Everything we create’s delivered in beta #sixwords

Interesting video on collaborative design

Found this vid via:  Swiss miss

I'm a big fan of prototyping , future workshops and new models of collaborative development.

When I spent the majority of my time as a  lead learning designer I put a lot of credence in the idea of the multidisciplinary skunk-works. A creative collaborative workshop making rough functional ideas and prototypes that would then be refined for more mainstream production and consumption.  With the advent of the social web and more open development norms it looks like this may be an idea whose time has come. 

I know for sure about its power, when it works it really works but who wll be giving up  their  ideas and who will be benefiting  from the end results? 

It will be fascinating to see if this movement can survive or flourish in our litigious ownership obsessed world. 

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Listen, when something speaks – Hope sparks #sixwords #poetry

A critic spoke 

Relating hope to a light is trite 

It's been done, so obvious they said

That can't be right 

Was my reply, why leave a reader asking why ?

With a tortured metaphor when something speaks 

* Hope Sparks *

Many people have the wrong idea about hope 

They believe it's a possession of the weak and in our cynical times the foolish;

Something to comfort the downtrodden

They coudln't be more wrong 

Hope is for the hopeful

Hope is given as a gift to those already filled

Hope is the bright quiet friend of the well-to-do

There at the beginning of lifes golden roads

Its small light, simply overlooked

If dulled, if bereft, if fight has fled, then what hope for hope ?

Hope, child of inspiration and brother to dreams, thrives on possibility 

It cannot spring from barren land

Once we find the room for growth, the space to breathe, hope will live

And once alive, it can save us

No matter how deep, there it is at the bottom of the well

A light to shine, enough to re-invigorate

The pheonix spark, to start again

To have it, means you can be defeated but not forever 

And the thing about hope is, it can be shared.

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*There but for the grace of …* #sixwords #poetry

There but for the grace

is true

Because you are me and I am you

With Different body, different clothes

With wrinkled face or painted toes

We are all the same inside, even when we try to hide

Our souls are one, our hearts are too

No matter what we put them through 

So judge more slowly or withhold your ire

When someone sets your plans afire

It's you

With different dress and different face

 Another member of the race

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