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

 

Products in Development or Broadcast

We won the BBC Wide Pitching Competition after successfully pitching to senior executives and commissioners such as Peter Fincham and Peter Salmon.

Created and Successfully pitched the http://www.Playgroundgames.org multiplatform format before completing the full proposal which is now in development. We are currently sourcing partner organisations that want to co-produce this with an international broadcaster.

 

Production and Consultation

http://www.Raceonline2012.org Consulted and Produced Social Media while creating partnerships.

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.

 

Website & Creative Development

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.WEBiversity.org Created to enable anyone to swap knowledge and learn from the University of Life.

http://www.TRUSTlibrary.org Creating spaces to build Trust Libraries.

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.

 

 

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Collaborate to help others any time all year long? Can We help you? 

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

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

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.

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)...

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.

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

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/

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.

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?

Find lots of experimental work in progress here http://www.whymandesign.co.uk/testube.html

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