Creative products produced for clients such as the BBC


Below is a list of sites explaining the creative products created to solve social issues using new media.

 

Products in Development or Broadcast


http://www.Playgroundgames.org We are finding other people who are interested in producing a philanthropic activity that is based around play and benefits everyone. Are you a, creative, linguist, programmer, producer, broadcaster, entrepneur wanting to take part in an exciting project that does 'good' by entertaining and educating using the power of the web?

http://www.MUSTart.org Creating space to make and display art while benefiting the community. Let us improve your space by installing art. We also put on interactive events that include everyone. Why not come to the next event or make your own.

http://www.UGCvision.org User Generated Content Contest similar to the UKVision song contest that won the BBC Wide Pitching Competition after successfully pitching to senior executives and commissioners such as Peter Fincham and Peter Salmon.

http://www.FREEtraid.org Donate to charity and receive more than you gave in free gifts as a reward. Everyone gains.

http://www.http://www.Traidmark.org Traidmark represents a new business structure that was created as a way for profits to be used to fund innovation and progress for the benefit of humanity. This is done by donating Net profit to innovative charitable/research organisations and stating the percentage donated clearly for consumer clarity.

http://www.BARcampBAR.org Creative enhancement to the BarCamp format where meetings generate sustainable income to fund public service outcomes. We are finding locations in which to set up social enterprise to facilitate this. Would you like to get involved?

 http://www.gilbertwhyman.com Website and online identity produced to enhance the reputation and sales of a sculptor that works in the medium of rust.

http://www.Progreso.org.uk Created enhanced business capabilities while developing the media strategy and creating new products the boost sales and raise profitability.

http://www.UGCuniversity.org Created to enable anyone to swap knowledge and learn from the University of Life.

 

Investigations into new media possibilities

http://www.FREEhug.org Community site concept created using the Drupal Open Source content management system.

http://www.UGCunion.org Experimentation with social media and collaborative support systems that inspire innovation and creativity.

http://www.whymandesign.co.uk/testube.html Official WhymanDesign Experimentation Sandbox with multiple investigations into the effects of new media technology and techniques.

http://www.ourlympics.org Looking at the way the public can interact with goodwill at events to make them even better.

http://whymandesign.vox.com Experimenting with blog formats and their use for multiple posts

 

Production and Consultation

http://news.bbc.co.uk Produced News content for the web and live television and radio broadcasts while consulting on News technology innovation at BeeB Camp

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies Created innovative games that entertain and educate young people and tested these with young people to record user feedback while maintaining and updating the website with new program features.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning Consulted on technology innovation while running the customer feedback process and facilitating structural change/redeployment.

http://www.fabrica.it Consultation and production of social web report with proposal for collaboration platform.

http://www.vitalregeneration.org/freqout Consultation and production of new media development report that contributed to the 3 year development plan.


We also successfully pitched the UKVIsion Contest to Peter Fincham and Peter Salmon.

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No No No Yes. Saying Yes / No Happiness and 8 hours!
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No No No Yes. Saying Yes / No Happiness and 8 hours!
1.
What is the unmeasurable negative effect of people saying no or being negative on you me and society? Is it worse to ignore someone than say no to them? Probably...

Here is a list of obvious ways to handle any situation from bad to good...

BAD - Insult, Ignore, Say No, Suggest something, Encourage, Congratulate, Say Yes, Recommend - GOOD

So it takes less effort to say to someone that they are doing well and makes you feel good too.
It appears to be all linked to the EGO that makes some people confused and think that they are better than others so don't want to care or help them which leads to the BAD reactions to any/every enquiry. As these people are negative to other people they get negative responses too leading to a cycle of negativity which makes the egotistical person feel worse and worse. The person who has control of their EGO and acts selflessly helping others gets rewarded many times over as others are nice back to them creating a cycle of GOOD where everyone wins. Often stress creates the negative cycle but this can be combated by looking at others who have 'less' making you feel humble and by laughing at ourselves as in the grand scheme of things nothing we do (nor our lives) appear to matter.

2.
This leads on to how you live your life. To enjoy it or to reach some goal that your parents/society has imposed on you? The TED talk below makes me step back and think about what is important and how money and status are worth less than self belief and pride...
Do not look for happiness but create it with what you have got.


http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_we_happy.html

When people have no choice they change their preferences to make them more happy about what they have. When they have choice they are always comparing what they have to others so are less happy as they compare with the average.

On average nothing is average!

3.
Which leads to what you do with 8 hours of your life! well 3 sets of 8 hours.


8 hours working...

If one person can do a job better than someone else should they take ove the job?

How does that apply to what you do? Would you step aside if someone could do your job better than you?

If you step aside then you would be able to do a different job that you are even better at.

So everyone should keep looking out for someone who could do their job better than them. When they find that person they should give them their job so that they can go on to work in areas that they excel in.


8 hour sleeping...

Is there a way to do good while you sleep? Create a website that offers advice/ helps others that will be online while you sleep.


8 hours relaxing...

Is there a way to do good while you relax? Finding your passion in life and using that to build something that can be used to help others in your local/global community be it art/writing/acting/dancing/singing/playing...

4.
FREEtraid.com aims to help anyone maximise the positive effect of using any time in their day by sharing free advice on using any skill to give away free products/services in exchange for donations so that you can then fund even more great work. Its a gift economy that funds innovative work.

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Programmer needed
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Python, Ruby and Android programmers required to create public service websites run in a not for profit manner where surplus funds are then used to create new public service products. Please contact us directly with samples of previous work or message @whymandesign.
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FREE LOVE GIVEAWAY (and happiness too just help others and give your love away:)
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Make yourself happy and content by giving. Please share your experience of making yourself happy by giving (takes 5 mins and will help someone else)...

 Is pain and suffering almost always caused by selfish minds? It appears so.
That appears to be one main cause of suffering as many people think they are going without so take from others.Take a look at any selfish or 'evil'/'bad' person. They are always selfish and dont realise that they could give others happiness if they took time to step back and look at their life. Instead they think there is no time to look at their life (takes 5 minutes) so miss the chance to make their life happy and content.

I keep forgetting to appreciate what i have and keep getting wound up by life's little problems based around things like my Career.
All of these anxieties come from comparing myself to others so it is inevitable that i am unhappy at least 50% of the time as i (and everyone else) expects to be getting at least above average out of life if not to at least 90%! (meaning i am unhappy 90% of the time!!!).

Several different people suggested going for a walk whenever I feel bad (which works amazingly) and also to look on life not as a task but as a 'once in a lifetime' opportunity to see how many other people we can help and make happy. After all if you make someone else happy it makes you feel good so that can only be good. One other way is to look back at the simple things in life that I HAVE rather than look forward at the things i think i want. When i forget to appreciate these things i look up a video of someone who does not have one of these or try to find someone in the street who is missing one of these and try to help them a little. Below is a list of these things (if you cant do one move on to the next please)...

I can Breathe (breath in and out 10 times slowly concentrating on the air flowing into and out of your lounges) [hold your breath for a bit]
I can Touch (move one part of your body very slowly and concentrate on the sense) [sit still then move a tiny part of your body]
I can See (look at one small object or your hand and enjoy being able to see this) [close then open your eyes]
I can Hear (close your eyes and listen to the quietest sounds and enjoy them) [put your fingers in your ears;p]
I can Smell (breath in slowly through your nose and see what you can smell) [breath in through your mouth then nose]
I can Taste (What does your mouth taste like, the air or your skin?) [Eat something tasty]
I can Give (find someone who needs something and give it to them...Hug, Kiss...) [Dont forget to give yourself something too by hugging others]

 Do you know any other ways to remind yourself to control your EGO so you stop thinking about yourself and concentrate on helping others who are  less (and more) fortunate than you are? Please share this information and any other ways to enjoy life (no matter how obvious) to http://www.FREEHUG.org

We are also looking for people to collaborate on this project. Are you interested?

 

Books that give lots of great advice on this are listed below as are lots of GREAT TED talks which explain about the benefits of selflessness (it makes YOU happy:) plus lots of free books can be downloaded from Project Gutenberg htt://www.gutenberg.org/
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Big Long tail of innovation
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How can we modify structures to maximise the long tail of innovation. How could it best be facilitated so everyone can contribute without comments being lots in the depths of the web? It seams that there is SO much potential for government and the public to achieve using new media. The key appears to be how to communicate this potential and empower everyone to take that step down the rabbit hole of independent innovation and collaboration at everyones own grass roots (though this has been done outside of new tech since just after the beginning of time:).

Is there a way to reward individuals to take risks by trying new things and fail/succeed? The dot com approach of rewarding successful innovation by buying it out appears to work for successful innovation. How best to reward innovators that try things that fail is unclear. It may be best to enable lots of innovators to innovate without rewarding success so that peer review enables success to be rewarded socially while larger volumes or innovation can be facilitated by funding lots of people with smaller amounts. The http://www.Traidmark.org business structure aims to illustrate how this can be done by funding innovators to create products within a not for profit that then invests any surplus funds in other innovators who are working on different products/services. This enables commerce and government to interact with the public while safely funding innovation that fails and succeeds with interesting outcomes that exceed expectations. More details are on the http://www.whymandesign.com Innovation research blog.
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Gearing up to the Cultural Games...
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Gearing up to the Cultural Games...

Who can I talk to in the BBC about making the cultural Olympiad accessible to all? The BBC and games would have to reach out and talk to the public in a way never done before if this was to be achieved any way near successfully. In the past people have tried and failed as they appear to have been to scared to let the public speak freely but now the internet is hear it is time for the games / BBC to help the public show what they have to give (and have been giving) to the world (charity/coop...for starters).


And as the host country it is surely courtesy to let the visitors win. Otherwise that would be bad manners old boy (then we could use the funds to help stop people dying from hunger, water contamination or other diseases:).

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/rogermosey/2009/07/what_should_feature_in_the_cul.html
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Public Service Innovation
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How could it best be facilitated so everyone can contribute without comments being lots in the depths of the web? It seams that there is SO much potential for government and the public to achieve using new media. The key appears to be how to communicate this potential and empower everyone to take that step down the rabbit hole of independent innovation and collaboration at everyones own grass roots (though this has been done outside of new tech since just after the beginning of time:). Is there a way to reward individuals to take risks by trying new things and fail/succeed?

 

The dot com approach of rewarding successful innovation by buying it out appears to work for successful innovation. How best to reward innovators that try things that fail is unclear. It may be best to enable lots of innovators to innovate without rewarding success so that peer review enables success to be rewarded socially while larger volumes or innovation can be facilitated by funding lots of people with smaller amounts.

The http://www.Traidmark.org business structure aims to illustrate how this can be done by funding innovators to create products within a not for profit that then invests any surplus funds in other innovators who are working on different products/services. This enables commerce and government to interact with the public while safely funding innovation that fails and succeeds with interesting outcomes that exceed expectations.

More discussion at http://www.4ip.org.uk/blog/post/improved_chances_of_funding_in_the_next_tranche/
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Introduction to the web... as simple as 1 2 Infinity
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Consumer habits continue to change with web usage creating new opportunities for even better customer service and ethical trading. One key problem is how web usability is still not accessible for novices and often is infuriatingly restrictive for all users due to a lack of careful usability design. If only those websites were aware of the loss of trade caused by this lack of usability they would instantly improve their service. Over time this will happen and we are interested in assisting and measuring how this process of change occurs.

This nice games is one example of how things many people take for granted need to be taught in a clear educational manner to certain types of learners.

http://www.getonlineday.com/challengegame/index.html

Which leads on to the government service called http://www.myguide.gov.uk which illustrates many more.

 

 

Once on the web the first big choice users face is, 'Which service do I use' when there are so many similar offers?

Most users learn from their peers choosing the fastest services that are easiest to use. Then they choose to use ethical products/services provided by Not For Profit and Social Enterprise organisations which are nicely listed on websites such as http://www.idealist.org and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-profit_organization.

 
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Looking to work with others on a Not For Profit Social Enterprise. Are you interested?
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Would you like to create a social enterprise startup? Or do you know of someone working on one already? If so send me their details so we can collaborate to improve society using creative thinking.

Examples range from...
http://www.MUSTart.org to http://www.FREEtraid.org and http://www.Progreso.org.uk

It would also be very interesting to add value to any existing social enterprise or not for profit by creatively enhancing them in ways such as this...

Traidmark.org = Not For Profit + Social Enterprise Innovation germinater
Traidmark.org enables you to gain from hard work while funding innovation from within a Not For Profit organisation.
(The NFP invests Net profit in NEW Innovative NFP Startups so is forced to continually evolve because of this structure which creating even better serves). This adds significant customer loyalty and enables hard work to be rewarded through pay while investing in innovative solutions to social problems. We want to work with others on innovation that solves social problems within this business model.
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Is anything free? Surely everything costs the creator something.
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How is it best to give creators rewards to make more work?
There is so much potential with new media but the one key problem holding the long tail of innovation back appears to be how innovators earn a living and how they get social feedback on their work without it being copied.
And rewarding people in a way that encourages them to collaborate and share is key as that creates so much more public and private value if done in the right way.

Financial and social rewards appear to be the two key areas.
These need to be measured in short and long term rewards relating to short and long term gains/progress.

Which reward processes work for different people in different places along the production process from researcher to inventor to producer, retailer and manager?



Is anything free? Surely everything costs the creator something. How is it best to give creators rewards to make more work?

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Sandpit Experimental work located http://www.whymandesign.co.uk/testube.html
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Find lots of experimental work in progress here http://www.whymandesign.co.uk/testube.html
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Moving with technology as it evolves is pivotal to success.
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Everyone has to keep moving to embrace new technological developments which is a form of technological inflation. We work with others to jump ahead using the latest technology in new ways to provide new services. For example we are using Webjam to draw User Generated Content from the web and our archives to mix with curated work while linking to research reports and experimental work at http://www.whymandesign.co.uk

 

To find more details of our previous and current projects please vitis http://www.whymandesign.co.uk