Brainstormer - A Web Based Creativity Tool

A number of years ago it occurred to me that it would be really cool to create a web-based creativity tool which facilitated the activity of brainstorming. Recently, having been out of the computer programming biz for roughly a year, I was looking for something to work on to develop my technical skills, and the brainstorming concept came to the forefront of my mind.

Not only will developing the brainstorming application increase my skills, I also plan on making it my submission to an organization called Momentum (http://momentum-mi.com/) which as they state "is a new kind of venture firm, a collective of designers, dreamers and doers."

My selection of technology is simple. Microsoft and possibly Adobe. I will be using Visual Studio 2008 - and possibly transitioning to Visual Studio 2010 after the VS '10 release. I'll be using SQL Server 2000 for my database as that is database my hosting service uses.

I want to write software which tracks closely to the most effective practices in the business of brainstorming, so I contacted James Manktelow of Mind Tools (http://mindtools.com/) a Brit who maintains a collection of information for improving the human side of business practices. He has a number of articles on his site about brainstorming and a variety of variations on brainstorming. He also has agreed to review the results of my development efforts.

On the technical management side of the project, I've developed a process flow and a new user screen - which I've already decided to rework in an effort to use the .Net 3.5 framework to the greatest extent possible.

That is it for today, check on this blog weekly for progress. Until next time!

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