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Context Organizer in Comapping

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

 

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!
 

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

 Download and try out Context Organizer for free today.

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Contextualizing now integrated with Comapping

Monday, February 15th, 2010

 

Hypershiter, visual mapper and a blogger Wallace Tait writes about adding context to mind mapping. The point in case is the recent integration of Context Organizer with Comapping. Wallace writes:

The point of extracting context from Web Pages and documents is quite simple; we are overloaded with data, information and knowledge and we need to get to the point of the barrage of data that attacks us daily.

For the academic, the use of Comapping with Contextual Organizer will be invaluable, as the cloud gives you the ideal medium for creating, managing and sharing information and knowledge with your colleagues and students within a protected cloud space.

For the business user Comapping can become a very convenient information carrier and knowledge mapping tool; becoming a standard process and system tool for creating all relevant information associated with your business management system.

The addition of Contextual Organizer now gives you the ability to research Web Pages. With the insertion of a URL you’ll be offered an “Analyze” button and voila, the Contextual engine which uses the Amazon server extracts the contextual relevance for your research purposes.

 

 * This mind map was produced using Comapping online collaborative mapping software with Context Organizer Analyze auto-mapping add-on.

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Mindjet showcases Context Organizer for MindManager

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
 
In the February 2009 newsletter Mindjet is putting a spotlight on Context Organizer for MindManager.
 
If you are asking what you can do with Context Organizer for MindManager, the answer is: you can instantly convert a web page, an email, a document into a MindManager mind map.
 
Just 1-click and the most relevant Topics are extracted together with the most important summaries - all displayed in MindManager.
 
Here you can see the demo of Context Organizer for MindManager.
 

With Context Organizer for MindManager a text summary is instantly converted into a MindManager map without any loss of relevant text content.
 
The automatic map generation frees the user from tedious map charting while providing more opportunity to focus on shaping the visually mapped information. This is a unique and valuable addition that significantly enhances MindManager’s effectiveness.

 
Context Organizer for MindManager is an ideal tool for anyone who has to plow through reams of web pages and documents and rapidly spot and absorb pertinent facts without being lost in unnecessary details.
Download Context Organizer today.
  

 

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Christmas in January with Context Organizer

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
  
Kyle McFarlin from The Underlying Blog provides a quick review of how Context Organizer automatically generates MindManager maps and turns users into champion speed readers.
 
Here is Kyle’s review of Context Organizer: Christmas in January with Context Organizer.
“with Context Organizer you are able to quickly get the context of attached documents as well as web sites right within MindManager 8, that are visually displayed as topics and subtopics.”
 
In fact, I think the output from Context Organizer is very similar to what speed-reading programs are trying to get you to pick up on.
 
One aspect of Context Organizer is to make the document work for the user so to speak and provide instant information capsule so the user at a glance can decide if the document is of interest and value.
 
Context Organizer is ideal for executives, managers, administrators, researchers, web surfers, students, writers, journalists, policy makers – people needing to rapidly absorb large amount of information quickly and without being lost in unnecessary details
 
Download Context Organizer today.

  

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62 percent of professionals report sifting through irrelevant information

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

 

New Work and New Work Skills by Tony Karrer

1-Sentence Summary* 

A recently released Workplace Productivity Survey, reported by MSNBC, had the following findings: 62 percent of professionals report that they spend a lot of time sifting through irrelevant information to find what they need;    
             
68 percent wish they could spend less time organizing information and more time using the information that comes their way.
 
Indeed, the key in dealing with volumes of data is to be able to select smartly what in fact is relevant and useful versus fluff.
 
One of the technologies that helps with weeding out irrelevant information is automatic text summarization. Summarization is kind of speed-up reading  condensing web pages, emails and documents into keywords and summaries presented in context.
 
By pointing to the most important content, it allows the readers to make quick determinations if they want to read the full text.

 * 1-Sentence Summary is done using Context Organizer.

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Summarization is an effective form of text mapping

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
 

With the Context Organizer for MindManager a text summary is instantly converted into a MindManager map without any loss of relevant text content.

The automatic map generation frees the user from tedious map charting while providing more opportunity to focus on shaping the visually mapped information.

 

Summaries lead the mind to focus on essential content. This enables faster evaluation and comprehension.  While summarising, the reader effectively engages in efficient contextual comprehension by gaining both the big picture and the detail expressions.

 
Summarization reveals text structures, while contextual associations are clearly revealed through highlighted keywords.
 
The Context Organizer provides the reader with the most relevant keywords as a guide to the most significant statements within the body of text.  The keywords work as quick filters enabling users to focus on the most relevant sentences of interest.
 
Further, the use of keywords navigates the reader through summarized content providing a superior visual format which is a more practical manager to rapid comprehension of content in context.
 
The advantage of using summarization for text mapping is that summarization provides the most accurate and direct text representation in the form of the most relevant keywords and sentences.
 
This direct approach by Context Organizer is superior to other graphical techniques which are abstract representations of text and always require further explanation.  Information mapping is a record of the reader’s comprehension, or lack of it. It’s not uncommon for graphical mapping to have little to do with the text, and the formats often used make it difficult to interpret, leaving too much for the reader to extrapolate and/or reconstruct.
 
Graphic organizers indeed have their place, I do however believe that summarization as a text mapping technique, effectively complements graphic organizers, by bridging the gap between texts and corresponding abstracted diagramming.
 
A summary as a text map provides superior expression for creating accurate and complete visual maps. This is one of the reasons that Context Organizer integrates seamlessly with Mindjet MindManager.
 
With the Context Organizer for MindManager a text summary is instantly converted into a MindManager map without any loss of relevant text content. The automatic map generation frees the user from tedious map charting while providing more opportunity to focus on shaping the visually mapped information. This is a unique and valuable addition that significantly enhances MindManager’s effectiveness.
 
Download Context Organizer today.
 
See the demos:
  • Turn web pages into MindManager maps with 1 click: 

Context Organizer for MindManager Demo

  • Instant Keywords and Summaries of Google Search resulst with 1 click:

Context Organizer Google Search Summarization Demo

  • Instant Keywords and Summaries of Web pages and documents with 1 click:

Context Organizer Web Pages demo  Demo

  

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A summary is worth a thousand of words

Thursday, August 28th, 2008
 
A summary is a shortened version of the original. The main purpose of such a simplification is to highlight the major points from the genuine (much longer) subject, e.g. a text, a film or an event. The aim is to help the audience get the gist in a short period of time. (Wikipedia)
 
The way we learn, remember and quickly recall has a strong relationship to the way we are able to process information without overloading our senses.
 
If our goal in understanding information is to quickly extract and convey meaning, then the use of summaries is essential. Summaries can be the key to understanding and reducing complex information to indispensable facts.
 
We can say that summaries are the bare models of thoughts and that summarized information represents the authorʼs best goals and intentions.

The act of instantly summarizing a web page can be an accelerator to quick understanding. By seeing the keywords in context, we, the readers, can quickly understand, connect and retain new information.

 
Summarization is relevant to all information workers, irrespective of their expertise.
 
When we read, we always have to parse the text. We read and re-read to extract the main statements. We underline important ideas and arguments according to the main statement. We work hard to assemble all the pertinent facts in logical order. And once all of this is done we then check if the summary reflects the original conclusions.
 
All of these hard and time consuming tasks can be greatly facilitated with the use of Context Organizer. With the click of a button, the essential keywords, sentences and context are revealed and highlighted. The keywords serve as a back-of-the-book index to the key statements and facts.
  
You may think about the Context Organizer summaries as an instant help in making sense by focusing on the key facts and conclusions only.
 
Context Organizer summaries allow busy professionals to save time.  It helps them to daily sift through copious amounts of information and rapidly review, compare and analyze information.
 
 
You can download and try out Context Organizer for free.
 
See the demos:
  • Instant Keywords and Summaries of Google Search resulst with 1 click:

Context Organizer Google Search Summarization Demo

  • Instant Keywords and Summaries of Web pages and documents with 1 click:

Context Organizer Web Pages demo  Demo

  • Turn web pages into MindManager maps with 1 click: 

Context Organizer for MindManager Demo

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What is a Knol?

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

 According to Google:

A knol is an authoritative article about a specific topic.
The goal behind the Knol is to provide more complete and versatile treatment on the different aspects of the subject being covered. In short CONTEXT is provided to better understand the subject.  
So for example, if you were to read about a specific subject such as insomnia - you would be able to learn about variety of aspects about insomnia ranging from introduction, to sleep promotion, types of insomnia, diagnosis, medical and non-medical treatments, etc. – all in one article complemented with references.
From experience we know that content without context is difficult to value. Perhaps Knols are good attempts to improve understanding by conveniently providing well-researched context to content.
So far there’s no common format or standard on how to create Knols, how to comment on entries and how to collaborate on entries. However, Knol is an early beta project and it will certainly evolve so for time being we should keenly observe if it is going to help us in dealing with information quality.
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2008 is being dubbed the “year of information overload”

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

 That’s according to research firm Basex, which chose "information overload" as its 2008 "Problem of the Year."

 According to 2007 study by Basex, information overload is costly; they estimate that the costs of information overload is about $650 billion a year in the USA alone.
 
 
Interruptions consume 28% of knowledge worker’s day. One recommended solution is to use filtering tools that help users to quickly understand, prioritize and organize information. Basex argues that the human brain is not effectively wired for paying attention to multiple things at once and handling constant interruptions.
 
According to Jonathan Spira, the author of the “Information Overload: We Have Met the Enemy And He Is Us” report, we should resist the urge to immediately follow up on every e-mail, phone call or IM. Spira recommends that knowledge workers distinguish the urgent from important things before deciding on interruptions in their thought process.
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Common sense knowledge management advice

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

"The Writing Organization: Knowledge Management Made Easy" By: Tim Leberecht 

1-Sentence Summary*

Depending on their role, employees can blog about customer experiences, sales tactics, strategy, product improvements, organizational design, competitors, market trends, and even gossip."

Isn’t this obvious? And yet this common sense advice is seldom practiced… I wish that every organization acts on Tim Lebrecht’s advice. 

By encouraging employees to write about their problem solving, customers, and management issues organizations can tap into a very rich source of tacit knowledge.  
 
Freely shared experience helps in identifying common challenges and solutions. It is a quick and perhaps a fun way to build corporate culture in a non-elitist way. It may also be a very good way to improve morale because it gives everyone forum and voice in decision making process, makes things more transparent and fosters collaboration.
 
Indeed, Tim points out a common sense approach to knowledge management and knowledge sharing.
 
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