Two creative thinking card tools came my way through my news aggregator.  Fun.  Sample cards are available for viewing in pdf format in the first, and a good set of questions to help you explore and find creative solutions in the second.

MetaMemes - a new creative thinking card deck [via Innovation Weblog] :

"This card deck consists of 214 cards with Ideas (concepts and inventions), Objects (things you can pick up and juggle), and Words (words, plus things that are harder to juggle, like Diplomacy and Gardening). Players take Idea, Word, and Object cards from the deck and combine them to produce new ideas. A meme is an idea or piece of information that is compelling enough for people to share with others they know, in effect passing from mind to mind almost like a virus"

They have a blog too that focusses on "creativity, innovation, technology and games. MetaMemes is aimed at early adopters, and this blog will focus on anything deemed cool, fun or creative"

Free the Genie Games: [via Dave Pollard via Nancy White]

"Free the Genie is a deck of 55 creative thinking cards that help aspiring innovators get unstuck, out of the box, and achieve extraordinary results. There are an infinite amount of ways to use this brainstorming tool, but since you're obviously late for something, here are four simple ways to get started."

 

Put on your Thinking Hats ... or just go enjoy :)

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I'm blogging at Worldchanging too now - the committment is to get a post out there at least once every two weeks. Jamais had contacted me a couple of months ago about joining them and i was excited.  More so when i met Dawn and Alex at Pop!Tech with whom it felt like i was just picking up the conversation again.

Am looking forward to this because i believe this group of people shares some of the beliefs that drive me - "abundance", a philosophy that suggests, 'share-learn-grow', optimism about the future, and stretch that is implicit in a philosophy that says YES AND !  

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