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10 Reasons Readers Don’t Leave Comments
August 7, 2006 Liz published this at 8:50 am My Secret My name is Liz and I have a secret. I read your blog almost every day, but you you wouldn’t know that. That’s because I hardly ever leave a comment. I know the value of a well-placed comment. There are more readers like me than ones who are not. It’s time we came clean and let you know what they are. 10 Reasons Readers Don’t Leave Comments I don’t suppose this is all of the reasons folks choose not to comment. What you write is so complete, that I don’t know what to say except good job. Sometimes I don’t comment because I’m self-conscious about new groups and fitting in. Yet when the content is rich and compelling, I lose all self-consciousness. Compelling content causes comments. Did I miss the reasons that keep you from commenting? –ME “Liz” Strauss Related articles Filed under Blog Comments, Customer Think, Marketing /Sales / Social Media, Successful Blog, Writing | 678 Comments » Related Posts
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400 Writing Topics - Prompts and Suggestions for Paragraphs, Essays, and Speeches - Essay Topics
If getting started is the hardest part of the writing process, close behind it (and closely related to it) may be the challenge of finding a good topic to write about. Sometimes, of course, an instructor will solve that problem for you by assigning a topic. But at other times you'll have the opportunity to choose a topic on your own. And you really should think of it as an opportunity--a chance to write about something you care about and know well. So relax. To help get you thinking, we've prepared some writing suggestions--more than 400 of them, in fact. We've organized the suggested topics into 11 broad categories, loosely based on some of the common ways of developing paragraphs and essays. Now follow the links to our 400 topic suggestions and see where they take you. Describing People, Places, and Things: 40 Writing TopicsDescriptive writing calls for close attention to details--details of sight and sound, sometimes even of smell, touch, and taste.
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Top 10 Innovative Web 2.0 Applications of 2005
As 2005 draws to a close, I am overwhelmed by the amount of Web 2.0 startups that this year brought. There were no doubt hundreds or perhaps thousands of new services that came about following on the trend of "Web 2.0". Developers are beginning to create apps that are truly useful. Characteristics include more user interaction, far more efficient use of technologies such as AJAX, and slick design. 2005 also brought many "me too" companies. There have been quite a few "top web 2.0 companies of 2005" lists made in the past couple of weeks and I was sick of seeing the same high profile sites over and over again. To all developers: Your new years resolution should be to innovate, not immitate...we are counting on you! 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. gChart - gChart is a very cool idea based on the Google Maps API. 9. 10. There you have it folks. Also, lets hope that 2006 spells the death of the social bookmark clones, to do list clones, calendar clones, startpage clones, etc. etc. By: Mark Millerton
7 Ways to Cultivate Your Creativity [Slide Show]: Scientific American Slideshows
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50 Ways to Find Inspiration: Create, Explore, Expand
“If we look at the world with a love of life, the world will reveal its beauty to us.” ~Daisaku Ikeda I have always loved that scene in American Beauty when Ricky Fitts shows his video of a plastic bag blowing in the wind. He’s the complete opposite of his neighbor Lester Burnham, who seems to have decided long ago to live life in a comatose state of submission, completely disconnected from authentic joy. Ricky seems inspired by everything that most people simply overlook. “It was one of those days when it’s a minute away from snowing and there’s this electricity in the air, you can almost hear it. “And that’s the day I knew there was this entire life behind things, and… this incredibly benevolent force, that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever. Though it can look different for all of us, I suspect this is the feeling we wait for in life: a sense that there’s boundless beauty out there, and we have the capacity to feel, channel, explore, and express it. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Learn How to Think Different(ly) - Jeff Dyer and Hal Gregersen
by Jeff Dyer and Hal Gregersen | 10:24 AM September 27, 2011 In the Economist review of our book, The Innovator’s DNA, the reviewer wondered whether genius-level innovators such as Marc Benioff, Jeff Bezos, and Steve Jobs challenge the idea that working adults can really learn how to think differently and become innovators. We don’t think so. Reams of relevant research (including our own) proves Jobs right. But neither Steve Jobs nor Apple nor any other high-profile innovator or company has a corner on the think-different market. Take Gavin Symanowitz, whom we recently met in South Africa. Innovators (of new businesses, products, and processes) spend almost 50% more time trying to think different compared to non-innovators. If thinking different can make such a positive difference, why don’t more people spend more time doing it? Just do It. Shake it up. Repeat. As a leader, how often do you think different?
Use Image Searches Like a Thesaurus to Overcome Your Creative Blocks
Are there empirical studies about how to be creative? Isn't it completely subjective and personal? yup. There are entire peer-reviewed journals committed to the subject. I'm writing my dissertation on the topic. It's largely tied to the problem-solving literature in Psychology. Creativity can't be "personal" anyways, as in order for something to be creative it has to be unique to a certain extent, which requires context and comparison. So then what do you think of the content of this article? Going to have to agree with you there.
