The Mind-Mapping Wiki In a post some months ago, I promised to tell you more about WikIT, the mind mapping wiki but kept getting distracted. Now I have found a few minutes to keep my word. WikIT is a facinating resource. It takes the line that different uses of ‘information maps’ (I’m planning a post about that phrase!) are best served by different map types and different rules. This wiki covers the many types of maps – mind maps, concept maps, argument maps and others. Although it looks a lot like Wikipedia, and has the same types of search facilities, WikIT often uses mind maps for navigation – that must be a boon – and takes advantage of MindManager 8′s ability to deliver Flash and PDF mind maps that work, as well as looking pretty. The best place to start is the list of all the subjects covered by the wiki. Information Tamers, who put this wiki together, have also remedied a hole in my site by adding a list of free mapping software on one of its pages. Google
Tools for Creating Charts and Diagrams Free Software XML/SWF Charts is a simple, yet powerful tool to create attractive web charts and graphs from dynamic XML data. Create an XML source to describe a chart, then pass it to this tool’s flash file to generate the chart. The XML source can be prepared manually, or generated dynamically using any scripting language (PHP, ASP, CFML, Perl, etc.) XML/SWF Charts makes the best of both the XML and SWF worlds. yEd is a very powerful graph editor that is written entirely in the Java programming language. Graphviz is a way of representing structural information as diagrams of abstract graphs and networks. Kivio is an easy to use diagramming and flowcharting application with tight integration to the other KOffice applications. Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a general-purpose modeling language that includes a graphical notation used to create an abstract model of a system, referred to as a UML model. DIA is a gtk+ based diagram creation program released under the GPL license.
The Brain – istruzioni essenziali Per un uso didattico di Personal Brain 4.0 – istruzioni essenziali (di Marco Guastavigna) [scarica il pdf compresso] Confesso che ricomincio a scrivere istruzioni sull’uso di Personal Brain un po’ più di 6 anni dopo la pubblicazione delle istruzioni essenziali per l’uso della versione 2, con emozione e nostalgia. L’ambiente ha conservato infatti le sue caratteristiche essenziali – serve a produrre mappe dinamiche, una definizione che ho via via perfezionato negli anni riflettendo sulla proposta logico-visiva del programma; chi non conosce una mappa dinamica, ne può avere un esempio immediato sul sito del produttore, cliccando sui nodi nella parte alta e osservando via via come essi si ridispongano. Nel frattempo, però, Personal Brain è diventato ancora più ricco e potente, ma anche intuitivo. Non documenterò quindi le funzionalità di derivazione generale (per esempio come annullare un comando) e affiderò all’intuito dell’utente anche alcune di quelle specifiche dell’ambiente. 1. 2. 3. 4.
EDWARD DE BONO AUTHORISED WEBSITE - CoRT THINKING LESSONS WEBSIT The CoRT Thinking Lessons were first published in 1974 - there must be many millions of people who have benefited. As we engage the new world of social learning and social media, this website has partnered with the Dendrite social learning platform where you can access all of CoRT in video learning form to support both teachers and students. This platform allows anyone interested in thinking to access this great programme and engage in collaborative learning with others from around the world with a similar interest. The intention behind Dendrite is to consolidate all matters relating to 'de Bono Thinking' - that mix of the CoRT Thinking Programme and Six Thinking Hats and to provide a forum for discussion on the use and implementation of 'de Bono Thinking' on a worldwide basis. Dendrite will deal with issues particular to the teaching and use of 'de Bono Thinking' - the enhancement of our thinking ability. framework are fully complementary - hence 'de Bono Thinking'.
Web 2.0 Effects and Rich Client Applications There are many technologies on the market that are geared toward improving your user's web experience. Numerous companies that have made the Internet an essential part of their business model utilize such technologies to increase their user base and retain customers. For example, YouTube, Amazon and Yahoo all recently introduced Macromedia Flash, in the form of widgets with dynamic content, on their main web properties to improve their users' experience. Another name for the Web effects is Rich Client Application. This article will discuss the various new web effects that appeared with the wave of the Web 2.0 movement. Evolution of the Web UI Since the early days of the static web, developers were constantly improving user interaction with the web sites. The Internet dot com bubble of the late 90s laid the foundation for many of the modern Web IU technologies, and the explosion of eCommerce sites gave rise to the dynamic web. Web 2.0 Effects, Technologies, and Frameworks Page 1 of 2
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The Mind Mapping Software Weblog InformationTamers.com, a web site created by the developers of Topicscape, a 3-D mind mapping software program, walks the reader through concise and engaging analysis of different information management solutions, and their strengths and weaknesses. Here are a few highlights: Indexing software: This genre of programs indexes the contents of your computer's hard drive and then enables you to conduct keyword searches it. This type of software was of limited use to the author because it was hard to come up with a precise search term that would deliver the results he was looking for. Like using a web search engine, these indexing programs often returned too many irrelevant results. Mind mapping/concept mapping software: These tools moved information management into the realm of a “visual road map,” which made it easier to “see” pieces of information and how they fit into the larger whole.
The Good Drug Guide : new mood-brighteners and antidepressants Integrating Visio 2007: Introduction to Integrating Visio with O Summary: Microsoft Office Visio 2007 provides enhanced data integration capabilities and improved tools for users who want to link their data to their diagrams. (16 printed pages) Visimation, Inc. February 2007 Applies to: 2007 Microsoft Office Suites, Microsoft Office Visio 2007 Contents With Microsoft Office Visio 2007, you can more easily integrate diagrams and data from a variety of data sources by using the Visio Data Selector Wizard. You can take advantage of these new data-linking features in Visio if you store data in one of the forms accessible by using the Data Selector Wizard. For more information about integrating Visio with other Microsoft tools for developers, see the following resources. Visio 2007 and Excel 2007 Visio 2007 and Access 2007 Visio 2007 and Project 2007 Visio 2007 and SharePoint Products and Technologies Visio 2007 and Active Directory Visio 2007, MOM, Exchange, and Reporting Services Visio 2007 and Microsoft SQL Server Figure 1. Linking Data to Drawing Elements
John Goldsmith's visLog: Looping through Following on from my previous post, in which I covered some ShapeSheet and VBA basics, today I'm going to look at some simple looping programming methods that do something a little more practical. There are many situations where you'll need to run through all of the shapes on a page to carry out an operation. This might be in order to check each shape to see if it meets a particular criteria, (for example, only shapes based on a particular master) or perhaps to change a value in every single shape (maybe to change a base URL)... To help achieve this, VBA gives you a number of 'flow control' structures that enable you to carry out an iterative process. Of the main ones to know about, For Each...Next and For x=1 to n...Next enable you to carry out the process a finite number of times and Do...Loop, Do While...Loop and Do Until...Loop continuously repeat a process until a logical condition is met. So, let's look at a few examples and see how they work in practice: