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I will be watching out for this around our campus.
I have been using Dropbox since is beta days and thought I was getting the most out of the service. This article is a really good reminder that there is often so much more you can do with software and services if you are willing to invest some time in learning. I particularly like the following tip:
28 Give meeting participants iPads, and sync all of those tablets to the same Dropbox folder. You can then distribute meeting agendas and background materials instantly to everyone at the same time.
Even though the article was written by a Mac user all of the recommendations can be used by Windows and even Linux users.
My first response to this article was “DUH – No kidding”. My second response was “HHHMMM??? how am I going to leverage this scientific evidence”. So we now have even more scientific evidence to confirm that while people may appear to crave creativity they still fear change and prefer what is known. So what can we do about this bias against creativity or more specifically fear of change. The researchers provide some insight into this with by recommending the following:
… The field of creativity may need to shift its current focus from identifying how to generate more creative ideas to identify how to help innovative institutions recognize and accept creativity.
Interesting Perspective on how we do Church. Unfortunately this perspective can lead to Wrong Worship:
