Most organizations brainstorm, and the savvy ones do so in ways that promote associative thinking and discourage challenges. There’s time for critique later – brainstorming is where you want to get every idea out, whether it’s viable or not.

There are plenty of rules and recommendations and guides and strategies for making brainstorming work, but I’m not sure I’ve ever seen so much of it all collected in one place: courtesy of the Forensic Scientist Blog, here are 100 Online Brainstorming Tools to Help You Think Outside the Box.

Never mind that they use the term “think outside the box” – this is a must-bookmark resource.