By Mark McGuinness | 1/27/2010 | 2 Comments
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If you’re a creative entrepreneur looking to make connections and promote your business on the web, Chris Brogan is one of the people you need to pay attention to
Chris is an eleven year veteran of using social media and both web and mobile technologies to build digital relationships for businesses, organizations, and individuals. Chris speaks, blogs, writes articles, and makes media of all kinds at chrisbrogan.com. He is co-author with Julien Smith of the New York Times bestselling book Trust Agents.
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By Mark McGuinness | 1/25/2010 | 7 Comments
This post is part of the Break Through Your Creative Blocks series.
If you have a creative block you’d like some help with, tell us about it – details in the first article in the series.
Sometimes it can feel like a constant battle to earn enough money to justify spending time on creative work. This problem can be particularly acute if you work in a creative medium with little obvious commercial potential.
This kind of block doesn’t just affect your non-commercial work however – it can lead you to resent the work you do to pay the bills, and bring up resistance to doing it. “Dammed if you do, dammed if you don’t!”
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By Mark McGuinness | 1/18/2010 | 12 Comments
This post is part of the Break Through Your Creative Blocks series.
If you have a creative block you’d like some help with, tell us about it – details in the first article in the series.
One of the biggest challenges facing many creative people is simply finding the time to pursue their creative interests, in the midst of the demands of everyday life. Strictly speaking, lack of time doesn’t qualify as a creative block – but when we say we “don’t have time” for something, it’s often an indication that we aren’t making it a priority.
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By Mark McGuinness | 1/11/2010 | 16 Comments
This post is part of the Break Through Your Creative Blocks series.
If you have a creative block you’d like some help with, tell us about it – details in the first article in the series.
The fear of making a mistake and getting something ‘wrong’ can be paralysing for a creator. Paradoxically, this block can get worse the more successful you are. The more great work you’ve produced, the higher your reputation, the more you have to lose by making a mistake.
This is the problem faced by an anonymous Lateral Action reader, who responded to our invitation to tell us about your creative blocks.
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By Mark McGuinness | 1/5/2010 | 16 Comments
This post is part of the Break Through Your Creative Blocks series.
If you have a creative block you’d like us to address, tell us about it – details in the first article in the series.
If you believe you’re “Just not the creative type”, there’s no point even trying to think or act creatively. You’d just be setting yourself up for failure.
This is one of the biggest and most debilitating creative blocks of all. Fortunately, it’s also one of the easiest to get around, provided you’re prepared to make a shift in your mindset…
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By Mark McGuinness | 1/4/2010 | 24 Comments
This post is part of the Break Through Your Creative Blocks series.
Right, let’s see what we can do to make 2010 a great year for you!
We’re kicking off the New Year with a new blog series – Break Through Your Creative Blocks. Starting tomorrow, we’re going to tackle some of the biggest obstacles encountered by people who set out to create amazing things. (That would be you.)
We’ve already drafted a list of different types of block, based on our own creative struggles and the years we’ve spent helping other people. But to make sure we address the challenges that matter most to you, we’d like you to tell us what those are.
This is your chance to have your creative bugbears banished by the Lateral Action team.
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By Mark McGuinness | 12/30/2009 | 7 Comments
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New Year is a time for looking back and reviewing the events of the past 12 months – and that goes for blogs too.
2009 was the first full year of Lateral Action, and we’d like to say a big thank you to all our readers, guest writers and interviewees for helping us to make it a rich and varied one.
So here are the highlights of the blog from the past year, as determined by a complex algorithm involving the number of comments, links, pageviews, Tweets, and raisins in the Christmas cake at Lateral Action Towers.
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