It's like an outline, but with bubbles CNET Networks Josh covered the cool workgroup suite 8apps this morning. My favorite feature in it is the free-form brainstorming tool, Blueprint.

Instead, try divergent brainstorming, where the goal is to come up with as many different ideas as possible, straying from what seem like good ideas to explore the distant margins of what might work.

Great innovators have long known that the secret to unlocking a better answer is to ask a better question. Applying that insight to brainstorming exercises can vastly improve the search for new ...