Martin Luther King Day
Today is Martin Luther King Day. It’s a national holiday celebrated in the US each year on the third Monday of January. And, given King’s I Have a Dream speech is one of the all-time great manifestos, I want to review a couple of his methods for leading the civil rights movement through the lens […]
Nineteen Songs for a Cause
Normally, when we think of a manifesto we think of a written document like the US Declaration of Independence. And, recently we showed that a manifesto can be a visual image or symbol in our post Eleven Iconic Manifestos. Now it’s time to explore the auditory spectrum with songs that promote a cause or protest […]
Shawn Achor: Success Formula
Best Book of 2014 Recently I shared the ten best books I read in 2014. And, at the time I wrote that list I had read 49 books for the year and had one more book to reach my goal of 50. Well, a funny thing happened. The 50th book I read was the best […]
Plan Your Year Podcast
In Episode 57 of the Ideas Architect Podcast we share three of our most popular recent blog posts all on the topic of how to plan your year. The first part shares the ten questions I use to plan my year. The second part focuses on creating and sharing your word or theme for the […]
Ideas Marketing Case Study
Previously, I created a case study to demonstrate how Ideas Marketing could be applied to Tess Nobile’s idea for Paint the Town Green and ‘creating ideas to forward the greater good’. It has sparked some interesting and exciting conversations since! Today I wanted to share my own case study of how I’m looking to use […]
The Power of ‘Us’
Previously, I wrote about my word for the year ‘Us’. And, I’m already finding it’s working it’s way into my daily thoughts and my plans for this year. Here are four ways you can use this to your advantage: 1 Include Others I’m now actively looking for ways to include others rather than playing my […]
Eleven Iconic Manifestos
Previously we talked about the fifth type of manifestos – a visual manifesto. And, there are several different styles of visual manifesto. For instance: a graphic, a word picture, an infographic, a photograph and an icon or symbol. In this post we are going to focus on the use of icons or symbols to represent […]
Lori Deschene, Tiny Buddha
Lori Deschene, Tiny Buddha: Simple Wisdom for Life’s Hard Questions How to Write a Book from Twitter Lori Deschene is a master of Twitter engagement and this book is the proof of that. At the time her book was published, @tinybuddha had over 200,000 followers – impressive. And, today she has 449,000 followers. Very impressive! […]
The Fifth Manifesto Style
Previously, I wrote about four manifesto styles. And, like the forgotten fifth member of The Beatles, I think there’s a fifth manifesto style that I’ve overlooked – the image. The Power of a Flag If you doubt that an image can hold the explosive power of a written manifesto you only need to consider the […]
Word for the Year
One of my strengths and weaknesses is my ability to create ideas at the drop of a hat. And, even without any hats dropping. I’m naturally a divergent thinker which says I’m both creative and likely to go off on a tangent at any time. This means I need to work extra hard to stay […]