All Blog Posts Tagged 'creative' (6)

Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 11/19/2009 - Marci Segal, Creativityland, Inc. president, and co-founder of World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15 – 21 (WCIW), received the Creative Studies Alumni Foundation Achievement Award from the International Center for Studies in Creativity (ICSC). World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15 - 21 began as a small idea among four Canadians in 2002 that has since grown to be celebrated in more than 40 countries in businesses, schools, com… Continue

You’re Invited to Trivia Night at the Argonaut Rowing Club! When: Friday, June 19, 2009, 7pm Where: 1225 Lakeshore Blvd Why: To raise funds for the club What: Trivia fun, $10 entry, $3 beers, OVER $500 in door prizes to be won! Who: Everyone is invited! On Friday, June 19, the Argonaut Rowing Club is hosting a Community TRIVIA NIGHT beginning at 7 p.m. in the Henley Room at the club. Teams of 8 will compete over 8 rounds of trivia questions to determine the ultimate winner. The admissio… Continue

Daydreaming – is it wasteful, unavoidable, harmless? Try productive! To our list of misconceptions about the face of real productivity, we can now add the following, from a study published recently by the National Academy of Sciences: "Daydreaming is an important cognitive state where we may unconsciously turn our attention from immediate tasks to sort through important problems in our lives." more... Continue

I've turned the Creative Whack Pack into an iPhone App. It was a three month project (which I enjoyed very much). Go here for more information. The App, like the card deck, has 64 illustrated creativity strategies. But it also has many more stories, examples, anecdotes, and questions. It also has "Whack of the Day" and creative workshop functions. It has lots of "playability," and can be used by yourself or with othe… Continue

How are you expanding your creativity in 2009? This past weekend I reviewed my copy of Alex Osborn's book YOUR CREATIVE POWER: 101 Ways to become more creative. My plan this year is to review one book a week from my library and new ones I find. What are some of the creative thinking books you have read recently? Alan Continue

I have been writing, posting, blogging, websiteing now since buying my first Apple, a Mac Classic. I have 3 blogs, 1 Squidoo,. I am on many, many different social networks and business networks I work on my website at least weekly I send out my Alan's Cre8ng Challenges weekly and have bee since January 1997 ever week Occasionally I send messages out on various electronic networks Even less occasionally I send out tiny messages on Twitter. Daily I spend hours on the internet when I can gai… Continue