In addition Elance.com
There is also a site called scriptlance.com where you can outsource your coding and scripting needs.
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Marketing Productivity
The Marketer: IHMC
The Marketing Blurb:“Empowering users to construct, navigate, share and criticize knowledge models represented as concept maps”
Software, self-hosted, no cost if for personal use.
The Product Link:http://cmap.ihmc.us/download/
What it does: Among a lot of other things – CMAP tools is a wonderful product to use when you need to create a concept map of a series of directional steps. Any planning activity that requires a series of forward moving steps is handled quite nicely by this program. You can also do a lot of other things with this program – Have a look at their home page where you can find details about functionality and different versions that are available.
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The Marketer: Mind Technologies
The Marketing Blurb: Visualize Your Thinking and Organize Your Work
The Product Link: Visual Mind
What It Does:
Stand alone software, 30day free trail available
What it does: Does the mind mapping thing -You will want to have a look at Visual Mind’s product comparison chart before you purchase – to make sure you all the tools you need – pay particular attention to the export functions. To have the most flexibility – choose the business version.
What they do have that is a nice add-on is a program called the realizer – it helps you do “chunk” sideways brainstorming, and you can get this kind of tool elsewhere for no cost – so this may not be a big priority.
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The Marketer: Gael Ltd, Scotland
The Blurb: Bring Clarity and Purpose to Individual and Group thinking and greatly enhance productivity
The Product Link :Mind Genius
Stand Alone Software, free evaluation trail available
What it does: With very similar functions to MindManager by Mind Jet – Mind Genious too exports to Outlook, Excel, Powerpoint, MS Project, PDF, HTML files. Different views are available – including a nifty – map explorer view – which for anyone who is used to used to exploring and working with windows explorer – will find it an efficient way to organize thoughts.
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The Marketer: Mind Jet USA
The Blurb: Work Smarter, Think Creatively, Save Time – Everyday
The Product Link :Mind Manager
Stand Alone Software, low cost trial available – integrates with outlook, excel, Gyronix and more
What it does: This is one of the best known and coach friendly mind mapping software programs available.
I have been a daily user of Mindmanager since 2001, and have purchased every upgrade since then. This is one of those indespensable tools that helps me organize my day, track committments, projects, sessions, meetings and brainstorms. Creating images, pdf, and word documents are a snap with this program.
The program itself is a bit pricy for some – but this is one of those life- tools that I could not do without. I use Mindmanager with Gryonix to help me tame my inbox. What used to take me hours to do – now takes me minutes.
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- Be creative – creativity helps with memory, and ideas, and flexibility.
- Take a large piece of paper. Flip chart paper works really well for this task.
- Get some coloured markers
- Create a focus or starting point – somewhere near the center of the paper.
- Make the focus a point a strong image that will show the theme of the map
- Create sub centers for sub themes
- Use key words, or wherever possible images.
- If your ideas dry up for a moment – move to another branch
- Start from the center of the page and work out or where ever you have energy.
- If you run out of space just get more paper.
- Hold back your inner critic – this is fun – put your judgment aside for now.
- Make the center a clear and strong visual image that depicts the general theme of the map.
- You can include Words on the lines – this will enforce the structure in your mind.d
- Print – it makes it memorable.
- Use colour to make associations and to make things stand out. Colour each theme as you create it. Add in Icons or Images where ever possible.
- Use arrows, icons or other visual aids to show links between different elements.
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The Marketers: Arman Morin, Alex Mandossian and Rick Raddatz
The Blurb: Discover the Time-Proven Secret That Instantly BOOSTS Your Online Conversions, EXPLODES E-zine Subscription Lists and Sends Your Competitors Crying Home to Mommy!
The Product Link: Audio Generator.com
Hosted Software, Monthly Fees, Trial Available
What it does: Instantly add streaming audio to your Web-site without extra equipment or technical know-how.
I used this program successfully to product a series of audio e-card and web audio programs. It’s easy to use and takes away a lot of the extra technology requirements in putting product together.
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The Marketers: Open Source
The Blurb: Open Source for Clip Art. 7000 images as a resource.
Open source, Download, No Cost
What it does: Gives you zip file with 7000 clip art images.
