http://www.MUSTart.org are teaming up with a National Development organisation to create Trust Libraries across the UK. We are now looking to partner with other great organisations so we can enhance their great work too.

1. Would you like a FREE Trust library installed in your community? We are looking for new locations to install FREE Trust Libraries so contact us on here by commenting below if you are interested or tweeting @whymandesig. These can range from a bookshelf full of popular fiction books to a fully interactive space with facilitators that engage and empower passers by to take free books, draw on them and then give them away.

2. Do you know of an unused/empty space in a public building or office foyet that we could install the trust library in? The space can range from an empty shop to a car park bay or a table in a Library Foyet. If so plot the location on the map and message us directly.

3. Do you have unused materials such as books/pens/paper... that we could use to create community art work that improves communities while increasing community cohesion?

http://www.communityrepaint.org.uk/Need_Paint.php
www.furniture.scheme.ukgateway.net
http://www.richmond.gov.uk/furniture_scheme

4. Do you know of an industrial producer that has broken or unwanted products that would be recycled or binned that we could use?

5. We have had a few requests to put on this activity and customized versions at private events and festivals. If this is of interest contact us directly on twitter @whymandesign.

MUSTart.org Making space to make and display art by creating community art galleries and trust libraries.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghSLmDpaVUA&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj9af93eNVs&feature=player_embedded

 

Mustart.org came about after talking about how anyone and everyone can solve any / every problem by going about solving it in the right way.

One great way to solve problems is to ask the person asking the question
(problem finder) if they know of the answer or if they can look into
solving it so they become the problem solver too:)

e.g.
1.
How can enterprise and innovation be improved and created
institutionally? http://www.Traidmark.org is one way to create
institutional innovation.

2.
How can anyone set up their own self sustaining innovation space?
http://www.BARcampBAR.org and http://www.FREEtraid.org both have
examples of how this can be done.

How else can everyone be A. Empowered to create innovative solutions so
social problems and B. Self sustain themselves by earning enough to live
and learn?

http://www.Whymandesign.com

Collaborate to help others any time all year long? Can We help you? @tuttle @4ip @artbizness @banksy

There are FREE LOCATION and COFFEE and ELECTRICITY to collaborate:). Well the coffee and electricity is at the gallery space below. Anyone want to do something interesting.

These locations can be used

1. http://www.spacestationfestival.co.uk
2. http://www.marketestateproject.com/
3. http://www.coexistuk.org 

We also have access to a 50ft boat and are looking for people to collaborate on making it into something outstanding from a houseboat to a living sculpture...http://bit.ly/50PHr6

If so list your name/twitter in the comments below and contact @whymandesign

Hi

FREEtraid economy and giving ideas to gov...

1.
I love the innovate websites that govenment have created asking for the publics ideas and would love to help make them even better. Well done everyone who made it happen. Can you list all the people who made it happen and who they are so we can send them compliments and free gifts to encourage them to do more (also list what they would like to do next so the community can try to help them to do this!

2.
Also can I pitch a way to reward ALL idea submitters regardless of
their ideas (I know how you can do this for free and benefit and will do
this for you)


For example...

3.
We are creating a self sustaining organisation that will provide a
location for young people to access the internet and collaborate
together all over the world in hard to reach areas and are looking to
produce this with an existing organisation that will benefit too. Could
we run this self sustaining project as part of your organisation as it
would be an extra service that increases peoples awareness of your great
work while facilitating collaboration on projects. Development website
at http://openspacecafe.ning.com/. Who should I talk to about creating
Open Space Cafe's with your organisation?

4.
Could @Directgov_i @4ip @nesta all work together to enhance your great work?

5.
Can you please make an online question and answer diagnosis tool for EVERY common medical problem just like the Swine Flu Q&A online tool. @whymandesign would like to help make this happen for you.

6.
Can http://www.oneworldhealth.org and eldy and akvo and Bewelcome.org help creatively enhance your great work? http://www.whymandesign.com would like to help make this happen for you.

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. Post replies at http://www.UGCunion.org


More details here http://www.UGCunion.org/

--

Regards

Ed Whyman
@whymandesign

http://www.whymandesign.com

http://www.mustart.org

FREE ART GIVEAWAY Improve yours and others lives by drawing or writing a message in unwanted books and giving them away. If you receive a book and like it please donate so that we can pay to send even more free art to other deserving people. As we all know the more you give the more you get...

Once you have drawn on your book please take a photo/video and link to it from http://www.mustart.ning.com to share your free art with others.

This is the first product created by MUSTart.org and started with live events at a wide variety of places form...The British Library to Brockwell Lido. We are always looking to work with others and for even more locations and events to build trust libraries in and give free art away.

 

We are also looking for new supplies to use such at...

 

http://www.communityrepaint.org.uk/Need_Paint.php

www.furniture.scheme.ukgateway.net

http://www.richmond.gov.uk/furniture_scheme

 

Please tell us about other projects that improve communities using art and sources of recycled material.

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.

@whymandesign

Anyone can create their own colloaboration cafe that raises funds to invest in philanthropic innovation. Sign up to their new site and make your own.

We are now looking for a space to host social enterprise minded innovators in London. Do you have empty space we can use (carpark/shed/office/shop)?

Landlord: You get to fill your space and help 'do gooders' solve human problems.

Tennants: You get to save rent costs and use your rent to fund 'do good' projects that we create.

Come down to the Next Tuttle Club at the ICA any Friday and look out for metions on #tuttle and #barcampbar

 

 

Only 7 places left for the Innovation House Party...

sign up here http://www.pledgebank.com/crowdhouse

http://www.barcampbar.org

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.

MUSTart.org is looking into ways to help artists display work.

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

Everything can be used to do good, bad and lots more good if used by the right people in the right way (so the tool maximises its potential).

Here are some points on making sure that creative ideas/products are use to do the most good and to help protect them from being stolen to be used for selfish or negative reasons (almost always unknowingly by the person who is stealing the idea and/or using it in a negative way)

(this may sound obvious but it is so important I wanted to remind myself so maybe you want to do so too)

If you read this content join http://www.UGCunion.org and suggest ways you want to work on collaborative ideas/projects that do good.

1.
Once an idea/product is created check that you cant think of any negative ways to use that idea or ways that others could use it to fulfil selfish motives at the expense of others.

2.
Be careful who you tell about your ideas/product. It is best to let those doing positive selfless work gain access to good ideas/products before those doing selfish work. This will enable a double positive effect to take place as you help them gain an additional advantage which boosts their work.

3.
Make sure the idea/product does good even if it is stolen so that the person who steals it will be unintentionally using it for good.

4.
Always remain open to others helping to enhance your product/idea and give positive feedback to others work too.

5.
Make sure your product/idea does not use others goodwill. Using volunteers is one good example of this. Volunteers should always get at least one positive thing out of their experience as well as the positive feeling of giving something back. This is imperative so that those volunteers are rewarded and gain something extra so that they can do an even greater job next time.

6.
Reward others good work in any way you can from positive feedback to giving them things that you don't need.


Please add things I have missed below...

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? 

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.

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

We are inspired by all the other cool stuff that is happening in the world right now and are experimenting with people like you in order to find the best way to do this using our diverse skills.

Take part here...

UGCunion.uservoice.com
and
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7940249916
and
http://uk.youtube.com/ugcunion