If you are a mind-mapping afficionado, but have had trouble getting the rest of your team to work with mind-maps, bCisive Online offers an alternative path to visual thinking. Our users have found that facilitating a meeting or problem-solving session is a great way to get buy-in from the group.
The modes of visual thinking supported in bCisive Online overlap with mind-mapping, but the visual and manipulatory conventions are a bit different. Here's a short video illustrating the basic mechanics of map-building and editing.
Notably, bCisive Online allows multiple maps on a workspace, and makes playing with ideas in a bottom-up or top-down fashion (or any combination thereof) both practical and enjouyable.
For the more experienced user, advanced features include:
- Real-time collaboration over the internet, including one-click integrated Skype, remote virtual laser pointers for all participants, and disciplined passing around of "control" (the power to edit)
- A private portal for your team or organization: E.g. http://myorganization.bcisiveonline.com
- Easy export to PowerPoint
A feature aimed at bloggers is the facility to publish completed maps to the web. Similar to embedding a Youtube video, or a Slideshare presentation, bCisive Online enables you to embed a readonly workspace containing one or more maps in your blog (or in any web-page). Unlike a fixed image, this workspace is zoomable and foldable. Here is an embedded bCisive Online map, based on an editorial in the New York Times:
Best viewed in full screen, try zooming in and out, and hiding and showing branches and sub-branches. Clicking on a non-map area of the workspace to pan around at high zoom levels.
bCisive Online is free to try, and available at reasonable rates on a subscription basis.
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