The interface and feature set of MindManager are very polished, and the primary menus are set up like the Microsoft Office Ribbon. Vote: Treepad P_Smith MrktMind March 30, 2009 at 4:55 AM I want to be able to do mind maps inside of Onenote without leaving Onenote!!! SnoringFrog OctaviaLalime March 30, 2009 at 10:59 AM microsoft onenote 2007 OctaviaLalime MurdockHamjelly March 30, 2009 at 9:22 AM @Kamatari+: I use Mindmeister and really like it. Check out the applications your fellow readers use to do their best brainstorming. Agree with the spread? web app? MORE >>

How many of us spend most of our days in Microsoft Office? In May, in a visit to Microsoft’s campus with executives from PageUp People, we were able to see prototypes of the new Microsoft Office product. “It’s now your Office, not your machine’s Office,” Chris Pratley, General Manager of Microsoft Office Labs, Planning and Design, told Wired Magazine Alexandra Chang. Yammer offers integration with SharePoint and Microsoft Dynamics. know I do. And – dare I say it – it looked pretty cool. Today in San Francisco,Mr. •Skype. MORE >>

April's Big Question from Learning Circuits is "How to Keep up?" This is in reference the immense and rapidly expanding technology tools. It is tough to stay on top of all the emerging tools. However, being involved in an e-learning community is a big help. For me it is a blog community and following many experts on Twitter. Not only am I often made aware of new tools, but also get opinions, tips, and examples of their use. You can never keep up with it all, but access to many experts who are also finding and sharing the lastest tech tools make it much less daunting. MORE >>

The other day I discovered OneNote , which comes with Microsoft Office 2007. If you look at the Microsoft site for this then OneNote is described as an ‘ easy-to-use note-taking and information-management program where you can capture ideas and information in electronic form. Add to this the fact that you can use freeform drawing tools and OneNote starts to look as if it could be a really useful package. So what is this all leading up to, go back to pen and paper, no. MORE >>

Microsoft OneNote EverNote – part of Microsoft office. OneNote – desktop based. Going around the room of participants each person shared 1-3 of their favourite tools that they use most often during their daily duties. Only part of the Student Suite and ultimate (?) suite. Don’t need to use post-it notes, text files, etc. Tabs, subpages , etc. Screen clipping, audio, calculator, tables, list, easy user interface, type anywhere you want on the screen. 60-day free trial. Give yourself more than a day to try it out. Put it into your daily work-flow. EverNote – web based. MORE >>