Knowledge Representation News

New MappingTech Blog

Sat, 17 Sep 2005 00:24:39 +0400

Great news! We have updated our RSS channel, so now we are running a new blog called "Mapping Techniques". It's now more convenient to read blog on-line. As powered by boastMachine, a powerful web-log solution, you can make your comments about posts, you have a various subscription options and much more... You can still read blog as an RSS (we are going to run it full-content) here.

Six Sigma - mind map it with Mind Pad

Mon, 01 Aug 2005 00:20:24 +0400

Six Sigma is a highly structured program for improving business processes. It was created by Mikel Harry and Richard Schroeder at Motorola in the early 1980's. Support Six Sigma process with mind mapping and Mind Pad.

Total Quality Management (TQM) with mind mapping

Fri, 22 Jul 2005 23:00:00 +0400

Use Total Quality Management with mind mapping for managing quality process in your company. Quality assurance through statistical methods is a key component in a manufacturing organization where TQM generally starts by sampling a random selection of the product. The sample can then tested for things that matter most to the end users.

SWOT Analysis - mind map it !

Sun, 24 Jul 2005 23:32:02 +0400

A SWOT Analysis is a strategic planning tool used to evaluate the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats involved in a project or in a business venture. You can use Mind Pad to support your SWOT analysis with mind mapping or custom designed SWOT object.

Balanced Scorecard mind map

Thu, 07 Jul 2005 16:38:00 +0400

Balanced Scorecard is a strategic planning approach that describes companies goals in four perspectives - "Customer", "Business Process", "Financial" perspective and "Learning and Growth" perspective. We created a Balanced Scorecard mind map to support creation of scorecard for personal or business needs.

Lost Weight Mind Map

Thu, 07 Jul 2005 16:37:32 +0400

Weight lost mind map. We have received a Lost Weight mind map created in Mind Pad. This map was contributed by Kate from Australia. We thank Kate for sharing her experience with Mind Pad and sharing this map. Hope you'll find it useful too!

Contact maps with Mind Pad

Sun, 03 Jul 2005 22:56:47 +0400

It's now a time to change the way you manage your contacts. It's now easy to replace your old contact list with a new contact map. Mind-Pad object oriented mind mapping lets you visualize all your contacts and relation between them.

Interview With Tony Buzan from Management Consulting News

Sun, 03 Jul 2005 00:04:23 +0400

We know, that Tony Buzan invented a breakthrough thinking tool called the Mind Map. Now we are use it in many parts of our life. His main idea was that the words trigger the images in our mind, but the way we think is in those images and their associations...

Now you can use mind maps with SUSE LINUX!

Fri, 01 Jul 2005 19:26:41 +0400

Vym from Novell is a smart little open-source tool for mind mapping. At first sight, a vym mind map might look like a child''s scribble or drawing...

Mind Pad 2.0 - new version of mind mapping software

Sun, 26 Jun 2005 01:19:07 +0400

AKS-Labs has released v 2.0 of Mind Pad, a .NET mind mapping software for Windows. The new version is much more user-friendly, the new interface was designed, some new techniques were created for managing map topics. Also, Mind Pad 2.0 now has ability represent new custom-designed frame called Person.

One more expert system software release

Mon, 20 Jun 2005 15:34:48 +0400

IdeaFisher Systems, Inc is a developer and marketer of creativity, brainstorming, mind mapping and problem solving software solutions and technologies.

Information security policy elaboration with mind map

Fri, 10 Jun 2005 14:31:47 +0400

Nowadays information security is a big challenge for most organizations. Threatening inside the company multiply outside threatening from hostile information environment. Developing information security policy is the first step of organization to manage its' risks and safety. Developing a policy is a difficult process and mind mapping can help.

What you should know about cognitive mapping software?

Tue, 31 May 2005 18:34:19 +0400

We will take some notes about three programs - Nvivo, Nudist N6 and Decision Explorer.NVivo has a modeling feature which allows you to develop your models and to click on any of the elements within that model which will take you to the data that you have coded at that element/node. You can also export to Decision Explorer...

An interesting micro content application called TiddlyWikki

Thu, 09 Jun 2005 21:41:34 +0400

TiddlyWiki is an experimental Micro Content WikiWikiWeb. It allows anyone to create personal Self-Contained hypertext documents that can be posted to any web server, sent by email or kept on a USB thumb drive.It could be very interesting if mind map software could output and input into this approach, especially in producing simple wikiwebsites, either for personal on desktop or even websites.

CIOs responses about process mapping and IT-management

Mon, 30 May 2005 18:39:20 +0400

Select group of CIOs from a variety of industries/sectors came in response to the challenge. As a consequence of this survey, I can draw a conclusion that most of them permanently using different mapping technologies. The most popular technique is process mapping, of course.

Mind mapping and Six Sigma process

Sun, 29 May 2005 13:16:17 +0400

As different researches show, 38% companies use Six Sigma process. You can use mind map to support Six Sigma processes. or example, if we want to create a map of Six Sigma, we will get something like this...

Use with mind map software - virtual tabbed notebook

Sat, 28 May 2005 23:32:06 +0400

KeyNote is a virtual tabbed notebook for organizing information. It has a tree structure that is highly useful. It could be used to augment the notes function on mind map software.

Panama is the first country adopting Cmaps nationwide

Wed, 08 Jun 2005 21:05:24 +0400

The Cmap software was designed to literally map out what scientists know in diagram form. And now The Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition is providing the concept mapping software to individual schools as well as training teachers in Panama.

Mind map complementary tool for concept maps

Fri, 27 May 2005 19:53:57 +0400

CmapTools is a software environment developed at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC) that empowers users, individually or collaboratively, to represent their knowledge using concept maps, to share them with peers and colleagues, and to publish them.