{"id":154,"date":"2009-05-10T04:43:56","date_gmt":"2009-05-10T09:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/?p=154"},"modified":"2009-05-10T04:43:56","modified_gmt":"2009-05-10T09:43:56","slug":"shared-mind-mapping-with-mind-meister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/10\/shared-mind-mapping-with-mind-meister\/","title":{"rendered":"Shared Mind Mapping with Mind Meister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While brain stoming with Julian about the implications of &#8216;always-on augmented reality&#8217;* on human communication, I decided I needed a way of collaboratively drawing mind maps so that we&#8217;d have some sort of concrete record of the ideas coming out of our conversation. Normally, I make notes of my own, but they&#8217;re hard to share meaningfully &#8211; what I really want is a shared whiteboard of some sort.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d not looked at networked collaboration tools in a while, and googling, I was pleased to find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mindmeister.com\/\">MindMeister<\/a>, a collaborative mind-mapping that suited my needs well. It has the following nice features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Copes with multiple people editing a map simultaneously<\/li>\n<li>Supports really big maps fairly well<\/li>\n<li>Has lots of nice notification tools for maps that are likely to be tweaked and developed over time<\/li>\n<li>Is free, at least for the functionality I required.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anyway, if you&#8217;re collaborating with people over distance and you&#8217;re doing creative work, this might be worth a look to you.<\/p>\n<p>Got any other cool collaboration tools you&#8217;re using? Let me know!<\/p>\n<p><small>* I&#8217;ll write more about this later &#8211; I&#8217;m trying to differentiate my thinking from the burgeoning mass of AR demos involving a webcam, ARToolkit, and a bunch of markers. AR has so much more potential than these suggest, and I find them constraining.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While brain stoming with Julian about the implications of &#8216;always-on augmented reality&#8217;* on human communication, I decided I needed a way of collaboratively drawing mind maps so that we&#8217;d have some sort of concrete record of the ideas coming out of our conversation. Normally, I make notes of my own, but they&#8217;re hard to share\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/10\/shared-mind-mapping-with-mind-meister\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}