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Brainstorms...

A blessing or a curse?

Everyone has a favourite way of coming up with ideas. A lot of people like the brainstorm. It’s quick and everyone can get involved.

However, is that always a good thing?

They have a place, don’t get me wrong. They can create some great thought starters that could lead to a campaign or idea. But, they can’t create a campaign or idea.

That takes time and a lot of thought. Hence a creative department is used to do the job.

Missing this step and developing an initial brainstorm idea is asking for trouble. Ideas aren’t thought through so they might not actually be achievable, or the client will pick one of the semi good ideas.

2 heads are better than one…hence a creative team.

Lots of monkeys on lots of typewriters usually create nonsense until someone has to sort it all out… again, a creative team.

I know which statement above I prefer.

There....i fixed it.

Some 'lateral' ways of solving a problem.

Is there a point when we’re just going to lose track?

I was thinking about my ‘digital life’ this morning. All the websites and social utilities I use on a day today basis or now and again.

So I started to list them…

Facebook

Netvibes

Flickr

Ebay

Nike +

Then I looked at my bookmark bar and knew this list wasn’t going to be a small one.

So, I continued.

Myspace

Yahoo mail

Itunes account

Nokia music store account

Skyfire

Hotmail

Igoogle

Amazon

Paypal

My online bank account

Nokia Ovi file sharing

Qik video sharing

Digg

Youtube

1,2,3 Reg

Blogger

Ticketmaster

Last minute

Chain reaction cycles

As you can see there’s a lot. This isn’t even including all the email and RSS feeds I’m subscribed to.

There’s so much here and I seem to be signing up to more and more as the weeks go by.

I almost feel like I’ll keep signing up to websites and services and not know which one to use.

Shall I use Facebook or Myspace? Ovi or Flickr? Netvibes or igoogle, Last minute or Ticketmaster?

It's like I’m being spread too thin online. Where do I focus my attention? I've got all these services at my disposal and now i'm not sure which one to use.

Wouldn't it be good if they all just merged into one supreme website? And you got one user name and password and all of these websites functions.

Facebook connect seems to be the start of this idea. It's already started to be implemented into other platforms. It's quite basic at the moment, but i'm sure it will get more advanced.

Could we co-join everywhere we go online?

Hopefully someone will figure it out and then i might be able to get my 'digital life' back on track.

Graphs can be fun!