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.

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 incvome 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.

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

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.

These recent changes can be viewed on the OPTi-P2™ website under the Change Log page located at www.opti-p2.com

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.

In fact, the saving on the single user licence cost is more than 25% but hurry as this offer ends on 30th June.

PersonalBrain’s award-winning dynamic interface enables users to link all ideas, files, and Web pages so people can better understand their information, see hidden connections, and liberate themselves from linear file organization.

Designed for people who need to analyze, brainstorm and synthesize a wide variety of information both on their local computer and on the Internet, PersonalBrain lets users express key relationships across all information sources, so underlying thinking and key ideas are instantly visible.

As an added bonus, ALL purchases include upgrade protection which means that you also receive a free upgrade to PersonalBrain Pro 6 when released.

To purchase simply select the special discounted price from our Buy On-line page and make sure your cart quantity is 5 or more.

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®  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.

OPTi-P2™, the Olympic PRINCE2® project management solution is nearing release and to celebrate we have produced a FREE standalone map for MindManager® of just one of the many components the full OPTI-P2™ solution will have upon release in early 2010.

OPTi-P2 PRINCE2 Health Check Map

The map is compatible with the following versions of MindManager®:

• MindManager® Pro 6
• MindManager® Pro 7
• MindManager® 8

The map is a Project Health Check based on the recommended tasks of the current PRINCE2® method as published by the Office of Government Commerce in June 2009.

The map uses another product available from Olympic, X-Macros™, to enable macro code to run in the map without the need for any add-in installation. You can find out more about X-Macros™ here.

Simply copy the map for each project, check the task check boxes for each task that is carried out and use the “Update” topic to automatically rate the current state of the project with regards to its compliance to the method.

Main topics automatically change to Red, Amber or Green depending on the process state providing a quick visual guide to see what may need attention or what may have been overlooked. Completed maps also provide a historical record of how the project was managed.

Register here to get your FREE copy of this essential PRINCE2® project compliance tool and receive updates about the upcoming full release of OPTi-P2™, the solution that makes managing PRINCE2® project documentation simple.

We are currently running two offers, one for the purchase of new, full licences of Mindmanager 8 and the other for those of you taking the upgrade plunge.

Offer 1:
Buy MindManager and get free licences for Olympic Utilities and Power Markers.
Between now and January 25th 2010 we will include a licence for both of our MindManager Add-ins…FREE.
This offer is open to all orders from single users up to multi user purchases. Buy your MindManager licences from Olympic within this period and you will automatically qualify for the offer.

Olympic Utilities normally sells for £ 20 and Power Markers sells for £ 23.50 so you could save £ 43.50 and grab yourself two of the most used add-ins for MindManager. Further volume discounts do apply so please call us on +44 208 144 4224 if you require more than 5 licences.

Offer 2:
Upgrade to MindManager 8 and get a free licence for Power Markers
For the same period we are also offer a free licence for Power Markers for all customers upgrading to MindManager 8.
Again, this offer is open to orders of single user and multi-user upgrades and represents a saving of £ 23.50, the current list price of Power Markers.

If you would like to get more details on the add-ins check out the sections below:

Olympic Utilities
Power Markers

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Nigel