57. My Brainstorming Rules
1. Set parameters before you meet – i.e. this is for a video, infographic, etc..
Keep parameters loose, ignore any guidance from legal at this stage.
2. Invite people from all levels to contribute.
3. Select on person to run the meeting and write down ideas on a
whiteboard.
4. No bad ideas – ensure that any idea given is a good idea
5. Don’t allow criticism of ideas by any one at any level.
6. Encourage attendees to give crazy ideas that the company would never
likely do.
7. Encourage attendees to build on each others ideas.
8. Keep it orderly, no shouting or talking over each other.
9. Aim for volume, get as many ideas out as you can in the time frame.
10. Encourage attendees to give feedback after the meeting.
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63. My Ideas from Potato Brainstorming
X times Potatoes were used in TV
Did you know these X facts about Potatoes
Comic about a potato’s confused online identity
Potato Wars images – Star Wars inspired Potato Images
X Potato myths that need to stop
Award for best machine using a potato for energy
Potato cook off
Superman beating Lex Luthor with a potato
http://www.apa.org/monitor/nov03/creativity.aspx
In 2003 the American Psychological Association published an article outlining a new category of Creativity. Until this time the popular thought was that creativity came from only super intellectuals and Psychology had an official definition of creativity that said that it had to be original and functional. The USPTO defined creative works as original, functional, and not an obvious extension of something that already exists.
Little-C creativity are the small a-ha moments that make up our lives. In terms of marketing these can be the break through moments where you know what content to create.
Big-C creativity are the big ideas that bring about major changes to a product, industry, or society. These are often accompanied by fame and fortune.
Little-C creativity is where we’d like to focus as content marketers. We want to make good, creative content that people will enjoy and share in order to build authority through social media and links. Most everyone is capable of Little-C creativity. There is no such thing as right brain or left brain creatives.
There is no right vs. left brain thinking, most people are able to come up with creative ideas.
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/2013/08/19/the-real-neuroscience-of-creativity/
http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00330/abstract
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886911004491
Flow -- the mental state of being completely present and fully immersed in a task -- is a strong contributor to creativity.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-barry-kaufman/consciousness-and-flow_b_1108113.html
Green= The Executive Attention Network
Red= The Imagination Network
The Executive Attention Network is a series of parts of the brain that are hyper focused on one thing.
The Imagination Network allows the brain to take in outside influences and information and do things like imagine the future, understand alternate scenarios, and seeing things from various perspectives.
The Salience Network monitors the brains internal stream of consciousness and passes off a task to whichever network is best suited to handle the task.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/
YouTube Trends shows viewing or most shared videos in the past 24 hour period.
http://www.google.com/trends/
http://visual.ly/view
http://www.portent.com/tools/title-maker
http://www.hubspot.com/blog-topic-generator
Giphy.com
https://kwfinder.com/
https://www.tumblr.com/explore/trending
You can workout at home or at the gym.
You can go for a jog
You can take a shower
You can take a nap
You can listen to something inspirational. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p86BPM1GV8M