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Case Study: Studying Smarter with Mind Maps

Published 21 October 8 9:28 AM | Aaron

This post is authored by a fellow SmartDraw employee, Oscar Gonzalez-Millan. During the day, I work full-time for SmartDraw.com as a member of the sales team. But at night, I work on pursuing my degree in law. The other day I was studying for my Civil...

Filed under: Mind Maps, Case Study

Scheduling Tasks with Project Charts

Published 8 October 8 7:47 AM | Aaron

The first step to becoming a more efficient project manager is to decompose your project into small tasks using mind maps , an issue which we discussed last week. Today we’re going to address the second step in the process, which is setting the...

Filed under: Project Management, Mind Maps, Gantt Charts

Decomposing Tasks with Mind Maps

Published 3 October 8 7:36 AM | Aaron

Many projects are delivered late —one of the key reasons being that the tasks assigned to team members are too broad or vague. You might be asking yourself “what’s wrong with broad tasks?” As I answered in my most recent post,...

Filed under: Project Management, Mind Maps

How to Plan Presentations Using Mind Maps

Published 28 July 8 5:39 AM | Aaron

If any of you read Dumb Little Man , a popular productivity blog, you might have read my guest blog entry on Wednesday entitled " 5 Steps to Planning an Effective Presentation ." One of the points that I touched on in that article was how mind maps are...

Filed under: Presentations, Brainstorming, Mind Maps

Screencast: Planning Effective Presentations Using Mind Maps

Published 25 July 8 5:8 AM | Aaron

In this screencast by Kenneth Roberts you will learn how to quickly plan an effective presentations using Mind Maps . If you'd like to read our complementary PDF "Working Smarter with Mind Maps for Presentation Planning" then download it here . --> This...

Filed under: Presentations, Mind Maps

Mind Maps - For Communication or Organization?

Published 24 July 8 5:2 PM | Aaron

I started a conversation over on the SmartDraw forums yesterday about this topic: are mind maps primarily an organization tool or a communication tool? I use mind maps constantly; basically whenever I need to organize my thoughts, I use a mind map . I...

Filed under: Mind Maps

Four Techniques I Use to be a Better Manager

Published 22 May 8 4:0 AM | Paul

When I founded SmartDraw.com I was a software developer not a manager. Not that this mattered much because the only person I needed to manage at the time was me! As the company grew, management was "thrust upon me", and I learned four techniques I still...

Filed under: Flowcharts, Be a Better Manager, Mind Maps, Team Charts, Org Charts, Gantt Charts

Getting It Done On-Time with Simple Project Management

Published 20 May 8 4:0 AM | Aaron

The most important aspect of any project, personal or corporate, is cost and cost is determined by the answers to the following two questions: How much time am I going to need? And how many people am I going to need? My background is primarily in software...

Filed under: Project Management, Mind Maps, Gantt Charts

Screencast: Managing Projects with SmartDraw

Published 15 May 8 4:0 AM | Paul

In this screencast we show you how you can use SmartDraw and to manage projects; first we show you how to scope your project with a mind map , then we show you how you can easily convert that mind map into a project chart (Gantt Chart) , and finally we...

Filed under: How To, Screencast, Mind Maps, Gantt Charts