ORGANIZING CREATIVITY – Page 181 – How to generate, capture, and collect ideas to realize creative projects.

Media-rich/enhanced eBook

2010-01-18

Some thoughts on a media-rich/enhanced eBook. Reading could become ... ah, read on.
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Capture your ideas: PhD Comic

2010-01-14

I guess this PhD comic says it all. :-)
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I can’t draw — who cares?

2010-01-14

The Internet can show you people who can draw brilliantly, and people who have ideas. And sometimes you notice that you do not need to draw brilliantly to convey your ideas.
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Self-proclaimed artists at the office

2009-12-21

Let's admit it, we all know these people. And a Dilbert comic just shows how ridiculous they are.
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iPhone Design with Pages or InDesign

2009-12-14

A few ideas on how you can design iPhone apps (design, not program) with Pages or InDesign.
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Some nice structuring helps for Wikis

2009-12-12

A few ways you can make it easier to work with your wiki (index list, navigation-image-map, bullet lists).
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Tweaking the 2-Minute Rule

2009-12-12

You should do a thing immediately if you can do it within 2 minutes -- this raises the question: How can you do more within two minutes?
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It takes time to make time

2009-12-12

Time management takes time, but it is an investment worth making. Some arguments and tips.
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eMails — The other way to keep a diary

2009-12-12

Remembering the past can be difficult, but you leave tracks. Especially your saved eMail communication with a good friend can be very helpful.
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Year’s End: Time for a Life Newspaper

2009-12-12

Creating a year's end newspaper about the past year can help you remember the past much better than any diary.
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The institution I work for, or rather the people officially representing it, have already distanced themselves from this blog. I find this unnecessary, as I’ve clearly stated in the «About this Blog» section that this is a personal blog.

Frankly, I have nothing but contempt for those who lack the backbone to address their concerns directly and instead resort to passive-aggressive tattling to others. Such behavior strikes me as not only cowardly, but also spineless, gutless, and wholly unprincipled. Moreover, these efforts are as pathetic as they are futile.

That said, I might listen if you present compelling arguments and evidence, as constructive feedback is always welcome. Who knows? We might even both gain something valuable from the interaction.

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.