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Wridea

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

Get your ideas organized. Wridea is easy to use, letting you create, edit, and delete your ideas, pages, and categories smoothly and easily.
Create ideas. Let your mind focus on new ideas and discover new things. Free your mind by storing all your to-do items, ideas, concepts, anything cluttering your mind in Wridea.
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Effective Brainstorming: 7 Tips to Brainstorm Better With Your Team

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

Brainstorming, nonetheless the popularity of the term, is one of the most challenging collaborative activities to carry out in a small group. While most people think they know how to brainstorm, very few have really gotten the basic rules needed to make a brainstorming session work effectively.

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10 Steps for Boosting Creativity

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Here are 10 useful steps for boosting your creativity.

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10 of the Greatest Web Sources for Creative Inspiration

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Have you ever sat in front of a blank computer screen, or empty piece of paper, or a really white whiteboard, and wished you had some source of inspiration to help you with your creativity?
If you have ever taken an art class, or worked as a designer, or just tried creating something, you have - […]

10 Creative Myths

Monday, July 21st, 2008

Over the years, I have heard a lot of people say a lot of daft things about creativity. Some of those things, I hear again and again. What’s worse, a lot these daft notions–or myths–about creativity are detrimental to the creative process.

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Brainstorming: The Art of Developing an Idea

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

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Mind mapping is my favorite brainstorming technique. 

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How Not to Brainstorm Your Ideas: The Six Brainstorming Killers

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Pulling together a great brainstorming session is often much more difficult than breaking one apart, as the techniques required to make a brainstorming session effective are generally different to the way we normally act during spontaneous conversations. But given enough desire, awareness and a positive mind-sharing attitude it is not so difficult to move good […]

Information Revolution

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

This video explores the changes in the way we find, store, create, critique, and share information. This video was created as a conversation starter, and works especially well when brainstorming with people about the near future and the skills needed in order to harness, evaluate, and create information effectively.

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Brainstorming Using Bubbl.us

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

Why use bubbl.us?
Because you can:

Create colorful mind maps online
Share and work with friends
Embed your mind map in your blog or website
Email and print your mind map
Save your mind map as an image

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Simple Idea Evaluator

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

The purpose of the Idea Evaluator is to review ideas according to a set of criteria. The result is a perfection rating where 100% is perfect and 0% is absolutely useless. Generally, scores of 80% or […]