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Mind Map is the map of ideas. It is used for represent the word or the ideas of

the human that spread out from the center .To imply by using text and the picture

to look alike the ramification of the tree. This theory is getting from the brain of the human. Mind Map was built to be the source or the beginning point of developing the project or doing the tasks.

Mind Map can simplify everything especially the complicate one such as.

– To make from the abstraction to be concrete object.

– It help in learning everything.

– It can be used for solving the problems in daily life.

– It is used in decision-making in case that there are alternative ways to solve the problem.

You can use mind map to apply to many tasks such as…

– Brain storming

– Project planning

– Use for summarize the meeting(Meeting minutes)

– To analyze the strategy of our company.(Strategic thinking, SWOT Analysis)

– To specify the strategy of marketing (Marketing Plans)

– Use for Teaching

– Use when you want to describe something or teach someone(Training)

– To control the new product development(Product Development)

– To gather the data,the knowledge and the ideas(Capture tacit knowledge)

and much more…

Mind Mapping Software

Nowadays there are many software that use for build the mind map.

The mind mapping software in the world today can be separated into

two groups as follow…

-Commercial Mind Mapping Software is the software that was built by

private company for the purpose of business or commercial only. You have

to pay for this software.

-Open Source Mind Mapping Software is free Mind Mapping software.

You don’t have to pay for these software.It is open source so may be

you can download the software together with its source code.

Commercial software example

MindManager

MindManager is commercial software.You can download it for free trial

from Mindjet here.It is easy to use software that combine many

tools necessary for build Mind map.This software can link with Microsoft

Office such as MS Word,MS PowerPoint,MS Outlook, MS project, etc.

It also can export your Mind map into image file (support various type of image file),

PDF file,”.doc” file and “.html” file.It can use under Windows and MAC OS X.

Open source or free Mind mapping software example.

FreeMind is a good open source Mind mapping software.It was written in JAVA.

It is licenced under GPL (General Public License) so you can download it for free

without paying for it.With FreeMind you can download the source code for modify

some features but you must licence it under GPL only.Look for it at here.