Open Brainstorms
How can we improve this online brainstorming service?
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Brainstorm Info
| Creator: | anonymous |
|---|---|
| Created: | about 1 year ago |
| Activity: | about 1 month ago |
| Users: | 7 |
| Ideas: | 148 |
Top Brainstormers
| Username | Ideas |
|---|---|
| UKJohn | 43 |
| chenry | 3 |
| Creator | 2 |
| prasad | 2 |
| aaabbbccc | 1 |
| Mycoearthdome | 1 |
| ThinkCubologist | 1 |
148.
I'd like to be able to look at my "recent public ideas" list on my profile and see how many votes each has received
146.
Have Brainstorming Competetions: A selected amount of people will compete in a competetion. People will compete with one another. The person that gains the most votes wins in the end. BrainReactions.net will provide the brainstorm questions to work with. This idea would make coming up with ideas as a game to compete with other people.
145.
Have a "WIDGET" people can download, which people can put on their desktop and use to brainstorm ideas from their desktop. This would be a nice feature for lazy folks that don't like to brainstorm through a browser on the internet.
144.
Have a "prompter" button: when you click the button you are asked questions such as "How could you reword the problem?" and "What does the random word (x) suggest?"
143.
Its the problem of the site creator . just dont pleade for ideas come up with one yourself and then let others judge that.
142.
For idea 141: The visual brainstorm representation could have a keyword which are connected. Details can be added to each keyword, which can be seen on hovering on the keyword.
140.
Arrange a live brainstorm that starts from nothing: with no (initial) direction we can use our creativity to find a worthy challenge
139.
For idea 138: have a feature showing who else is online, so that you can discuss the brainstorm and ideas
138.
Have a live, anonymous "chat room" on each brainstorm to encourage thought experiments and "wacky" ideas
137.
It's possible to add YouTube videos to blogs. It would be great if we could also post BrainReactions brainstorms to our blogs. Any updates on our blogs would also occur on the main brainstorm.
136.
Create a logo for the brainstorming tool that we can add as a link to our blogs and websites.
135.
There are many ideas sites on the internet such as Global Ideas Bank or Idea-a-day. It would be useful if there were a site that listed ALL the ideas from those sites and more. Maybe BrainReactions could start this service?
134.
Create an area for users to post good ideas they've seen -- a "here's a great idea I saw today" area.
133.
Have an option to subscribe to your favourite brainstorms, so that when you look at your account page you see a list of your favourites.
132.
Why not have some interviews with creativity experts and creative people? An interview date could be set and before then we could, in a challenge, prepare some questions we'd like to ask.
131.
Does the presence of a voting system inhibit the adding of outlandish thought experiments and "wacky" ideas? Maybe when we add ideas we could be given the option to have the idea displayed without a voting box? Or votes could be given for "zanyness" of thought experiments?
130.
BrainReactions logo at top left of each page could link to either BrainReaction's homepage or the homepage of the Brainstorming Tool.
129.
It would be nice to be able to search on the homepage and also create new brainstorms on the homepage.
128.
On the homepage have a "Who's online now?" box with a "chat room" so that we can do live brainstorms (or have discussions) at any time.
125.
A week and a month after a live brainstorm, email all participants with an update featuring all ideas to date, to see if any new ideas have occured to participants since the original brainstorm.
124.
Organise another live brainstorm, but this time choose a "sleeper" challenge from this site -- one that has received few answers and hasn't been active for a while. It could add to the challenge if the question were one that wouldn't be recognised as a "traditional" brainstorming challenge (just to test our creativity!)
123.
Categorize brainstorms i.e. new ideas for companies, business problems, new inventions, solving world problems, technology brainstorms etc.
121.
Have a yearly "super project": this project would start out from the blank-page stage and set out to create a new product/service and then go on to actualise the idea. Different brainstorms could be created during the idea's "journey".
120.
In addition to sorting by "Most Recent", "Most Ideas" and "Recent Activity", sort by "Most Recently Rated" to pinpoint new ratings.
119.
"Borrow" questions from Yahoo! Answers if the brainstorming tool is having a quiet spell.
118.
Have an area for general discussions where contributors can post good links, favourite books about creativity and favourite idea generation techniques.
116.
To get more votes: ask people to vote for an idea when they add a new idea. The idea could be chosen at random.
114.
I've noticed that some brainstorm originators haven't been active for a while. A month after someone has set a challenge they could be sent an update email that includes all the suggestions about their challenge to date.
113.
Two different votes could be shown: votes by the brainstorm originator and votes by everyone else. (Perhaps the brainstorm originator could have an option to give marks out of ten.)
112.
A larger "new idea" box. I keep posting ideas then spotting an error that isn't as easy to spot in a smaller box.
110.
Have a "success stories" area where people can report on positive outcomes resulting from Brainstorming suggestions and ideas.
109.
Sometimes a brainstorming challenge is posted and I would like to ask the challenge-setter more questions about their problem. It would be useful to have this facility. The answers could be posted in a different colour from the normal suggestions.
108.
Brainstorm for ideas about specific websites and forward these ideas to the sites. Eg: "How could we improve the IMDB? (Internet Movie Database)" etc.
107.
Every month, approach a guest to provide a brainstorm topic. These guests could be writers, bloggers, consultants or someone in the public eye.
106.
Have an "options box" on each brainstorm which aims to attract different kinds of suggestions and ideas. The possibilities include: most outrageous suggestions. Ideas/possibilities if money were no object. Ideas/possibilities that would cost very little. Also there could be an option to reword the original topic or suggest different tangents. For example: "How could we regularly attract new people to the brainstorming tool?" etc. There could also be anonymous comments.
105.
Option to receive an email when a new idea is added to a brainstorm you started. Option to receive an email when one of your suggestions is rated.
104.
Arrange a weekly time when - perhaps for an hour - contributors could meet up in a chat room for a live brainstorm and discussion.
103.
Give the brainstorm originator the opportunity to comment on ideas or add new thoughts. These comments could be marked in a different colour from the suggestions.
101.
Occasionally bring random brainstorms to "the top" so that they're on the home page and thus don't "die".
100.
Put this challenge "How can we improve this online brainstorming service?" permanently on the front page so that it's the first brainstorm that visitors see.
98.
by creating a new question allow users which want to share the answers, that additional answers can make without login (may be shown after a check-looking by the creator)
96.
Missing the search function, which I have used to scan for older questions in my language to supplement new ideas of answers
84.
it shows a wrong serial number when adding new ideas..only after clicking 'show all pages', the added idea get its correct serial number...plz fix it...
80.
declare the time & topic in advance so that people can join the brainstorming session just like chat room. this will creat new ideas faster will also avoide repeatability of ideas.
73.
add the ability to add an idea which by itself is another brainstorming topic.... (a hyperlink maybe).. will help to link many related brainstorms
70.
$$$$$$ i have a great idea $$$$$$ it would benefit the poser a lot $$$$$$ i would like to be identified for my idea by an ID $$$$$ i can still remain anonymous$$$$$ why exploit IDEA GENERATORS?what do they get in return?why do u expect only the posers get benefited?$$$$$ did i not understand something?$$$$$
66.
add a membership functionality where possing questions is anonomus and anwsering them is attached to your user name
63.
It's very important to NOT delete foolish answers - that a very important part of brainstorming. One guy says something stupid -> I get an idea from that...
58.
Look at worth1000 website, it has a good voting system as well as member stats and profiles.
57.
how about a way to get pple to moderate (or 'chair') their proposed topics? im not sure how this wld work, yet...
54.
Have someone like myself set up an account for this site on sites like myspace and facebook, and maintain it for each college....This way you can get more feedback from college students!
53.
This is good because it forces you to be anonymous... ignore those asking for IDs or names.
51.
Some kind of way to get your name on the question (owner) og name on pin (contributor) This will make it possible for the owner to ask for more info from the contributors.
49.
Some kind of help for people to create the perfekt brainstorm - there is more to a brainstorm than the question. You sometimes need to set the scene to get the right contributions.
47.
allow to be rated by humour, usefulness, and popularity. allow for bookmarking. keep it anonymous, and keep it simple
46.
Allow visitors to rank each suggestion instantly by a 1 to 10 rating system next to each suggestion. Visitors could click on the number to rate the suggestion. An 11th box would show the overall rating.
40.
Add carma to each brainstorm user. Ideas of users with big amount of high-ranked ideas must be more visible than other's ideas...
39.
Brainstorms must be cataloqued by subject. Each subject bust be moderated like in wikipedia. And also text of brainstorm and text of each idea must be editable like in wikipedia.
38.
Rank ideas tool must be accessible while reading ideas, without need of navigating to separate page.
32.
make a searchable, sortable list. make the idea rankings option always on so you don't have to switch back and forth. And allow for follow up ideas submitted by the same person.
