Ed Mitchell: Platform neutral

A double thumbs-up to fellow Open Innovation-ers, Andy Parkhouse and Simon Berry for continuing to do good stuff for the employees and volunteers: Well done to Andy Parkhouse, boss at hyper creative local digital agency Team Rubber for starting a pledgebank pledge to create a new bank holiday: ‘Bristol day’. Double well done to him [...]

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Tomas’ excellent Skillswap job on Game design is now available on video thanks to Oliver and the Watershed servers. Skillswap on game design: video I recommend you watch it. It was fascinating, and his passing comment about participation metrics for youtube and flickr got me all over excited and have kicked off a new metrics [...]

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Thanks again to Ben and Andy from Delib for sharing their rapid prototyping thought and action (Bristol Skillswap in May). Video now online: For Real Player For others incl. Quicktime Good work all. Keep the spirit alive. Game design video incoming. Thanks due to Oliver for doing that video thing he does so well, and [...]

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I’ve been bashing out my virtual thoughts and emotions elsewhere because, usually, I end up in a state somewhere, late at night, with the world’s ‘experiences’ on my shoulders, and someone, somewhere takes offence at the thoughtlessness (read: unprofessionalism) of my words, and the permanence of their appearance on ‘t’internet’. Now this is interesting and [...]

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Having been shortlisted for interview at The Cabinet Office next week, Simon, David, Ben and others are preparing by holding an open meeting of all collaborators at Warwick Business School today. This is likely to be the first time many of those people have met, and I am sorry not to be able to make [...]

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Andy and Ben from Team Rubber did a grand job of breaking down some barriers in our heads at last week’s Skillswap; not only did they do a ‘from the floor’ live prototyping session with Plone (we co-designed a sheep farmers’ community, us west country lot, honestly), but we got to see videos too. Their [...]

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A very short while ago, David Wilcox and Simon Berry decided that the best thing to do would be to develop an “open source bid” to the UK Cabinet Office for a £1.2 million nonprofit innovation exchange. This was just too good an idea to resist and a bunch of exceptional people and organisations jumped [...]

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The latest in our Skillswap series comes from Andy and Ben from Team Rubber. They have been creating highly creative engagement tools via Delib for years, and are very familiar with understanding clients’ requirements and translating those into virtual reality. Rapid prototyping is something we are all going to be seeing a lot of in [...]

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Another fine turnout, excellent crowd and brilliant presentation. I love it when people get together and share what they know. From Dan’s description: Human experience is an emotional, experiential and multi-varied thing (Hence complex). Current Web Design (and by this I don’t mean the graphic design of the web) and that thing that gets called [...]

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