Sometimes combining basic tools form powerful collaboration mechanisms.
I’ve been surprised that the concept of mind mapping wasn't discussed as a relevant and powerful mechanism for collaboration at Enterprise 2.0. I’ve been a user of mind mapping through the use of MindJet’s MindManager product for some years, and have mentioned to various people at MindJet that their desktop application would be extremely powerful if they brought it into the Web 2.0 world. At the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston last month, I saw that SnapXT has done just that.
Using MindManager as the user interface, a non-technical, knowledge worker can create web pages and mash-up applications. The MindManager tool allows the simple structuring and visualization of a web page, or a project portal and SnapXT joins, or snaps the applications and data elements together.
When I used MindManager in a corporate enterprise workplace a year ago, I found it useful to help a team outline a support process between the company and a partner organization. In other cases, I used it to help a team brainstorm the structure of a proposed online community. While MindManager itself does have many points of integration with other desktop applications, SnapXT enables simple mashups that would integrate with other enterprise business systems.
These type of tools can give knowledge workers greater access to collaboration and ability to create their own project specific application, almost a "disposable"application, useful for the duration of a project without the immense lead time and cost of more traditional applications development models.
Here, in map format is an outline of the MindJet/SnapXT combination.





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