| Alliance of Artists Communities | Collaborative project for increasing residencies by California visual artists from diverse communities. |
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| Letitia Splain Dayer | Expressive arts painter |
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| Lynda Lotman | Manuscript editing, from copy editing to writing assistance. |
| Peter Lloyd | Full-service writer and songwriter. |
| Pro Novel Editing | Proofreading, light to heavy copy editing, developmental editing, novel manuscript critiques, book doctoring |
| Success Literary Services | Writers, editors, and teachers established in 1984 as a manuscript editing service and a film script coverage service for independent writers and publishing and production professionals. |
| Go Create Design | Website design, building, and marketing solutions. |
| Writer's Help Desk | Self-publishing and writing resources. |
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| Mike Allison & Associates | Problem-solving wizards with lots of interesting resources. |
| Barbara Bowen | Guides designers, journalists, ad creatives, artists, photographers, healing arts and media professionals, architects, and others into new levels of success. |
| Breakthrough Business Solutions | Helps develop and implement new and unexpected ideas. |
| Winston J. Brill | Unique services to inspire great ideas. |
| CEI-Logistics | Helps warehousing, manufacturing, and distribution clients achieve measurable business benefits. |
| Clear Insight | Business integration specialists. |
| Creative Advantage | Comprehensive approach to innovation--integrating consulting, training, facilitation and assessment. |
| Creative Edge Associates | Helps tap creativity and innovation in all types of and sizes of orgainzations. |
| Creative Partners | Consultancy with much useful information. See the "Think About It" and "Curious" sections. |
| Creative Realities | Assists innovation by advising how to think and what to think about. |
| Creative Think | Home of author Roger von Oech. |
| Creative Thinking Association of America | Experts in cultivating corporate cultures for continuous creativity and innovation. |
| Creativity Experts | Global database of thousands of spokespersons and consultants. |
| Creativity Lab | Training, idea generation, focus groups, individual coaching. |
| Creativity Web | Resources for creativity and innovation. |
| Don the Idea Guy | Ideas that mean business and more business. |
| Edward DeBono | Author and leading authority in the world in the field of creative thinking and the direct teaching of thinking as a skill. |
| Facilitation Plus | Consulting company specializing in meeting management and problem solving. |
| Roger Firestien | Helps businesses worldwide generate, develop, and use new ideas to create extraordinary performance. |
| Gregg Fraley | Speaker, facilitator, and new-product developer with experience in photography, cartooning, stand-up comedy, film-making, and improvisation. Author of Jack's Notebook: A business novel about creative problem solving.. |
| Steve Grossman | Creativity consultant helps clients structure low-risk systems designed to quickly get new, innovative ideas to the marketplace. |
| Herrmann International | Helps people harness the power of their thinking for improved productivity, creativity and fulfillment. |
| Idea Champions | Consulting and training company specializing in creativity, innovation, team building, leadership, and out of the box products. |
| imaginatik | Turns innovation into action by harnessing the creative potential of employees, customers and suppliers to develop new products, new revenue streams, reduce costs and improve business processes. |
| Innovation Resource | Home of Robert B. Tucker, author of Driving Growth Through Innovation. |
| Intellectual Capital Group | Excels in applying soft skills to hard problems. |
| Innovations International | Leading-edge products and services for personal and organizational transformation. |
| JB Innovation | Help solve challenges and build a more innovative culture by working at the system, organization, group and individual level. |
| Learning Attitude | Organization and leadership development company specializing in improving personal and organizational performance. |
| Patrick Magee | Author of Brain Dancing. |
| Making Vision Reality | Unlock the potential of people and their organizations. |
| Marco Marsan | Leader of Marco Polo Explorers, author of Think Naked: Childlike brilliance in the rough adult world and The Lion's Way. |
| Michael Michalko | Internationally acclaimed creative thinking expert and author of Cracking Creativity. |
| Mindwerx | Creativity consulting. |
| Dick Orkin | Head honcho of Radio Ranch, the legendary radio production company and Radio Ranch Creative Workshops. |
| SEO Service Provider | Consulting and services related to search engine optimization. |
| Synectics | Home of the problem-solving process. |
| Chic Thompson | Author of What a Great Idea! |
| TW Associates | Provides training and development experiences that make complex subjects accessible and useful to busy people. |
| Arthur B. VanGundy | Creativity and innovation consultant, developer of innovation aids. |
| Virtual Thinking Expedition Company | Leads groups on mind adventures through the unknown to return as teams with new perspectives results. |
| Roger von Oech | Author, consultant, home at Creative Think. |
| Win Wenger | Helps people enjoy a richer quality of life and experience by surmounting difficulties. |
| Copyright Clearance Center | A not-for-profit organization providing collective copyright licensing services. |
| Copyright Society of the U.S.A | 212-354-6401 |
| Creative Commons | Devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others to build upon and share. |
| IPToolbar | Links to Intellectual Property information |
| USPTO | Patent and trademark information including free trademark search. 800-786-9199 |
| U.S. Copyright Office | Official copyright information. |
| National Patent Association | Patent assistance. 800-672-2280 |
| Thomas | Legislative information on the Internet. |
| John B. Woodard, PhD | Registered patent agent 513-289-8657 |
| American Creativity Association | Dedicated to promoting a creative society by increasing awareness of the importance of creativity and encouraging personal and professional creativity. |
| Broken Crayons | Home of by Robert Alan Black. |
| Conversations about Creativity | Interviews with creative people on Cecil Vortex. |
| Children and Creativity | From the Creativity Web. |
| Creative Aerobics | Ideation and mind-set breaking techniques. |
| Creativity Basics | From the Creativity Web. |
| Creativity Cafe | Community, synergy, and resource center to accelerate pro-active responses. |
| Creativity Mailing List | Focused on creativity, creative thinking, and creative problem solving. Started in February 1998. |
| Creativity Pool | Database of creative and original ideas. |
| Creativity Web | Resources for Creativity and Innovation |
| Creax.Net | Links to site devoted to creativity and innovation. |
| eMetaphor | Free web and ezine service that helps writers reach their writing goals, using a holistic approach and self-mastery skills. |
| Enchanted Mind | Exercises for developing creativity. |
| Global Ideas Bank | Socially innovative non-technological ideas and projects with £1,000 UK sterling awards annually for the best ideas or projects submitted. |
| Golding Crafts | New Zealand's specialist suppliers of Handcraft Materials and books since 1969. |
| IdeaConnection | Collaborative problem solving, creativity and idea exchange website. Buy, sell or license inventions, innovations, new products, ideas, intellectual property and patents. |
| Idea Mama | A bridge between an Idea and a Business Empire. |
| Idea Pirate | The place for entrepreneurs to find and share new ideas, innovations, and inventions. |
| Designed to help busy executives to be more innovative in their businesses. | |
| Innovation Tool of the Month Club | Subscription to a monthly delivery of new and proven innovation tools from Gerald Haman of the Solution People. |
| it is a good idea | Personal idea generation help from Kristina Julin-Stringer. |
| Mattress Factory | Research and development lab for artists. |
| Minciu Sodas Laboratory | Open laboratory for serving and organizing independent thinkers. |
| National Center for Creativity | A resource for innovative thinking and place for people interested in creativity to come together. |
| Project Zero | Aims to understand and enhance learning, thinking, and creativity in the arts, as well as humanistic and scientific disciplines, at the individual and institutional levels. |
| Torrance Center for Creativity & Talent Development | A service, research, and instructional center concerned with the identification and development of creative potential and with gifted and future studies. |
| USENET newsgroups | List from the Creativity Web. |
| WackyCreations | Where out-of-the-box is not out of the ordinary. |
| Why Not? | How to use everyday ingenuity to solve problems big and small. |
| Alden B. Dow Creativity Center | A global assembly of those who value, teach and practice creativity, base in Northwood University. |
| BrainSkills | Expert advice to train your brain. |
| National Inventors Hall of Fame | Honors men and women responsible for great technological advances that make human progress possible. |
| Edgerton Educational Center | Nebraska's hands-on science center. |
| Free Inquiry Group | Non-profit organization of secular humanistsf dedicated to improving the human condition through rational inquiry and creative thinking unfettered by superstition, religion, or any form of dogma. |
| Hands-on Museums worldwide | Public museums with a strong emphasis on interactive science education. |
| HyperTech | Tech Museum of Innovation |
| Creativity for Kids | Just what it sounds like. |
| IC2 Institute | International research center and "do tank" for the study and development of innovation, creativity, and capital. |
| Creativity at Work | Thinking and Perceiving Skills for the 21st Century. |
| Odyssey of the Mind | Fosters creative thinking and problem-solving skills among participating students from kindergarten through college. |
| Talent Development Resources | Exploring talent, giftedness, and inspiration to enhance creative expression. |
| Do-It-Yourself | Household Hints and FAQs for Inventors |
| IFIA | International Federation of Inventors' Associations |
| Institute of Inventors | Voluntary, non-profit Inventors' Club, run by Professional Engineer Inventors, with help for all Private Inventors. |
| Invention Dimension | Celebrates inventors who have turned their ideas into accomplishments. |
| Inventnet | Network of inventors. |
| Inventors Assistance League | Helps inventors and creative people protect and market ideas and inventions. |
| National Inventor Fraud Center | Provide information to consumers about invention promotion companies and how people can market their ideas. |
| United Inventors Association | Provides leadership, support, and services to inventor support groups and independent inventors. |
| All Star Minds | Online idea-generation service of Arthur B. VanGundy. |
| Brain Wedgies | Innovator at work--a behind-the-curtain look |
| BrandStorm | Branding, new products, naming, IdeaSpring online idea-generating process, and inventureworks new-product incubator. |
| Express | 24-hour naming service. |
| Marco Polo Explorers | Create new-product ideas for leading businesses in Big Idea Sessions. |
| WordLab | Forum of word association for naming and branding. |
| Yakherder | Naming company with domains for sale. Specializing in media and entertainment, technology, and communications. |
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| AcceleratedInnovation Training | Collaborative training at the Gerald Haman's Thinkubator in Chicago. |
| Accelerated Training Smorgasbord | Creative techniques for spicing up your training. |
| Brainstorming | Collection of techniques, software, and training. |
| Creative Animal Safari | One-day seminar at a certified Creative Animals Zoo. |
| Center for Creative Learning | Variety of publications, training programs, information support, and consulting services on creativity, creative problem solving, talent development, and learning styles. |
| Creative Problem Solving Institute | Programs and workshops in creative problem solving, creative thinking, innovation, facilitation and personal performance. |
| Creativity Central | Toy inventors Charlie and Maria Girsch facilitate ideation sessions and interactive creativity seminars. |
| Creativity Engineering | Adaptation of improv techniques to empower individuals, teams, and businesses to dramatically increase their creative and collaborative abilities within a context of positive humor. |
| Cultivate to Create | Seminar designed to help people learn how to cultivate their own creativity. |
| Executive Oasis International | Executive retreats and executive coaching for rapidly changing organizations. |
| Innova Training and Consulting | Provides live and online training courses and keynotes focusing on leadership, conflict management, creativity, communication, meeting management, critical thinking, and team building. Based on tools and methods of Edward DeBono and Stan Slap. |
Creative Workshops by Dick Orkin. |
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| Training Oasis | Specializing in creative approaches to training design, customization and delivery. |
| Workshops via Email | Training delivered via email. |
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