Today I have been reading an article written by Eileen Clegg about visual learning - building knowledge, innovation and collaboration. As part of the work I am doing to drive radical innovation with communities, I think that these ideas are very powerful in the creativity (or ideation) phase. She says that:
Images can be used to elicit creative ideas from a group by tapping into the source of innovation, ideas that tend to be more holistic than linear, more intuitive than rational. Creativity is enhanced when people interact with images. Seeing is personal and draws on unconscious elements. When looking at the same image, everyone has a somewhat different interpretation of what they are seeing, based on past experiences
Though her part about visual collaboration and storytelling is equally compelling, I see a huge potential in the ideation stage when an visual application is used in combination with blogs. Blogs are an excellent tool to use within a community to drive radical innovation - and if visual images of blogs can be used to enhance creativity, there's an interesting potential.
Imagine corporate use of the feedster image engine - just showing images of blogs recently created. Now if this is mixed with the taxonomy / categorization of Google images that'd be something.
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