Finding Purpose In Simplicity
Photography, like all art forms, is highly subjective. While some may find a cluttered cityscape or bird captured in flight beautiful, others may not. Such subjectivity applies even to styles…
4 Tips to Boost Your Creativity
I think it’s safe to say that we all want to be considered creative. Some of us may want to come up with more ideas at work, others may want…
Help! I Have to Write a Blog Post. What Do I Do?
Maybe you’ve been tasked with writing a post for the corporate blog. Or maybe you’ve just decided that blogging will improve your online presence and personal brand (it will). Whatever…
Fostering Creativity in the Workplace: What Works, What Doesn’t?
Creativity isn’t just for the writers, poets, and painters of the world. It’s becoming increasingly critical in the business world for people to be more creative by helping to solve…
Why You Can’t Teach People To Be Creative
Creativity. It’s a word that challenges us. Inspires us. Haunts us. We all want to feel like we are creative, like there is something inside us that can make things,…
Marketing Predictions for 2016
Thanks to digital technologies, marketing has been undergoing some dramatic changes over the past decade most notably the shift from “broadcast messaging” to “one-on-one engagement.” But what will happen in…
Real-Time Marketing? Ha.
There's a lot floating around the Internet (or the digital water cooler, whatever you want to call it) about how technology is changing marketing. As marketers, these conversations go, we'll…
Why We Should All Stop to Daydream Once in a While
Although I’m uncertain as to when it started, society as a whole has definitely cracked down on the day dreamer. Lost in thought, the day dreamer represents the antithesis of…
How To Become a Rockstar in Your Job
We all want to be “that person” at work. The one that everyone talks (positively) about. The one that fingers point to when something big, meaty, and important needs to…
Why It Took Me 20 Years to Write My Novel
Twenty years seems like a long time. And when I look back on my life and all the different paths I have taken (college professor, self-employed, startup founder, marketer, technologist,…