Brief reflection about social brainstorming

Through the lecture I gradually realize the importance of people's interaction. For example, besides listening to lecturer only, we still need discussions and group projects in almost every course. Why? In my opinion, these activities make a difference by the way of enhancing the learning progress. It is of the same importance as independent study.

This is the reason why I want to talk about social brainstorming. Brainstorming, according to its name, is a storming process inside the brain in order to come up with new ideas. Also, it is the source of innovation. However, to achieve successful brainstorming, one can not just keep thinking all day long, just like writer also need outdoor activities to obtain new ideas. To solve the problem, interaction among people does work.

When our group started the project, I suggested to perform brainstorming and picked up the best one in the end. Unfortunately, none of our ideas seemed to be an innovative one, which delay the project's process. Then I realized only brainstorming among our team members is too limited. Suddenly the concept of social brainstorming came into my mind, after which I post an vote on social network platform and asked what my friends wanted to do most during holidays. Later the result came out and a majority of participators chose to travel. Why not build a professional social platform for traveler? Then the project about building a social platform about travel was launched.

On the platform users can share their experience and feeling about travel, just like I am sharing the experience about studying this course on Blogger.com now. Thanks to these platforms, users' role is turned from content browser only to both browser and creator, which accelerate the progress of Web2.0.

We use social brainstorming to create the platform, and the platform contributes to those who share similar interest and enables their social brainstorming. Hmm, an interesting try.