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!

Hi I’m Duncan and part of the gang here at Creative Federation.  Hope you like our site.  In terms of technology think of me as more conceptual than practical - e.g. I’ve just spent two hours trying to blog on our test site (thanks Chris).

I’m focussed on the design and content of the site, and working closely with our developer, Tarique.  Obviously this does involve some research so I’ll share anything I find that I think will interest you.  And this morning I stumbled upon this - a Map of the Socially Networked World.  There are a couple of caveats, they’ve got a few things muddled, e.g. no mention of StudiVZ in Germany and Austria, but overall it shows that the socially networked World is not just a couple of sites slugging it out.

One of the first areas of Creative Federation that will be rolled out is the Idea Refinement area.  We’ve developed an easy step-by-step program that helps you build on your idea.  For example if you had an idea for a TV show about kickboxers, this can help you turn it into a show about kickboxers competing to make the best lasagne.  In a boxing ring.  With Gordon Ramsey as the referee.  And the winner gets to kick the loser’s lasagne into the audience!

We’ve been working on the Idea Refinement processes with local Innovation Coach, Megan Hawthorne, and our beta for that will be ready in a matter of weeks for testing.  So get in touch if you’ve got a seed of an idea…  And don’t be put off by the cooking kickboxers, the results are only as silly you want to make them!

We are excited to announce that we’re now into the second phase of beta
development and our operation is growing; with offices in New Zealand, Hong Kong and the United Kingdom.

For the next few weeks we will be transitioning onto a new platform and so
the usual Member and Idea Registration services will be unavailable
temporarily. But rest assured, all data that has been entered into Creative Federation is safe and secure.

In the meantime we will be keeping you up to date with how development is
progressing on this site, and welcome your continued participation in
bringing Creative Federation to life.