NovaMind News

Brisbane, Australia. 9th December 2009:

With the significant amount of interest that has been generated by NovaMind 5, it became necessary to expand the NovaMind sales and marketing teams worldwide. As part of that expansion, NovaMind are pleased to announce that we now have a full time European presence with the hiring of Cathy Schneider, as the NovaMind Marketing Manager for Europe. She will be working with the rest of the sales and marketing team to address the needs of our European customers.

Cathy brings a wealth of experience, having worked as a marketing manager for Mindjet, selling MindManager in Europe, and therefore is thoroughly familiar with Mind Mapping. She also brings experience as a business manager, sales manager and after sales manager, and is fluent in French, German and English.

Cathy says “I’m very excited to be joining NovaMind at such a fundamental time where I can leverage the full spectrum of my experience. I see tremendous continued opportunity for NovaMind and look forward to helping the company expand its product line, increase its brand awareness and reach new customers.”

One of the first things Cathy did upon joining the team was to translate one of the videos about NovaMind 5 into French, and the resulting video is available at this URL: http://www.novamind.com/features/nm5.php#topiclayout

NovaMind founder, Gideon King said “NovaMind 5 is a complete redesign of our Mind Mapping software from the ground up, and it is great to see the huge level of interest out there. It has become obvious that nobody else in the market is addressing the fundamental needs of Mind Mappers. This has generated a lot of interest in NovaMind 5, and the need to grow our sales and marketing team significantly.

We are delighted to be able to welcome Cathy to the team to firmly establish our presence in Europe. She brings with her the experience of working with MindManager for several years, and is therefore able to both be up to speed on Mind Mapping principles and uses, as well as seeing the unique advantages of NovaMind.”

Cathy is available to take enquiries from companies and individuals from the UK and Europe, and can be reached at cathy@novamind.com . She will also be at the NovaMind stand at the BETT show at the Olympia stadium in London, 13th to 16th January 2010 – stand SW107.

Bruce Eisner of the Mindware blog joins the likes of Chuck Frey and many others in his praise for the upcoming NovaMind 5. He says

I believe that NovaMind in its new Version 5 is will now be ranked in the top tier of software programs in the mind mapping genre .. and it may be heading for the Number 1 position.

The MindWare blog is a highly respected source, and has been blogging about software for Self-Improvement, Personal Development and Success since 2004.

Bruce is mentions in particluar, the layout engine: “NovaMind’s map layout engine has been completely rewritten in version 5 to maintain a compact map layout. [The program is] … quite efficient, maintaining a clean map layout while preventing topic overlaps and eliminating much wasted space. If one topic threatens to intrude on another, the first topic moves out of the way just enough to accommodate it…Most mind mapping programs limit where you can place topics. Some enable you to drag and drop them within certain prescribed limits, while others are more rigid and don’t enable you to move topics around the workspace at all. In contrast, you can move topics wherever you want in NovaMind 5, and the program will honor where you place them.”

To ready the entire article and other posts, head on over to the Mindware blog

Chuck Frey, author of the Mind Mapping Software Blog just posted his exclusive preview of NovaMind 5, entitled “Exclusive preview of NovaMind 5: New version offers a wealth of innovative new features”.

In his article, Chuck says that NovaMind “have always been innovators in this software genre, but they’ve outdone themselves this time, incorporating many new features and enhancements that are like nothing you’ve ever seen in mind mapping software before”.

When commenting about the new mind map layout engine in NovaMind 5, he said that it was efficient, maintaining a clean map layout while preventing topic overlaps and eliminating much wasted space. He also contrasted the freedom you have to place topics where you want them, with the rigidity of other Mind Mapping applications which have little or no control over topic placement.

He mentions some of the many new features in NovaMind 5 like multiple topic images on a single topic, and the more powerful shapes, which “enable you to add some unique visual enhancements to your maps”.

He talks about the new powerful plugin architecture of NovaMind 5, and the comments from developers working with the plugins, about how easy it is to interface with NovaMind.

To close the article, he comments “I appreciate the innovation and passion that Gideon and his team have poured into NovaMind during the last few years. The results are quite impressive, and continue to push the envelope as far as what’s possible with mind mapping software!”

To read the full article, please go to http://mindmappingsoftwareblog.com/exclusive-preview-of-novamind-5.

To find out more about the features of NovaMind 5, and watch videos about the new version, please visit http://www.novamind.com/features/nm5.php

NovaMind Software has just released a new video at http://www.novamind.com/features/nm5.php highlighting the problems with Mind Map layout present in all other Mind Mapping software currently available on the market, and the solution NovaMind has developed for the “space explosion” problem. One of the major problems with Mind Maps is that they get huge, pretty quickly. And all the software that’s out there at the moment makes it worse.

Gideon King, founder of NovaMind, says “I have tested just about every piece of Mind Mapping software out there to see if anyone had a good layout system to avoid the space explosion problem…NONE of them have a decent layout system. I’m sure that if you’ve used any of the Mind Mapping software currently out there, you have suffered from this [space explosion] problem.”

He goes on to suggest that the layout of the Mind Map should really be the fundamental building block of any Mind Mapping application.

In the video, he demonstrates the magnitude of the issues in other Mind Mapping applications, and then shows how NovaMind 5 has been designed to keep the Mind Maps compact at all times. This is true even when editing topics in such a way as they bump into other topics. The other topics are only moved by the minimum amount required to ensure that the topics don’t collide.

He then goes on to demonstrate several other features of NovaMind 5 that are not available in any other Mind Mapping application, like the ability to alter the angle at which the topics are stacked, both for the Mind Map title, and at any level of the Mind Map, and the ability to move topics to wherever the user desires. This is coupled with a system that honors the position that other topics are in, except where they overlap, and even then, only moves them by the minimum amount necessary to avoid collision, and honors as far as possible, the relative positions of the topics.

Mr King says “These layout capabilities are just one part of NovaMind 5, which is already generating a huge amount of interest in the market. The layout system is one of the core foundations of the product, and is clearly superior to anything else available. It lets you get on with your brainstorming and task management, secure in the knowledge that NovaMind is keeping your topics in the best possible position for your needs. It’s the perfect combination of power, flexibility, and ease of use.”

The video, and more information about NovaMind 5 is available at http://www.novamind.com/features/nm5.php

About Mind Mapping

Mind Maps are diagrams that work the way people think — they organize the information in the same way our brains organize information. They make it easy to understand, remember, and communicate complex information.

Our brains like thinking in pictures. The smooth curves and colorful pictures used in Mind Mapping create powerful images for your brain to remember.

Mind Maps cater to both logical left brain thinking and pictorial right brain thinking at the same time, which makes them a very good way of storing and recalling information, presenting things to other people, and brainstorming new ideas.

About NovaMind

NovaMind is used by businesses, in education, and for personal effectiveness, for tasks such as note taking, managing to-do lists, brainstorming, research, problem solving, decision making, presentation preparation and delivery, project planning, knowledge management, writing, and many other uses. NovaMind has been the top Mind Mapping program available on Mac computers for the last 7 years, and has been available for Windows for over 3 years. It is rapidly gaining recognition for its many unique and innovative features and ease of use. NovaMind makes Mind Mapping intuitive and fun.

For more information about NovaMind, please visit www.novamind.com or e-mail Gideon King at gideon(at)novamind.com.

 

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Here is another video about NovaMind 5 – this one deals with topic editing and resizing, and image placement and resizing. Enjoy!

More information about NovaMind 5 is available at http://www.novamind.com/features/nm5.php

 

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NovaMind 5 has been completely redesigned and rewritten using the latest and best technology on both Windows and Mac platforms.

NovaMind 5 makes use of advanced features such as hardware accelerated animations and multi-core processors to give you the most advanced mind mapping application available anywhere.

This video shows you some of the user interaction within NovaMind 5 for putting images on topics, and also gives you some information about the plugin system.

More information is available at the NovaMind 5 announcement page.

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