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Here is a short (30 minute) Basic Tutorial to help you get started with Compendium.

Word Outlines from Compendium - The Tutorials!
We have been working for years (literally) to develop an easy way to turn  a Compendium map into a Word outline.
Download the PDF Tutorial here.
Video Tutorial, Part 1: Setting up Word (running time 3:28)
Video Tutorial, Part 2: Exporting to Word Outline (running time 3:23)
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Compendium is the powerful, open source (free!) software that CogNexus recommends for Issue and Dialogue Mapping™. Learning Compendium is a bit of an investment, but we believe it is the best software out there to do this kind of mapping. It allows maps to be scalable, changeable and easier to read than a hand-written map.
Compendium is offered by the Compendium Institute.You can view an introductory movie of Compendium here.There are two releases currently available, which you can read about here, or download by clicking on one of the following links:  
 
The major additions in this version are an advanced tagging interface, plus numerous other enhancements to improve how you manage, visualize and share your information spaces.If you need to do Outline exports, use the 2.0 Beta 1 version (below).

This version does a better job of exporting Outlines and has many new exciting features: Mapping over movies; curved links and link formatting; Linked Files manager; Group working improvements for working over the net, to name just a few.
Read more about Compendium.
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An Introduction to Compendium
View this introductory movie about Compendium, set in the context of the ECOSENSUS project which is integrating a GIS tool to support participatory environmental decision-making between UK researchers and Amerindians in Guyana.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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