ORGANIZING CREATIVITY – Page 109 – How to generate, capture, and collect ideas to realize creative projects.

Like a Medicine Ball to the Chest

2014-10-07

Sometimes you can make your message too emotionally effective. Especially if you do not provide your recipients with ways to deal with the emotional impact in a constructive way.
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Self-Reflective Students

2014-10-06

A beautiful moment from Randy Pausch's "Last Lecture" about enabling students to become more self-reflective.
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Having Text Read to You — for free

2014-10-05

Something Apple did right ... very right, even with the buggy iOS8. The ability to have the OS read articles (e.g., on websites) to you.
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Honest Journalism

2014-10-04

There's talk about the decline of journalism, but sometimes, you stumble upon honest and heartfelt articles. This is one of them.
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New Wine in Old Skins (Music)

2014-10-03

One way to be creative is to use ... rather traditional instruments for modern music. Enjoy.
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Another great idea bites the dust — How bad management can kill good creativity

2014-10-02

A short comment on how creativity can be strangled by the work environment.
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Loyalty is a two-way street — even in Academia

2014-10-01

Talking badly about one's "superiors" is seen very negatively. Sometimes righteously so, but there are cases where anything else than talking badly would be a case of slavish obedience.
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Figureheads vs. Opinion Leaders

2014-09-30

A comment on the use of figureheads for movements vs. opinion leaders -- and the way it can get you publicity, or expose your biases.

Image by unknown (Douglas Fairbanks Prod. / United Artists) (http://www.virtual-history.com/movie/image/26576) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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These tiny tiny motivators

2014-09-29

Sometimes there are tiny things that motivate you -- and remind you of the things you hold dear.
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yEd — A free and powerful program to create diagrams like flowcharts

2014-09-28

A comment in another blog referred to this powerful program and judging on my first impression -- waow.
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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.