Over 80,000 Thoughts

Are you a fan of PersonalBrain? Ever seen a Brain file with over 80,000 Thoughts!?!?!

Join our upcoming webinar to check out Jerry Michalski's PersonalBrain file. Jerry is a an amazing and very well know technology analyst and an avid PersonalBrain user. He'll be taking us on a self guided tour of his very large, and ever growing PersonalBrain. You won't want to miss this one!

-Matt

New Webinars

We have 3 new Brain Webinars coming up next week:

Using PersonalBrain for Organizing Events, Projects and Travel

Going somewhere for the holidays? Stressed out about who's gift you may have forgotten? Misplace Grandma's cranberry sauce recipe? TheBrain can help. Sign up for a fun seminar on event planning.

Visualizing Enterprise Search and Collaboration with BrainEKP

When employees or customers don't know what keywords to type in, traditional search technology has nothing to offer. With BrainEKP, users can search visually, discovering the right information by following connected topics. This fosters understanding of content and facilitates information discovery. No dead ends. No black box searches. Just connections.

PersonalBrain 202: Editing and Overhauling your Brain

Change can be a beautiful and necessary inevitability for all of us, even our very PersonalBrains! PersonalBrain 4.0 includes powerful authoring and editing tools that make changing your Brain easy. This feature focus is designed for users who have created a basic brain but now need to change their Thought structure or have outgrown their original Brain. Learn how to evolve your Thoughts and easily edit your Brain.

Or - you can sign up for the seminars at http://www.thebrain.com/. Hope you can join us!

Matt

KMWorld Snippets

Well KMWorld 2007 was a huge success for us. We had so much fun meeting a lot of long time users of PersonalBrain and sharing all the new features of PB4.1 and EKP. Enjoy those new 4.1 CD's and your squishy Brains ;)

In case you missed the show, you can catch some of our "KMWorld Snippets!"

Welcome to KMWorld. Take a quick tour of the booth just before the exhibit hall opens.


Shelley Hayduk interviews Arthor Shelley, author of The Organizational Zoo. Some of you may be familiar with his Great, Great, Aunt... Mary Shelley who wrote a little novel called Frankenstein.



And finally, a great interview with Harlan Hugh, inventor of TheBrain.


Thanks for watching!
Matt

KMWorld 2007

Hello to everyone from KMWorld 2007 in San Jose, California. We've had a wonderful time meeting so many PersonalBrain and BrainEKP enthusiasts... as well as all the folks that are new to TheBrain. Its been such a whirlwind week at the show, and I was hoping to get a bit of a demo video up on the blog site today, but to be honest... there's just been no time to leave the booth :) It's like we're giving away FREE BRAIN'S or something... oh, wait a minute... we are!

I was lucky enough to snap a few photos on my cell phone of Shelley and Harlan giving some Brain demos.

- Shelley catches me snapping a picture in the crowd -

- Harlan was on site to demo some advanced features -

I'll be on a plane Friday, so Shelley will be hosting the PB101 class on Friday. Should be a good one. Enjoy!

-Matt

PersonalBrain 4.1.2.5

We're excited to announce the release version of 4.1!!!!!

Here are a few links:

Download

Release Notes

Feature List

Additionally, we had a great webinar this week with PersonalBrain enthusiast Sandy Ping from Venture Forward. In case you missed it, you can still watch the recording.

Also, there seems to be a lot of buzz this week about creating SiteBrains. Our support team has been sending out links to the SiteBrain 202 Recording like crazy! Check it out and see how easy it can be to publish your own SiteBrain!

Have a great week,
Matt

Selecting Multiple Thoughts

I've noticed a lot of questions coming into our Support Mailbox about how to mass select groups of thoughts, so I'd thought I'd share some tips on my blog today.


Selecting Multiple Thoughts


You can select multiple Thoughts and then apply actions—link, unlink, delete, set Thought type, and other actions you would apply to an individual Thought—to the selected Thoughts en masse (yes, I'm feeling French today). When multiple Thoughts are selected they are listed in a selection box on the left side of the Plex and they are highlighted in the Plex itself.




To select Thoughts:

• Hold down the Ctrl key as you click a Thought.
• Hold down the Ctrl key as you click a gate to select all the Thoughts connected to that gate.

To de-select Thoughts:

• Click the close button at the top right of the selection box to de-select all selected thoughts.
• Hold down the Ctrl key as you click a Thought (either in the Plex or in the selection box) to de-select just that Thought.

To perform actions on selected Thoughts:

• Right-click in the selection box and select the action of your choice on the context menu. The entries in this menu are also displayed in the Edit menu.

Selection box options allow you to make numerous different changes to large groups of Thoughts at one time. Try it out! A great tool for LARGE BRAINS ;)

Matt

New Brains - New Classes

We've had one of the busiest weeks ever at TheBrain Technologies. Here's what's new:

Another PersonalBrain 4.0 Feature Focus Webinar has been scheduled for October 25th. It's become quite a popular event to see Harlan Hugh (TheBrain Technologies CEO, inventor of TheBrain, Black Belt and all around Cool Guy) show off some of the fantastic new features. And believe me... there are plenty! Especially with the latest release of 4.1.2.0 Beta!!!!

New PersonalBrain 4.1.2.0 Beta released. You may be shivering at the term "beta", but you won't be sorry once you upgrade. Version 4.1.2.0 is very stable and has some FANTASTIC new enhancements. My personal favorite is the copy and paste of thoughts from one Brain file to another. Not to mention, the long awaited BRAIN THOUGHT MERGE feature! Download your free trial today, or join Harlan's class on the 25th to see it in action.

Internal operations covered a range of events. We sent out our October 2007 newsletter and we're putting together some new materials for our upcoming appearance at KMWorld 2007 in San Jose.

So let's run down those links again:

Visualizing and Integrating Information the Way You Think with PersonalBrain 4.0
Thursday, October 25
10:30 am Pacific
http://www.thebrain.com/pb4webinar

Download PersonalBrain 4.1.2.0 Beta
http://www.thebrain.com/download

October 2007 Newsletter
http://www.thebrain.com/site/emails/Oct-2007.htm

KMWorld and Intranets 2007
November 6 - 8, 2007
McEnery Convention Center, San Jose, CA
Booth 119
http://www.kmworld.com/kmw07/

And lets not forget... Tomorrow is PersonalBrain 101. We've had a new record number of signups, so it should be a good one! I look forward to seeing you there.

-Matt