8 Intelligences Illumine the Blogosphere

How many of the eight intelligences listed below have you used on your blog? By expressing ideas and concepts through a variety of intelligences, you'll not only enjoy the challenge, but you'll tune in readers in more creative ways. What do you think?

Every week, when I gather bloggers' posts, I think the current collection'll be hard to top. And, this week's spotlight shines especially bright...

Musical Intelligence - Anna Farmery gathered tunes different leaders are most likely to play on their Ipod:

What tune would you add that represents your boss?

Bad Bosses

(I did it) My Way
Oops I did it again
Message in a Bottle (To avoid direct face to face!)
All By Myself
Suspicious Minds
That Don't Impress Me Much
Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word

Great Leaders

Aint No Mountain High Enough
Express Yourself
Simply the Best
We are the Champions
With a Little Help From My Friends
Against All Odds
A Kind of Magic

Mmmm.... maybe we should check the mp3 players of our bosses!

Interpersonal Intelligence Talking about bosses, Dan Bobinski suggests that leaders need to listen more and boss less if they want results. Dan says that some bosses "may be experts at things technical and financial, but they have not stopped to learn about people." Goes to show that interpersonal intelligence is key to great management in the workplace.

Intrapersonal Nedra Weinreich tells the story of Sacrum, who finds it tough to find employment in the UK or US. He sets out to try his own way of unconventionally marketing himself. Sacrum may not be who he claims he is. At the same time his talents shine because he's so creative. Nedra's article leads us to reflect and question what's right in this case - a key to intrapersonal intelligence...Would you hire him?

Logical-Mathical Intelligence Do you have any idea about how much money bloggers make per month to blog? Anne-Marie Nichols, at The Write Spot provides the scoop based on an NBC survey of the top 130 NYC bloggers...

17% - over $1,000/month
14% - $200-500/month
4% - $100/month
14% - less that $100/month
51% - NOTHING

If you're making very little, is blogging logical? Thoughts...

Verbal-Linguistic Intelligence Do you tell people about your topic or do you use stories? Andrea Learned challenges leaders to "enforce a dead information ban for even a few months, and see what they come up with and how telling stories might change their connections with customers for the good." Andrea asks...

Could you take the facts you might list on an annual report or year-end summary and pull out a few stories to better express the truths of the great things your brand has accomplished?

Naturalistic Intelligence Cody McKibben shows one way to solve the energy crisis -- pick the brains of young minds and transform them into policy changing solutions.

Spatial Intelligence Just imagine a video treasure trove of today's top bloggers at conferences! Mack Collier says we'll all "be much smarter" after watching them because...

Every one is on a different topic, from 'new marketing', to creating online communities, to corporate blogging, to customer evangelists. The amazing part for me was, even though I rarely/never read Seth and Scoble's blogs, their presentations were amazing, so I have found myself spending more and more time reading both of their blogs in the past few days.

Mack has them all available on his blog.

Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence Dr. Ellen Weber suggests 10 tips to put your brain through its paces - including exercise. She asks, "How do you see yourself at the helm of your mental well-being?"

Which blogger has challenged you most? Let us know what one of the eight intelligences you'd like to get up and running at your workplace...