Hi. ever struggled with how to solve problems and identify creative solutions?
In this lens I've gathered some ideas, links and resources to stimulate and inform you.
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Useful Creativity Sites and Tools
- Creative Think
- Roger von Oech's thoughts about creativity, innovation, and fun things to stimulate your imagination!
- Idea Mapping Blog
- Jamie Nast is the author of this blog and "Idea Mapping" published by John Wiley & Sons. The book is available in the Business/Economics section of bookstores. Jamie has trained over 15,000 people world-wide to be more creative, more productive and better learners.
- Digital Roam. Inc.: Visual thinking for the business world
- Visual thinking is how we use our eyes (and our mind's eye) to look at a problem, see patterns and opportunities, imagine ways to manipulate those patterns to our advantage, and show those insights to others.
- How to read a business book
- From Seth Godin's Blog on marketing, respect, and the ways ideas spread.
- YouTube - Annotations
- A useful tool for adding annotations and interactivity to YouTube videos. What are the possibilities. Check out the examples on this page.
- MindManager Enthusiasts Network
- A Ning community of enthusiasts of MindManager, and mindmapping effective business, productivity and creativity tools.
- Idea Sandbox :: Remarkability, Creative Problem Solving, Brand Building
- Idea Sandbox specializes in helping companies be remarkable, creatively solve their problems and build a better brand. It includes a simple but useful on-line Prioritizer Tool.
Blog Posts from Google
Creativity and Innovation Stuff on Amazon
Mind Mapping Tools and Resources
- Online Mind Mapping - MindMeister
- Online Mind Mapping: MindMeister - the first 100% web-based free collaborative mind mapping tool
- Text 2 Mind Map - An online text to mind map converter
- Convert your text or list of keywords to a mind map instantly online! The text 2 mind map converter makes a mind map out of your bullet list. Also known as Text-2-mind-map converter or, shortly, Text2Mindmap.
- Mindjet Connect
- Online collaborative MindManager.
- NovaMind Platinum Mind Mapping Software
- NovaMind Platinum Mind Mapping Software with project management and screenwriting capabilities built in.
- The Mind Mapping Software Weblog: The online mind map smackdown
- The Mind Mapping Software Weblog is designed to provide businesspeople with a focused collection of resources related to visual mapping - its applications, its benefits, and how you can use it to increase your productivity and creativity.
- Mindjet Connect boosts accessibility
- In this article, Peter Abrahams asks whether Mind Maps are making a shift to becoming important collaboration tools.
- FreeMind - free mind mapping software
- One the more popular free Mind Mapping tools.
- Wisdomap
- Wisdomap an advanced online mind mapping software which allows you to create clean, colourful maps and attach videos, images and more for free.
The emphasis in this tool is a clean, no nonsense, uncluttered look. I like it.
Useful articles on Creativity - usually Blog Posts
- Heads-Up! on Organizational Innovation: Von Oech's "Whack" 25 Years Later
- In this interview with Roger Von Oech, some useful points about Creativty, Constraints and approaches emerge.
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