Are you stuck on a problem and can’t think of a creative idea to solve it? Need some help to make your ideas gel into a plan? Call a few friends (or strangers), sit with them and just talk. And let the ideas fly.
I have always found that my best ideas are a result of conversations I have with others. It’s not that I’m taking someone else’s ideas and running with them; I have found that the very process of expressing my point of view gets my creative juices running. Ideas pop in my head and out of my mouth, and suddenly, I have a breakthrough idea. While sitting and thinking about something gives me time to organize ideas and take action, but I crave interaction with others to spur my creative ideas.
When Ric Pratte, our CEO, suggested that we start a Creativity Coffee hour on Fridays here at JitterJam, I was all for it. I knew that we’d have different people in the room each week and would have an opportunity to have lively and diverse conversations about social marketing on a weekly basis. It would help us generate ideas for our customers, our community and our company. It would introduce us to new points of view and experiences that would help pave the way for new breakthroughs in thinking.
This morning, we celebrated TechCrunch’s 5-year anniversary with a Meetup and Creativity Coffee hour. We had some new faces in the room, some great conversation and some ideas about how Facebook could and should be used by businesses to engage their customers. We’ll be posting those ideas on the blog next week in the Idea Spark series. You can see our first installment of that series here.
So, Fun Stuff Friday now has two really fun hallmarks—coffee and creativity in the morning, and beer and bonding in the afternoon.
Boy, do I love start-ups.
Want to join us for a Creativity Coffee hour? Sign up here! There’s no cost. We just want to know who is coming and how much coffee to stock.
