of a few apps to be part of the launch of the new Google Apps Marketplace experience, […]
After five months of beta testing, Google officially launched its tablets with Google Play for Education last week. We’re very proud to announce that MindMeister is one of the tools picked by Google to be part of this exciting new program from the start. Google Play for Education is an initiative designed to help teachers be more productive and enable students to better create, research, analyze and communicate. As all featured apps, MindMeister was specifically approved by teachers for teachers and can be bought and shared within the platform. Read article “MindMeister Featured in Google Play for Education”
Originally known as “Eating your own dog food”, “Drinking your own champagne” is a slang term first used in 2007 by Pegasystems’ CIO, Jo Hoppe, which describes the practice of a company using its own products, either to test drive it before […]
Over the years we’ve talked to quite a large number of people about mind mapping, and based on what they told us, we’ve put together a list of the top 7 reasons not to mind map. If you’re thinking about giving mind […]
This article was updated on October 8, 2021. We’re delighted to be announcing the release of a new feature in MindMeister today: MindMeister Groups. This feature has been specially requested by our users who are working in organizations, particularly teachers and project managers. […]
Update 8th March 2017: Unfortunately, Google has discontinued the support for integrations with Google Hangouts. For an overview of all current integrations available for MindMeister, please visit mindmeister.com/integrations. Read article “Mind Mapping in Google+ Hangouts”
Please note: This article was last updated in 2013. For the latest information on MindMeister apps for Android and iOS, please visit mindmeister.com/apps The latest version of our Android app is now available for you to download from the Google Play Store. […]
Read article "New Android App: MindMeister 2.2.1 with Boundaries, Auto-Layout & more"
It’s National Small Business Week in the US and to celebrate, Google showcased different tools from the Chrome Store that they believe can really help small businesses. Read article “MindMeister Listed as Top Chrome Business App”
There’s been a lot of media attention over the past week about PRISM and how it’s affecting users of internet tools. We’ve written this blog post to put your mind at ease and to inform all of our users that your MindMeister […]
Please note: this article was last updated in 2013. For the latest information on MindMeister for iOS, please visit mindmeister.com/apps In the latest update to our iOS apps we’ve included more options for exporting your mind maps to your favorite installed apps, added […]
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