THINKing

Top 11 Free Resources To Improve Your Blog’s Content

As part of our continuing series to help you in developing compelling content, today we provide you a list of the top 11 online resources to help you improve your writing skills.

The Elements of Style – there is no better resource for writers than William Strunk’s classic. I have a well-thumbed hard copy, but this online version covers the writing bases.

Social Media Burnout

Whether you are using social media personally or for business, it can wear you out.  I don’t know if you have noticed it, but I’m detecting an upswing in social media fatigue (SMF) these days. Is it happening to you? Georgina Laidlaw at Gigaom has picked up on it.

Creativity 2010 – Week #35

Hello, thinker. We found some good creativity links for you this week. So, activate those little gray cells.

The Creativity Crisis? What Creativity Crisis?

Balance Spawns Creativity

Creativity & Play (video)

The Brain As A System & Creative Tool

Mindmapping Tool (free option available)

Social Media Hub

We’re flattered to have been included as a featured blogger in the new social media hub, Social Media Informer. The site has just launched this week, and there is great content there from a diverse group of social media thought leaders.

Here’s what my pal, Tom Pick, at Webbiquity says about SMI,

Social Media Relationships: Are They Real?

Just saw Suzanne Vara’s excellent piece on building social media relationships. Let’s listen to Ms. Vara for a moment:

Top 19 Free Photo Sites For Bloggers

Our list of free photo resources has been a popular post since 2007. I noticed that one on the list had gone out of business and have found a few new ones. So, I wanted to bring you a new, improved list for 2010. Morguefile and Flickr Creative Commons are my favorites for truly free, not just royalty-free, images.

Creativity 2010 – Week #34

Here’s another dose of creativity inducing links for you:

The Power Of Daydreaming

26 Ways To Beat Creative Block

7 Ways To Smash Procrastination

5 Ways To Foster Your Creativity

The Cure For Boring Meetings

2010′s Top Five Creativity Links

Our weekly series of creativity links has uncovered some very good tools for you thinkers. What have been the most popular links so far this year? I’m glad you asked.

Forgotten Gems

Through no fault of their own, sometimes really good posts just get overlooked. Here are a few forgotten gems you may have missed.

Grandma Says -  Southern grandmothers have often said, “there are only three times a respectable person’s name should be in the paper: when you are born, when you are married, and when you die.” This is the one area in which I part company with my grandmothers.

Creativity 2010 – Week #33

Without further ado, here are your creativity links for week #33 of 2010:

Doing nothing to enhance creativity

Creative bus ads

Where Do You Draw Your Design Inspiration?

What to blog about when you are stuck creatively

25 Real world creative work spaces