Check out our MindManager 2012 Incentive page to learn more about what’s on offer and how to take advantage of the time limited deals.

In this issue:

• myThings™ – New MindManager® Add-in Now Available!
• MindManager 9 Promo – Get MindManager® 10 FREE!
• MMDevX™ – A Great New MindManager® Add-in Resource!
• The March/April MindManager® Add-in Competition Winner(s)!
• On the Horizon!

myThings™ – New MindManager® Add-in Now Available!

Get Things Done….Simply!

myThings™ for MindManager®, the new way to make sure all your ideas, thoughts, brainwaves and Eureka! moments are captured for future action.

myThings for MindManager® gives you the ability to capture and store thoughts and ideas as you work and then distribute them into a MindManager® Map framework which can be customised with the users own templates and organised in a way that suits each individual user.

If you use Mindjet® MindManager® on a regular basis then myThings for MindManager® will expand your use of the application, help you focus on what matters when its important and make sure you never forget that all import “thing” that popped into your head when you were engaged on another project or task.

Available for MindManager® 8 & 9, myThings™ for MindManager®
is a must if your life is full of interruptions and distractions.

Click to learn more or try myThings™ FREE for 30 days ?

MindManager® 9 Promo – Get MindManager® 10 FREE!

We have just released some new offers for purchasers of MindManager®. Up until 30th June 2011 we will be supplying Maintenance & Support (M&S) on selected product bundles which means that the next edition of MindManager will be available as a FREE upgrade under the M&S agreement.

M&S is an annual fee which normally costs £ 39.80 excl. VAT per, per annum. When purchasing MindManager® through Olympic we will supply your first year’s M&S with a 50% discount which means you only pay £ 20.00 excl. VAT for full Premium Support from Mindjet® directly AND receive a FREE upgrade to the next edition of MindManager® when its available.

We are also combining this offer with selected add-ins from the Olympic OPTi-Range offering further savings.

more details and pricing…

MMDevX™ – A Great New MindManager® Resource!

As some of you will no doubt already be aware Olympic recently launched a new website dedicated to developers of  MindManager® Add-ins and Solutions called MMDevX™.

The site is a showcase for add-ins from developers around the world and aims to list all currently supported add-ins that we are aware of. There are currently over 35 add-ins that work with a range of MindManager® versions from MindManager® Pro 6 upwards and we are actively searching out more to add over the coming months.

Pay the site a visit and sign up to the MMDevX Twitter account to get notified when new add-ins are inlcuded and current ones are updated.

MMDevX

The March & April MindManager® Add-in Competition Winner!

What with Easter and Royal Weddings we didn’t get the Newsletter out last month so this month we have TWO lucky winners of our monthly competition. The lucky two are:

Christian Haaning of QSCM

Christian chose a free licence of OPTi-P2™ for MindManager and had this to say:

“I always wanted to get to know PRINCE2 and this looks like the right way to start”

You can learn more about QSCM on their website www.qscm.dk

Dr Steve Rivkin of Acando Ltd

Steve also chose a free licence of OPTi-P2™ for MindManager and had this to say:

“Acando is a Management Consultancy company, and in the UK we specialise in Programme and Project Management. We provide project managers who are passionate about achieving success to a vast range of projects. We find the combination of Mind Manager and OPTI-P2 particularly useful for customising/profiling a client’s project processes, using Mind Maps for graphical navigation of the processes, and using OPTI-P2 to link to PRINCE2® functionality.“

You can learn more about Acando on their website www.acando.co.uk

Don’t forget we are giving away a MindManager® add-in of choice from our OPTi-Range EVERY month during 2011 so make sure you and your friends and colleagues are signed up to the Olympic Newsletter to be in with a chance of winning. You can do this from the Olympic Home Page.

On the Horizon!

Using MindManager® with Microsoft® Word? Keep an eye on MMDevX™ for a new add-in providing flexible MindManager® to Word export! Stay tuned to MMDevX for more info! http://www.MMDevX.com

That’s all until June’s issue…Thank you for reading

Kind Regards
Nigel Goult
Managing Director

In this issue:

• OPTi-Suite™ MindManager® Utility Add-in Updated!
• MindManager® Maintenance & Support Offer!
• The March Mindjet® Roadshow!
• The January MindManager® Add-in Competition Winner!
• On the Horizon!

OPTi-Suite™ MindManager® Utility Add-in Updated!

We are pleased to announce a new update to our popular Mindjet® MindManager® add-in, OPTi-Suite™ version 2.5.

With this update we have added two new utilities, Auto-Views for Topic Relationships and Topic Task Information as well as a new improved menu with new icons. We have also tightened the error checking and functions to make them more robust and versatile.

OPTi-Suite™ now contains 12 utilities including:

Map Topics2Left
This function allows you to open a map which has its Topic alignment set to Left so that all new Topics created are added to the left hand side of the map.

Link2Attachment
A handy utility that will convert a hyper linked document such as a PDF file or a Word document and change it to an Attachment (embedded within the map). The add-in also allows you to either keep the current hyperlink or have it replaced which allows for additional flexibility.

Auto-View Relationships
Toggle the ability to auto-view Topics when they are connected by a Relationship

Auto-View Task Information
Toggle the ability to auto-view the Task Management Task Pane when selecting Topics that contain Task information

Topic+Topic
Allows you to add selected Topics, (providing they have a numerical text title), and have the sum either displayed on screen or added to the map.

Topic Calculator
Use on a numerical Topic to display different conversions such as Miles/Kilometers, Inches/Feet etc. Also allows basic math calculations on the selected Topic and the result added to the map.

Topic Text Lock/Un-Lock
This utility allows you to select a Topic and then lock the text so it can not be changed by other users of the map, (unless they have OPTi-Suite installed). When a Topic is locked, it is indicated by a padlock icon on the Topic.

Topics2Map Marker
Creates Map Marker Group and Markers from Topics.

Topics2Text Notes
Takes the selected Topic and steps through the sub-topics and converts them into Text Notes of the selected Topic.

Topic2Vertical
Takes the selected Topic and makes the Topic orientation vertical. This allows the user to select the character spacing of the resulting Topic as well.

Topic2Date
Takes the selected Topic and inserts a user selected date. The user can select to have the day of the week added to the Topic if desired.

Topic2CallOut
Change Topics to Call-Out Topics or back again with a single click.

Download a 14 day trial today and try OPTi-Suite™ in conjunction with your Mindjet® MindManager® work.

Latest Downloads

Mindjet® Maintenance & Support Offer

Olympic are offering  a new purchasing incentive for those customers who are looking to purchase MindManager® for Corporate or Government use under the Mindjet® 5Plus Licence Program.

The Mindjet® 5Plus Licence Program, (View 5Plus PDF), enables businesses to purchase MindManager® with the benefits of upgraded technical support, single licence key deployment making licence control and compliance easier together with no cost upgrades when newer versions become available.

Currently all purchases for 5 or more MindManager® licences require Maintenance & Support which equates to 20% of the licence costs. This is an annual cost which can be renewed each year to maintain the benefits of the program. The Maintenance & Support costs on a typical purchase for 5 users is £ 39.80 per licence, per annum, (£ 33.83 for Government). This reduces slightly when 10 or more licences are purchased but remains at 20% of the licence cost.

From now until 31st March 2011 Olympic are offering to cover the first years Maintenance & Support costs on all 5Plus licence purchases enabling savings starting from £ 199.00. The more licences purchased the more you will save. If you already have a 5Plus agreement in place you can also take advantage of this offer when adding additional licences to your current agreement. In this situation Olympic will cover the pro-rata Maintenance & Support costs for the additional licences.

If your a new Mindjet® 5Plus customer you can view pricing and place your order on-line here. If you already have a Mindjet® 5Plus agreement and are looking to add licences then please call us on +44 208 144 4224 for a bespoke quotation.

Terms & Conditions

Offer is only applicable to full licence purchases. Upgrades are not eligible.
Payment must be made at the time of order.
Can not be used in conjunction with any other Olympic offer or discount incentives.
All prices quoted above excl. VAT

The March Mindjet® Roadshow

Improve communications and collaboration across any orginisation using interactive, information rich Mindjet maps. Easily share maps, collaborate and communicate directly with suppliers, employee’s and virtual project teams.

In the best practice seminar we will address:

• Top 5 business pains of sharing information across the organization

• Information mapping software as a one-stop solution to optimize communication, collaboration and sharing

• Customer use cases featuring brainstorming, strategy, projects and communication

Dates & Venues

• Wednesday 9th March 2011, Lords Cricket Ground – Register
• Thursday 10th March 2011, Old Trafford Cricket Ground – Register

The January MindManager® Add-in Competition Winner!

We are pleased to announce the winner of our Newsletter competition for January.

The lucky reader chosen was Noel Austin.

Noel chose a free licence of OPTi-Docs™ for MindManager and had this to say:

“I use Mind Manager as a way of organising my thoughts about new concepts and projects and tend to produce multiple versions of lots of documents. OPTi-Docs will give me an excellent way of keeping control of them.”

You can learn more about Noel on his linked in profile: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/noelaustin

Don’t forget we are giving away a MindManager® add-in of choice from our OPTi-Range EVERY month during 2011 so make sure you and your friends and colleagues are signed up to the Olympic Newsletter to be in with a chance of winning. You can do this from the Olympic Home Page.

On the Horizon!

After our recent update of OPTi-Suite™ we are now turning our development resources to OPTi-P2™ our PRINCE2® Solution for MindManager®.

We will be adding enhancments and improvments based on user feedback we have received over the past few months and will be looking to have an updated version by the end of Q1.

Current users will receive the upgraded version free of charge and will be notified when the download is available.

That’s all until March…Thank you for reading

Kind Regards
Nigel Goult
Managing Director

During 2011 Olympic will be offering one lucky reader the choice of a FREE, Not For Resale licence of one of our OPTi-Range of Mindjet® MindManager® Add-ins EVERY MONTH.

If you are subscribed to the Olympic Newsletter, you could be one of twelve lucky subscribers that will be picked throughout this year to choose a FREE licence from the following Mindjet® MindManager® add-ins developed by Olympic: OPTi-Docs™, OPTi-P2™, OPTI-Q™ and OPTi-Suite™.

At the end of each month we will at random select a subscriber from our Newsletter list and notify them by email of their good fortune. They will then have the choice of receiving a FREE licence for one of the previously mentioned Mindjet® MindManager® Add-ins developed by Olympic. Winners will be listed in the following Olympic Newsletter.

Remember. There is nothing you have to do other than register for our Newsletter, that’s it.

You can sign up to the Newsletter below or from our Home Page. Good luck!

In this issue:

• Thank you!
• OPTi-Docs™ for MindManager® arrives!
• Save 10-25% on selected products this December!
• Goalscape. The new product in Olympic’s portfolio!
• On the Horizon!

Thank you!

As another year comes to a close I would like to thank all of you for your support and continued business relationship with Olympic. I hope that the coming new year proves a brighter place for us all and that Olympic are able to continue to provide you with the high level of customer service you have come to expect from us over the last few years.

I wish you a wonderful Christmas and a very prosperous 2011.

Thank you

Nigel Goult
Managing Director

OPTi-Docs™ for MindManager® arrives!

Olympic are pleased to announce the release of OPTi-Docs™ for MindManager®, a simple document management add-in for users of MindManager Pro 6, MindManager Pro 7, MindManager 8 and Mindmanager 9.

One of the first things that most users of Mindjet® MindManager® do when they start using the application is link documents into their maps. MindManager® users in disciplines from Project Management to Technical Authorship and users groups from Project Teams to individual Lawyers or Solicitors are all managing documentation of one type or another in their MindManager® Maps.

Minutes from meetings, project documentation such as Project Briefs, Risk Logs, Plans etc, Customer Proposals, Books, Specifications,Quotes/Tenders and Presentations, the list is endless. All of these documents change during their lifetime creating multiple instances of the document over each iteration/revision and ideally you need to keep records/copies of these changes to provide audit accountability or to reference at a later date. That’s where OPTi-Docs™ comes in.

Up until now there has been no real way of controlling the localised documents that MindManager® is linked to and although you can open documents and then edit them there is no simple way to keep a history of the revisions of a particular document (or any file type for that matter) without having to manually create copies and rename files etc. OPTi-Docs™ for MindManager® changes all of that.

OPTi-Docs™ adds a Document Management Task Pane to MindManager® allowing the user to carry out basic document management activities on selected documents such as document check-out, document check-in, editing of checked-out documents, automatic document version increment, automatic document revision creation and storage as well as visual indication of selected document status and change history.

Learn more – Download a  trial – View the User Guide

Save 10-25% on selected products this December

From the 1st December 2010 to 3rd January 2011 Olympic are offering some special festive offers to celebrate Christmas and the New Year. There are some great savings to be made on MindManager 9, and ALL of the products in Olympic’s OPTi range. Simply use the festive coupon codes on the Festive Offers page when purchasing on-line to take advantage of these limited time offers.

Some of the offers are subject to availability, where stated these offers are only available while we have stock and will be withdrawn once that stock is depleted.

Use the following links to view our Bundle Special and Festive Offers

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Goalscape. The new product in Olympic’s portfolio!

We are pleased to announce that we now promote and support the unique Goal Management application, Goalscape.

Recently updated to include integration with MindManager® we guarantee you will not have seen another application that looks or acts like this.

With a stylish and easy to use interface that is fluid and quick to get to grips with, Goalscape is a really welcome breath of fresh air and a possible alternative to the usual “Mind Mapping” type offerings available today.

If you need to get to grips with your goals, whether personal or business, Goalscape is definitely for you and can be applied to many other tasks too.

Learn more about Goalscape

On the Horizon!

Looking forward into 2011 we have some updates planned for our OPTi products including OPTi-Q and OPTi-P2. These updates will be announced as they become available and will be provided free of charge.

We are also looking into development of two additional products to integrate with MindManager® and we will release further news about what these new add-ins will be in Q1 of 2011. Needless to say both feature heavily in the Project Management arena. Check the Olympic website from time to time for news about these new add-ins and their time-line for availability.

That’s all until 2011

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

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

In this issue:

• Power Markers Version 2 Released
• OPTi-P2 Update
• Small Team Licence Offers

New version of Power Markers™ for MindManager® brings dashboard maps to life

We are pleased to tell you that version 2 of Power Markers™ for MindManager® is now available for download.Power Markers™ is an extension for Mindjet MindManager® 7 and 8 for Windows, and makes it easy to work with your maps by automatically creating to-do lists from them. So as well as representing your information or project visually, you can see the status of your map at a glance, with all your next actions collected together in one list, wherever they are in the map.This is perfect for “dashboard” maps that represent work in progress. You can mark actions and key information points anywhere in your map, and Power Markers will track them in the “Hot Lists” so that you can always get to them with one click. It makes even the biggest maps simple to navigate and maintain, greatly enhancing their value and extending their useful lifetime.
Download your free copy of Power Markers™ for MindManager® and regain control of your maps today!	FREE White PaperTo read more about using MindManager® for “dashboard” maps, download our free white paper, which defines the unique characteristics of dashboard maps, and shows you how to design them.
If you have not tried Power Marker™s before, then you did the right thing by waiting – because version 2 now comes in two editions (Standard and Pro), and the Standard edition is free! If you already use Power Markers™, then you will find powerful new features in version 2: Active Legends reverse the logic of marker legends, by letting you define your map markers from within the map itself. This makes it easy to copy useful map markers from one map to another, and version 2 includes complete sets of map markers as map parts – just drag them into the map and click refresh to configure the markers in your map Automatic Markers detect special conditions on topics in your map, and assigns a map marker to the topic. For example, it can automatically mark unfinished actions that are due this week, or topics that contain attachments. This makes it easy to create effective dashboard maps that keep you in control, and help you to pinpoint vital information in a couple of clicks. There are over 300 conditions that can be detected by Power Markers™ Ready-to-use Template Dashboards and Map Parts make it easy to apply Power Markers™ to your most frequently-used maps Special upgrade pricing to the Pro edition for existing users of version 1 Download your free copy of Power Markers™ for MindManager® and regain control of your maps today!
Learn more… Download White Paper… View Presentation…

OPTi-P2™ Gets New Update

We recently updated our PRINCE2® Project Management solution, OPTi-P2™ with some new features as well as some improvements to some of the existing ones.

The updates apply to both MindManager® Pro 7 and MindManager® 8 editions and are available for download from the OPTi-P2™ website now.

Since its release in March, interest in OPTI-P2™ continues to grow and we have now signed partners in Australia, Austria, France, Poland and South Africa. If you are interested in becoming a partner and incorporating OPTi-P2™ into your business portfolio we would love to hear from you. We are looking for resellers and strategic partners to help distribute and support the product around the world and you can find more information about these partner types on our website here.

Further additional features and improvements are planned for our next update which is scheduled for July.

Visit www.opti-p2.com… View OPTI-P2 Overview… Download OPTi-P2 Product Sheet…

Small Team Licence Offers

If you are working in a small team and looking to start utilising a visual information application such as MindManager® or PersonalBrain™ Pro then we have some great news this month.

In June we are offering some great savings on multi-user licence purchases of these two products.

MindManager® 8

MindManager® licences can be purchased for a limited time at the per licence cost of £169.00 excl. VAT when you purchase 5 or more licences. This represents a saving of over £30 per licence on the usual list price of £199.00 excl VAT AND purchasers taking advantage of this offer will also get the popular MindManager® add-in, Olympic Utilities included FREE with all purchases as normally sold for £20.00 excl. VAT. This offer is limited though and can not be used in conjunction with any other promotions in June.

Purchases can be made on-line though our secure purchase page here.

PersonalBrain™ Pro

Until the 30th June, you can purchase multiple licences of PersonalBrain™ Pro at a great low price. The standard list price of £ 169.00 excl. VAT per licence has been significantly reduced to £ 125.00 excl. VAT per licence when purchased in volumes of 5 or more. So if you have been looking at getting PersonalBrain™ Pro for your team now is the time.

Purchases can be made on-line through our secure purchase page here.

That’s all until the next issue.