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The Five Golden Rules for multi-platform development

December 17th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Events, Facilitation

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Happiness located in Bristol

February 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Facilitation

Bristol dawn, 10/02/06 I will soon be publishing a case study about my work with the ‘Media Sandbox‘; the new commissioning scheme run by iShed based on a communal open innovation model supported by (basically) free social software tools and structured using blended facilitation techniques. We ran the launch event in November 2007 and are [...]

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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 I am [...]

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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 [...]

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