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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.

Creativity 2012 – Week #3

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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.

Calling All Guest Bloggers

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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.

Top 10 2011 Posts

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We’ve posted on a wide variety of topics in THINKing this year, and based on what you have been reading, you must like the variety. Let’s take a look at the Top 10 posts from 2011. You might find something on the list that you missed.

Creativity 2011 – Week #50

Start Thinking Like A Reality TV Star –  Reality shows offer us many parallels into the world of innovation.

5 Free Tools For Quick Online Brainstorming - The five services mentioned in this article are free and don’t require users to register.

Desperate Measures

Raise your hand if you get a lot of emails from – or send a lot of emails to – “professionals” trying to sell the latest marketing and advertising answer to all your lead generating and new business problems.  Yeah, about that. If your “solution” works so damned well, you wouldn’t need to send me your email to let me know about it.

Creativity 2011 – Week #43

Creativity Apps For iPad – The iTunes store is crammed with apps. Here is a list of some very good ones to help boost your creativity.

Creativity 2011 – Week #37

To Cultivate Innovation, Work Like An Artist - How do we put ourselves in a frame of mind where we can receive inspiration when it comes to us? Think like an artist.

Writer’s Block: How To Break Through – Sometimes to break writer’s block, you need to start at the end and not the beginning.

Creativity 2011 – Week #34

9 Ways To Keep Innovation Alive In Your Organization - When your company has an existing, proven method of conducting business, it can be a struggle to keep innovation alive.

How Good Stress Breeds Creativity – Those of us in the trenches know a little “good stress” can actually help boost creativity and innovation.