Improving your Creativity

New Website: Ark of Ideas

2011-06-10

I've just created a website to freely share ideas I cannot use. Have fun.
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Communication to Generate Great Ideas

2011-05-23

Great video about the importance of sharing ideas (talk by Steven Johnson) … or hunches … to develop great ideas.
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What Motivates to be Creative and Innovative in Work Settings?

2011-05-23

Great video about motivation in work settings.
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What are you gonna to photograph, worthy of me …?

2011-05-22

Equipment isn't everything and sometimes I can interfere with creative expression.
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flickr vs. deviantART

2011-05-15

flickr is probably more well-known, but there's a better service out there to make your works public. Much better. And way more artistic. So here's a comparison of flickr and deviantART.
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Learning from Professionals in Courses

2011-03-06

There is a lot you can learn from professionals in courses -- if the topic and the instructor is right. Here are a few criteria.
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Book Tips: PresentationZen and The naked presenter

2011-02-25

Two of the best books on presentation I have ever read -- just take a look at the quotation.
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Momento App for Life-Logging and Instant Diary Writing

2011-02-16

Very, very interesting app for life-logging. Beautifully designed as well.
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The Usefulness of a Good Archive

2011-02-11

Archiving creative projects can lead to projects finally getting the chance to be used. And example involving a broken friendship and a born child.
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The Role of Data in Creativity

2011-02-04

If you want to know how to be creative, have a look at this posting. It shows you the most basic requirement.
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A comment for those seeking to use this site for personal gain: Given the increase in requests, let me be clear. I write on this blog because I want to. It’s my hobby, my playground. Sometimes people point me to interesting products/services and I write about them. But any request regarding ads or sponsored placements ends up the trash without a reply. And if you think something would be of interest, differentiate yourself from the spammers by referring to a posting — in an intelligent way. (I get enough auto-generated mails to identify them immediately.)

BTW, posts can get updated after I published them if I spot spelling errors (not a native speaker) or think a different wording might improve precision and clarity.

This blog is not focused on a single topic, or method. As long as it is relevant to improving creativity (or allowing it in the first place), it's fair game.
Some postings on this blog deal with freedom, as I think that we need freedom of thought, of speech, of association, etc. pp. to solve mankind's problems. Thus, some postings may seem a bit remote when it comes to organizing creativity. Freedom is, however, the bedrock of creativity.
The heterogeneity of the postings can make reading this blog a bit cumbersome, at least if you are only interested in one topic. You can either use the search function (above), or use the categories or the tags to narrow down the postings you see.

ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

How to generate, capture, and collect ideas to realize creative projects.