My favorite mindmapping tools Mindmeister and XMind are improving more and more. Recently Mindmeister added a picture feature, which automatically finds pictures on the internet and adds them, if you like. Of course you can refresh for another picture, but the more specific the top is, the better fits the picture.
The great advantage is, that its not more easy to create a presentation together with collegues. I am strongly believe that powerpoint is one of the worst tools ever, and 90 percent of users are better done with a word document in landscape format. Powerpoint presentations are mostly boring, overloaded with information nobody can remember and understand in the average time appearance of a slide, and the follow structures like you have in books, with chapters and summeries.
A presentation with Xmind is way better. You always see (!) the structure and logic. It’s way more visual even with less animations, rotating bullets and droping text. Since there are pictures now in Mindmeister, you can pimp the XMind presentation way easier.

The workflow for creating a presentation collaborative:
Create a Mindmeister Account
Start a Mindmap
Invite other collaborators
Work togterh on the Mindmap simultanoulsy
Insert pictures, icons, whatever you like
Export as Mindmanagers
Import in XMind
Start presentation
Done!

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