Are you looking to build on and enhance existing open source software to create a collaboration platform with brand new features?

Do you want to build links with an international broadcaster so that you can use their network to distribute content AND collect research date for the first time ever?

Do you want to raise awareness of your organisation in an efficient way using this broadcast network?

Do you want to draw communities together through the medium of play/games so that we can help to reduce future conflicts by increasing global community cohesion?

We are specifically looking for academic partners who can use the data that we collect about play and games in an educational research capacity that can be used to improve learning techniques.

Contact http://twitter.com/whymandesign http://www.whymandesign.com

Below is the Playground Games production that It would be great to work with your team so we can help reduce conflicts through the medium of play while developing some exciting open source public service software that can benefit the global community.

We are looking for partners to work with an international broadcaster on the Playground Games web production. Do you know
any organisations that might be interested in co-producing a production that creates web content and collects date on the different games young people play using this as a way to draw communities together? We are looking to work with existing networks of talented people in order to help the audience share their knowledge about play while drawing communities together (which aims to prevent future social problems/conflicts).

Can you see a way for this to mutually benefit your organisation?

The BBC have produced a number of very exciting productions that show the potential of collaborating with audiences and prove that there is a large demand to collaborate to collect information/data/audio about different communities around the world. Building on their success we look forward to using the latest technology to take this type of production to the next level.

Save Our Sounds is a great example proving the potential and can be seen here...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specialreports/saveoursounds/index.shtml

and one way to visualise sounds here...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specialreports/saveoursounds/soundexplorer/

and twitter here http://twitter.com/bbc_SOS

Contact us via http://www.playgroundgames.org/  or @whymandesign http://twitter.com/whymandesign

The potential to collate useful information from around the world before it is lost for ever has been strengthened by movements to collaborate...

http://soundresources.ning.com/profiles/blogs/bbc-and-british-library-join

http://www.playgroundgames.org/

If you think this production is of interest or benefit to your organisation please contact us so we can collaborate and mutually benefit. We are drawing communities together and increasing community cohesion by enabling young people to share and learn about different games in different countries/cultures while creating the first comprehensive archive of playground games.

If you think this production is of interest or benefit to you please contact us so we can collaborate and mutually benefit.

 Is pain and suffering almost always caused by selfish minds? It appears so.

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/