15Jul
The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) has just named MindMeister as one of the “Top 25 Web sites for Teaching and Learning”, and we’re naturally chuffed about the news. The list is a new resource honoring the top twenty-five Internet sites for enhancing learning and curriculum development and is considered the “best of the best” by AASL. Nice 
The Top 25 Web sites for Teaching and Learning were named so because they foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation and collaboration. Other Web sites honored include: Diigo; Facebook; Google Reader; Ning; Second Life; Skype; Twitter; Wikispaces; Wordle; and Zoho.
You can find more details about the award on the AASL website, and here’s a link to our press release.
P.S. I know we don’t deserve an award for timely delivery of our iPhone app so please don’t comment on this – the app is scheduled to be submitted to the AppStore this week…
5May
After nominating us as finalists of their Europe 100 Award the folks at Red Herring have now selected MindMeister as one of the winners of their rather prestigious prize. Thanks guys!
The list of 200 finalists was whittled down to 100 winners (yes this means every second nominee won – so what?) at the award ceremony in Malta and Till – picking the longer straw again – was there to collect our shiny wood framed award plaque.
This is our third award in eight months and we’re in serious danger of becoming very big-headed. On the other hand we know awards are one thing, but the real indicator of the value of our mind mapping tool is the feedback of our users – so keep those feature requests and ideas coming, and us busy!
25Mar
The God of Awards has been good to us these last few weeks – just before the Easter break we were informed that MindMeister has been shortlisted for the Red Herring 100 Europe 2008 – an award given to the top 100 private technology companies based in the EMEA region each year. Thanks very much guys!
Apparently we’re one of 200 finalists for that award, and the 100 lucky winners will be announced at the Red Herring Europe 2008 event scheduled for April 14-16 on the beautiful Mediterranean island of Malta.
Red Herring say their editorial staff “rigorously evaluated several hundred private companies through a careful analysis of financial data and subjective criteria, including quality of management, execution of strategy, and dedication to research and development”. In any case, we’re in pretty good company, as past winners include Google, Yahoo!, Skype, Netscape, Salesforce.com, and YouTube (and before winning they must have been finalists too, right?).
Keen readers can check out the official press release (this time in English – yay!).
7Mar
It’s been a good week – great weather, more user registrations than ever before, and finally the news that MindMeister has won the Innovation Award 2008 of the german SMB Initiative in the category “Web 2.0″!
MindMeister was selected from over 1600 submitted tools and sites and they said we should be duly proud (well, we are!). The prize is awarded to software tools especially suited for use in small and medium businesses.
So my colleague Till just came back from CeBIT in Hannover where the prize was awarded and the glass trophy fits snugly beside last year’s design award. Your first award is always special of course, but when they give you a second one you know it wasn’t just a fluke! We’ll take this as an incentive to keep working hard on our online mind mapping tool and improve it for all our users in releases to come.
See some pictures of the award ceremony or read the official press release (german only, I’m sorry guys…).
