The Productivity Show #46 – Michael Deutch MindJet and Productivity
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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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