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Creativity 2010 – Week #31

Here’s another dash of creativity links to spice up your thinking.

7 Principles Of Creative Problem Solving

Turn Your Idea Into Reality

The History Of Creativity

Color Palette Generator

Eat More Innovation

Great Images Make Content More Compelling

You are probably wondering what this photo has to do with this post. Well, in part one of this series, Five Key Elements To Creating Compelling Content, our friend, Rubbermaid blogger  Jim Dietzel, laid out his five key elements for creating compelling content. Number 3 was “pictures are good.”

Creativity 2010 – Week #30

2010 keeps flying by – it’s week #30 already. I hope you are enjoying the creativity links we bring you each week. Here are five more.

Absence Thinking: Think about what is not there.

CATWOE: A checklist for thinking about problems and solutions.

How To Be A More Compelling Writer

We’re examining the ways to make your blog more compelling.  A number of Twitterati responded to my request for their ideas. The quality of writing was on their minds:

As we heard from Jim Dietzel, a Fortune 1000 blogger for Rubbermaid, “Hire a good writer. Seriously.”

Creativity 2010 – Week #29

Igor Stravinsky Agrees: Standards Enable Creativity – There is a stereotype of the creative person who chafes at standards, convinced that any sort of process-driven continuous improvement will have a negative effect on how his work is performed. Just the opposite is true.

Five Key Elements To Creating Compelling Content

I have been thinking a lot recently about creating compelling blog content, and at first blush, there seem to be a lot of barriers. But like getting over a barbed wire fence, you just have to step back for a minute and think through your approach so that you don’t catch something important on a barb.

Taking The NO Out Of InNOvation

When it comes to creativity and innovation, you are your own worst enemy. We wrote about this sometime back and this story illustrates it perfectly:

Social Media Do’s and Don’ts

Ran across this infographic below recently at David Steel’s Blog. It nicely sums up what pitfalls businesses should avoid in social media, as well as some best practices. The two most important points about what a business should do to succeed in social media, in my opinion, are:

Creativity 2010 – Week #28

Our weekly post providing you some fodder for your little gray cells continues this week #28 of 2010. Here are a few thought-provoking links to stimulate your creativity.

5 Websites To Spark Your Creativity

4 Creative Uses For Twitter

The Key To Creating Remarkable Things

Top 5 PR Posts

Our PR-related posts are among the most well-read. So, I thought we’d bring to the forefront some evergreen features on PR.  Now, let’s review.

Communications Planning 101 - Developing a communications plan requires a disciplined approach. Your first order of business is reviewing your current program for impact and efficiency.