Bloggers' Multiple Intelligences Sizzle!

What are you doing with your talents as you blog? When you engage your multiple intelligences to achieve your targets, you'll engage creativity with zest. Here're bloggers who sizzle by tapping their gifts...

Naturalistic Intelligence Sara Noel shares the pure pleasures of birding. Discover the pleasure and benefits it brings to family...

Birdwatching is a frugal activity that can be a great way to connect with your family. It’s fun and builds values of appreciation and respect for nature. It’s more than simply watching birds. Birdwatching can include learning or knowing bird names and their category, range of habitat, activities, field markings, patterns, and songs too.

Interpersonal Intelligence Here's a great way to bring more laughter to your life - Laughter Clubs. Joey Guse, a former comedian, turned psychotherapist zeroes in on belly laughs as benefits! He describes his initial experience at a Laughter Club...

I left that day a true believer in the power of the laughter club, and plan to return often whenever I feel I am in need of an energizing workout, as the exercise I got that day was more than I had gotten in months. That whole next week I thought about what I had seen and done that day, and often found myself chuckling for no reason at all thinking of some silly little thing I had remembered. My experience that day had left me wanting more, and I was now reawakened to the everyday silliness of life that exists everywhere if we just take a little time to recognize it. I promised myself I would never again be "too busy" to see it, and penciled in the time slot at the laughter club as a new weekly activity.

Hey, how about starting a chapter if there's not one near you!

Bodily-kinesthetic Intelligence Bob Hruzek shares a unique story about walking to exercise and muse and to tell you the truth, I'm impressed that he does 12.5 minutes a mile. That's a target I want to hit this summer! But, one day while Bob mused during his walk, he heard a tinkling sound. This is an hilarious read and I'll include just a bit to entice you to see what happens...

Gradually, the sound got louder and louder, still sounding exactly like a small tinkling bell. It slowly got louder. I kept walking. It got even louder. Now I’m starting to wonder what the heck it was, but I didn’t want to break my pace to turn around and look. Louder. Ah, I knew what it was now – a set of tags from some jogger’s dog (a jogdog? Er, sorry.)

Well, whatever it was, it would pass me within a few minutes; by now I could hardly wait to see what the dog looked like. I pictured in my mind a German shepherd, or possibly a Beagle (both of which I’d seen before on other mornings).

I need insprations like 12.5 minutes per mile and fun encounters to pick up my speed, Bob!...

Spatial Intelligence The Artful Life blog shows why Flickr can add some sizzle to your blog. Want inspiration? Check out amazing images in Flickr groups that'll inspire you. Here's two to start...

The collage group

art studio groups

Musical Intelligence Would you believe that Steve Roesler attended Chubby Checker's wedding and that he was Duke of Doo-Wop? Steve sang doo-wop on the streets of Philly in the 60's. Take time to listen... dukesofdoowop.mp3. All Things Workplace is a great site for smart leaders and managers to find practical ways to be extraordinary! Steve, do you build on music as you help folks discover practical ways to be extraordinary? Just curious...

Logical-Mathematical Intelligence Counting how much sleep you get? If you're not getting enough, you could be depriving your brain... Ellen Weber tells how the number of zzzz's nightly impacts your ability to "Connect the Dots" at work!

Interpersonal Intelligence Ever considered interviewing an expert for your blog? One of the ways we grow smarter is to ask other folks questions that'll bring out their best. Then you'll get the chance to share their wisdom with your readers. Phil Gerbyshank's recent interview with Penelope Trunk shows how he zeroed in on his blogging interests to learn more. Penelope's recent book, Brazen Careerist: The New Rules for Success

blows up many of the old thoughts for success and turns today's new workforce thinking on its ear. She's been through a LOT of change in her life, and has some amazing ideas we can all use to improve our lives and make it great.

How might interviews build more community and added value to your blog?

Verbal Linguistic What would it take to build a better blog? Darren Rowse advises bloggers to review their "About Me" text. Just think...

One of the key pages on a blog is the about page. This page is often used by new readers to a blog to gather information about you and your blog and based upon what they find on this page they could be making a decision as to whether they’ll subscribe to your blog or not.

As a result, your About Page is a key conversion page on your blog and it therefore needs to be reworked regularly.

Have you reviewed yours since you created your blog? If not, Darren's post offers tips to update plus a link describing exactly what to include. You'll find a major toolbox to build a better blog in the next 31 days in ProBlogger's new series!

Are you moving your talents in blogging? If not, you're wasting a valuable resource that helps distinguish your site. Ellen Weber shows how new solutions can come through your multiple intelligences...

Throughout the process of simply doing something you have not done, you begin to use and grow your stronger gifts creatively. It’s actually quite simple.

Why not approach your blog by tapping into a "smart" you've neglected? Check out Ellen's tactics! Don't waste your gifts and stagnate.

Shouting Bloggers' Intelligences

Shouting out bloggers' multiple intelligences is a regular feature here at Brain Based Biz. When bloggers use a wide variety of talents at the peak to share ideas with readers, they deserve recognition. So here goes...

Spatial Intelligence Chris Brown asks, how many of the Web 2.0 tools are you using? She posted a spatial map to show what these are...


I see some I want to explore...how about you?

Bodily-kinesthetic Intelligence Rather dance right now than write a blog? That happend to Doug Karr when he dropped off his son for college. Be sure to watch the hilarious video... you'll be up dancing, too!


Musical Intelligence At Tune Your World by Calabash Music, you can find music from great new artists in Africa, such as, Boubacar Traore, known as the Malian Chuck Berry or Elvis Presley. You're able to sample one of his recent love songs, 'Pierrette' on the site. It's worth checking out.

Intrapersonal Intelligence What prevents you from being the person you want to be? Maybe it's authenticity. Liz Strauss reminds us that adults encounter lots of peer pressure. She summarizes her thoughts...

Say, “no.” When they say, “be someone other.”

Say, “no.” When they ask you to do what they won’t.

Say, “no.” Unless your heart and your head say “this is where my feet need to go.”

Authenticity knows how to choose its own path.

Authenticity is having faith in ourselves.

We can change the world — just like that.

Interpersonal Intelligence Want a strategy to ask the kind of question to which leaders respond, "No one has ever asked us that"? Drew McLellan tells how...

They come from listening like a detective, trying to solve a case. Following leads in the conversation and tugging at every loose end, until we unravel whole story. It comes from wanting to understand and help them grow their business, not win the account.

Verbal-linguistic Intelligence Karin H. has an interesting post on signs these days... she asks...

Have you checked all your signage lately? Any contradicting another? Any not really clear on what it is supposed to instruct, tell, and most important warn for?

Not only are Karin's questions important in regard to signs, but it also is a reminder to write clearly.

Logical-mathematical Intelligence Ever wonder what the top bloggers earn? Young Go Getter listed it for us which I'll share here:

BoingBoing Over $1 million a year

I Can Has Cheezburger? $5,600 a month

ShoeMoney $12,000 a month

Overheard in New York $8,100 a month

Kottke.org $5,300 a month

TalkingPointsMemo $45,000 a month

Perez Hilton $111,000 a month

Gothamist $250,000 a month

TechCrunch $200,000 a month

Go Fug Yourself $6,240 a month

Mashable $166,000 a month

Problogger Over $100,000 a year

Keep track of Young Go Getter's blog...I have an idea you'll find him on this list soon!

Naturalistic Intelligence My Boots n Me is a Canadian blogger currently traveling in Guatemaula. He's a real artist who not only posts magnificent nature shots but also shares his mind about what he sees. This blog will grow on you and take you outdoors if you're inside at the moment!

You might enjoy digging a bit deeper to see where your gifts and talents lie... Ellen Weber has a great Multiple Intelligences Growth Survey so you can figure it out...

Hope you'll be inspired to present ideas using a bit more of your brain as you blog... Keep in mind, though we might be strong in one or two intelligences now, the brain's plasticity allows for growth in others. And the more you begin to challenge your brain in new areas, the more growth you'll see.

The challenge's in your court...

Bloggers Tap Intelligences!

People are gifted in many ways. One size never fits all since our brains are wired so differently... And bloggers dip into varied talents as they share ideas with readers. Here're posts where talent shines...

Logical-Mathematical Intelligence - Any idea how much violence costs your business? Shockingly it rivals the amount spent yearly on natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina. Ellen Weber proposes that we should be building a culture of peace and not war. How can we all have a part in that?

Intrapersonal Intelligence - Interestingly Sarah Noel lists food personalities to help you see where you fit as far as frugality is concerned. Here's just a few she mentions... Supernaturalist, Hide and Sneak, Purist. Check out your food personality.

Naturalistic Intelligence - Chris Brown sees similarities between running a business, marketing and gardening.

Verbal-linguistic Intelligence - Frank Roche shares a one minute writing lesson from Scott Adams of the Dilbert Blog. The secret is to keep it simple!

Business writing is about clarity and persuasion. The main technique is keeping things simple. Simple writing is persuasive. A good argument in five sentences will sway more people than a brilliant argument in a hundred sentences. Don’t fight it.

Simple means getting rid of extra words. Don’t write, “He was very happy” when you can write “He was happy.” You think the word “very” adds something. It doesn’t. Prune your sentences.
and…

Write short sentences. Avoid putting multiple thoughts in one sentence. Readers aren’t as smart as you’d think.

Interpersonal Intelligence - Dan Sitter gives folks a great strategy when they find themselves lost at a networking event. Dan advises people to play host ...

Whether or not you are the official host is not important. Take it upon yourself to help make others feel comfortable, helping them to maximize their experience. You will not only make many new friends, you will successfully network with countless others who will genuinely think the world of you and be most interested in what you do. The key is sincerity.

Musical Intelligence Terry Starbucker reflects, "One thing that stuck with me was the uptick in positive energy that always occurred when someone broke into an "up" song," as he participated in musical dramas.

Terry began to wonder, "Why not use this technique in a leadership position?" And, here's what happened when he tried it...

At the end of one of our weekly management group conference calls, where I usually have the floor for a few minutes to summarize our key goals for the week, I mentioned that I was really grateful to the team for meeting a key goal of ours at the end of June, and then suddenly queued up Barry Manilow's "Looks Like We Made It" and sang the first verse and chorus (with some of the words appropriately changed to fit the occasion).

I don't think too many of these folks expected me to thank them in quite this way. I got the energy jolt from the teammates in the room with me, and a lot of smiles too. Did it work on the other end of the phone line? I got a few messages afterwards that it did, from people who expressed an appreciation that we could actually work hard and have fun too.

Bodily-kinesthetic Intelligence - Ever played Disc Golf? This game seems perfect for folks who love to get outside, but want something a little more simple than regular golf. Techgirl describes this new sport...

Disc golf is a lot like traditional golf except players use
specially made plastic discs instead of balls and
clubs. The discs are thrown for “par” at an above-ground
target instead of a teeny weeny little hole in the ground.
Much less frustration…

The discs used in disc golf look much like a Frisbee, but
they’re not. They are actually much smaller and come in
three different types: driver, midrange, and putter.

Visit The Optimized Life to catch a video for an overview. Do you see Disk Golf as a way to relax over your lunch hour or after work?

Spatial Intelligence Ready for a laugh? Purple Wren shares comedian Don McMillan's video of What not to do with PowerPoint. Don't miss this one!

Do you see new ways to express ideas here? Not only might you try new strategies as you blog, but on the job, too! Ideas?

Highlighting Bloggers' Eight Intelligences

Bloggers use their gifts uniquely. It's really fun to catch other bloggers doing what they do well. Here's a few bloggers who display the eight ways of knowing and expressing ideas...

Musical - Mark at Unconventional Blog, uses the Beatles' song Hey Jude, to stir our thinking. Mark senses that the best business people evoke mystery rather than those who leave nothing to the imagination. Hey Jude, according to Mark, "makes you want to hear it again and again and as soon as you get close to figuring it out, you realize it slips away. Because the Beatles figured you out. They want you guessing. They want you in the dark. They want you to wander in the luxury of mystery."

Do you stir your customers' imaginations?

Interpersonal - Cord Silverstein at Marketing Hipster asks a great question about MyBlogLog...Do Contacts Matter? Many wonder why the choices -- Contacts or Community? Cord says, "My priority is growing my community for this blog and joining other blog communities that interest me. So if I had to prioritize between having 300 contacts and 50 members in my community or the other way around, I would choose the more community members in a New York minute. Am I right here or is my thinking off?" I like the idea of community...Let Cord know your thoughts!

Intrapersonal and Logical-Mathematical Rachy Briggs at The Challenge of Life shows what the world would look like if it shrunk to a village of just 100 people. See how this village looks --it's amazing and will stir your thinking and actions, too.

Verbal-Linguistic Roberta Rosenberg at The Copywriting Maven asks a brilliant question about the way we share ideas in blogs, "Does Mini-Bite Information Delivery Cause Mini-Bite Thinking?" Roberta explains her concern, "I'm no Luddite, but I sometimes worry that a society that prefers to be spoon-fed its information in pre-digested little bites with pictures will lose the ability to wield a knife and fork when it's time to cut into the tougher, more complex issues. (And won't be able to appreciate my meaty metaphor because they'll stop at the smiley face picture :=)" She wrote a meaty post, chock full of excellent questions. What are your thoughts?

Naturalistic Are you inundated by snow, cold, less sunshine and cloudy days? Bob Galva at One Reader at a Time has a great suggestion. Bring a couple of flats of primroses to your workplace and see what happens. Flowers lift spirits, especially on a winter day. Thanks, Bob, for the suggestion, since it shows you tapping the wellspring of your naturalistic intelligence!

Bodily-Kinesthetic GL Hoffman at What Would Dad Say? urges us to "Make Our Employer Earn Our Work." GL offers savvy suggestions for doing just that. Good intentions go nowhere, but it is in actively living the ideas and suggestions that take us to the heights. What do you think?

Spatial Paul at 8 Wishes uses videos to "give encouragement to children with dyslexia. Paul Orfalea is one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the country, and he achieved all of this despite (or because of) his dyslexia. His story has given me a lot of inspiration for my 8 Wishes, and it was amazing to meet someone who is so much like me. Knowing all this gives me hope." The more folks who view the video, the more money will be donated to help similar children. Paul inspires me by using his spatial intelligence to benefit others.

Thanks, folks for using your gifts and talents so well! You lift the bar for all of us.