TheBrain Cloud Services is host to millions of digital Thoughts from users around the world. We are super excited about our latest release to the cloud that give you even more online authoring features as well as faster response time and synchronization.

TheBrain Cloud Service Update Includes:

• Increased Performance for Online Brains
• Drag and drop files to upload instantly to Online Brain
• Online notes editor enhanced with checkboxes
• Thought Types and Tags can  be added a new context menu online
• Expanded Web Client Preferences for font, wallpaper and hint options

Read our press release for the full scoop or watch our new features tour.

Public Brains may be viewed at http:///www.webbrain.com/explore

Last week we had a very productive webinar on how to use TheBrain for education and research. If you missed our session you can watch the recording below.

We covered how to:

• Build a personal knowledgebase to increase understanding
• Re-contextualize information sources to create a perspective that matches your thinking
• Analyze relationships and map out information networks on complex subjects
• Present your research and share with coworkers and students (Example Brains from teachers, students and researchers)

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How Visualization Leads to Enhanced Self Knowledge
and Better Results

Plato refers to thinking as the talking of the soul with itself. Yet one of the problems we have with these “conversations” is their transient nature. Our great ideas and strong moments in life can be fleeting and overlooked in our daily routines, deadlines and tasks. This can leave us in a bit of a rut: always busy with life but never rising above the fray to actualize key values and long-term goals.

Well fellow Brain users, I suggest we all take 2013 to be even more mindful and let our best thoughts and vision shine through in our digital Brains. Capturing your thinking in TheBrain enables you to achieve a level of self-awareness that isn’t possible otherwise. Though using your Brain for self-reflection can happen naturally, you can also create key Thoughts that enable better understanding of your life and help you reach your goals.

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TheBrain Cloud Services Gives You Improved User Interface
Features and More!

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Yes! We are super psyched that TheBrain 7 is officially released today. You can read our press release here and download the latest:

Features Galore!

TheBrain 7 has over 50 new features and enhancements including:

• Next generation data visualization and mind mapping
• Enhanced linking and relationship mapping
• Seamless integration between cloud and client
• Increased performance and improved database backend
• More tools for getting things done

You can watch our features tour at  http://www.thebrain.com/thebrain7

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WebBrain.com Cloud Service Update

Faster Data Synchronization, RSA Encrypted File Storage and More Online Authoring Features

TheBrain development team has been working on some exciting WebBrain updates. WebBrain.com, TheBrain’s cloud services for PersonalBrain users, is now faster, more secure and offers even more online authoring features.

Now you can start your Brain online and continue mind mapping there, or download your Brain to your desktop and synchronize with full RSA encryption of your files.

If you are reading this and haven’t visited WebBrain.com check it out and see it in action… If you are already using WebBrain, you will be really psyched about the following new developments.
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“Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.”
                                                                                                          DeeHock
As we enjoy the warmer weather and relaxed ambience of summer, the season brings us an opportunity to be inspired and bring new ideas to life. Right now deadlines may not be as pressing as they are at year-end for some businesses, or you might be stepping in for a vacationing colleague, or travelling yourself. All these circumstances can trigger fresh ideas and allow you to explore uncharted territory.

Use PersonalBrain to make your summer shine, by capturing and growing your creative ideas and projects.

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“An idea is not a single thing. It is more like a swarm.”         
Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From

Creating the right context for ideas and collaboration has led to unsurpassed breakthroughs. Whether we’re exchanging ideas in a coffee shop or online at our office, the heart of an idea’s growth and formation is environmental connections.

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If you are overwhelmed by year end or just want to plan your Christmas vacation, PersonalBrain will help you bring it all together this holiday season. Below are some cool resources for your holiday season:

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“For creativity you need your mind to wander, but you also need to be able to notice that you’re mind wandering and catch the idea when you have it.”   

                        Dr. Jonathan Schooler,
                        Discovering the Virtues of a Wandering Mind,
                        New York Times, June 28, 2010.
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