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Friday, December 24, 2010

aHa!Visual Web Export for MindManager 9

I find myself spending more times these days creating and putting up more  information on the web for both the classes the I teach and the workshops that I facilitate. As a result, I am always looking for tools that will make it easier for me to accomplish these goals. I spend a lot of time using various mind mapping tools to brainstorm and communicate the ideas and information that I will cover in my sessions. I tend to use MindManager 9 now to create a lot of my materials and have been looking for a way to quickly be able to output  my maps on the web. Several years ago I had reviewed aHa!Visual Web Export and found it to be an easy to use solution for moving my MindManager maps to the web. Since moving to MindManager 9 , I had a chance to take a look at the aHa!Visual Web Export plug-in which was recently updated to work with the latest version of Mindjet MindManager version 9.

Installing aHa!Visual Web Export was extremely simple process. To export your MindManager 9 mind map to the web you Select from the File Menu Export as Web Pages and then you will see an option to Export using the aHa!Visual Web Export plug in. While there are lots of ways to customize how the map will render on the web page- it is easy enough to select the default options and save your outputted files to a folder on your desktop. Once you save the outputted files you can simply upload them to your server to display them. I found the process very easy to do and within minutes I was able to view my map on the web. All of your notes and web page links are live when they are exported. You can click on this link to view the output from aHa!Visual Web Export. I would highly recommend aHa!Visual Web Export if you are looking for fast way to share your MindManager 9 maps to the web.

1 comments:

Jerre said...

Dear Brian,

I have been using the visual web export since 2004 to present the results of brainstorm and strategy sessions but also to confirm meetings, set up team and project dashboards and for my personal time management.
However i did discover some critical success factors:
- don't go to many levels deep. It's better to make a picture of the levels after lever three and put them in the notes;
- use the next and previous buttons for easier navigation
- make a pfd copy of your map and add a branch 'download this mindmap website'
- use the mindmap rules of Tony Buzan (branches from thick to thinner, pictures, color, codes etc.)
- attach a comment system
Please check out this example http://www.worldofminds.com/projects/bookreview/wethink/index.html(a summary of we think of Charles Leadbeater) It is still a draft so please comment!

Please contact me if you need more tips,

Jerre Lubberts - WorldofMinds.com