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Latest release…

Duncan — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:53:24 +0000

Hi everyone! First of all, our blog is back now having been down for a few months while our intrepid development team led by Taz has been busy developing key features… which leads me on to the new features you’ll have seen on the site.

Now, not only can you add details of your services and where you are and make “associates” (friends!), you can also invite people to participate with your ideas. Now there are two ways of doing this - either making them a “co-owner” in which case you want to share ownership of your your idea, or by adding them as a “collaborator” whereby you want to discuss it with them or secure their services… Of course someone can be both. Got it? Well fear not we’re going to have some diagrams up soon!

The other thing to say is that there is also a facility to first complete a Non-Disclosure Agreement with anyone you want to collaborate with - we just refer to this as an “NDA” on the site.

Last thing to mention is that I’ve moved (it’s Duncan here by the way) back over to London and am meeting some interesting ideasy folk all over the place - two shout-outs: one to Web Wednesdays (http://www.webwednesdays.com/) and one to Open Coffee which is a lovely informal meet up on a Thursday - go to www.meetup.com for more details.

Any feedback is gratefully received, please email feedback@creativefed.com. We really appreciate your support!

Creative Federation Presentation at Articulation Station

Duncan — Fri, 30 May 2008 12:30:40 +0000

UNITEC second year student with get-up-and-go Mark Buntzen put on this wonderful ideas-swapping session last night. I gave a presentation on Creative Federation and how we are combining the “ideas age” with the maturity of the web in terms of social networking, online software and the freemium concepts. Got a good reception… although at times I stopped to make sure everyone was with me - our slides rolled every 20 seconds so we didn’t have much time to go off-deck!

So we also had a demo of how to make music using Live, an astonishing collection of fine art drawings of extinct birds lying dead, an overview of the Irish design scene, the Brooklyn photography scene, the latest Milan Design show, the story behind Mountain Buggy… the list goes on. Have a look at their site.

Well done Mark on a great event - look forward to the next one!

Threaded Issue 5 Launch Party

Duncan — Mon, 05 May 2008 12:29:54 +0000

Attended the launch party of the fifth issue of the Design mag Threaded edited out of UNITEC, showcasing new talent and designed like a work of art. In fact they had the pages of it spread out along the walls like they were works of art. Nice touch. Well worth getting a copy (all good bookshops blah blah) and every edition has sold out quickly. Got chatting to Agnes Ang and the Elliot, Kate and Annette from design agency EndemicWorld.com about the up-and-coming Auckland scene. Have a look at their site and peruse the range of stuff they have. Everyone seemed to have it in for Wanganui (they’d all been there on design immersion courses) and we thought of a T shirt design “I hate Wanganui too”. I guess you had to be there. Thanks to Design professor/kingpin Roger Bateman for the invite.

Caught up with Amy Mansfield…

Duncan — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:28:34 +0000

Had a good chat with Amy who is a writer, musician, singer and helping us with the copy on the Creative Federation site. Its one of those things you don’t consider that much of a challenge… until you have to do it. Then you realise how rare and important it is as a skill.

She also had some great ideas for getting the site in front of the sort of theatrical, musical, filmy, TV, generally creative people who will be into it. This was one of the ideas touted: The up and coming Auckland Renaissance Choir called The Souls Of The Righteous are planning a performance in the mezzanine George Court on K Road… an apartment block full of aforementioned creativey types (I’ve got to think of an alternative to the C word!) so we could demo/flyer/promote the site there… Thanks for that Amy + any more suggestions on marketing ideas let us know!

My Mum’s Vertical!

Duncan — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:29:01 +0000

I had a good chat with my Mum about Creative Federation. She is very modest and I won’t go on about her creative credentials etc, but one thing she mentioned is worth sharing. She said, “OK templates and processes for making stuff happen. Well that’s funny because I have just been putting together a set of templates for holidays that your father and I go on. One for staying away one night, one for a week-long trip. That way we can just pick up the template and it makes packing”. “Mum”, I responded, “we are going to build you a holiday vertical”. Of course then she said that she’d actually prefer it to be written on a bit of paper on the fridge…