We’re thrilled to announce three fantastic updates for MindMeister’s popular integration with Microsoft Teams! These latest improvements ensure that you and your team members are always up to date about what happens in your maps. In case you missed it, MindMeister has […]
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Is there a secret to taking great meeting minutes? What are the most important things to consider when creating a project plan? Or a business plan for that matter? What information should be included, what shouldn’t? If you’ve never had to do […]
Good employees are hard to come by in today’s competitive job market. When you’re fortunate enough to succeed in your search and are ready to welcome new people to your team, you’ll want to make sure their introduction to your company goes […]
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The ability to generate ideas — and implement them efficiently — is crucial for the long-term success of businesses, yet few take the time to create a culture that truly fosters creativity and innovation. The first step to establishing such a culture […]
Using MindMeister in Microsoft Teams, you easily capture valuable ideas that come up in your conversations and turn them into visual project plans that you can refer back to any time. Mind maps display all the important information around a topic on […]
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We’re spending more time in meetings. Today’s executives devote an average of 23 hours a week to them, while in the ’60s, meetings took up less than 10 hours for the average executive. But the fact that we’re spending more time on […]
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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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You asked and we listened: Spurred by your feedback, we’re reintroducing list view on MindMeister’s dashboard, enabling you switch back and forth between the old and the new dashboard experience! In June we introduced MindMeister’s brand-new dashboard, which featured a practical sidebar […]
When a start-up grows at scale, your leadership strategy will need to grow with it. At MeisterLabs, when we could no longer fit around the same meeting room table, we knew it was time to take stock. Over the past few years, […]
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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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Can you name a more iconic duo than content and SEO in the history of marketing? Go ahead, I’ll wait . . . As marketers, it’s our duty to take SEO into consideration when we’re creating pages and content. Product feature announcements, use […]
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We’re very pleased to finally unveil the all-new MindMeister dashboard, which features a practical navigation bar with filter options, a folder-tree structure and easy access to our template library. Plus, thanks to the thumbnail-based map listing, you no longer have to open maps […]
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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Did the Facebook / Cambridge Analytica reports have you wondering just how secure the online tools you use are? In this article, we’ll advise on how to assess your current tools and share our approach at MeisterLabs to protecting user data, no […]
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It’s been eleven years since Till and I founded MeisterLabs and since launching, we’ve come up against our fair share of hurdles. Fortunately, we’ve weathered each storm and at every plateau discovered new ways to breathe life into the business and our approach […]
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2017 has been a rollercoaster for many of us. However, hearing from teams around the world who are using MindMeister and MeisterTask to achieve inspiring things has been a high point for us here at MeisterLabs. So, whether you’re counting down the […]
Read article "MeisterLabs Community Round-Up: 5 Inspiring Team Workflows"
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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Your most brilliant ideas are useless unless they are implemented. Using the integration between MindMeister and MeisterTask, you ensure that important ideas generated in your brainstorming sessions and strategy meetings are turned into actionable tasks right away! Every successful project starts with […]
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At Orchestrate we recently created an integration between Salesforce and the online mind mapping tool MindMeister. In this article, I’ll show you why mind maps are an important tool to add to your repertoire as a financial advisor. Plus, how utilizing the MindMeister […]
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When running a start-up with a fully distributed team, founders are often faced with a dilemma. How do you ensure that your distributed team remains creative and collaborative while meeting every deadline? In this success story, we hear from software startup BigBangThemes […]
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Whether you’re a seasoned marketer with a large budget and team, or just starting out with nothing but your laptop and a big idea — in this article we’ll introduce you to a simple and effective workflow for all your creative marketing […]
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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 […]
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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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We like to think that we operate our businesses as meritocracies. Good ideas get heard, and people with good ideas get rewarded. But what if that wasn’t exactly true? The fact is, in a typical eight-person team meeting, on average only three people do 70 percent of the talking. Luckily there are a few ways to make your meetings a bit more equal and inclusive.
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Consultants, trainers and other service providers know how important it is to bring their team and their clients onto the same page. Making sure that the client’s vision and expectations are captured, and that clients understand the project’s goals, objectives, issues and action […]
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Web design has changed a lot over the past decade, and so has our web app, MindMeister, which was launched in February 2007 as one of the first software-as-a-service tools. Now, 10 years later, MindMeister has more than 6 million users worldwide […]
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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With companies located across time zones, and sometimes even entirely remotely, teams across the world are drawing on collaborative project management tools. Teams need tools which will enable them to effectively project plan and task manage, regardless of whether they’re located in the […]
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To achieve successful product management, companies working within the fast-moving tech sector need consistent workflows. With a regular flow of ideas, push requests and UI improvements, it’s easy for tasks to slip between the gaps. An Interview with Cory Scott, CEO and […]
This is a guest post from Nitzan Gursky. Nitzan is the Marketing Team Leader at Infolinks, one of the largest monetization networks in the world and the company behind AdShop. Connect with Nitzan on LinkedIn. No advertising campaign can be a success […]
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