Your Ideas Matter Campaign
#YourIdeasMatter
Creativity is a term commonly associated with the arts; but we often overlook arguably the most valuable form of creativity: creative problem solving.
In January 2015, Creative Oklahoma launched a grassroots social media campaign called “Your Ideas Matter” to motivate individuals to tap into their innate creative problem-solving abilities and share their innovative solutions for societal issues facing us all. The campaign focused on seven topics: education, energy, water, mental health, hunger, violence and livable communities.
Ideas were submitted by leaving a comment or replying to the posts tagged #YourIdeasMatter on the Creative Oklahoma Facebook and Twitter pages. Each topic went on to host its own face-to-face “Meet-Up” as a pre-forum activity the day before the 2015 Creativity World Forum where Creative Oklahoma’s cSchool faculty facilitated a creative problem-solving process utilizing the ideas submitted online.
Let’s Keep It Going!
In April 2015, Creative Oklahoma decided to continue the online dialogue and move the Your Ideas Matter campaign forward.