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Concept Mapping
Expanded Mind Mapping
More than labels...Deep content and uploaded files.
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Full List
- Works in standard browsers: IE9, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, etc.
- Runs in the Cloud. Nothing to install, updates and backup are automatic.
- Work alone or in groups that you assign to each map individually
- Email alerts to fellow collaborators
- Free forum.
- Mouse-overs show thumbnail images of linked site contents
- Simultaneous group editing of concept maps in real time
- One-click entry of any website into any map from your browser toolbar
- Make tunnels between maps
- Both graphic and text-outline maps
- Labeled relationships between boxes (this-->is opposite of-->that)
- Collapse/Expand branches
- Solution boxes can be voted on
- Each box is a mini-blog with appended comments
- Summaries show where the conversation has led and how it got there
- Automatic layout minimizing line crossings frees you from trivia
- Downloadable backups of all your maps to Acrobat, XML, and SQL
- Export to Acrobat for sharing with non-IdeaTree users. With active links!
- Connect anything to anything with no restrictions, or leave boxes free-floating
- Boxes can be video, audio, graphics, spreadsheets, slideshows...
- Graphical views of who has access to each concept map - no need to type email addresses
- Web-based, no installation necessary
- Glues all your web-based tools together - calendar, project manager, social network, etc.
- Email attachments are replaced with annotated, group-editable web pages.
- Medical case management
- Prioritizing issues for team management
- Academic papers
- Knowledge elicitation
- Business planning and contract management
- Visual project reporting
- Meeting minutes
- Document management
- "Signposting" - creating diagrams that display links to documents that are a part of a management system (such as quality or environmental systems)
- Designing investment strategies
- Documenting software requirements
- Software development and modeling
- Writing reports
- Creating indexes to documents
- Comparative analysis
- Legal hearings and motions
- Negotiation planning
- Managing committee roles and out-of-committee networks
- TOC (Theory of Constraints) thinking processes
1List courtesy of Mind Mapping Software Survey, Chuck Frey, http://www.innovationtools.com/survey/212WHS/Mind_mapping_survey_results.pdf