Gliffy, my new best friend

Just subscribed to Gliffy for the princely sum of $20US and am very impressed with this online concept mapping application.

I have been looking for a low cost alternative to Inspiration and have experimented with a number of them, and found Cmap to be excellent, and free.

However Gliffy has a significant advantage in being an online application with very good tools is a very polished product. There is a collaborate function that allows for sequential but not simultaneous collaboration.

A feature I think is essential is that Gliffy is not a single-hierarchy concept mapping tool. Many of them only allow you to have one 'tree' in a chart. Gliffy, Cmap and Inspiration allow you to do whatever you want.

Free membership only allows 5 charts at a time, but that is plenty for many users. They have to be public too.

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Comment by Torsten Otto on July 25, 2007 at 1:54pm: My current favorite in this arena is MindMeister:

http://www.mindmeister.com

It allows for SIMULTANEOUS collaboration, gives 6 free maps and does not require free maps to be public.

Comment by Torsten Otto on July 26, 2007 at 1:51pm: This arena of course being mindmaps, it doesn't compete with Gliffy...

Comment by Daniel Bassill on July 26, 2007 at 2:54pm: I'm using cmaps. You can see one of several maps I've created at http://cmapspublic.ihmc.us/servlet/SBReadResourceServlet?rid=1178301962705_378512451_14531&partName=htmltext

I tried Gliffy along with Thinkature and a couple others. The Cmap was the easiest for me to learn and use.

Comment by John Travers on July 26, 2007 at 5:13pm: Yes, I think I agree, but the easy online feature of Gliffy is good for some activities I guess. Cmaps is very clean and elegant. Not so good at integrating images though?