funky free video animation of photos. Easy peasy.

fab youtube cometition for creativity and video! check it out.

Here's blurb's book ideas as "flip books" check it out and the other stuff on blurb.

Blurb makes it easy to publish your own books with their downloadable software. The site has tons of tips and video tutorial too. And if you want you can add your own ISBN (by getting it elsewhere). The downside is that curently there is no marketing prog. to put your books on lists for other bookshops to buy your creation.- although entry level book sofware design lowers the barrier to wood be publishers - so they can join in.

"In our scenario and visioning work, we need to clarify whether our focus is to find one image of or pathway to the future or to create forums for generating many of them. In my understanding, the processes involved in generating one overarching vision and many diverse visions are different (although similar and in no way mutually exclusive). We may work on one image, just to show that a good future is truly possible. Or we may create multiple visions to open a space of possibility that may have juice for diverse people, projects or perspectives. Or we may generate a very generalized vision which inspires diverse people to create their own specific version of that. And so on. Here are various approaches to visioning and scenario work."

fab resource on scenarios leading from successful comms page already bookmarked in diigo and in the group.

How is our organisation going to adapt to changing climates in the future? Don't know? - well why not use the 'Scenarios' process, to develop a positive outlook to the future, a negative outlook and a neutral outlook. Bring on board the factors that contribute and affect the dynamics in your area of discpline or expertise and see how you could plan for the challenges which the three scenario paths present.

"Pop quiz: The following messages have what in common? * Frances Osborne's The Bolter is an Oprah Winfrey Book Club selection. Buy it now. * 75% of guests who stay in this hotel reuse their towels. Join them and reuse your towel to help save the environment. * Any money you donate will go to Rokia, a seven-year-old girl who lives in Mali, Africa. The answer? They all use principles of behavioral economics to influence their audience's decisions. And you can too. Nonprofit marketers and fundraisers often base important strategic and tactical choices on thinking grounded in established theories and practices, including direct marketing and economics. But what about established psychological theories? Enter behavioral economics."

organisation that helps charities manage and organise events. It's free to register as charity and individual - but companies are charged so that they can use this website as a platform for their corporate social responsibility commmitments.

The make lounge is a concept that can be copied for the skills you impart. You could create collectives that creates stuff - then learns to teach stuff (to the community for small fee) - collaboratively make it, and then sell it either as part of a charity auction or as part of your "portable charity shop" ;-) For Bunny Ideas: >Develop a puppet kit... all the bits they need, instructions, ideas on paper element and an invitation to: >> send you their puppet creation photos (to go into a book!!!) >>send you their puppet movie to be put on your youtube channel (most viewed would be put onto DVD and sold - Vanity factor!!! >>donate their first puppet to go into a puppet catwalk or puppet "celebrity" - voted by people (in a celebration event?) >Develop animation kit... perhaps animation kit that learners can use on the day then buy to take home and practice. They then could be invited to: >>Share/send their story for the corresponding book >>Share/send their animatin for inclusion in the youtube channel For Xtine & ELiz, what could you think about for your activities? >Story sack kit & instructions? >character cakes? (dalek, etc.?) >what else?

socilamedia socialsites around the world le monde in french - big image. Shows variations and preferences of usage from around the world.

Looking at the history of copyright/copywroing remix culture - corporate manipulation of the laws and ther hypocrisy

looking at the remix culture - fab film - what could we learn as charities? All the best Will ;-)

fab movie expressing what is happening with the remix culture - how are charities embracing this? - well bullying UK is doing tiny "controlled remixes" - but the fringes are best at this - such as flickr!!!! when will charities learn from the fringes?