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...
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.
Is pain and suffering almost always caused by selfish minds? It appears so.
That appears to be one main cause of suffering as many people think they are going without so take from others.Take a look at any selfish or 'evil'/'bad' person. They are always selfish and dont realise that they could give others happiness if they took time to step back and look at their life. Instead they think there is no time to look at their life (takes 5 minutes) so miss the chance to make their life happy and content.I keep forgetting to appreciate what i have and keep getting wound up by life's little problems based around things like my Career.
All of these anxieties come from comparing myself to others so it is inevitable that i am unhappy at least 50% of the time as i (and everyone else) expects to be getting at least above average out of life if not to at least 90%! (meaning i am unhappy 90% of the time!!!).
Several different people suggested going for a walk whenever I feel bad (which works amazingly) and also to look on life not as a task but as a 'once in a lifetime' opportunity to see how many other people we can help and make happy. After all if you make someone else happy it makes you feel good so that can only be good. One other way is to look back at the simple things in life that I HAVE rather than look forward at the things i think i want. When i forget to appreciate these things i look up a video of someone who does not have one of these or try to find someone in the street who is missing one of these and try to help them a little. Below is a list of these things (if you cant do one move on to the next please)...
I can Breathe (breath in and out 10 times slowly concentrating on the air flowing into and out of your lounges) [hold your breath for a bit]
I can Touch (move one part of your body very slowly and concentrate on the sense) [sit still then move a tiny part of your body]
I can See (look at one small object or your hand and enjoy being able to see this) [close then open your eyes]
I can Hear (close your eyes and listen to the quietest sounds and enjoy them) [put your fingers in your ears;p]
I can Smell (breath in slowly through your nose and see what you can smell) [breath in through your mouth then nose]
I can Taste (What does your mouth taste like, the air or your skin?) [Eat something tasty]
I can Give (find someone who needs something and give it to them...Hug, Kiss...) [Dont forget to give yourself something too by hugging others]
Do you know any other ways to remind yourself to control your EGO so you stop thinking about yourself and concentrate on helping others who are less (and more) fortunate than you are? Please share this information and any other ways to enjoy life (no matter how obvious) to http://www.FREEHUG.org
We are also looking for people to collaborate on this project. Are you interested?Books that give lots of great advice on this are listed below as are lots of GREAT TED talks which explain about the benefits of selflessness (it makes YOU happy:) plus lots of free books can be downloaded from Project Gutenberg htt://www.gutenberg.org/
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.
How to get the most out of life!
Using People Power to improve the world and save everyone money.
Add your location, community/group and skill then find others in your area to work with on community projects.
1. Create or find collaborations or an Idea/problem2. List it on the site and guesstimate its value (financial and socially beneficial...)
3. Register the location that will benefit and what you want/need to do (list what items/skills are needed)
4. Go round your neighborhood posting notes through doors about your project (ask for help and collaboration).
5. Raise funds by collecting donations
6. Set up a community cafe to raise funds by giving away free drinks in exchange for donations for the project (http://www.BARcampBAR.org)
7. Create a collaboration hub (http://www.FREEtraid.org have more details)
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.
Problems to Progress
Here are a few problems that will need to be solved to help progress.
1.
Duplication and confusion slow down learning/development/innovation/progress and can make progress reverse as individuals go off in the 'wrong' direction. For example if there are two sites doing the same thing then that splits the user/customer/supplier communities into two making the collaboration and partnership potential halved while enabling people to duplicate the same work.
How can this be solved?...
One way is to concentrate or rank organisations that are doing the 'most' good above others. So not for profit organisations that are efficient should be ranked higher than commercial organisations. So a not for profit search engine is a good start. https://www.anoox.com is one example.
2.
And finding content that you can reuse and remix is equally important. http://search.creativecommons.org and http://www.jamendo.com are two examples.
If you know of a better way to solve this please add it to http://www.UGCunion.org
3.
The same goes for any form of assessment from exams to job applications.
Assessment is also a key area that needs to be looked at. How can assessment and feedback be collected in a scientific manner that does not neglect the unknown and unquantifiable?
4.
Centralised networks and organisations will fall down if the central core is disrupted. It is therefore imperative that networks and organisations are restructures to be decentralise and community based so that they can not entirely collapse. This also fosters collaboration and evolution which dramatically enhance innovation and progress for the benefit of everyone. http://yacy.net/ is one example of decentralised web search.
Is anything free? Surely everything costs the creator something. How to fund more?
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?
Introduction to the web... as simple as 1 2 Infinity
This nice games is one example of how things many people take for granted need to be taught in a clear educational manner to certain types of learners.
http://www.getonlineday.com/challengegame/index.html
Which leads on to the government service called http://www.myguide.gov.uk which illustrates many more.
Once on the web the first big choice users face is, 'Which service do I use' when there are so many similar offers?
Most users learn from their peers choosing the fastest services that are easiest to use. Then they choose to use ethical products/services provided by Not For Profit and Social Enterprise organisations which are nicely listed on websites such as http://www.idealist.org and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-profit_organization.
Where will the usability developments go with the new platform of the mobile web?
FREE LOVE GIVEAWAY (and happiness too just help others and give your love away:)
Is pain and suffering almost always caused by selfish minds? It appears so.
That appears to be one main cause of suffering as many people think they are going without so take from others.Take a look at any selfish or 'evil'/'bad' person. They are always selfish and dont realise that they could give others happiness if they took time to step back and look at their life. Instead they think there is no time to look at their life (takes 5 minutes) so miss the chance to make their life happy and content.I keep forgetting to appreciate what i have and keep getting wound up by life's little problems based around things like my Career.
All of these anxieties come from comparing myself to others so it is inevitable that i am unhappy at least 50% of the time as i (and everyone else) expects to be getting at least above average out of life if not to at least 90%! (meaning i am unhappy 90% of the time!!!).
Several different people suggested going for a walk whenever I feel bad (which works amazingly) and also to look on life not as a task but as a 'once in a lifetime' opportunity to see how many other people we can help and make happy. After all if you make someone else happy it makes you feel good so that can only be good. One other way is to look back at the simple things in life that I HAVE rather than look forward at the things i think i want. When i forget to appreciate these things i look up a video of someone who does not have one of these or try to find someone in the street who is missing one of these and try to help them a little. Below is a list of these things (if you cant do one move on to the next please)...
I can Breathe (breath in and out 10 times slowly concentrating on the air flowing into and out of your lounges) [hold your breath for a bit]
I can Touch (move one part of your body very slowly and concentrate on the sense) [sit still then move a tiny part of your body]
I can See (look at one small object or your hand and enjoy being able to see this) [close then open your eyes]
I can Hear (close your eyes and listen to the quietest sounds and enjoy them) [put your fingers in your ears;p]
I can Smell (breath in slowly through your nose and see what you can smell) [breath in through your mouth then nose]
I can Taste (What does your mouth taste like, the air or your skin?) [Eat something tasty]
I can Give (find someone who needs something and give it to them...Hug, Kiss...) [Dont forget to give yourself something too by hugging others]
Do you know any other ways to remind yourself to control your EGO so you stop thinking about yourself and concentrate on helping others who are less (and more) fortunate than you are? Please share this information and any other ways to enjoy life (no matter how obvious) to http://www.FREEHUG.org
We are also looking for people to collaborate on this project. Are you interested?Books that give lots of great advice on this are listed below as are lots of GREAT TED talks which explain about the benefits of selflessness (it makes YOU happy:) plus lots of free books can be downloaded from Project Gutenberg htt://www.gutenberg.org/
Big Long Tail of Innovation and how Traidmark funds creative experiments
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.
MUSTart.org FREE ART & TrustLibrary.org FREE BOOKS
The Gift Ecomony has arrived. Donate to these innovative good causes and get given FREE things!
FREE Art from MUSTart.org (Was £99 now Free)
FREE Books at TrustLibrary.org (Was £9 now Free)
FREE Gifts & Lucky Dip at FREEtraid.org
FREE Tea & Coffee at BARcamp.org
Donate to fund more free products and we will give you (or someone you choose) a FREE GIFT that you can choose (an individual piece of Art or a book) every month with MUSTart.org! It was £9.99 BUT is now FREE as we want to give you free art/books! 1.Choose the person (that you want to get the free Art or book 2. Donate at least £2 (which covers the postage and packaging costs) every month 3.Suggest ideas (if you want) 4.Receive a the FREE piece of Art or Book every month. It is that easy plus If you are not happy with your piece of Art or Book, upload a picture of yourself giving it away to a stranger at MUSTart.org with contact details and we will send you AND the stranger Twice as much free Art or Books! We are a Volunteer organisation created by WhymanDesign.com and are looking to collaborate with Charities to make more Art and Libraries. We are looking for more locations to work with FREEcyclepoint.org and BARcampBAR.org and FREEtraid.org so do get in touch @whymandesign. Regards Edward Whyman http://www.WhymanDesign.com Skype - Whymandesign Twitter - @whymandesign This message and any attachments are confidential and for the sole recipient only. You may not use any information contained in this message or attachments without permission.
GET FREE BOOKS & Art if you Donate to TRUSTlibrary.org & create your own job by work in 5+ charitable startups
We are looking to work with individuals, companies and charities to help enhance their work AND work on these charitable activities? Do tell us how you can/not help and why @whymandesign http://wwww.WHYmandesign.com.
Here is a list of community projects we would like to work with you on. Choose one you can help with and get involved by joining the website and facebook group and commenting there. If you can not see a project you like propose a project to work on at http://wwww.UGCunion.org and on the facebook group http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7940249916 (of course we will give you free gifts when we meet you just because the more you give the more you get:)
A. Displaying art free in your space... http://www.MUSTart.org Facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=68523314201 Do you have am empty wall or space (entrance foyer...) that we can use to display art for free that will benefit the local community? If so contact @whymandesign.We have been hard at work with a national charity who have 50 empty uk shops we are using to create TRUSTlibrary.org in and putting free artworks in the windows with MUSTart.org. artwork examples are http://www.gilbertywhyman.com
B. Raising funds for charity in empty space... http://www.TRUSTlibrary.org Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=348867089849 Would it be possible to save you money while your property is empty by using it for charity activities (that save you having to pay rates on the empty building?). If you know someone who does tweet @whymandesign. Can we help you save money by creating a charity art gallery in your empty shops. You will save your self from having to pay 100% of the business rates by doing this and all we ask in return is for you to donate 50% or more of the savings to us so we can continue to recycle and give away unwanted books and make recycled art for the public. C. Collaborate on creating charity jobs... http://www.FREEtraid.org Facebook Group http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=45131776517&v=wall We are looking to work with other people who are interested in innovatively solving charitable problems in clever ways that also creates jobs for unemployed people in a self sustaining way. FREEtraid.org is one example. Contact @whymandesign if interested. D. Making education free for all... http://www.WEBiversity.org Facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=352077702670We are looking to work with programmers and hackers on making a free open source drupal education site. http://www.WEBiversity.org is the prototype. Contact @whymandesign if interested in working on this.
E. All of these charitable not for profit social enterprise or charities use the http://www.webjam.com/traidmark business model that creates institutional innovation and is FREE for anyone & everyone to use as it benefits any enterprise/charity/gov. Traidmark Facebook group http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=19887357352
If you are not happy with any ART or books in any way (please take pictures/videos of yourself giving them away and share on TRUSTlibrary.org and collect contact details for the people you gave them to) then we will be able to give you a replacement batch totally free. The books we supply are popular fact and fiction but we do also have a supply of childrens and youth books that we can supply to Schools/Hospitals. We also install artworks in public locations too. Contact us for details @TRUSTlibrary. Why not get a Trust Library installed in/outside your office, school, home, hospital, station or in an entrance foyet so that everyone can improve their day with a free book they can read then give away.
TRUST Library has won an award from http://www.unltd.org.uk and are looking for other partners to collaborate with on helping others using recycled items. We have partnered with http://www.HealthyPlanet.org to raise awareness of Reusing, Reducing and Recycling resources.
Get and Give FREE BOOKS and Make Your Own Trust Library in Minutes plus share the locations of Trust Libraries on our map so anyone can find and use them.
1. Want a FREE book to read, review then give away? Donate to TRUSTlibrary.org (so we can recycle books from Charity Shops to give away for free to others) and we will give you free books. Join us in the Gift economy where everyone wins.
2. Have you ever seen a few books left for anyone to take in a bar or waiting room? Share the location on our map so that everyone can use that Trust Library. Search for your local Trust Library here and make your own.
3. Help hundreds of people in minutes by getting the DIY Trust Library pack and volunteering or building your own.
4. Enhance any building by requesting we install a FREE Trust Library. Every School, Hospital, Hall and Shop could have one. If you want a Trust Library in your community ask us to send your community leader free books by donating. Lets work together to create, record and share where to find free books so that anyone can FIND the Trust Libraries and then give and get FREE books.
Also review any books you find at Trust Libraries so others know which books to read/ignore. Ask us to set up a FREE Book sharing Trust Library or donate and get a book sent to a friend of your choice. Take, read then review your book at TRUSTlibrary.org and importantly give it away. (Do tell Us if you enjoyed the book & donate online:). It is also important to record where the Trust Libraries are so that it is harder of them to be unintentionally disposed of by unaware individuals so we have created signs to label them.
The Gift Ecomony has arrived. Here are other ways to donate to innovative charitable causes and get given FREE things!
FREE Books at TrustLibrary.org (Was £9 now Free)
FREE Art from MUSTart.org (Was £99 now Free)
FREE Gifts & Lucky Dip at FREEtraid.org
FREE Tea & Coffee at BARcampBAR.org
Donate to fund more free products and we will give you (or someone you choose) a FREE GIFT that you can choose (an individual piece of Art or a book) every month with MUSTart.org! It was £9.99 BUT is now FREE as we want to give you free art/books! 1.Choose the person (that you want to get the free Art or book 2. Donate at least £2 (which covers the postage and packaging costs) every month 3.Suggest ideas (if you want) 4.Receive a the FREE piece of Art or Book every month. It is that easy plus If you are not happy with your piece of Art or Book, upload a picture of yourself giving it away to a stranger at MUSTart.org with contact details and we will send you AND the stranger Twice as much free Art or Books! We are a Volunteer organisation created by WhymanDesign.com and are looking to collaborate with Charities to make more Art and Libraries. We are looking for more locations to work with FREEcyclepoint.org and BARcampBAR.org and FREEtraid.org so do get in touch @whymandesign.
How to set up or evolve any organisation into a charity run social enterprise EG Progreso set up by Oxfam
We can help you do this for any startup, company or organisation but here are some points... Overview of setting up the Progreso social enterprise with the charity Oxfam
Progreso.org.uk was set up by http://www.Oxfam.org with an interest free loan by http://www.MatthewAlgie.com and donations by celebrities such as the actor "Mr Darcey" and "The King" (the kinds speech:) Colin Firth. http://www.colinfirth24-7.com/social%20business/progreso.html I contacted Oxfam and then Progreso when I was researching and setting up a charity run Fairtrade coffee chain and was hoping it would be possible to help them enhance their exciting charity run startup. I spoke to a number of people at Oxfam about the charity coffee shop that I was setting up before hearing about Progreso. I then managed to speak to the MD of Progresso called Wyndham James. He told me about the exciting work opening new charity shops in different cultures. After finding that Oxfam were doing this great work I decided to change from being a Social Entrepreneur to become a Social Intrepreneur by working with Lewin as the Head Barister and Team Leader. Lewin has gone on to set up the exciting http://www.lookmumnohands.com/ cycling cafe. The coffee chain gained massive goodwill as all profits were going to good causes and the staff and suppliers were motivated to collaborate and give as much extra as they could out of their own pocket. This coupled with the public's ferocious appetite to support such a good cause (just like charity shops gain) enabled us to have fast growth from startup to established business over the first few years of social business. Social Innovation in startups
Here are a couple of the ways I created social innovation in the Progreso startup that maybe of interest. There are many more that I can help you with if interested EG... 1. Introducing recycling on all Metal and plastic waste so the public could learn about and enjoy recycling.
2. Creating ext
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