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Give It Up

It’s been a tough year for everyone, but especially non-profit organizations. Are you doing any cause marketing during the holidays to benefit your favorite charity?

If so, great. If not, I’d like to encourage you to help either through direct donations or by providing marketing and PR support. Why? Charitable donations and corporate sponsorships have a measurable effect on a business’ bottom line. Charitable activities have been show to:

Creativity 2010 – Week #48

Here is your weekly dose of creativity links:

20 Reasons Why Creative People Work In Cafes – Sometimes you just have to get out of the office. So, take a cafe creativity break.

Marvelous Creativity Tools For The iPad – Here are a few apps that support your creativity.

Are You Thankful?

Are you thankful? What are you thankful for? On this day before Thanksgiving – my favorite holiday – I wanted to take the opportunity to give you my “thankful list”.

As you might imagine, there are the usual suspects: my health, my wife, my kids, my grandchildren, a long list of very good friends, my clients, and the freedom we have in this country.

Creativity 2010 – Week #47

Evolution of Human Creativity – Human creativity may have evolved as a way for parents to bond with children.

Learn How To Draw - This site has numerous free lessons on how to draw.

Three Keys To Organizational Creativity – Does your company provide the right ingredients to foster creativity?

Top Five Blogging Lessons

We’ve just completed our series based upon the presentation I gave for the Charlotte Chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators. So, I wanted to provide you an easy-to-navigate post, linking all the articles.

Blogging Lesson 5 – Blogging Is Worthwhile

This is the final post in our series on our 5 blogging lessons. We call this one blogging is worthwhile. Why is it worthwhile? Multiple reasons.

Creativity 2010 – Week #46

Seven Principles Of Leonardo da Vinci – One way to unleash your creative genius is to apply one or more of the principles Leonardo da Vinci (above)  used to engage new thinking.

The 10 Best Innovation Links – Here are links to 10 stories from last week about innovation.

Top 15 Uses For QR Codes

Have you been seeing funny looking images like the one above popping up in stores? This is called a QR code or Quick Response Code. They are great tools for connecting the real and the digital worlds. Microsoft has a competing technology called tags. My prediction: it loses.

Creativity 2010 – Week #45

Another week, another round of links to help you be more creative.

Painting Tips: Inspiration & Creativity - An ever-growing collection of tips to boost your inspiration and creativity.

12 Ways To Tap Into An Endless Well Of Creativity – There is no reason to ever run out of ideas. The world, our minds, history, and the Internet offer an infinite realm of artistic exploration.

Real Life – The True Beneficiary Of Social Media

I was having a discussion last night with a friend who doesn’t get social media. He says he feels like a voyeur when seeing things his friends post. I can understand that to a point because some people do overshare their lives.