On the home site  of Idea Champions you can find a set of articles  about different methods for creativity increasing.
Idea Champions is a consulting and training company specializing in creativity, innovation, team building, leadership and out of the box products.
For example, you can find there an article about 68 Ways to be More Creative on the Job. They say: “It's possible to be a creative superstar at work without ever using a creative thinking technique. How? By adding one or more of these CREATIVE PICK-ME-UPS to your daily routine.”
I hope it will be interesting for you.

Here Hendry Lee introduces readers to some tools to help them in their blogging endeavors.
He describes some characteristic properties of such activity as blogging. And then he talks about tools, which support one or more basic activities blogging consist of.
I tried to categorize these tools into more general categories.
So, in blogging for you can be useful:
1. Internet Browser
2. Blog editor. You can use special editor for your type of blog engine, or you can prefer general WISIWIG editor.
3. News aggregator for reading RSS and so on.
4. Special program for capturing text, images instead of standard image editor, for example.
5. Image editing software
6. One of the personal organizers to store your ideas, to-dos, resources, links and so on.
7. Communicate tool.

On the Mindjet.com you can find a new page – “Recommended Reading” , which contains a list of books about mind mapping and corresponding ideas. For example, project management, business improvement, productivity, team productivity and collaboration and so on.

In one of the Tony Buzan books he talks about list of words memorization. His test illustrates a mechanism mind mapping based on.
Let’s try to do it.
1. Try to memorize a list of 20 words in 5 minutes. I tried and it was only 7 words (((.
2. Think out what object does an each number look like? It is about 1-10 numbers. For other 1-10 numbers try to think out a rhyme. For example, for me 1 looks like a baseball bat. For better use – mind map your associations using pictures.
3. Try to compare your words with your associations and rhymes. Compose it into single sentence. For example, if your number is one and your word is “egg”, you may write something like “The egg was broken by the bat”.)))

As interesting – I really memorized all words!
According to this we may conclude all this:
- associations and pictures are one of the most powerful methods for thinking;
- we use this method not so often and we get used to think with words and it is not so good as it could be;
- mind mapping allows us to combine both of these methods and increase our effectiveness.