Mind Mapping, used to be a lonely job to sort their own thoughts, opens the online collaboration. Browser-based tools will, for example, help to organize meetings or brainstorming, structuring ideas into manageable pieces and divide large pieces of information. The results can be obtained via link by e-mail, blog post or distribute as Facebook and Twitter. Some tools also allow mobile mapping sessions on corresponding Apps writes iX in the current issue.

The extent to which the products are suitable for professional use depends primarily on how well they fit into the corporate IT. For just as colorful, tidy, simple or complex a mind map may also be: With the company unfolds its benefits primarily from the fact that both the author and his colleagues can do something with the results and media disruption rarely occurs. There are several free and commercial software for all tastes, some overdo it, however, their functionality and integrate with more and more features, such as project management. The danger of slipping into the arbitrariness is programmed, because it's quick eye for the essence is lost.