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What’s Up With QR Codes?

We’ve written several times about QR codes and the marketing possibilities for them. Recently, there has been a flurry of articles about QR codes, so I thought I’d bring you up to date on what is being said. Let’s get started.

Creativity 2012 – Week #12

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20 Reasons People Get Their Best Ideas In The Shower – Could it be that shower stalls look like incubation chambers?

Dilbert On Creativity - According to Dilbert, creativity is being completely random.

Creativity 2012- Week #11

7 Habits Of Highly Creative People - Make a habit of these seven practices, and you will be highly creative in your field.

Make Yourself More Creative - Focus can be the enemy of creativity, and experiments back this up. Students whose attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder impairs their ability to focus perform better on creativity tests.

Creativity 2012 – Week #10

Imitation – The Cornerstone Of Creativity - Many usually attribute negative connotations to the imitation. Without really understanding the role it plays in our society, our learning process, and our development of creativity.

Three Innovation Blogs That Will Inspire The Mind - Do you have an appetite for some fresh fodder to spark your innovative ideas? Here are three very different innovation blogs.

Creativity 2012 – Week #9

21 Brainstorming Techniques – Here are some ways to get your little gray cells percolating.

Creative Thinking And Idea Magnets – How do those creative people also surround themselves with other idea people? Here are some thoughts on how to be an idea magnet.

Creativity 2012 – Week #8

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Let Your Employees Play - When you’re determined to make your start-up succeed, it’s easy to be serious. But it’s the companies that work hard to establish cultures of play that attract great people, continuously push the boundaries of innovation, and ultimately win.

Creativity 2012 – Week #7

5 Genius Examples Of QR Codes – QR code creation jumped a whopping 1,253% in 2011, with two million of them created in less than three months. Let’s look at some examples of how they are being used effectively.

Creativity 2012 – Week #6

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The Surprising Path To Innovation – The path to innovation is rarely a direct line, but that circuitous route is often necessary for true innovation.

Think Like A Child To Achieve More – Kids often have a clarity to their goal setting that adults can learn from.

Creativity 2012 – Week #5

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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.

Creativity 2012 – Week #4

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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.