Creativity doesn't need a special Gene

This year's PodCamp Toronto, a two day blogger event, had many sessions geared towards expanding and exploring your social networks. But one particular session, that caught my attention, was "Fostering Creativity" by Michael Mistretta, in which, he discussed how passion, creativity and a little hard work can take an idea from conception to execution.
Most of us believe "Creativity needs a special gene" and refuse to take on tasks that, we believe, needs that gene. According to Michael, its just an excuse for being lazy.
A Sculptor who create an amazing statue does it after his uncountable hours of practicing and frustration. What differentiates an ordinary man from a creator is passion and hard work.
So, Free yourself and don't let your belief limit you.
Another notable presentation, "Stalking Your Audience for Fun & Profit.." by Sean Power, helped us understand different ways of monitoring, stalking our Audiences.

Tools for listening, stalking, monitoring our audiences:

1. radiant6
2. backtype
3. boardreader
4. mon.itor.us
5. google sets
6. google trends
7. google alerts
8. twemes
9. buzzfeed
10. tinyurl
11. trendrr

Though tools help us a lot, its merely a transmission channel for our messages. Message is the critical ingredient for our social networking success.

click here to view all the PodCamp Toronto presentations