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Sharing Can Be Addictive

July 14th, 2009 · Comments Off · Creativity, Tools & Technology

My fam­ily is get­ting ready to cel­e­brate my mother’s 80th birth­day. We decided to cre­ate a “mem­ory book” in which we’d col­lect fam­ily pho­tos, sto­ries, fam­ily recipes. At the end of this process she’ll end up with: a printed book of pho­tos and images, cour­tesy of Shut­ter­fly (or equiv­a­lent ser­vice) a printed book­let of sto­ries and […]

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It Takes a Community

June 24th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Back to Basics, Creativity

Lately my friends and I have been talk­ing about how peo­ple suc­ceed, won­der­ing why some are more suc­cess­ful than oth­ers despite com­pa­ra­ble intel­lec­tual advan­tages or innate tal­ents. Most of us have read Mal­colm Gladwell’s Out­liers, and we’ve been com­par­ing his case stud­ies to our per­sonal expe­ri­ence and pon­der­ing the impli­ca­tions. Our Own Sto­ries, And Belated […]

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Fun with Social Media

April 30th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Creativity, Social Media for Business

I’m sup­posed to be writ­ing a book review on social media for PR pro­fes­sion­als, but I stum­bled on Wor­dle and couldn’t resist putting my notes into visual form first. (Yes, I con­fess this is cre­ative pro­cras­ti­na­tion.) Here are ideas sparked by the hand­writ­ten notes I took while read­ing Putting the Pub­lic Back in Pub­lic Relations: […]

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A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words

April 30th, 2009 · Comments Off · Creativity, Tools & Technology

Thanks to Wor­dle, here’s a visu­al­iza­tion of my blog post­ings: What a fun way to mark the end of a work day!   Print PDF

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Fresh Approaches, New Concepts

April 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment · Creativity, Yoga

I came across this image today, licensed a year ago for a project (and never used). At first glance the image is fool­ish — a para­dox in terms of core yoga val­ues — but it serves as a wry metaphor for “Think Dif­fer­ent.” Per­haps all of us for­mer Apple employ­ees, indoc­tri­nated in that cul­ture and […]

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Conversation as Brain Candy

March 27th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Creativity, Marketing

When the news is dom­i­nated by sto­ries of vol­canic erup­tions, cor­po­rate bank­rupt­cies and lay­offs, or yet another exam­ple of Wall Street malfea­sance, it’s easy to get depressed. Espe­cially in this grey Seat­tle spring weather… So it was a won­der­ful con­trast to enjoy some stim­u­lat­ing con­ver­sa­tions over the past 24 hours with two vibrant and accomplished […]

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The Authentic Voice

March 26th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Creativity, Social Media for Business

Over the past week sev­eral peo­ple have asked me about the mix of top­ics in my blog – and my will­ing­ness (brav­ery? stu­pid­ity?) to write about yoga or leisure activ­i­ties in the con­text of a business-oriented blog. Don’t get me wrong – they like the mix of top­ics, and feel it reveals inter­est­ing things about […]

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Signs of Spring

March 20th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Creativity, Yoga

Daf­fodils bloom out­side my office win­dow, gen­tle rain falls, and I’m reminded that spring is almost here. It’s been a long and unusu­ally cold win­ter in Seat­tle. My yoga teacher has been inspired by these early signs of spring. She emailed her stu­dents her poem, Emer­gence, and the pho­to­graph that inspired her to write it. […]

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& Creativity">On Genius & Creativity

February 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Creativity

Eliz­a­beth Gilbert got a stand­ing ova­tion when she spoke at TED 2009 about genius, the process of cre­ativ­ity, sources of inspi­ra­tion, and the pres­sures on peo­ple who earn their liv­ing through cre­ative works. Her talk was mov­ing and poignant, at times wryly witty. Eliz­a­beth is trou­bled by the fear of what if, in her 30’s, she […]

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