In this issue:

• MindManager® 9 for Windows® Arrives!
• Olympic Affiliate Program Launched
• Power Markers Help Desk Goes Live
• Olympic Add-ins Updated

MindManager® 9 for Windows® Arrives!

The wait is over. The next generation of MindManager® is upon us and available now to download and/or purchase.

MindManager® v9 now offers the following new and enhanced capabilities:

• Interactive Slide Shows—Improve collaboration with MindManager® map-based interactive slides shows
• Microsoft PowerPoint Integration—Easily share your concepts and ideas with others using the enhanced PowerPoint export
• Integrated Project and Work Planning—Simplify your planning with our new integrated timeline view (Gantt chart) and highlight over or underutilized resources to proactively address scheduling conflicts
• Microsoft Outlook Integration—View and organize Outlook emails, contacts, notes, tasks or meetings in context within your map without having to switch applications

Beyond these major improvements, other improvements include:

• Enhanced usability and interface improvements
• Significantly faster performance
• Integration with Microsoft Office 2010
• Improved integrations with Office applications
• Brand new galleries of images, icons, and map templates
• And much, much more…

Ready to get started?

Download the 30 day trial or check out our launch offers on new licences and upgrades.

Olympic Affiliate Program Launched

An Affiliate Program that delivers rewards!

Join the Olympic Affiliate Program and earn great commissions from purchases your visitors make from our web site.

Our affiliate program allows you to earn very attractive commissions from sales that Olympic make from visitors directed to our web site from you. By simply placing a banner ad or link into an email or web site, you can earn money on the sales you generate for us. There is no cost to you, no risk and only a small amount of time required to register and place a link/banner in the right place to start generating additional income from your web site or customer base.

Commissions start at 5% for any product, up to a rewarding 25% for specific products. Earn commission on sales of MindManager, PersonalBrain, Power Markers for MindManager, Olympic Utilities and OPTi-Q for MindManager.

Click here to learn more or click the Sign Up button register and start earning.

Power Markers Help Desk Goes Live

Are you one of the growing number of MindManager users who have new found capabilities and application thanks to the popular add-in Power Markers? If so then we are pleased to tell you that a dedicated Help Desk for Power Markers™ for MindManager® has just been made live and can be accessed here: Power Marker Help Desk

The help desk has been created by Harport Consulting, the developers behind Power Markers™ for MindManager® and has a foundation of information and resources which will grow steadily over the coming months.

The Help Desk can be used to submit support queries and suggestions, view installation information and Tips and Tricks and has details of current  known issues, announcements and FAQs.

If you have any suggestions for content or ideas for articles you think could be included within the Help Desk then please log-in and submit your ideas.

Olympic Add-ins Updated

We are pleased to announce that with the release of MindManager® 9 for Windows®, all of the Olympic add-ins and solutions have been updated to work with the new version.

Power Markers™, OPTi-P2™, OPTi-Q™ and the OPTi-Suite™ (formerly Olympic Utilities) are all available for MindManager® 9 and can be downloaded from our download page located here.

Harport Consulting have included some improvements to Power Markers™ with the update, the first of which is a single installer which now means there is only one download for all supported versions of MindManager®, currently MindManager® Pro 7, MindManager® 8 and Mindmanager® 9 for Windows®.

Other improvements include:

• The dates used for the Financial Year can be selected from a set of dates in use around the world. To change the setting for your country, go to the MindManager Options dialogue > Power Markers page.
• A new configuration option has been added to control whether Power Markers asks you for permission to delete empty map marker groups, when refreshing the Active Legends. You can choose to always delete unused groups, never delete unused groups, or ask you each time. This setting is in the MindManager Options dialogue > Power Markers page.
• New automatic marker conditions have been added to detect $centraltopic, $maintopic and topic $level:N. Refer to the documentation for more details.
• The $resource and $task:resource conditions have been extended to include testing the text inside the resource string, in the same way as other tests for text. This allows resources matching, starting with, containing or ending with defined substrings to be detected. Refer to the documentation for more details.
• A bug has been fixed which allowed the “Copy to Clipboard” command to remain active after a document was closed.
• A bug has been fixed which caused the Hot List to be truncated when exported to the Clipboard, if a topic with no text on it was encountered. Unnamed topics are now identified as “(Unnamed Topic)” in the Hot List for clarity.
• A bug has been fixed which allowed the Hot Lists task pane to remain active while Map Part was being edited.
• A bug in the documentation in the Standard Generic Dashboard has been fixed (incorrect reference to “tag” automatic marker condition).

There’s more in the Help Desk. See the previous article

That’s all until the next issue.

Thank you for reading…..
Kind Regards
Nigel Goult
Managing Director

The wait is over. The next generation of MindManager® is upon us and available now to download and/or purchase.

MindManager v9 now offers the following new and enhanced capabilities:

• Interactive Slide Shows—Improve collaboration with MindManager’s map-based interactive slides shows
• Microsoft PowerPoint Integration—Easily share your concepts and ideas with others using the enhanced PowerPoint export
• Integrated Project and Work Planning—Simplify your planning with our new integrated timeline view (Gantt chart) and highlight over or underutilized resources to proactively address scheduling conflicts
• Microsoft Outlook Integration—View and organize Outlook emails, contacts, notes, tasks or meetings in context within your map without having to switch applications

Beyond these major improvements, other improvements include:

• Enhanced usability and interface improvements
• Significantly faster performance
• Integration with Microsoft Office 2010
• Improved integrations with Office applications
• Brand new galleries of images, icons, and map templates
• And much, much more…

Ready to get started?

Download the 30 day trial or check out our launch offers on new licences and upgrades.

This new version is available in two editions; standard and professional and new pricing bands for 2 and 5 user purchases offer some great savings when purchasing for friends, colleagues or small teams.

Check out the updated web page where you can download a FREE 6 page white paper on creating dashboard maps with Mindmanager and Power Markers, view the short Prezi presentation detailing the benefits of Power Markers and also download the new trial and see for yourself the new enhancements.

Offered as a combined purchase with MindManager® 8 or separately for existing MindManager® Pro 7 and MindManager® 8 users, OPTi-P2™ provides a rich visual framework in which to manage PRINCE2®:2009 projects.

Available to trial for 30 days and offered with retail, education and competitive upgrade licensing options, OPTi-P2™ offers both experienced PRINCE2® practitioners and those new to the method an excellent way to keep projects in line with the recent PRINCE2® changes.

OPTi-P2™ contains over 90% of the 2009 edition of “Managing Successful Projects with PRINCE2®”. Also provided are the official PRINCE2® Management Product Templates produced by the Office of Government Commerce.

For further details view the OPTi-P2™  website and see for yourself how this new PRINCE2® solution can help you save time, re-inforce your understanding of the method and provide quick access to project information, all within 2/3 clicks of your mouse.

To celebrate the launch of this new edition of MindManager we are offering free licences for our popular MindManager add-in, Power Markers.

Power Markers helps you turn your MindManager Map Markers into a really powerful indicator set which can be indexed and referenced to help you find critical map information fast.

Used in conjunction with MindManager for SharePoint the combination really adds power to managing your SharePoint information.

This offer is only available for FULL licence purchases or MindManager for SharePoint Edition (not upgrades).

MindManager for SharePoint displays SharePoint content in easy-to-use interactive views called MindManager Maps. Maps are built around central themes, like a project or process, which branch out into greater details with links to SharePoint items and other web resources and annotated with notes, images, and attachments. Creating maps is both fast and easy with MindManager.

By mapping out SharePoint sites, you and your team will gain new perspective, increase the quality of your planning and improve your execution on projects and work processes.

Increase Your SharePoint Productivity

Access, review and update all relevant SharePoint content with your own consolidated dashboard map that’s organized just how you like to see it. Forget clicking around your browser. Get to your information faster, saving precious time and energy! Update status and priorities directly in your map or open up the SharePoint details with MindManager’s embedded browser and see everything in context. With another click, visually map out search results or generate site maps for one or more SharePoint sites.

Accelerate Projects & Collaborative Processes

Managers and team members use their personalized SharePoint views in MindManager to track and act upon all of their assigned tasks, issues and documents. You’ll see everything in context and it’ll all be a click away.

And you can even use MindManager for SharePoint to enhance your collaborative meetings. Whether you’re brainstorming, solving problems, capturing requirements, or working together on plans, projects and strategies, use MindManager to capture everything, prioritize, and create team alignment.

Take Full Advantage of the Power of MindManager

Join the 1.5 million customers who are mapping their way to achieve new levels of efficiency and effectiveness. Bring information and ideas from colleagues, websites (including searches), databases, business processes and documents together to see the big picture along with the details. Create alignment and move from ideas to action effortlessly. You’ll get your work done faster by visually organizing plans, documents and presentations and sending the results directly into the Microsoft Office application of your choice.

While approval is pending we are providing limited availability of a pre-release version of the solution for testing. If you would like a chance to review the pre-release version please email your details to admin@olympic-limited.co.uk with your contact details and we will email you a login for the pre-release web page so you can download installers and product documentation.

If you have any questions or issues while using the pre-release version please email them together with contact details to support@olympic-limited.co.uk.

Many thanks

The OPTi-P2 Team

MindManager®  8 for Mac has arrived!

Mindjet® today announced the release of its latest version of MindManager for the Mac OS, MindManager for Mac 8.

MindManager 8 for Mac has a set of new features that integrate natively to the Mac platform. This includes iCal and Address Book integration, gestures support, built‐in browser, and more.

If you are a MindManager 7  for Mac user, you can take advantage of a limited time offer to upgrade to the new version and save £20 off the retail price of £ 79 if you purchase before February 28th.

Further pricing for full licences and upgrades can be found here.

X-Macros™ provides a simple method for users of MindManager® Pro 7 and 8 to create macro code and embed that code into a MindManager®Topic. The code can then be executed by clicking on an attachment located on the Topic.

Find out more about this new offering from Olympic Limited here:

http://www.olympic-limited.co.uk/mindmanager-add-ins/x-macros/

Roll-up - Lets you see Map Markers that are buried deep within the map structure.

Hot List - Opens a MindManager® Task Pane that allows you to view Map Marker association to Topics and navigate directly within the Task Pane.

Power Markers™ is available for both MindManager® Pro 7 and MindManager® 8.

You can find more details, download a free 14 day trial and view a recent web cast on the Power Markers here.

Happy Mapping

Nigel