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For those of you who can’t find a fast, easy and reliable way to backup your tweets, my friend @dscofield alerted me to a very useful tool:
Need to #Backup Tweets? I found a recipe at @ifttt that backups tweets to your dropbox – so easy & current! very cool! ow.ly/caWRp
— Deb Mills-Scofield (@dscofield) July 11, 2012
Here’s how it works:
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Yes. It can.
Starting from scratch is the most liberating, and disruptive, thing you can do. Here are a few sketches from the creative minds at Creature Box and how they’ve reimagined known superheroes:…
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Those of us in the innovation space know that to be creative, you need to be very diverse in your education and life experiences. Not only as a person, but also as an organization.
Put simply, diversity breeds breakthroughs.…
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Fight with them. Not against them.
That’s how.
These days, we are in serious need of creative firepower. And for all the startup incubators that are popping up everywhere, there still seems like creativity is a scarce resource. For me, creative personalities are passionate people who are not happy with the way things are and that not afraid to stir the pot. And, if your culture’s values are based on combining imagination with execution excellence, you can’t expect creatives to change their ways. …
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In yesterday’s post I shared my process of how I come up with my best ideas. Today, continuing our series of posts in support of the World Creativity and Innovation Week, the next question has to do with storage.
If you’re like me, and is in brainstorm mode all the time, you have tools to store your ideas. And in the connected world we live in today, these tools are with us all the time.…
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The World Creativity and Innovation Week started yesterday. It will run from April 15 – 21. With that said, I thought it would be cool to do a series of posts answering some common questions about creativity and innovation.
I will start by answering them myself and will appreciate it if you add your own thoughts with a comment.
First up, how do you come up with your best ideas?…
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Although I believe my ability to retain information is pretty good, in recent weeks I’ve felt like it’s been challenged. So, I decided to disconnect from the one source that provides me with most of my information on a daily basis: Twitter.
Information is coming at us from every angle and our cognitive abilities are being challenged by this fast moving world. This makes it very difficult to focus. But focus doesn’t mean paying attention to every single tweet you see, it means disconnecting from it all.
I like to do this at least a few days a month and just slow my mind down. Daydream a little bit and get productive.
Disconnect and let all that information simmer in your head for a little bit. Disconnect at least 15 minutes every day by going to that quiet corner in your office. Go to the park (it there’s one close) to stop thinking about it all.
I go to the top of my office building.
The above picture is from the top of my office building. We have a large terrace at the top which has a suspended running track. That’s right a running track. I use it to walk and take it all in.
It’s beautiful!
