--- title: 61 Online and Social Media Resources for Motivating People to Create description: the Adobe “State of Create Study” issued recently. The study polled 5,000 people across the US, UK, Germany, France, and Japan regarding their perspectives --- [Blog | Brainzooming ](https://www.brainzooming.com/blog) # [61 Online and Social Media Resources for Motivating People to Create](https://www.brainzooming.com/blog/61-online-and-social-media-resources-for-motivating-people-to-create) Written by [Mike Brown](https://www.brainzooming.com/blog/author/mike-brown) | May 22, 2012 9:50:30 AM Long plane flights are my most-prized creative times. With the opportunity to be free from the many distractions that drain creative energy, long plane flights always lead to many new ideas. Last Saturday’s flight back from New Jersey and [#BigIdeas12](https://www.brainzooming.com/making-big-ideas-happen-strategic-connections-at-bigideas12/12149/) was no exception. I finally had the chance to look at the [Adobe “State of Create Study”](http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/201204/042312AdobeGlobalCreativityStudy.html) issued recently. The study polled 5,000 people across the US, UK, Germany, France, and Japan regarding their perspectives on creativity across multiple dimensions of society. There are enough intriguing insights on creativity in the Adobe “State of Create Study” for multiple Brainzooming blog posts, but the last slide really struck me. The headline read, “Social media plays a minor role, if any, in motivating people to create.” Across the global study, only 11% of respondents said social media plays a “great deal” of a role in their creative motivation. Huh? If that’s the case, people around the globe are really missing out on the incredible new opportunities for creative motivation presented by online and social media resources. This disconnect was fodder for generating a list of sixty-one ways you can use online and social media sources for creative motivation. I KNOW there are more than sixty-one ways, but I decided to constrain myself to only ideas jotted down on the plane. If you can read through this list and NOT think there are a great many online and social media resources for motivating people to create, let me know. We’ll expand the list beyond these first sixty-one ideas! 1. Find people who trigger creative ideas for you 2. Find [people who support and cheer your efforts](http://twitter.com/ealvarezgibson) 3. Find people who you disagree with and want to sway to your point of view 4. Find people who disagree with you and cause you to explore new topics 5. Allow yourself to be pointed to creative places online based on others' social media links 6. Use an [online exchange with someone as creative inspiration](https://www.brainzooming.com/how-to-be-more-creative-facebook-creative-instigation/9327/) 7. Identify new creative experiences to try 8. [Connect with people you meet at conferences more frequently](http://www.twitter.com/jimjosephEXP) than you would if not for social media channels 9. See what other people are saying about creative topics of interest to you 10. Request creative input from someone half a world away 11. [Virtually visit creative places](http://www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/sistina_vr/index.html) 12. Go to [museums you might not be able to visit in person](http://www.louvre.fr/en/homepage) 13. Ask an online friend who has visited a creative place to share the experience 14. Track content coming out of creativity-oriented conferences and events 15. [Share a creative experience you’ve had](https://www.brainzooming.com/worlds-largest-air-guitar-flash-mob-in-kansas-city/7480/) with people around the world 16. Try to [talk to a famously creative person you’d never expect to meet](https://twitter.com/#!/RogervonOech) in person 17. Share your works of creativity online 18. Use online images, video, and conversations as creative fodder for your work 19. [Hang out with creative people online](http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/) 20. Closely [follow what other creative people are interested in](https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23creativity) 21. Closely follow what other creative people are talking about 22. Build an outpost for creativity where others can congregate online 23. Give away your creativity for others to build upon with their ideas 24. Sell your creative output 25. Showcase the [creative output of IRL](http://instagr.am/p/K2x-xoBEOd/) and online friends 26. Learn new tools to express creativity 27. Find a new job or project that allows you more time for creativity 28. [Sponsor a place for ideas to solve world problems](http://futurewewant.org/share/) 29. Issue a [creativity manifesto](https://www.brainzooming.com/a-brainzooming-creativity-manifesto/1092/) 30. Help online friends become more creative 31. Create original social media content (instead of simply lurking) 32. Share your creative stories 33. [Download the Adobe “State of Create” study](http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pdfs/Adobe_State_of_Create_Global_Benchmark_Study.pdf) 34. Learn productivity or time-saving techniques to free up your time for creativity 35. Learn artistic skills 36. [Change the educational system](http://www.uncollege.org/) 37. Become a risk mitigation expert (to address people who see risk in creativity) 38. Encourage others to live up to their potential for creativity 39. Increase the diversity of your creative interests as you get older 40. Find people online in Japan and help them understand creativity isn’t just for the arts community (78% of respondents in Japan think this) 41. Collect the facts to build a case for more creativity at work 42. Learn more about creativity in Tokyo, [New York](http://www.creativeweek.com/), Paris, [London](http://www.creativityandwellbeing.org.uk/), and Berlin (They were rated as the top five creative cities in the “State of Create Study”) 43. Explore creative environments and adapt your environment to better foster creativity 44. Source new creative tools 45. Find a [creativity-oriented music list](http://8tracks.com/netburner412/big-ideas) to listen to (This one is courtesy of #BigIdeas12 attendee Matt James @TheMJames) 46. Share examples of overlooked creativity in your world 47. [Download Taking the NO Out of InNOvation eBook for free](https://www.brainzooming.com/resources/ebooks/) 48. Express your ideas - express a lot of ideas - for the world to see 49. Read / skim [creativity-oriented blogs](http://www.diigo.com/list/juicedon/creativity-_-blogs-and-reads) 50. Read / skim [design-oriented blogs](http://www.design-blogs.co.uk/) 51. Point out why [things people think are boundaries to creativity really aren’t](https://www.brainzooming.com/how-to-be-creative-while-following-rules/10300/) 52. [Become more childlike and open to wonder](https://www.brainzooming.com/10-more-ways-to-be-creative-like-a-kid/7558/) 53. Take a [virtual museum tour](http://www.mfa.org/explore/interactive-tours) 54. Curate your own museum of the greatest works of creativity in the world 55. Perform a [crit](http://www.twistedtextiles.com/2007/03/15/how-to-critique-artwork-like-a-pro/) and share it online 56. Connect with a local artist in your community 57. Write about what you’re going to do in place of the time you spend complaining about not having time to be creative 58. Learn ways to vary someone else’s creativity 59. Start planning now for next year’s [World Creativity and Innovation Week](http://worldcreativity.wordpress.com/) 60. Find [free creativity tools](http://www.mindtools.com/pages/main/newMN_CT.htm) 61. Find even [more creativity tools](https://www.brainzooming.com/how-to-be-creative-and-overcome-a-creative-block-26-idea/3924/) That’s my long plane flight list of online and social media resources for motivating people to create. What links or ideas do you want to add to the list? - *[Mike Brown](https://www.brainzooming.com/about-brainzooming/mike-brown/)* #### [Subscribe for Free to the Brainzooming blog updates.](https://info.brainzooming.com/email)   [View full post](https://www.brainzooming.com/blog/61-online-and-social-media-resources-for-motivating-people-to-create) ```json { "@context" : "http://schema.org", "@type" : "BlogPosting", "author" : { "@type" : "Person", "name" : "Mike Brown" }, "dateModified" : "2023-08-29T02:57:18.679Z", "datePublished" : "2012-05-22T09:50:30Z", "headline" : "61 Online and Social Media Resources for Motivating People to Create", "image" : { "@type" : "ImageObject", "height" : 208, "url" : "https://462042.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/462042/Imported_Blog_Media/Create-At-All-Times1-300x208-3.jpg", "width" : 300 }, "mainEntityOfPage" : "https://www.brainzooming.com/blog/61-online-and-social-media-resources-for-motivating-people-to-create", "publisher" : { "@type" : "Organization", "logo" : { "@type" : "ImageObject", "height" : 60, "url" : "/hs/hsstatic/content_shared_assets/static-1.4092/img/default-amp-logo.png", "width" : 60 }, "name" : "Blog" } } ```