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Alec McPhedran Can we have a new 'Welcome' picture please?

I now have the masked figure firmly embedded in my mind as a scary first image of Who Needs the Sea. Can we have a new one now please? Continue

Added by Alec McPhedran on November 7, 2009 at 8:49pm — No Comments

Dave Moutrey Art of With 2

Following the success of The Art of With seminar in June this year we are presenting The Art of With 2 on 23rd November this year. The Art of With featured essays from Charles Leadbeater and T… Continue

Added by Dave Moutrey on October 22, 2009 at 12:48pm — No Comments

Alec McPhedran Creative Leadership

Stephen Covey's Seven Habits of Highly Effective People® As a leadership trainer, I do kind of bang on a bit about a whole range of management models and techniques that people who lead others should be thinking about to get the best out of their teams. One of the models I particularly like for the cre… Continue

Added by Alec McPhedran on October 19, 2009 at 8:42am — No Comments

Mars Elkins Hello Digital Fringe Events Want You!

Hello Digital is looking for digital-related events in Birmingham, particularly this October, and you can get up to £500 in support of your event to become part of Hello Digital Fringe. Hello Digital – the Midlands’ largest digital media festival combines an annual industry conference with a showcase that encourages and enables the widest possible audience to engage with digital content and technologies. You can download the form by goin… Continue

Added by Mars Elkins on September 24, 2009 at 12:17pm — No Comments

Marilyn Willis Dissertation Viva Guidance and Get Free Dissertation Viva Guide!!!

- Do you know that at viva you will be expected to defend your work? - Will you be able to state the main achievements of your dissertation writing task? - Do you feel confident enough to discuss shortcomings and respond to the detailed questioning from the examiners? The Dissertation viva is a necessary part of the assessment for all UK Dissertation modules. The viva is part of the assessment for the module, and the final mark for the module is a r… Continue

Added by Marilyn Willis on September 4, 2009 at 10:37am — No Comments

Cassidy David Get 3 FREE Dissertation Topics Without Spending a Single PENNY!

3 Free Dissertation Topics??? Really??? Well… You must be reading this post just to confirm if the statement is true OR “Free Dissertation Topics” under discussion are those that must have been overly-used? Well… the good news is a “Dissertation Writing Service” is offering “Free Dissertation Topics” according to the request of students just because they wan… Continue

Added by Cassidy David on August 20, 2009 at 4:08pm — No Comments

Dave Moutrey The Art of With Seminar Report

The report from the Art of With Seminar is available to download at http://www.cornerhouse.org/art/ongoingproject.aspx?ID=9&page=0 Continue

Added by Dave Moutrey on August 13, 2009 at 9:52am — No Comments

Greg Povey Branding Talent: win £1,000 and potential commercial commission

Enter your seed idea, win £1,000 idea development money, and a potential commercial commission with Shop Direct! Just-b. Productions have teamed up with Aegis, NESTA and Shop Direct for Branding Talent #2 Shop Direct is a massive (and massively successful) home shopping organisation that has moved online in a big way over the last few years. They are currently in the process of preparing to launch a new fashion cloth… Continue

Added by Greg Povey on August 10, 2009 at 1:02pm — No Comments

Greg Povey Creative code graduates: pitch your idea for TV Platforms to win an industry placement

Pitch your idea for TV Platforms to win an industry placement and attendance to a BBC workshop The BBC’s aim is to make available its TV and radio programming to everyone in the UK We are looking to find talented individuals who combine great software skills with creative flair and who want to work with world-class content enhanced by the latest technological developments The “creative code-swingers” will have skills in the latest web-programming code, including Flash, Java, XML and mo… Continue

Added by Greg Povey on July 31, 2009 at 5:00pm — 1 Comment

Alec McPhedran Refresher on Apostrophes?

The Great Apostrophes Debate – A Bit of Clarification Perhaps… The rules concerning the use of Apostrophes in written English are very simple: 1. They are used to denote a missing letter or letters, for example: - I can't instead of I cannot - I don't instead of I do n… Continue

Added by Alec McPhedran on June 19, 2009 at 9:30am — No Comments

Alec McPhedran A Bit of a Refresher - Right Proper Brainstroming

I've delivered a number of creative thinking workshops recently and when we look at brainstorming ideas, most people quite happily claim to be fully familiar with the process and frown at my dumb question of checking if they are aware of the actual process of brainstorming. It'… Continue

Added by Alec McPhedran on May 14, 2009 at 5:19pm — No Comments

Simon Broadley WANTED: DIGITAL MEDIA PROJECT MANAGER

Hotbed Media Ltd are delighted to be one of the first companies to receive funding from C4's prestigious 4iP Fund in conjunction with Screen West Midlands. We are now seeking a DIGITAL MEDIA PROJECT MANAGER to work on this project, for approx 30 days over an 8-10-week period during the development phase to deliver the following: (1) A business and feasibility plan featuring a viable and clear Project plan and financial structure (including how usage/uptake will be driven and moderation will be… Continue

Added by Simon Broadley on May 7, 2009 at 3:47pm — No Comments

Dave Moutrey The Art of With, a new essay by Charles Leadbeater

How should a contemporary arts organisation work with audiences, artists and curators in this early part of the 21st Century at a time when; • the boundaries between consumer and producer are becoming increasingly blurred, in a world of infinite communication possibilities, • where people are increasingly collaborating to create and innovate, • where many artists are working with the grain of these changes, • where new business models are developing with these approaches and embedded within them… Continue

Added by Dave Moutrey on April 29, 2009 at 4:05pm — No Comments

Alec McPhedran Creative Commons - Share, Remix and Reuse Material Legally

Share, Remix, Reuse — Legally Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use Creative Commons to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Res… Continue

Added by Alec McPhedran on April 17, 2009 at 10:00am — No Comments

claire hancock iPhone 3.0 Fund

Check out Dan Heaf's latest entry on the 4iP blog to find out more about our call for iPhone 3.0 apps http://www.4ip.org.uk/blog/iphone_30_fund/ Deadline 16th April folks! Continue

Added by claire hancock on March 25, 2009 at 1:51pm — No Comments

claire hancock What do you want from Who Needs the Sea?

I'm very concious of the fact that each of the different areas in which 4iP has a commissioner presence has different needs. 38Minutes has achieved wonderous things in bringing together the digital media communities in Northern Ireland and Scotland and has been a real winner at encouraging conversation between people who perhaps would not have connected without the site. However, here in the West Midlands there is a well developed blogging scene and a multitude of conversations taking place all… Continue

Added by claire hancock on March 13, 2009 at 12:32pm — 2 Comments

Alec McPhedran Intellectual Property - The Mystery of IP Explained

Intellectual Property (IP) is created when an idea takes some tangible form. IP can mean a brand, invention, design or other kind of creation and it can be legally owned. But how can that help you? Cut and paste the following link to look at this really useful website on IP. http://www.ipo.gov.uk/ http://www.ipo.gov.uk/ Alec McPhedran Skills Channel TV Continue

Added by Alec McPhedran on February 21, 2009 at 11:00am — No Comments

Paul Some evaluation of the 4iP project

Members of this community may find an evaluation of 4iP so far, posted on 'Interactive Cultures' to be of interest and worth commenting on here. Continue

Added by Paul on February 18, 2009 at 4:42pm — No Comments

Simon Broadley Conundrum...

I can't decide whether to Re-Think Public Service Media or have a dairy doughnut from Greggs... Continue

Added by Simon Broadley on February 5, 2009 at 12:33pm — 2 Comments

Alec McPhedran Ten Pitching Tips from Skills Channel TV.

1 Be passionate about your idea. If you are not, don't bother. 2 Research on who you are pitching to. What are their pressures, successes, values and beliefs. Is it convergent? Can it be commercially exploited? Can you make them look good? 3 Share ideas. It's amazing what comes back. 4 'No' is important. It's the only true, factual response you can sometimes get. Find out the reason behind the 'no' as it will be based on fact or reason. You can then work on that. 5… Continue

Added by Alec McPhedran on February 4, 2009 at 12:00pm — No Comments

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