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A lateral thinking process, brainstorming demands that people come up with ideas and thoughts that can seem shocking or crazy. By using these ideas as a starting point, you can then change and improve them into something useful and original. Below are the top 100 tools, tips, guides, and resources to help you think outside the box and maximize your ideas.

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Below you will find 10 websites which I feel are great for brainstorming and working as a group. Check each one out and see which one suits your group project best.

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If you've ever jumped into a brainstorming session with your students or colleagues and found it wasn't going as well as you hoped, take a look at the brainstorming warm-up activities in the Slideshare presentation below.

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Tricider is the easiest way to get group decisions made. You and your team can propose ideas, evaluate and vote for them. Without the need of being in the same room. Less emails, meetings and phone calls. Tricider is the perfect solution to reach consensus in difficult discussions or just decide where to go for lunch. Brainstorming with a result. Try it now!

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Online mindmapping tool to help organize and see deeper insights.  Open source.

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The easiest way to brainstorm and document your thoughts and strategies.

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Add, discuss and organize ideas from multiple locations before, during and after (or instead of) your meetings.

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SpiderScribe is an online mind mapping and brainstorming tool. It lets you organize your ideas by connecting notes, files, calendar events, etc. in free-form maps. You can collaborate and share those maps online!

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AnswerGarden is a new minimalistic feedback tool. Use it as a tool for online brainstorming or embed it on your website or blog as a poll or guestbook.

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Full featured online flow charting solution. Create professional quality diagrams in minutes without software installation.

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Team resources for online collaboration. Powerful new features designed to let you work better together. Share resources with your team, co browse the web, annotate shared documents, video phone, skype calls ... share ideas, communicate & sync like never before. 'team-skrbl' is the next best thing to being in the same room. Get started today, claim your virtual office space, sign up now, OR learn more about skrbl for teams here

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Edistorm takes the metaphor of sticky notes on a boardroom wall and brings it online allowing anyone - anywhere to brainstorm with only a web browser.

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PINBALL is here to help you kick start new ideas, to get your thoughts flowing freely, and to develop your creative talents. Bounce your ideas around by using these fun and simple tools, and who knows what ideas might pop up.

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Isn't 42 the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything? Well, in this case it means FOR TWO and indicates the collaborative character of mind42. Manage all your ideas, whether alone, twosome or working together with the whole world - collaborative, browser-based and for free.

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Brainstorming in a group became popular in 1953 with the publication of a business book, Applied Imagination. But it’s been proven not to work since 1958, when Yale researchers found that the technique actually reduced a team’s creative output: the same number of people generate more and better ideas separately than togethe

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How many times have you participated in a brainstorming session, only to be underwhelmed by the utter lack of follow up?
Unfortunately, in most businesses, this is often the norm. Here's why:

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Build up a personal portfolio of useful thinking guide

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MindMeister supports all the standard features of a classic mind mapping tool - only online, and with as many simultaneous users as you like!

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