An article in the Savannah Morning News last week notes that Jepson Center provides an alternative to weekend cartoons for kids and their parents.

Your kids can expand their minds as they play in the ArtZeum, which is full of interactive stations that are child-friendly, designed so children can engage themselves without a lot of parental assistance. It’s a great opportunity for parents to play with their children or just enjoy watching your children play with the other kids in the interactive children’s museum.

Show your children the gallery, check out the studio workshops and even watch a movie about a giant robot all for the price of the adult tickets in the group. What a great way to foster creativity with your child and inspire yourself as well. Remember how easy it was to be creative as a child?

Everyone loves a map mashup!

Zillow is an ‘online real estate service dedicated to helping you get an edge in real estate by providing you with valuable tools and information’. They have recently launched their ‘Neighborhoods’ feature, which serves as an online community for local residents looking to buy and sell their homes. Savannah’s Neighborhood has 210 Neighbors discussing topics ranging from tax questions to schools to whether or not you should own your own pool.

Zillow also offers a heat maps feature – which displays neighborhoods by hot and cold values. Although there is no data available for Savannah in this map type, you can check out Charleston, Jacksonville and other major city’s ‘hotness’. I have emailed Drew from Zillow about the possibility of gathering this data for the Creative Coast; it’d be a great way to see which neighborhoods are flourishing. Not to mention a great way to judge how smokin’ hot of a coastal community we are!

Anyone that has watched the TV show The Office can understand how awkward forced office humor can be, but there has been research done showing laughter in the office is a surefire way to keep employees on track. An article on Fast Company’s website states:

Sterile all-work-and-no-play corporate environments simply drive people to other diversions — be it daydreaming, surfing the Web, or playing Solitaire — to help pass the time. By bringing laughter into the office, a business owner can at least have some control over when and how the entertainment happens. “People are going to seek out ways to make their workday seem shorter anyway,” says Heffron, who also starred in the VH1 sitcom “Smash.” “You might as well keep it in house.

A quote that I find to be very true was said by Ron Culberson, an author and speaker who promotes organizational humor in health care industries through his company FUNsulting, etc. “Not only can humor reduce stress and help produce happier, healthier employees, but it can also enhance people’s ability to retain and recall information and connect and cooperate with one another.”