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Michael Deutch MindJet’s Chief Evangelist is this show’s guest.  We talk about MindMapping, MindJet’s MindManager for creating and sharing MindMaps on your computer.  Lots of productivity tips around Getting Things Done.

What’s an Evangelist! - Writing, talking, public speaking, podcasting about MindJet

Who are MindJet and what is MindManager - Software to help visualise your thinking and capture your thoughts into a visual diagram

Channels to promote MindManager - Building a strategy map to promote MindJet and MindManager, then work out ways to leverage Social Media.

The MindJet Blog - Blogging evangelism

Twitter Evangelism - Mapping out your Twitter strategy using MindManager.  Cindy King planning a Twitter strategy and Tweet Later.  A question, a link back, a link to other people’s site.

Social Media - Critical point at which people follow you instead of you chasing people.  Good business opportunities from Twitter.

Shutting off Twitter and laptop for the weekend

Facebook for marketing MindJet - Love to consolidate on one platform.

Second Life MindMap - MindManager mindmap in 3D on Second Life

Zoom mapping - Google Earth and Prezi for zooming presentations

Mike Jetter founder of MindJet - Whilst recovering from leukemia developed the MindManager software in 1994

MindManager - Customer evangelists. MindMaps to map out your life. Not just business productivity.  Undoing and redoing creates even more memory connections.  Tying in other data with completions.  Writing reports and books with MindManager to move topics with text around.

MindMap - Central theme, expanded outwards with associations and a relationship line.  Jamie Nast Idea Mapping, “Blooming and Flowing”.

Beyond Bullet Points - Cliff Atkinson, creating powerpoint presentations to visually tell a story.  Using MindManager to zoom in and out of a document instead of a linear format.  Flying around a document of PowerPoint presentation.

Presentation Mode in MindManager - Excellent alternative way to present to PowerPoint, and using zooming.

Group capture and brainstorming using MindManager - Projecting and capturing group ideas on a MindMap.

Mapping to layer information - Create a big big capture, to zoom in and out of contexts.

Miller Heiman Blue Sheet - As a MindMap?  Target Account Selling on a MindMap.

PRINCE 2 - MindMap the status for projects and project managing.

MindManager Web Export - Export MindMap as a single MindMap webpage or create a website from the MindManager output.

Sharing created MindMaps in browsers - Edit and share created maps, regardless of location.

Creating in MindManager and exporting - PowerPoint, Word, MS Project, Active map for others to open branches/topics.

Getting Things Done and MindManager - How does David Allen use MindManager.  Mind Sweep of everything in your head.  High levels (Horizons of Focus) on dashboard map.  Day to day actions in Outlook.

GyroQ - Front end capture of ideas and actions into MindManager

Voice Capture of ideas to BlackBerry - Send to email.  Jott to send voice to text messages.

Mind Sweep MindMap - Fantastic mindmap for weekly check in and Mind Sweep. Oh and the ultimate Weekly Review.

Weekly Review - Chunk it to smaller blocks over Friday and the weekend, so it’s not onerous.

Mind Like Water - Is my Mind Like Water and what do I need to do to capture and fix to be in that state.

Moving long term goals into today - We punish ourselves until we’ve done the small things.

You Can Heal Your Life - Louise Hay

Write down your dreams/goals - As if you’d completed them.  What do they look like complete?  Aligning with your long term goals.  Are you bringing your long term dreams into your weekly life.

The Classic Nice Guy - Taking it all on and helping everyone else to the detriment of yourself.  When to say No.

Blogging for a Living! - Part of Michael’s role is to blog of MindJet.

Books - Whole New Mind, The Back of The Napkin, Tony Buzan, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, 4 Hour Work Week.

Life - Yoga, Sailing, Scuba Diving, more sailing

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Peter Mahoney Senior Vice President & General Manager, Dragon Business Unit at Nuance is the guest on this productivity show.   As well as Dragon Naturally Speaking, Nuance are in the speech business including, desktop speech, speech on mobiles, navigation systems,  automotive speech systems, customer service speech recognition, medical transcription, imaging software, OCR and document management. We talked about voice recognition as an aid to productivity, productivity tips, how a company like Nuance view internet channels for marketing conversations.

Voice Recognition – 10 years ago, now, the future. Integrated into other applications, not so much AI yet.

Statistical Language Model – to recognise language. I scream v Ice Cream!!

Voice Recognition commands – Use in applications.  Bits of meaning.  Identifying key words in a sentence for likely customer support applications.

Voicemail to text – To send as emails

Do we use voice recognition when we have it – Getting over the learning curve to achieve productivity with voice recognition.  Instead of hitting the backspace key when typing. 26mins typing can translate to 6mins of voice recognition.

Lawyers, Insurance Claims, Police, Health – Uses for specialised voice recognition to create reports.

The Future of Speech Recognition – Make it easier for new users. Shortening the learning curve.  Increasing the recognition of more natural language.  Translating multiple conversations at the same time.

Stuck with the keyboard, screen and mouse – Making machines understand us, instead of adapting to machines. I dream of virtual reality.

Increase in use of mobile technologies – But keyboards are small

Peter’s Productivity – Lots of ideas and creativity, easy to be distracted, so email inbox is central, and “Getting to Zero” inbox with Getting Things Done.

Voicemails go to Inbox – Single channel with Inbox.

Dragon for email processes – Commands/processes,  and Voice to text.  Reducing the stress of typing.  Voice short cuts for filing, and finishing off emails with signatures, and sending.

Capture tools – Moving notes as soon as possible.  End of day reminder to transcribe notes by dictating and expanding into electronic capture.

Projects – Physical documents of long term projects to check up on a weekly basis.

Channels to market in the Web2.0 world – Customers can better communicate with Nuance. Blog, Facebook for Dragon feedback. Interact with brand. Respect the channel for what it’s used for. Do display ads on Facebook work for a company marketing?  Facebook is more an interactive tool.

Knowing from customers when things go wrong with a product – How to deal with it. Negative feedback can lead to a positive outcome, if a company acknowledges and acts on the feedback.

Twitter – Broadcast channel for realtime information. Something will catch your eye on Twitter.  Twitter search engine for real time search on opinion.

Second Life – Moving with consumer fickleness with which is the platform to communicate on.

Gaming World – Huge potential for voice recognition in gaming commands.

Sport – Boston Red Sox. The Ted Danson bet.  Boston Bruins hockey.