IdeaFisher Brainstorming And Creativity Software Users Upgrading To ThoughtOffice

Online, September 12, 2011 (Newswire.com) - Software for creativity and brainstorming is gaining in popularity as people begin to discover its ability to improve their productivity, increase both the quality and quantity of new ideas, and rapidly deliver solutions to difficult problems. Currently, there is an abundance of programs designed to help users create mind maps, write novels, develop presentations, and lots more. Now, the program that helped start it all - IdeaFisher - has been reincarnated for modern operating systems. And IdeaFisher users are discovering this successor program - ThoughtOffice - and getting excited about brainstorming software all over again.

"We're getting calls and e-mails every day from former IdeaFisher users who have found ThoughtOffice Creativity Software," reports David Lockman, Product Specialist for ThoughtOffice Corporation. "They're telling us that they've really missed the creative edge that they used to get from IdeaFisher, and they're very excited to have found ThoughtOffice - especially when we offer them an upgrade discount."

For more than a decade, the standard for creativity software was IdeaFisher, the near-legendary brainstorming program introduced by Marsh Fisher in the late '80s. Marsh's program spawned a whole innovation software industry, but until recently this power was not available to users on newer operating systems.

This next generation of brainstorming software , ThoughtOffice, has taken the original IdeaFisher concepts of associative thinking and expert guidance, added the interactive online resources of the Internet, and made it all work on the latest operating systems. And where IdeaFisher was only able to access its included fixed databases, ThoughtOffice connects users with over ten million online references, which are constantly being updated. For example, the old IdeaFisher databases will not yield any results for "Young Darth Vader", "Social Media" (such as Facebook or Twitter), or "Lady Gaga", but searching on these terms in the ThoughtOffice IdeaBrowser will return hundreds of results.

"IdeaFisher users who've upgraded to ThoughtOffice are telling us that they're very impressed with what we've done with the concept - adding so many more references, associations, and idea 'particles' to jump start the creative process for them," says Lockman. "It really hurt them to have to put IdeaFisher aside when it would no longer run on the newer operating systems. Having ThoughtOffice step into that gap is like, for them, reuniting with a long-lost friend."

ThoughtOffice brainstorming and innovation software updates the capabilities that IdeaFisher users enjoyed for years, and adds:

* Over ten and a half million word associations, definitions, keywords, quotations, and song lyrics, searchable at the click of a mouse, and updated weekly;

* Access to more than three million keyword-tagged images for additional inspiration;

* New, updated and expanded expert guidance in the form of ThoughtOffice eXpertTopic modules (like IdeaFisher's Q-Banks) covering 16 essential areas such as business planning, advertising, and new product development.

The program is available for both Macintosh OS X and Windows XP / Vista / 7. It features a collection of plugin modules that provide professional guidance in 16 areas of expertise. ThoughtOffice bundles are priced from $97 to $497 and are available online at ThoughtRod.com and from the ThoughtOffice Amazon store at http://amzn.to/ThoughtOfficeStore .

"The response to our re-invention of the IdeaFisher concept has been wonderfully positive," says ThoughtOffice CEO Mark Alan Effinger. "IdeaFisher users have been contacting us every day to request upgrades to ThoughtOffice. We're offering a substantial discount to sweeten the deal, and former IdeaFisher users are really delighted to get their hands on this modern approach to brainstorming and associative thinking."

About ThoughtOffice:
ThoughtOffice Corporation is a Washington-based technology firm focused on innovation and business process development. Since 1986, the company founders have successfully launched and sold nearly a dozen companies, from advertising to laser display technology, software to internet e-commerce. In development of brainstorming software, the development team interviewed over 800 business and innovation leaders. They apprenticed with Marsh Fisher, co-founder of Century 21 Real Estate and founder of IdeaFisher, one of the first and most popular brainstorming software programs worldwide. The result, ThoughtOffice, takes brainstorming and innovation out of the lab and makes it practical for daily use for education, business process development, advertising, executive coaching and in the C-Level executive suite. ThoughtOffice Corporation can be reached at 360-450-6888, by e-mail at [email protected] or http://www.ThoughtRod.com to request an upgrade discount.

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