Building Social Worlds

People build social worlds as they meet and talk to others. Interestingly, when two people interact, their brains also become a single complex system, Andreas Roepstorff finds.

As we meet more people online, we network with those who inspire and take our thoughts to new places. We count these fold as friends. Two online friends, who share compelling ideas and noteworthy posts are, Liz Strauss and Mark McGuinness. Recently, each asked me to write a guest blog - for me an opportunity to collaborate with them and extend my work with MITA International Brain Center in new arenas. I leaped to the challenge...

The Blogging Brain - Ever wonder what goes on in the brain of a blogger? Liz Strauss was curious about that and asked me to write a post for Successful Blog.

The 8 Types of Creative Intelligence - Mark McGuinness, author of Lateral Action, wanted to know more about creativity and the brain. Interestingly, creativity often comes through novelty. The multiple intelligences open pathways to creativity, especially as you tap into the ones you don't tend to use.

Mark emailed me midweek to say that the article "really took off on Twitter!"

The internet dramatically increases possibilities for social interactions along with the type and number of friends we might have. In this case, an invitation to write a guest blog for two top-notch bloggers, opened an opportunity for me to interact with their regular readers and consider what they had to say. You could think of this experience as an adventure into Liz and Mark's social worlds.

Dr. Ellen Weber and I recently met Liz Strauss and Steve Roesler at the Bloggers Hub at the World Business Forum 2009. What fun!

Left to Right, me, Dr. Ellen Weber, Steve Roesler, Liz Strauss