THINKing

Buzzword & Jargon Tools

Let’s all agree right now that we will try to communicate like humans and not mind-numbed corporate zombies. Who is with me?

OK. To help you out, I’m offering a few buzzword and jargon fighting tools. Here you go:

Business Jargon Generator -  This one is not a buzzword fighting tool but generates some funny phrases.

Creativity 2010 – Week #13

Here’s your weekly dose of creativity:

Babies & Creativity

Optimism Boosts The Immune System

How Do You Measure An Idea?

Creative Block #6 – The Inner Critic

Simple Productivity Tips

Creativity 2010 – Week #12

Wow, can you believe 2010 is 12 weeks old? Here’s our weekly installment of creativity links to help you become more creative. Do you have some to share?

10 Tips & 20 Questions For Unleashing Innovation

There’s More To Innovation Than Good Ideas

Strategies For Capturing Ideas

What Marketers Can Learn From Zombies

A great creativity technique is to fill in the blanks “what ______ can learn from ________.” Then select two disparate items as I have for this post: What Marketers Can Learn From Zombies.  It pushes you to think about things differently. So, let’s give it a try.

Creativity 2010 – Week #11

Here’s week 11′s installment of creativity links.

16 Creative Ways To Supercharge Your Presentations

Enthusiasm – The Key To Creativity & Innovation

Creativity Tool: Google Sets

Blog Post Idea Generator

Creativity Block #5:  Being Disorganized

Show Up For Success

Your minister of the church of marketing has some words for you to ponder today: if you want to succeed you must show up. Woody Allen has often been quoted – incorrectly – on this subject. What he really said was, “80 percent of success is showing up.”

Please, Please Me

Gave a social media presentation last night to a group of about 45 small business owners as part of Bank of Commerce’s School of Commerce program. I was one of two presenters. While looking at the evaluation forms, I was struck again by how there are always one or two people who don’t get their expectations fulfilled from presentations.

Top 5 Posts

Here are the Top 5 Posts From THINKing this month, in case you missed one. Let us know which is your favorite.

The Rule Of Reciprocity

Twittering Journalists

Say What You Mean, Mean What You Say

Creativity 2010 – Week #7

Face Time

Creativity 2010 – Week #10

Here are our creativity links for week 10 of 2010:

Three Enemies of Innovation – If innovation’s such a good thing, a good idea, the secret of success, then why isn’t everyone doing it?

The Levity Effect – Having fun with innovation.

Get Stimulated

Creativity is a major topic for us here at My Creative Team. So, we began a weekly series of posts that will run 52 weeks, providing five creativity links in each post. As you might imagine, we look through a lot of creativity-related material to find some really top-notch ones.