Context Discovery

Because the Internet is made of content…

Henry — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:15:04 +0000

There is lots of content on the Internet. The Internet is made of publishers.

And everybody knows how to publish: blogs, portals, newspapers, books, magazines, on line conversations…

So here is a practical question: is content strategy about publishing or about consuming information? It seems that they are like hand-and-glove pairing. But is there a fit?

We are all familiar with the concept of information overload. There is not enough time and bandwith to be able to absorb all the information that is chasing us.

My work on text mining and summarization suggests that great value can be dervided from intelligently compressing large text into a much smaller text. And if the smaller text tells us through the keywords and the key sentences what the large text contains in all its rich details, than we have the best of both worlds.

The summaries are those well versed guides. They expertly inform us what we should pay attention to. They provide us with context to make us conversant with the topics. And all of this is done quickly and without overloading our cognitive capacities.

I firmly believe that content should always come with a companion summary. This is the reason that I advocate the use of summarization as a friendly service for both the publishers and the readers.

Context Organizer is available in English, French, German and Spanish.

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Using Context Organizer text mining with Comapping

Henry — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:34:25 +0000

Text mining is a powerful companion for mind mappers and knowledge workers.

For mind mappers the automatic summaries instantly become map topics and the relevant context clearly articulates the meaning of the map topics.

The automated map generation drastically shortens the process of mapping. Once the initial map is generated then the user can concentrate on analysing and shaping of the map.

The power of summarization is instant extraction of the most important keywords together with the context. Context provides both interpretation and a powerful note taking facility.

Brian Friedlander of Assistivetek conducts here a live demo of how Context Organizer web server generates mind maps for Comapping users. You instantly extract the critical information from voluminous web pages and documents and turn them into mind maps.

Mind mapping with Context Organizer text mining is fast, simple and effective

The summarization is driven by Context Organizer knowledge mining engine. The results are handed over to MindManager and Comapping as an XML file that is automatically rendered as a mind map.

Context Organizer is available in English, French, German and Spanish.

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Context Organizer generates mind maps for Comapping

Henry — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:17:34 +0000

Brian Friedlander from Assistive Technology writes:

I guess the real "aha" moment is the creation of a knowledge map with a couple of clicks of the mouse.

Brian relates the "aha" moment to the fact that a web page or a document can be instantly converted into a mind map. The automatic map generation is driven by a powerful text mining product from Context Discovery.

Keywords and summaries are accurately extracted and the mind mapping software renders them into a map.

The automatic map generation frees the user from time-consuming map charting while providing more opportunity to focus on shaping and editing the visually mapped information.

Providing accurate and concise presentation of the original text’s most important points speeds up the mind mapping process.

Summarization is a powerful add-in to the knowledge worker’s toolbox.

Here is the automated mind map of Brian’s post: Context Organizer is now Integrated with Comapping

* This mind map was produced using Comapping online collaborative mapping software with Context Organizer automatic summarization.

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Context Organizer for MindManager and SharePoint

Henry — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:27:54 +0000

On February 23^rd, 2010, Mindjet announced MindManager for SharePoint. Michael Deutch writes on the Mindjet blog:

MindManager for SharePoint provides faster and easier ways to find, organize and update SharePoint tasks and information. With MindManager for SharePoint, you can create personalized interactive views (maps) of SharePoint data to save time accessing and updating your content within SharePoint.

Context Discovery Inc. is glad to announce that Context Organizer for MindManager supports SharePoint. The same capability of automatic generation of MindManager maps by Context Organizer is extended to SharePoint users.

Context Organizer for MindManager for SharePoint summarizes SharePoint documents and pages and instantly renders them as mind maps.

The primary challenge knowledge workers face is to make sense from reams of documents in SharePoint. The automatic map generation frees the user from time consuming map charting while providing more opportunity to focus on shaping and editing the visually mapped information.

Using the build-in summarization, the MindManager and SharePoint users get to their key information faster, saving precious time and energy.

Context Organizer summarization is a powerful add-in to the knowledge worker’s toolbox.

Context Organizer for MindManager with SharePoint is available in English, French, German and Spanish.

See Context Organizer for MindManager in action.

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On this day - March 3, 1847…

Henry — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:37:59 +0000

Alexander Graham Bell an eminent scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone was born on March 3, 1847 in Edinburgh.

Bell’s father, grandfather, and brother had all been associated with work on elocution and speech, and both his mother and wife were deaf, profoundly influencing Bell’s life’s work.

His research on hearing and speech further led him to experiment with hearing devices which eventually culminated in Bell being awarded the first U.S. patent for the telephone in 1876.

In retrospect, Bell considered his most famous invention an intrusion on his real work as a scientist and refused to have a telephone in his study.

Many other inventions marked Bell’s later life, including groundbreaking work in optical telecommunications, hydrofoils and aeronautics. In 1888, Alexander Graham Bell became one of the founding members of the National Geographic Society.

* This mind map was produced using Comapping online collaborative mapping software with Context Organizer automatic summarization. Information source: Wikipedia

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What makes an effective summary?

Henry — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:25:43 +0000

An effective summary is highly readable. It provides a way to gain quick understanding.

Summarizing is important for strategic readers because it helps rapidly grasp the meaning of text. Providing accurate and concise presentation of the original text’s most important points is at the heart of helpful summaries.

The extracted keywords serve as a powerful checklist guiding your eyes from one relevant point to another relevant point.

In effect the long original text is reduced without missing the main points and without distorting the meaning and intentions of the original version. The ability to identify the key topics and sentences is Context Organizer’s most essential capability.

To navigate the map just click on the " + " or " - " markers to expand or contract the map.

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Mind mapping Seth Godin’s ideas in Linchpin

Henry — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:47:31 +0000

In his new book - Linchpin - Seth Godin asks:

Why are some people easily outsourced, downsized, or freelanced into obscurity, while others have their pick of opportunities?

To answer it Godin argues that it’s more essential than ever to become indispensable - to become a linchpin. Linchpins are the essential building blocks of great organizations: they invent, lead (regardless of title), connect others, make things happen, and create order out of chaos.

The attached mind map of Linchpin was originally authored by fordprefect in Mindjet MindManager Version 8 and published on Biggerplate. I imported it to Comapping to be able to share it as an interactive mind map.

To navigate the map just click on the + or - markers to expand or contract the map.

* This mind map was produced using Comapping collaborative mapping software with
Context Organizer automatic summarization.

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Context Organizer in Comapping

Henry — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 07:21:24 +0000

Gene Bellinger uses Comapping - a mind mapping application - to manage numerous projects and collaborate with various teams. He is also the editor of SystemsWiki.

As we know reading articles in Wikis can be very arduous. This is where Comapping’s visual presentation power comes very handy!

Mind mapping offers a refreshing presentation that is much easier absorbed by human brains then endless lists and bullet points. The power of mind maps is that they communicate conceptual relationships by creating clear visual structure and connectivity between relevant elements.

However, the challenge of actually drawing a mind map is quite considerable. Each element has to be rendered and labeled and connected. And here comes the power of automatic mind mapping enabled by Context Organizer that now is integrated with Comapping.

In the Context Organizer in Comapping post Gene provides a simple comparison of a Wiki page before and after automatic mind mapping. As you can see, the difference is startling: from a difficult to read page to a clear visual and vibrant presentation done just with a click of a button.

This is what Gene says about the usability and accuracy of Context Organizer automatic mind mapping ability:

The keyword analysis and context generation to the right of those links [after] was generated with a single mouse click. I’ve reviewed the analysis on several documents and I think it’s spot on. What’s the math telling you?

With Context Organizer in Comapping you can instantly convert plain textual information into visually attractive mind maps with a simple click to have both: powerful knowledge mining and knowledge representation tool under your fingertips!

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What can you do with Context Organizer?

Henry — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:57:01 +0000

As we all know, the home page is "the most valuable real estate in the world" according to the usability guru Jakob Nielsen.

The homepage is your company’s face to the world. Improving your homepage multiplies the entire website’s business value, so following key guidelines for homepage usability is well worth the investment.

So I took another look at the Context Discovery home page. Certainly you can find there a lot of valuable information and links but reading requires to pay attention. And attention nowadays is at premium.

So I decided to use Comapping, a mind mapping tool, that uses also Context Organizer - the summarization tool that we highly recommend - and present the information visually.

So here is the mind map telling what Context Organizer does together with the links to the demos showing the tremendous value of summarization in the age of information wealth.

Any comments are greatly appreciated.

* This mind map was produced using Comapping online collaborative mapping software with Context Organizer automatic summarization.

Try Context Organizer summarization power and get the essential facts at a glance. Instantly.

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The Inimitable Comapping

Henry — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:57:36 +0000

Gene Bellinger uses Comapping - a mind mapping application - to manage numerous projects and collaborate with geographically dispersed teams.

Comapping recently added a feature that automatically creates mind maps from web pages and documents. The feature is called “Analyze”. Gene decided to give Analyze a spin. Here are his comments in his SystemWiki.org blog:

While I have been continually amazed by Comapping they just added a new feature that is most amazing and for which I think experience is the only way to grasp the full utility of. The feature is called “Analyze”.

Imagine being able to attach a URL to a node in a mindmap and then telling the software to analyze the content of the node and build you an outline of the content based on an analysis of the relevance of the content.

Hard to grasp? I found it difficult to understand until I tinkered with it for a while. I’m still amazed! And you can attach a text, word or pdf document to a node and have it do the same analysis and build a content outline based on relevance directly into the mindmap.

If anybody is interested in learning how Analyze works with Comapping, here is more information about the Analyze feature in Comapping. And here is more information and examples of the auto-mapping capabilities.