On Monday 15/12 we had the ideas lab launch event for Media Sandbox 2009. I designed and facilitated the event partnered with Victoria Tillotson of iShed overseen by Clare Reddington of iShed.
It was fun. We worked hard and focused and produced some interesting stuff. David Wilcox did some fantastic social reporting, the attendees captured their [...]
Entries Tagged as 'mediasandbox'
The Five Golden Rules for multi-platform development
December 17th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Events, Facilitation
Tags:advice·community·conference·design·event·Facilitation·golden·media·mediasandbox·multi-platform·participationpatterns·patterns·rules·sandbox·story·storytelling·watershed·workshop
Wanted: real questions for digital communications innovation lab
November 28th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Events, Technology
Do you or your organization have a question about how to use digital communication technologies that you would like a room full of experts to workshop for free?
Are there people you feel you could engage with in new ways with these new technologies? A campaign you want to support? A service you wish to provide? [...]
Tags:bristol·event·Facilitation·launch·media·mediasandbox·sandbox·Strategy·work
Which Widget for What? Media Sandbox 2008 Report.
November 14th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Events, Facilitation, Strategy, Technology
Attached is the final report about the facilitation work done with iShed for the Media Sandbox 2008 development scheme.
It covers all of our strategic planning, the tools we used, activities we pursued (and chose not to pursue), the lessons we learnt and the metrics we measured by. And there are some handy diagrams.
Download the full [...]
Tags:blended·community·Facilitation·knowledge·lessonslearnt·media·mediasandbox·organisation·report·sandbox·Strategy·web2
Media Sandbox final event report
May 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Events, Facilitation
This is a brief event report from the Media Sandbox final event on Tuesday 6 May, in Watershed, Bristol.
While we were designing the launch event for the Media Sandbox project (November 2007) we had the end event in mind (seeing the project as a Community of Practice with a clear lifecycle), so there was a [...]
Tags:bristol·event·Facilitation·ished·mediasandbox·watershed
Pervasive Media Studio open on Fridays
April 25th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Good news; the iShed team are opening the Pervasive Media Studio up on Fridays to anyone who wants to come and work there. It’s a great place to work and there are lots of good people to boot.
I’ll be there. Here’s the blurb:
Open Studio Fridays
iShed have recently taken over the top floor of the Leadworks [...]
Media Sandbox final event
April 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Facilitation
We are planning for the final event to wrap up this year’s Media Sandbox commissions and give the community another boost with a physical gathering.
For background, you can read about the launch event, and the high level case study about the blended facilitation approach we took to the project as a whole.
Suffice to say, we [...]
Tags:community·design·event·Facilitation·media·mediasandbox·pervasive
Media Sandbox case study
March 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Facilitation, Strategy, Technology
(Most of the Media Sandbox projects)
Introduction
This is high level case study about the blended facilitation work ongoing with the Media Sandbox commissioning scheme managed by iShed. Here is the descriptive blurb:
Bringing together leading technology, artistic and media talent, Media Sandbox is a new commissioning scheme to support South West companies/organisations to research emerging possibilities in [...]
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Media Sandbox case study at Social tools conference 2008
January 19th, 2008 · No Comments · Facilitation, Strategy, Technology
The latest in Unicom’s Social Tools conference series is on the 5th and 6th March in London. This one is called Web 2.0 and Beyond: Applying social and collaborative tools to business problems. As before, it will be chaired by David Gurteen, and there are some great speakers (including me, ahem).
This time [...]
Tags:community·conference·Facilitation·ished·mediasandbox·unicom
Media Sandbox event report
December 10th, 2007 · 5 Comments · Events, Facilitation
This is a brief write up of the Media Sandbox launch event on Thursday 29th November in Watershed, Bristol.The event was the beginning of newly formed iShed’s ‘Pervasive Media Sandbox’ commissioning scheme (which you can read more of on the Media Sandbox site).
I designed and facilitated it, working closely with Clare Reddington and Emma Scott [...]
Tags:bristol·event·Facilitation·ished·media·mediasandbox·sandbox·watershed·workshop

