How to get the most out of life!

Using People Power to improve the world and save everyone money.
Add your location, community/group and skill then find others in your area to work with on community projects.

1. Create or find collaborations or an Idea/problem
2. List it on the site and guesstimate its value (financial and socially beneficial...)
3. Register the location that will benefit and what you want/need to do (list what items/skills are needed)
4. Go round your neighborhood posting notes through doors about your project (ask for help and collaboration).
5. Raise funds by collecting donations
6. Set up a community cafe to raise funds by giving away free drinks in exchange for donations for the project (http://www.BARcampBAR.org)
7. Create a collaboration hub (http://www.FREEtraid.org have more details)

Example of one project is below (another is attached)......................

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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.

Problems to Progress

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0 Comments - Add comment Written on 21-Jun-2009 by WhymanDesign

Here are a few problems that will need to be solved to help progress.

1.
Duplication and confusion slow down learning/development/innovation/progress and can make progress reverse as individuals go off in the 'wrong' direction. For example if there are two sites doing the same thing then that splits the user/customer/supplier communities into two making the collaboration and partnership potential halved while enabling people to duplicate the same work.

How can this be solved?...

One way is to concentrate or rank organisations that are doing the 'most' good above others. So not for profit organisations that are efficient should be ranked higher than commercial organisations. So a not for profit search engine is a good start. https://www.anoox.com is one example.

2.
And finding content that you can reuse and remix is equally important. http://search.creativecommons.org and http://www.jamendo.com are two examples.

If you know of a better way to solve this please add it to http://www.UGCunion.org

3.
The same goes for any form of assessment from exams to job applications.
Assessment is also a key area that needs to be looked at. How can assessment and feedback be collected in a scientific manner that does not neglect the unknown and unquantifiable?

4.
Centralised networks and organisations will fall down if the central core is disrupted. It is therefore imperative that networks and organisations are restructures to be decentralise and community based so that they can not entirely collapse. This also fosters collaboration and evolution which dramatically enhance innovation and progress for the benefit of everyone. http://yacy.net/ is one example of decentralised web search.

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Is anything free? Surely everything costs the creator something. How to fund more?

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0 Comments - Add comment Written on 21-Mar-2009 by WhymanDesign

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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Introduction to the web... as simple as 1 2 Infinity

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0 Comments - Add comment Written on 27-Feb-2009 by WhymanDesign

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.

Where will the usability developments go with the new platform of the mobile web?

Traidmark.org

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Problems to Progress

Is anything free? Surely everything costs the creator something. How to fund more?

Introduction to the web... as simple as 1 2 Infinity

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