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This article could be helpful over the next couple of week while we are all working on our final papers. It discusses new research on ambient noise and its link to creativity and productivity.

A great article on Twitter and Creative Writing.

Mural.ly is being called a cross between Prezi and Pinterest. It's supposed to be a platform for organizing and sharing creativity. Read on and check out the platform site here: http://beta.mural.ly/.

I know many of us place high value on online customer reviews. Think of this site as the "Urban Spoon" of software and apps. You can browse technologies by theme (creative, customers, team, productivity etc.) view screen shots and read user reviews. You can also browse compiled lists of technologies posted by users of the site. Ex. "how I manage my retail business" or "28 ideas for an awesome office" This site might be helpful exploring technologies for our research paper!

Is it the technology or the teaching? Toshiba says: "Creativity, innovation, information fluency, critical thinking, problem solving- these are the skills that students need in order to work effectively and live productively in today's digital world," said Kimberly Giles, Principal at St. Leonard. "The use of technology in the classroom helps us create an environment that fosters these skills."

As we are all likely looking for visual examples of creative infographic designs I thought this was a fun reference point. Tracing James Bonds sexual conquests through all his films highlights a great example of a timeline - something we need to include in our final poster.

Hayley, an MPC student last year, made this resume in video format. I found it a really creative, fun way to present a document that's increasingly feeling like a product of a bygone age. Cool as it is, it must be a pain to keep it up-to-date.

Definitely an interesting new way of using Twitter: to storytell. "The first Twitter Fiction Festival, a five-day event starting November 28 that will showcase "creative experiments in storytelling from authors around the world." Twitter to announce the authors on November 19.