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Creativity 2012 – Week #5

January 30, 2012 on 9:22 am | In Advertising, Creative, Creativity, My Creative Team | 2 Comments

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Klout & Pinterest: Time Wasters Or Creativity Tools? – Are these social media sites a total time and energy suck, or is there some redeeming value?

Three People Who Never Belong In A Brainstorm Room – Hold on there, Negative Nancy. You can’t come in.

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Creativity 2012 – Week #4

January 23, 2012 on 9:37 am | In Advertising, Creative, Creativity, Marketing, My Creative Team | 1 Comment

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It Takes Two In The Innovation Tango – Which is better for innovation – a lone creative or a group of creatives?

Innovation And The Art Of The Story – The art of storytelling is nothing new. Storify co-founder and Hacks/Hackers founder Burt Herman discusses the next generation of the centuries-old craft.

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Creativity 2012 – Week #3

January 16, 2012 on 9:49 am | In Advertising, Creative, Creativity, Marketing | 1 Comment

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The Rise Of The New Groupthink – Creativity happens to a single person working alone, not in a group.

January Brainstorm – A few ideas to get your little gray cells percolating as we jump into 2012.

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Calling All Guest Bloggers

January 11, 2012 on 3:13 pm | In Advertising, Blogs, Creative, Creativity, Marketing, My Creative Team, PR, Public Relations, Social Media | 1 Comment

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Here’s a shout out to all guest bloggers. This is a new year and I want new voices here on THINKing.

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Creativity 2012 – Week #2

January 9, 2012 on 9:19 am | In Creative, My Creative Team | 2 Comments

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A Creative New Year’s Resolution – Get creative in 2012 - there is some evidence to suggest that we may be heading for a creativity crisis.

Here’s What Creativity Looks Like – It’s a connect the dots puzzle, but you have to define the dots, too.

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Is Everything Old New Again?

January 3, 2012 on 12:31 pm | In Marketing, My Creative Team | 2 Comments

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OK, it’s 2012 and like a caterpillar, it seems, marketing is completing its metamorphosis. But really, it’s only the tactics that have changed. At least in my view. We’ve talked a lot about this. Back in 2009, we addressed this subject,

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Creativity 2012 – Week #1

January 2, 2012 on 8:11 am | In Creative, Creativity, My Creative Team | 1 Comment

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The 5% Creativity Challenge – Most of us don’t have the staff and resources to disappear for weeks on end, but we all have the ability to schedule two, one-hour thinking sessions each week (5% of a 40 hour week).

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